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 have fed a while upon the coure husks of the Alcoran, with the Arabian wine, we hall with much more eagernes covet after the plenty of our Fathers houe, exhibited to us in his Word, where we hall finde the hidden Manna, the bread of Life, that came down from heaven.

7. Books of Palmitry, Phyiognomy, judiciall Atrologie, Necromancy, and other upertitious and impious Arts have been permitted to come abroad, that men might ee the vanity of thoe Arts, the knavery and wickednes of the Artits, the foolihnes of credulous people, who uffer themelves to be deluded by them, and the malice of Satan the arch enemy of mankinde, whoe delight is to abue, delude, and detroy men: why then may not the Alcoran be read, that men may ee the vanity, impiety, and foolihnes of it, by which the world hath been o many years cheated and abued?

8. ''They that learn Arts and Sciences, deire the knowledg, not only of the good things, but of the evil things alo, and the abues of them, to the end they may avoid them; therefore Logick speaks as well as ophiticall and fallacious yllogimes, as of demontrative and topical; Ethicks treats of vices as well as of vertues; Natural Philoophy handleth the natures, not only of ueful and beneficial creatures, but alo of hurtful and venomous, as of Serpents; Phyick peaks of poyons as well as cures; Hitorians decribe both the vertuous and vicious actions of Princes; in Divinity we learn, not only what God and good Angels are, but alo what Sathan is and his wicked Angels; in Navigation we mut know, not only what places are Navigable, but alo what are not; how hall we avoid Rocks, Quick-ands and Shelves if we know them not? even o Chritian Religion permits not only the reading of Scripture but alo of heretical and heathenih books, as is aid, that we may know what to embrace, what to hun; therefore if you would know what be the damnable errors to be avoided by Chritians, read the Alcoran, and you hall finde in it the inke of all, or mot part of ancient hereies.''

9. In reading of the Alcoran, though it be, as Cato aid of the three Roman Embaadors, that were to go to Antiochus, headles, heartles, and footles, the one being maimed in his head, Rh