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 the econd a fool, and the third lame in his feet, I ay, though it be without head or tail, as we ue to peak, being immethodicall and confued, contradictory in many things, written in a rude Language the Author himelf being no Linguit or Scholar, nay, not able to read or write, though alo it conit of lyes and enles follies, yet this benefit we may reap; I ay, in reading of it, that we hall be forced to admire and praie the goodnes of God towards us Chritians, who having uffered a great part of the world to it in the valley of the hadow of death, to be oppreed with Cimmerian, yea more than palpable Egyptian darknes, hath placed us in the Temple, where we have the golden Candletick of his Word, and a clearer and more durable Lamp then that ofSalomons Temple, yea even the Sun of righteounes hining upon us in the land of Gohan, whilt a great part of the world doth follow the Antichritian beat, we follow the Lamb upon mount Sion; while they hear the voyce of Satyres, Otrages, and Schrich-Owls, we hear the voice of the Turtle, and the Songs of Sion in our own Land: whilt they feed on husks with wine, and drink the corrupted puddles of Mahomets inventions, we are fed with Angels food, and eat cœletiall Manna, and drink of the pure river of life, clear as crytall: Again, we may tremble at the reading of this Alcoran, when we conider the everity of Gods Judgments, and the fiercenes of his anger, who for the contempt of his Gopel, in thoe Countries where Mahomet ''is worhipped, hath uffered o many millions of people to be deluded, blinded, abued, and inlaved by that fale Prophet, to believe his lyes, and by loathing the weet Evangelical Manna, to devour greedily the poyonable qualies of his doctrine, and with it the wrath of God which hath faln on them, whilt the fleh is between their teeth, o that they mut needs perih everlatingly. Who would have thought that thoe Countreys which were honored by Gods own preence, by the Oracles of the Prophets, by the preence, miracles, and preaching of Chrit, by the planting of the Apotles, by the blood of o many Martyrs, hould be thus beotted, and enlaved by the tyranny of this grand Impotor? When we think on thoe things, let us work out our own alvation with fear and trembling, and let him who thinks he tandeth take heed leat he fall: they were not greater inners'' then