To the Chriſtian Reader.
Religion) hath been already tranſlated into almoſt all Languages of Chriſdendome, (at leaſt, the moſt generall, as the Latin, Italian, French, &c.) yet never gained any Proſelyte, where the Sword, its moſt forcible, and ſtrongeſt argument hath not prevailed: And indeed the greateſt Doctors of their Religion have never alledged any thing for the truth thereof; but the ſucceſs of their wars, and greatneſs of their Empire, then which nothing is more fallacious: for that which both in former, and theſe latter Ages hath been common to the bad with the good, cannot be a certain evidence of the juſtice of a Cauſe, or the truth of Religion.
Thou ſhalt fine it of ſo rude, and incongruous a compoſure, ſo farced with contradictions, blaſphemies, obſcene ſpeeches, and ridiculous fables, that ſome modeſt, and more rationall Mahometans have thus excuſed it; that their Prophet wrote an hundred and twenty thouſand ſayings, whereof three thouſand only are good, the reſidue (as the impoſsibility of the Moones falling into his ſleeve, the Converſion and Salvation of
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