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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35247	The strange and prodigious religions, customs and manners of sundry nations containing I. their ridiculous rites and ceremonies in the worship of their several deities, II. the various changes of the Jewish religion ... , III. the rise and growth of Mahometanism ... , IV. the schisms and heresies in the Christian church being an account of ... Adamites, Muggletonians &c. all intermingled with pleasant relations of the fantastical rites both of the ancients and moderns in the celebration of their marriages and solemnizations of their funerals &c / by R.D.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7348; ESTC R29494	158,336	237

being done as Abdalla the Judge and Lord of the Arabians went into the House of Prayer he perceived a great Light to lighten from his House up towards Heaven and presently died On the twelfth day of Rab on a Tuesday Mahomet was circumcised and all frolick And then all Idols fell and became black all Kingdoms were destroyed and not one stood upright Lucifer was cast into the bottom of the Sea and in forty days could not get out and then called his Fellows and told them that Mahomet was born with the power of the Sword who should take away all their Power The same also God caused to be proclaimed in Heaven and Earth His Mother said that she was delivered of him without pain and Angelical Birds came to nourish the Child and a man clothed in white presented him with three Keys like to Pearls which he took the Key of Victory they Key of the Laws and the Key of Prophecy And after came three Persons with shining Faces presenting him with a Caldron of Emeralds with four handles which Mahomet accepted as a sign of his Rule over all the World The Birds Clouds Winds Angels contended for the nourishment of the Child But the case was determined by Heavenly Voice affirming that he should not be taken from the hands of men An Ass almost famished worshipped him and receiving him on her back became Herald to this new Prophet with man's voice proclaiming the worthiness of her Carriage Three men carried him up into a Mountain of which one opened him from the Breast unto the Navil and washed his Entrails with Snow the second cleared his Heart in the midst and took out of it a black grain saying that it was the portion of the Devil The third made him whole again Seraphin nourished him three years and Gabriel nine and twenty who gave unto him in the fortieth year of his age the Law and carried him to Heaven Afterwards Gabriel with threescore and ten pair of Wings came to Mahomet in the Chamber of Aissa his best beloved Wife and said that God would have him to visit him where he is and brought with him the Beast Elmparac or Albarach of nature between a Mule and an Ass This Beast told Mahomet that he would not take him on his back until he had prayed God for him His steps were as far as one could see so that in the twinkling of an Eye he had brought Mahomet to Jerusalem Then Gabriel with his Girdle tied the Beast to a Rock and carried Mahomet on his shoulders into Heaven where he knocked and the Porter opened Here Mahomet saw footsteps of Angels and prayed twice on his knees for them and amongst the rest old Father Adam rejoycing for such a Son and commending him to his Prayers Then he brought him to the second Heaven which was a Journey of five hundred years and so forth on to the seventh Heaven Here he saw the Angelical People every one of which was a thousand times greater than the World and every of them had threescore and ten thousand Heads and every Head threescore and ten thousand Mouthes and every Mouth seventeen hundred Tongues praying to God in seven hundred thousand Languages And he saw one Angel weeping and he asked the cause who answered that he was Sin and Mahomet prayed for him Then Gabriel commended him to another Angel and he to another and so forth in order till he came before God and his Throne Then God whose Face was covered with threescore and ten thousand Cloaths of Light and from whom Mahomet stood two stones cast below touched him with his Hand the Coldness whereof pierced to the Marrow of of his Back-bone and God said I have imposed on thee and on thy People Prayers When he was returned as far as the fourth Heaven Moses counselled him to return back to obtain ease unto the People which could not bear so many Prayers which he did oftentimes till there remained but few Thus returning to his Elmparac he rode back to his House at Mecca all this was done in the tenth part of the Night But when he was requested to do thus much in the Peoples sight he answered Praised be God I am a Man and an Apostle The Book Ascar telleth further that in this Journey Mahomet heard a Womans Voice crying Mahomet Mahomet but he held his Peace Afterwards another called him but he gave no Answer Mahomet asked the Angel who they were He answered that the one was she which published the Jews Law and if he had answered her all his Disciples should have been Jews the other was she which delivered the Gospel whom if he had answered all his Followers had been Christians Mahomet Comunicating his Doctrin to the People w th their Pilgramage to Mecca Pag. 50 One of their Chronicles telleth of his Martial Affairs This Chronicle from Adam to Noe one thousand two hundred two and forty years from thence to Abraham one thousand and fourscore thence to Moses five hundred and fifteen after him to David five hundred threescore and nine and from this time to Christ one thousand three hundred and fifty from whence to Mahomet is numbred six hundred and twenty in all five thousand three hundred threescore and sixteen from Adam to Mahomet All the Prophets were in number an hundred and twenty thousand and the Messengers of God three hundred and fifteen whereas Adam Seth Esdrik Noe Abraham were Hebrews Huth Scale Ishmael Schaib Mahomet were Arabians But to leave these fabulous nay blasphemous Relations it is convenient to entertain the Reader with a true account of the Life of this infamous Impostor The Life of MAHOMET according to the truth BY Birth he was of Jathrip an obscure Village then not far from Medina his Father called Abdalla an Idolatrous Pagan his Mother named Hemina as perverse a Jewess Deprived of both his Parents when but two years old he was left unto the care of an Unkle who not able to give him Education nor willing to be at the charge to keep him any longer sold him at sixteen years of age to the Ismaelites by whom exposed to sale in the open Markets he was bought by one Abdalmutalif a Wealthy Merchant By him employ'd at first in Drudgery and servile Offices till noting his great Wit and fitness for better Services he at last used him as his Factor sending him with his Camels and loads of Merchandise into Syria Persia Egypt and other Places wherein he did behave himself with such dexterity that he much increased his Master's Wealth and his own Estimation Of Person he is said to be low and withall scald-headed but otherwise comely to the Eye and of good aspect Much troubled with the Falling-sickness which Infirmity he made good use of afterwards affirming that those Fits were nothing but Heavenly Raptures in which he did converse with the Angel Gabriel He is said to have been also well skill'd in Magick by which he taught a white Pidgeon to feed