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Religion) hath been already tranlated into almot all Languages of Chridendome, (at leat, the mot generall, as the Latin, Italian, French, &c.) yet never gained any Proelyte, where the Sword, its mot forcible, and tronget argument hath not prevailed: And indeed the greatet Doctors of their Religion have never alledged any thing for the truth thereof; but the ucces of their wars, and greatnes of their Empire, then which nothing is more fallacious: for that which both in former, and thee latter Ages hath been common to the bad with the good, cannot be a certain evidence of the jutice of a Caue, or the truth of Religion.

Thou halt fine it of o rude, and incongruous a compoure, o farced with contradictions, blaphemies, obcene peeches, and ridiculous fables, that ome modet, and more rationall Mahometans have thus excued it; that their Prophet wrote an hundred and twenty thouand ayings, whereof three thouand only are good, the reidue (as the imposibility of the Moones falling into his leeve, the Converion and Salvation of the