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 right to sit, who, as the Word of God declared, sat down "at the right hand of God the Father," in virtue of His eternal Sonship, that eternal generation from the Father, which it was the special province of Mahomet utterly to deny in his famous dogma "that God neither begetteth nor is begotten."

Yes, we may indeed truly say, that when Mahomet asserted himself to be "the highest of all creatures," and the Redeemer of mankind, he not only robbed our Lord Jesus Christ of his glory, of whom St. Paul had said "that He thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" for He indeed was truly equal with God: but he took that place in the mystical, as well as the real, Temple of God, which belonged to Christ and to Christ alone.

In another, and a still more literal sense, did Mahomet also fulfil this prophecy, when Jerusalem was taken by his general the Caliph Omar, and when on the site of Solomon's Temple, which, above all others, is pre-eminently styled in Scripture "the Temple of God," he impiously pretended to restore that sacred edifice, and did in fact defile that most holy spot by erecting thereon one of his principal mosques; thus placing, as Daniel the Prophet and our blessed Lord had foretold, "the abomination of desolation in the Holy