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THE

TRANSLATOR

TO THE CHRISTIAN

READER.

THere being ſo many Sects and Hereſies banded together againſt the Truth, finding that of Mahomet wanting to the Muſter, I thought good to bring it to their Colours, that ſo viewing thine enemies in their full body, thou mayſt the better prepare to encounter, and I hope overcome them. It may happily ſtartle thee, to finde him ſo to ſpeak Engliſh, as if he had made ſome Conqueſt on the Nation, but thou wilt ſoon reject that fear, if though conſider that this his Alcoran, (the Ground-work of the Turkiſh

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Religion)