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 he belyeth the Gopel, in aying it is corrupted by Chritians; he belyeth Chritians, when he aith they worship many gods, and that they give to God a companion, when they acknowledg the Divinity of Chrit; he belyeth the Jews in aying they make Eleazer a god; he belyes the Patriarchs, in aying that Noah, Abraham, Iaac, and Jacob believed his Alcoran, being o many thouand years before he was born, or his Alcoran had any exitance; he belyes alo the Apotles, in making them his Scholers, who lived neer ix hundred years before he was born: by all which we may ee who was the Compiler of this Alcoran, not the God of Truth, but the Father of Lyes; not Chrit and his Apotles, whoe weapons in propagating the Gospel, were powerfull preaching, miracles, and patience in uffering; not the word, the chief means that Mahomet ueth to force his Alcoran, an intrument forbid by Chrit, but ued by him who hath been a murtherer from the beginning; but I will not take upon me the task of refuting the Alcoran, beinq already refuted by Cantacuzenus, Richardus the Monk, Cua the Cardinal, Woodmantadius, Savanorola ''and others. I only thought good, upon intreaty of ome learned and religious men, to prefix this brief Caveat, that the Reader might be the better armed to encounter with any rub or difficulty he hall meet with in the reading thereof. But before I end, give me leave to clear my elf again in this point: that it is not my meaning all hould have the liberty to read the Alcoran promicuouly, I know with the Apotle, that though all things be lawfully yet all things are not expedient, there are children as well as men in undertanding; the Nure may ue that knife which the childe may not, and that word which may without danger be handled by a ober man, cannot without danger be touched by a mad man; there are as well queaie as trong tomacks, and what is meat to the one may be venome to the other; though Mithridates could without hurt eat poyon, others may not preume to ecape o; it is lawfull for any to look upon a monter, but it is not expedient for conceiving women; that iron which an Otrich can diget, may detroy the tomack of other creatures; how many have been'' Rh