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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	abraham_n	call_v	canaan_n	1,554	5	10.1521	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74637	The confusion of Muhamed's sect, or a confutation of the Turkish Alcoran. Being a discovery of many secret policies and practices in that religion, not till now revealed. / Written originally in Spanish, by Johannes Andreas Maurus, who was one of their bishops and afterwards turned Christian. Translated into English by I.N.	Maurus, Johannes, fl. 1654.; Notstock, Joshua.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1296_1	92,641	268

was the first temple that was ever built in the world the words in Arabick are thus Oinne agnele beytin c. And the book Azar further says that after the said temple of Mecca was built Abraham divided the land of Canaan and Ismael dwelt in the City of Mecca and maried an Egyptian woman an Idolatress by whom he had twelve Children which also appeares by the. 17 Chapter of Genesis the eldest of which was called Nabayoth 2 Caydar or Kedar 3 Abdael 4 Nabsam 5 Masna 6 Douma 7 Massa 8 Haded 9 Thema 10 Iackour 11 Naphis 12 Kedma All these 12 sons of Ismael were Idolaters and spread 12 sorts of Idolatry in the greater Arabia Arabia the Happy Armenia and Persia some of them worshiped the Sun others the Moone others the Angells others Fyre others an Idoll called Bohinun and others a tree called Detulamar and they of Mecca and the Countrey adjacent worshiped an Idoll called Alliethe and Aluza above-mentioned which was erected in the said Tower Alkibla towards which Tower all Moores turn their faces when they make their Zala i.e. prayer and swear by it The said book Azar further sayes that Caydar the second son of Ismael erected the said Idoll in the said tower because Abraham and Ismael had assisted at the building of the said temple and that Caydar commanded that a feast or Easter should annually be celebrated in honour to God and in memory of his grandsires sacrifice when he was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaack in whose stead God commanded him to sacrifice a sheep and hereupon they of Mecca and the Countrey adjacent did annually sacrifice sheep and severall other beasts in honour to that Idoll and from all the Countrey about Meka they came to visit this Idoll and the temple of Meka and to celebrate the said Passeover which feast and Pilgrimage is the same which the Moores now use and have used ever since Muhamed's time and the Pilgrimage or visitation called Alhage which the Moores now use is the same which the Idolaters used and all the ceremonies which the Idolaters used in the times of Idolatrie the Moores at this day annually use the very same when they goe to Meka and that by an express command in their Law and sect and even as the Idolaters did forbear the killing any wild beast or bird by hunting in the Countrie of Meka fower months of the year which are 2 before their Passeover and 2 after out of the reverence they bear to the said Idoll yea so strickly that they would not kill a lowse or a flea and hence the Moores call these months prohibited and forbidden the Moores do at this present use and observe the same and divers other Ceremonies which the Idolaters used in the said Passeover and Pilgrimage or Alhage as wee said above and shall declare further here-under The said book Azar assirmes that the said Caydar the second son of Ismael was the man that instituted those Ceremonies from which Caydar Muhamed descended and hence this Caydar is in Arabick called Gead dealharab i. e. grandfather of the Arabians That book likewise sayth that the said Caydar erected a black stone in the said Tower right against the said Idoll that those who went into the temple might know that the Idoll stood in the Tower right against that stone and that in stead of the Idoll they should kiss that stone which was then and is at this present called The blessed stone I shall else-where tell you that Muhamed worshiped this stone and magnified it in the temple of the Idoll and used much reverence to it and in his Law and sect commandeth that this stone be worshiped and kissed and that the kissing and adoring of this stone is an Article of his Law and that it is at present in the same place where it was at that time when the Idoll was in being and I shall prove as well by the Alcoran and by Muhamed's suné That Muhamed was an Idolater It appeares plainly that the descent of Muhamed from Caydar the second son of Ismael unto his parents was from Idolaters to Idolaters for the space of 2800 years or there abouts Now observe and tell mee O Moore how that saying of Muhamed in the book Kised Alanuar i. e. the book of Flowers can be understood where Muhamed sayes that he proceedeth of a most perfect generation and that God sent him in the best times of the world knowest thou not O Moore that during all the aforesaid time of 2800 years viz. from Caydar unto Muhamed that they were all Idolaters a rude beastly and very ignorant people as the Alcoran testifies where he calls the people of Mecca Zuféhe i. e. Blockheads and Asses and knowest thou not that from Caydar unto Muhamed there can be no other descent than that Caydar begat an Idolatrous son and that son begat another Idolater and that Idolater begat another and such a succession yee find untill Muhamed's grandfather for it sayes thus Motalib an Idolater begat Abdalla Muhamed's father who was also an Idolater and this Abdalla begat Muhamed an Idolater Now observe O Moore and consider the generation of Jesus Christ the son of Mary and thou shalt find that he descended from Abraham the father of Isaack and from Jsaack the father of Jacob and from Jacob the father of Judah and from Juda the father of c. and from one to another untill our Lady the Virgin Mary and thou shalt see that they were all Patriarks prophets Heroes perfect men and Saints and wilt acknowledge that this generation of Jesus Christ is better than the generation of Muhamed and observe likewise the time of Christ how it was adorned with Prophets prophecies Saints and Priests who worshiped in the temple of God the sacred house of Jerusalem which the Alcoran calls the blessed house of God and compare Muhamed's Temple wherein Idolatry then raigned more than at any time before or since with the temple which Jes●● Christ and this Virgin his mother frequented which was the Temple of God sanctifyed served and honoured by Prophets and holy Priests and Compare the father and mother of Muhamed and thou wilt see the difference between the father and mother of Jesus Christ and the father and mother of Muhamed and if thou sayest that Jesus Christ had no father I answere that the Alcoran sayes that he was Conceived of the holy Ghost in the wombe of the Virgin Mary and as yee take the Virgin Mary for the mother of Jesus Christ so you must take the holy Ghost for his father who is true God and if all that proceeds from God is God seeing the holy Ghost proceeds from the Father to the Son you must beleeve that Jesus Christ is the son of God and thus you see the difference between the father and mother of Muhamed and the glorious father and mother of Jesus Christ and Contemplating upon all this aforesaid and considering of it well according to reason and truth thou