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A19381	Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... .	Coryate, Thomas, ca. 1577-1617.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1618 (1618)	STC 5809; ESTC S118544	13,789	49

Orthomusulmā that is a true Musulman which is a Christian the other a Pseudo-musulman that is a false Musulman which is a Mahometan What thy Mahomet was from whom thou dost deriue thy Religion assure thy selfe I know better then any one of the Mahometans amongst many millions yea all the particular circumstances of his life and death his Nation his Parentage his driuing Camels through Egipt iria and Palestina the marriage of his Mistris by whose death he raised himselfe from a very base and contemtible estate to great honor and riches his manner of cozening the sottish people of Arabia partly by a tame Pigeon that did fly to his eare for meat and partly by a tame Bull that hee fed by hand euery pay with the rest of his actions both in peace and warre I know aswell as if I had liued in his time or had beene one of his neighbours in Mecca the truth whereof if thou didst know aswell I am perswaded thou wouldest spit in the face of thy Alcaron and trample it vnder thy feete and bury it vnder a Iaxe a booke of that strange and weake matter that I my selfe as meanely as thou dost see me attired now haue already written two better bookes God be thanked and will hereafter this by Gods gratious permission write another better and truer yea I wold haue thee know thou Mahometan that in that renouned Kingdome of England where I was borne learning doth so flourish that there are many thousand boies of sixteene yeeres of age that are able to make a more learned booke then thy Alcaron neither was it as thou and the rest of you Mahometans doe generally beleue composed wholy by Mahomet for hee was of so dull a wit as he was not able to make it without the helpe of another namely a certaine Renegado Monke of Constantinople called Sergis So that his Alcoran was like an arrow drawne out of the quiuer of another man I perceiue thou dost wonder to see me so much inflamed with anger but I would haue thee consider it is not without great cause I am so moued for what greter indignity can there be offered to a Christian which is an Arthomusulman thē to be called Giaur by a Giaur for Christ whose Religion I professe is of that incomparable dignity that as thy Mahomet is not worthy to bee named that yeere wherein my blessed Christ is so neither is his Alcoron worthy to be named that yeere wherein the Iuieel of my Christ is I haue obserued among the Mahometans such a foolish forme of praier euer since my departure from Spahan which I confesse was no nouelty vnto me for that I had obserued the like before both in Constantinople and diuers other Turkish cities that what with your vain repetions diuers other prophane fooleries contained therein I am certaine your praiers doe euen stinke before God and are of no more force then the cry of thy Camell when thou doest lade or vnlade him But the praiers of Christians haue so preuailed with God that in time of drought they haue obtained conuenient aboundance of raine and in time of pestilence a suddaine cessation from the plague such an effect of holy and feruent praier as neuer did the Scofferalahs or the Allamissel alow of any Mahometan produce yet must wee whose praiers like a sweete smelling sacrifice are acceptable to God be esteemed Giaurs by those whose praiers are odious vnto his Diuine Maiestie O times O maners Now as I haue told thee the difference betwixt the effect of our Christian your Mahometan praiers so I pray thee obserue another difference betwixt you vs that I will presently intimate vnto thee thou by the obseruation of the Law of thy rediculous Alcaron dost hope for Paradice wherein thy Master Mahomet hath promised Riuers of Rice and to Virgins the imbracing of Angels vnder the shaddowe of spacious Trees though in truth that Paradice be nothing else then a filthy quagmire so full of stincking dung-hils that a man cannot walke two spaces there but he shall stumble at a dung-hill and defile himselfe but where this Paradice is not one amongst a thousand of you knoweth therefore I will tell thee it standeth in a Country scituate betwixt Heauen and Earth called Vtopia whereof there is mention in the third book of thy Alcaron and in the seuen and thirty Asaria but expressed with those misticall and obscure termes that is very difficult to vnderstand it for this Vtopian Paradice I say as the reward of al your superstitious mumbling in your praiers and the often ducking downe of your heads when you kisse the ground with such a deuoute humilitie forsooth doe you Mahometans hope in another world But wee Christians hope to liue with God and his blessed Angels for euer and euer in Heauen as being a proper and pecullar inheritance purchased vnto vs by the precious blood of our Christ yet must wee be reputed Giaurs by those that are Giaurs One thing more will tell thee O thou Mahometan and so I will conclude this tedious speech whereunto thy discurtious calling of me Giaur hath inforced mee and I prethee obserue this my conclusion Learning which is the most precious Iewell that man hath in this life by which he attaineth to the knowledge of diuine and humane things commeth to man either by reuelatiō which we otherwise cal inspiration or by industry Learning by reuelation I cal that which God doth infuse from aboue by his special grace vnto those whō he will vse as the instruments of his glory who without labour or trauell doe aspire to a most eminent degree of knowledge Learning by industry I call it that which a man doth purchase to himselfe by continuall writing and reading by practise and meditation now by neither of these meanes haue the Mahometans acquired any meane much lesse any singular learning for as Mahomet himselfe was a man of a very superficiall and meane learning so neuer was there any one of his Disciples in any part of the world that was indued with any profound knowledge but wee Christians by the one and the other meane haue attained to the most exquisite science that can be incident to man some of our men that neuer were brought vp in Studies hauing been so expert in a generall learning onely by Gods speciall illumination as those haue spent forty yeeres in the practise thereof and others by continuall practise of writing and reading haue beene so excellent that they became the very Lampes and Stars of the Countries wherein they liued These things being so it cannot possible come to passe that the omnipotent God should deale so partially with mankind as to reueale his will to a people altogether misled in ignorance and blindnes as you Mahometans are and conceale it from vs Christians that bestowe all our life time in the practise of diuine and humane disciplines and in the ardent inuocation of Gods holy name with all sincerity