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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47589	The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. To which is prefixed, the life of Mahomet, the prophet of the Turks, and author of the Alcoran. With A needful caveat, or admonition, for them who desire to know what use may be made of, or if there be danger in reading the Alcoran.; Koran. English. 1649.	Du Ryer, André, ca. 1580-ca. 1660.; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. aut	1688 (1688)	Wing K748; ESTC R213797	330,837	588

is that maketh you to live and to die and when he willeth any thing he saith Be thou and it is See ye not that they that dispute against his Commandments depart from his Law Such as reject our Commandments and what we enjoyned our Prophets to preach to men shall find their errors when they shall see Chains on their Necks and Fetters on their feet they shall be dragged and burned in Hell then shall it be said unto them where are those Idols that ye adored upon Earth They shall answer they are departed from us certainly they are without power thus God seduceth Infidels to their confusion It shall be said unto them These pains befal you for that ye were proud and insolent without reason enter within the gates of Hell which is the habitation of the proud ye shall dwell there Eternally Be patient and and persevere the word of God is infallible I will make thee to see a part of what I have promised to men I will cause thee to die and thou shalt behold them all assembled to be judged Certainly we sent Prophets before thee we have spoken to thee of one part of our Apostles and the rest are concealed from thee neither Prophet nor Apostles can preach any thing without God's permission he chastiseth the wicked when he pleaseth he shall judg the differences that are between them and the Prophets and shall destroy the unbelievers God hath created the beasts for your use some ye eat and others serve you to ride on from them ye reap profit they bear the burden as likewise do the Ships for the advantage of your commerce God manifesteth to you his graces And what graces Will ye despise them Do not unbelivers consider the end of them that were before them who were more powerful and rich than they Their Treasures did not save them they derided the Prophets and Apostles that preached to them and in the end felt the pains that they had despised When they shall fear the torments of Hell they shall say We believe in One God alone and renounce Idols This profession of Faith shall be unprofitable to them in Hell they shall incur the rigor of the Law of God that was observed against their predecessors and all unbelievers shall be damned CHAP. XLI The Chapter of Exposition containing Fifty and Four Verses written at Mecca Reader Gelaldin entituled this Chapter Of Adoration IN the Name of God gracious and merciful The Alcoran was sent by the gracious and merciful God It explaineth Divine Mysteries in the Arabique Tongue to them that have knowledg to understand them it proclaimeth to the good the delights of Paradise and preacheth to the wicked the torments of Hell nevertheless the greatest part of the world depart from the Faith and hear not thy words They say We have obdurate hearts we cannot comprehend what thou preachest our ears are stopped we are too remote to hear what thou sayest Observe thy Law we will live after our own Say unto them I am a man like you your God is one sole God be obedient to him and beg pardon of him for your sins Misery is upon unbelievers that pay not Tythes and believe not in the day of Judgment The believers that shall do good works shall enjoy an infinite reward Say unto them How will ye be wicked towards him that created the Earth in two days how can you say that he hath a Companion equal to him He is sole Lord of the Universe he raised the Mountains blessed the Earth and gave to every Region the particulars thereof in four days for them that shall have need After this he ascended into Heaven that was like unto smoke and said unto Heaven and Earth Ye shall obey me either through force or affection They answered Lord we will be obedient to thy Commandments He created seven Heavens in two days and disposed every Heaven after his own will he adorned them with Stars and preserveth them from the malice of the Devil This is an effect of his Omnipotency he is omnipotent and knoweth all things If the unbelievers depart from the Faith say unto them I have threatened you as heretofore thunder did the people of Aad and Temod when the Prophets taught them the Law of the ancient True-believers to wit To worship but one God They said Were it Gods pleasure to alter our Law he would have sent us Angels to reach unto us we will not beiieve in thy Mission The people of Aad waxed proud on the Earth without reason and said Who is more powerful than we will they not consider that he that created them is more powerful and wealthy than they Nevertheless they despised our Commandments We sent against them a cold and impetuous wind in an unhappy time that made them to suffer on Earth shame and ignominy because of their crimes He shall cause them to feel the pains of Hell that are much greater than those of the Earth and they shall be eternally deprived of protection We instructed the men of Temod in the right way they preferred blindness to light and impiety to Salvation they were surprized by thunder and suffered great afflictions because of their sins We saved none of them but the believers who had our fear before their eyes Be thou mindful of the day that the enemies of God shall be assembled in Hell they shall defend their cause before the Judg until testimony be brought against them their ears their eyes and their skin shall be witnesses of their iniquities They shall say Wherefore do ye witness against us They shall answer He that made us to speak giveth speech to every thing he it is that created you and ye are this day assembled before him to be judged Ye did not well conceal your selves when ye offended him your ears your eyes your skin are witnesses against you ye believed that God should not see your sins this was your opinion Certainly he shall chastise you and you all shall be in the number of the damned Persevere and be thou patient the fire of Hell shall be their habitation they shall not be able to please God in the flames We have given them the Devils for their Companions who caused them to delight in sin The word of God shall be accomplished against them as it was accompllshed against their Predecessors as well men as Devils that are condemned The unbelievers have said Hear not that Alcoran it is full of error peradventure ye shall be seduced I will cause them to suffer grievous pains and will chastise them after their demerits such is the reward of Gods enemies They shall remain eternally in the fire of Hell because they despise his Commandments The wicked shall say at the day of Judgment Lord let us see the Devils and the men that seduced us we will trample them under our feet and precipitate them to the bottom of Hell. Such as shall have professed the Law of God as shall have

it is much more sweet to him that hath tasted Aloes and though Italy in it self be a delicious Countrey and garden of the World yet it is much more delightful pleasant and beautiful to him who hath passed over the mountainous craggy and rugged Alpes Did not the Prodigal love the bread of his Fathers house evermore the better after he had been fed on husks with Swine doubtless we shall find that after we have fed a while upon the course husks of the Alcoran with the Arabian Swine we shall with much more eagerness covet after the plenty of our Fathers house exhibited to us in his Word where we shall find the hidden Manna the bread of Life that came down from Heaven 7. Books of Palmistry Physiognomy judicial Astrology Necromancy and other superstitious and impious Arts have been permitted to come abroad that Men might see the vanity of those Arts the knavery and wickedness of the Artists the foolishness of credulous people who suffer themselves to be deluded by them and the malice of Satan the arch enemy of mankind whose delight is to abuse delude and destroy Men why then may not the Alcoran be read that Men may see the vanity impiety and foolishness of it by which the World have been so many years cheated and abused 8. They that learn Arts and Sciences desire the knowledg not only of the good things but of the evil things also and the abuses of them to the end they may avoid them therefore Logick speaks as well of sophistical and fallacious syllogisms as of demonstrative and topical Ethicks treat of Vices as well as of Vertues Natural Philosophy handleth the natures not only of useful and beneficial creatures but also of hurtful and venomous as of Serpents Physick speaks of poysons as well as of cures Historians describe both the vertuous and vicious actions of Princes in Divinity we learn not only what God and good Angels are but also what Sathan is and his wicked Angels in Navigation we must know not only what places are Navigable but also what are not how shall we avoid Rocks Quick-sands and Shelves if we know them not even so Christian Religion permits not only the reading of Scripture but also of heretical and heathenish books as is said that we may know what to embrace what to shun therefore if you would know what be the damnable errors to be avoided by Christians read the Alcoran and you shall find in it the sink of all or most part of ancient Heresies 9. In reading of the Alcoran though it be as Cato said of the three Roman Embassadors that were to go to Antiochus headless heartless and footless the one being maimed in his head the second a fool and the third lame in his Feet I say though it be without head or tail as we use to speak being immethodical and confused contradictory in many things written in a rude Language the Author himself being no Linguist or Scholar nay not able to read or write though also it consist of lyes and sensless follies yet this benefit we may reap I say in reading of it that we shall be forced to admire and praise the goodness of God towards us Christians who having suffered a great part of the World to sit in the valley of the shadow of death to be oppressed with Cimmerian yea more than palpable Egyptian darkness hath placed us in the Temple where we have the Golden Candlestick of his Word and a clearer and more durable Lamp than that of Salomon's Temple yea even the Sun of righteousness shining upon us in the land of Goshen whilest a great part of the World doth follow the Antichristian beast we follow the Lamb upon mount Sion while they hear the voice of Satyres Ostriches and Schrich Owls we hear the voice of the Turtle and the Songs of Sion in our own Land whilst they feed on husks with Swine and drink the corrupted puddles of Mahomet's inventions we are fed with Angels food and eat coelestial Manna and drink of the pure river of life clear as crystal Again we may tremble at the reading of this Alcoran when we consider the severity of God's Judgments and the fierceness of his anger who for the contempt of his Gospel in those Countries where Mahomet is worshipped hath suffered so many millions of people to be deluded blinded abused and inslaved by that false Prophet to believe his lyes and by loathing the sweet Evangelical Manna to devour greedily the poysonable Quails of his doctrine and with it the wrath of God which hath faln on them whilst the flesh is between their teeth so that they must needs perish everlastingly Who would have thought that those Countreys which were honoured by God's own presence by the Oracles of the Prophets by the presence miracles and preaching of Christ by the planting of the Apostles by the blood of so many Martyrs should be thus besotted and enslaved by the tyranny of this grand Impostor When we think on those things let us work out our salvation with fear and trembling and let him who thinks he standeth take heed lest he fall they were not greater sinners than we therefore doubtless except we repent we shall all likewise perish the remissness of Heraclius Government his falling into the Heresie of the Monothelites the contempt of the Gospel the slighting of the Pastors the wickedness of the people the continual Schisms rents jars and divisions of their Churches were both the causes and occasions of these miseries which have faln upon them let us take heed then we be not partakers of their sins lest we also partake of their plagues 10. The reading of the Alcoran will enable us to beat Mahomet with his own weapons to cut off the head of this Goliah with his own Sword and to wound this unclean bird with quills pickt out of his own wings for even unwittingly and unwillingly he is forced to acknowledg many truths of Christian Religion in affirming there is but one true God the Creator of all things and though he goeth about to overthrow the Doctrine of the Trinity yet he doth plainly confirm it when he speaks of God of the Word and of the Spirit which three indeed are one in essence though distinct in subsistence though he laboureth to overthrow the Gospel yet he confirms it when he calls it good full right a light and a guide to salvation for if it be full good c. what need was then of his Al●…ran and though he endeavoureth to overthrow Christ's Divinity with Ar●…s and 〈◊〉 and the Iews his ghostly Fathers yet he ●…ffirms it in calling Christ the Word for as the internal word of the mind is coeternal with the mind so is Christ the Word of his Father coeternal with the Father he establisheth also the Article of Christ's Conception and Nativity affirming him to be conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary whom he confesseth to have been a pure

hand the tie of marriage doth not leave to them the whole of courtesie it is requisite to gratifie them and to forget nothing of the benefits between you God beholdeth all your actions stand upon your guard when you make your prayers especially that at noon and be obedient unto God. If you fear your enemies and cannot place your selves on your knees neither perform the Ceremonies that are appointed you omit not to say your prayers on foot or on horseback and being freed from fear remember God and how he hath taught you what you know not Such as die shall be good to their Wives by their Testament they shall bestow on them wherewith to live during the time they must tarry before they marry again drive them not from your houses If they willingly depart the sin of what they shall do in their own persons shall not be upon you God is Omnipotent and just you shall likewise do good to your Wives that you have divorced according to your power it is a thing reasonable among such as fear God Thus God teacheth you his Commandments perhaps you will learn them See you not them that departed their houses for the fear they had of death they are thousands in number God hath said to them die after this he raised them again God is the Benefactor of the People but the greatest part return him no thanks for his favours Fight for his Law and know that he understandeth and knoweth all things Who is he that will afford him a good turn He will augment him with multiplicity of increase he giveth good and taketh it away from whom it pleaseth him you shall all return before him to be judged Knowest thou not that a company of the Children of Israel after the death of Moses said to their Prophet send us a King we with him will fight for the Law of God He answereth them have you disobeyed the Commandments of God If they enjoyn you to fight you will not do it They said we have no greater desire than to fight for the glory of his Divine Majesty we for this Cause have abandoned our houses and those of our Parents nevertheless when they were commanded to fight they all except some few of them retired but God knoweth them that sin against him Their Prophet said to them God hath sent Saul to be your King they answered why shall he be our King we rather deserve the Royalty than he he is not rich enough he replied God hath chosen him to command you he hath encreased his knowledge and Stature he giveth Royalty to whom he listeth he is liberal and prudent in all his Actions Their Prophet said to them the sign of his Reign shall be that the Ark shall appear to you from God to confirm your hearts wherein shall be contained the remainder of what the people of Moses and Aaron left and it shall be born by Angels this shall be to you the sign of his Reign if you believe in God. When Saul went forth with his Troops to fight his Enemies he said God shall try you by a River he that shall drink of that River shall not be mine unless he drink with his hand they all except some few of them drank at their Pleasure and having past that River with the true Believers they said we have not this day strength sufficient to resist Goliah and his Troops but such as believed in God and feared his Divine Majesty said how often through the permission of God hath a small Troop defeated a great Army He is with them that are patient when they saw Goliah with his Troops appear they said Lord give us patience confirm our steps and give us Victory over the Infidels They through the permission of God vanquished their Enemies David slew Goliah and God gave him the Royalty and knowledge of future things Had not God raised the people one against the other the whole Earth had been full of disorders such are the Miracles of God as I declare to thee with truth thou art indeed one of the Prophets of his Divine Majesty We have conferred our graces on the Prophets on some more than on others many have spoken to their Lord and some have been more elevated than others We gave knowledge to Jesus the Son of Mary and fortified him through the Holy Spirit Had it pleased God the Prophets that came heretofore had not been slain after they had taught his Commandments Men were of different Opinions some believed in God others were impious had it pleased God they had not been slain but he doth what pleaseth him O ye that are true Believers dispense in Alms some part of your wealth that we have given you before the day arrive wherein you shall find no Ransom Alms Protection nor Prayers that can succour you Certainly Infidels are greatly to blame God! There is but one only God living and eternal think not that he slumbereth or sleepeth whatever is in Heaven or in Earth is his who shall intercede for thee with his Divine Majesty unless by his permission He knoweth all the Actions of men and whatever they have done they know nothing but what it hath pleased him ●…o teach them The largeness of his Throne containeth Heaven and Earth and the Conservation of both is not troublesome to him he is Omnipotent and glorious The Law ought not to be abjured it manifesteth the difference of Faith and Impiety He that believeth not in Tagot or the Devil and hath Faith in God layeth hold on the strongest knot that cannot be dissolved broken or cut asunder God understandeth and knoweth all things he aideth and assisteth them that believe in his Unity he will cause them to come out of darkness and will guide them into light the wicked shall have Tagot and the Devil for their Protector he shall cause them to forsake the light and shall lead them into darkness such men shall remain eternally in the fire of Hell. Consider you not his Action to whom God had given the Royalty When he disputed concerning God with Abraham Abraham said to him My Lord is he that giveth life and death He said I even I give life and death to my Subject when I see good Abraham answered God causeth the Sun to rise in the East make thou it to arise in the West then the Infidel was confuted God is not a guide to unjust Persons Hast thou considered the action of him that came into a Village desolate and ruined and said How is it that God can be able to give life unto this Village after it's death and re-establish it after so great a ruine Then God caused him to die after the space of an hundred years raised him again and said to him How long hast thou continued here he answered I have sojourned here a day and a half On the contrary thou hast been here an hundred years consider thy Meat and Drink that they are not altered through