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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	inspire_v	2,844	5	10.2489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

forbid his Subjects any longer to prophane a Colour which all true Mahometans ought to have a greater Veneration for That the King knew very well that it being the Prophets peculiar Colour it did not become the happy observers of his Law to cover any part of the Body therewith but only the Head or at least the more decent part of the Body above the Wast it being an insupportable Comtempt to trample under Foot a Colour so sacred as his Subjects not only did but also the Giaurs or Christians the Iews and all other Infidels and impure Nations in his Dominions Sha Abbas perceived the folly of this Discourse and so resolved to make a Jest of it He made shew of consenting to the Grand Seigniors desire and promised the Ambassador that he would take Order his Subjects should no longer prophane the Prophets Colour hoping the Grand Seignior would issue out the same Orders over his Dominions For said the King your Master beholds every day a greater prophanation of that Colour and yet lets it go unpunished My Subjects only wear the Colour dead upon their Shoes and Trowses but all the Beasts in Turkey dung without any Penalty upon the Grass which is the living Colour that Mahomet lov d. Therefore if he will prohibit all the Beasts in his Empire from defiling the green Grass with their Excrements which they do continually then will I take care that my Subjects shall wear green no longer The Ambassador finding the Emperor did but deride his Folly withdrew silently from the Presence and left the Persians to their own liberty This washing and cleanliness of the Mahometans has occasion'd the building of several necessary Houses which they call The Houses of Shame for publick conveniency which are kept very sweet having a Cock to turn and take away all ill smells so that you shall never see in all the East the Walls of their Churches stain'd with Urine or Excrements as in our parts of the World Nor is any one prejudiced in his Health by retaining his ●…rtural Evacuations for want of convemency I never heard so many I●…vectives saith a French Gentleman as were uttered upon this account by a Turk at Constantinople who had travelled to Marseilles and thence to Paris He being in France used according to the custom of his Countrey to eat great plenty of Fruits Salads and among the rest Cucumbers half ripe Stalks and all a Diet enough to break a French Horses Belly yet much admired by the Eastern People whose D●…gestion tames it well enough This Mahometan said He found it hotter in Paris during the heat of Summer than at Damasco in Syria tho' it lye 15 Degrees more to the South so to cool himself he resolv'd to eat a great Dish of Milk and Cucumbers and so to walk about half a Mile off where he had business Returning back the motion of his Body the coldness of the Cucumbers and the heat of the season caused great commotion in the Bowels of the Musselman and would by no means be appeased He searched about for an House of Easement yet could discover nothing but open shops and throngs of people He grew disconsolate not knowing what course to take He cursed all the streets of Paris and wisht himself at Damascus where is a great place walled in containing 40 of these Necessary Houses At last in the height of his trouble he thus lamented his Misfortunes Were I now at Grand Cario my pains would find redress by only bowing the head and crying according to custom to Passengers Pray Sir look another way but here in Paris where there are more people than stones in the street what shall a Man do in my forlorn condition But these sad Complaints little availed for before he could get to his Lodgings the Cucumbers forc'd their way open at his Back-door and made the disconsolate Syrian know that Milk and Cucumbers was not so sweet as Milk and Honey yet he must endure the smell as well as he made several others as he passed in that stinking pickle to his Lodgings to cleanse himself This cleanliness of the Mahometans makes them call Christians Filthy Unclean and Nasty Infidels or Unbelievers And thus much for this Grand Impastor Mahomet whom Heaven permitted to be a scourge for punishing the Christians who at that time had forsaken the Doctrines of the Gospel and had imbraced damnable Herisies Let this excite us to bless the goodness of God who enjoy the glorious Light of his Truth and to admire Gods Judgments who suffers so many large Kingdoms and Countries to be infatuated deluded and inslaved and so many Millions of people to be abused by that false Prophet and to believe his Lyes Nonsense and Blasphemy He belies God in making him the Author of his Alcoran boasting that his Name is written upon the Throne of God and that he is the greatest of the Prophets having more knowledge than all the Men and Angels in the World He belies Jesus Christ in saying he could not be Gods Son because God was never Married as if there were no other way of Generation but what is Carnal He saith the Virgin Mary conceived Christ by the smell of a Rose and that she was the sister of Moses confounding her with Miriam though there were so many hundred Years between He belieth the Holy Ghost in affirming that he inspired Mahomet to write his Alcoran He belieth the Scriptures in saying they are corrupted by Christians and that they Worship many Gods and give God a Companion by affirming the Divinity of Christ Jesus He belieth the Iews in saying they make Eleazer a God He belieth the Patriarchs in saying that Noah Abraham Isaac and Iacob believed his Alcoran tho' they lived so many thousand Years before he or his Alcoran had a being He belies the Apostles in making them his Scholars tho' they lived near 600 Years before he saw the Light By all which it appears that the Compiler of this Alcoran was not the God of Truth but the Father of Lies Especially if we consider the ridiculous stories found therein He tells us That he once divided the Noon one half whereof fell into his Lap the other half on the Ground which he after joined again together and perhaps in memory of this lying Miracle the Turks use yet the Half Moon for their Arms and on their Churches and Steeples He tells of a great Army of Men and Angels raised by Solomon which being much disturbed in their March by an Army of Flies Solnmon reb●…ked and routed them He tells that in Noah's Ark a Hog was generated of the Elephants Dung and a Rat of the Hogs Dung which knawing a hole in the Ark Noah was so affrighted that he toucht the Forehead of the Lyon out of whose Brains leaped a Cat that chased away the Rat. To conclude in the Paradise which he promises his Followers he allows Appartments therein to several Beasts such as Abraham's Ram Moses's Heifer Solomon's