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 converion, or perverion rather, of Chritians to their irreligious Religion, they pray heartily, and every day in their Temples, that Chritlans may imbarte the Alcoran,'' and become their Proolytes, in effecting of which they leave no means unaaied by fear and flattery, by punihments and rewards; now, is it fitting that they in charity and zeal hould exceed us? we are bound to pray, and indeavor heartily for their converion, from darknes to light from error to truth; but how hall we do this, if we, know not the dangerous and damnable etate they are in, which we cannot know but by reading their'' Alcoran?

15. In reading the Alcoran we hall ee what is the force of upertition, and with what, violence men are carried headlong in the defence and maintenance even of the mot aburd and impious opinions; what Hecuba is more deformed then the Alcoran''? yet how do the Turks fight and truggle, toil and care, hazard life and liberty, etates and all for it, as if it were the mot beautiful Helena in the world! the men cannot endure the Image of Chrit, or of a Saint in their Temples, calling this Idolatry, and yet they are the greatet idolaters in the world themelves, for never was there uch, an Idol as the Alcoran, mo man mut touch it, till first he be wahed, and that being done, he mut not touch it with his naked hands, but with a clean linen cloth; the Priest mut kis it, and bow to it; he mut when he reads in it hold it up on high, for it is a in to hold it lower then his girdle: Every piece of paper that a Turk findes he mut ue reverendly, becaue, the Alcoran is written in paper, the Mule that carries it to Mecca is held in great veneration, o that he or Je is anctified all the year after that can but touch him, and that handkerchief which wipeth off his weat is a holy relique: thus do they train at a gnat and wallow a Camel.''

16. In reading the Alcoran & Turkih Story, we hall ee who were Gog and Magog that made war againt the Saints, even the