The True Nature of Imposture Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet: With a Discourse Annex'd for the Vindication of Christianity from this Charge. ... By Humphrey Prideaux, ... |
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Page 19 - ... corruption of their manners, exceedingly given to the love of women ; and the scorching heat and dryness of the country, making rivers of water, cooling drinks, shaded gardens, and pleasant fruits, most refreshing and delightful unto them, they were from hence apt to place their highest enjoyment in things of this nature.
Page 99 - Prophet himfelf, that Prophets were to be buried in the place where they died. And then without more ado, commanded the Bed whereon he lay to be plucked out, and a Grave to be immediately dug under it, to which all...
Page 26 - ... removed from the time and place of his spiritual exploits. They believe or affirm that trees went forth to meet him; that he was saluted by stones; that water gushed from his fingers; that he fed the hungry, cured the sick, and raised the dead; that a beam groaned to him; that a camel complained to him; that a shoulder of mutton informed him of its being poisoned; and that both animate and inanimate nature were equally subject to the Apostle of God.
Page 4 - Korashites, which was reckoned the noblest in all that country; and was descended in a direct line from Pher Koraish, the founder of it. Yet in the beginning of his life he was in a very poor condition ; for his father dying before he was two years old, and while his grandfather was still living, all the power and wealth of his family devolved to his uncles, especially Abu Taleb. Abu Taleb, after the death of his father, bore the chief sway in Mecca...
Page 250 - Jude ; the second of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the Revelation.
Page 118 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 99 - Hiftory;" who tells us, that he had formed a fcheme, by building the dome of the temple of Arfinoe at Alexandria of loadftone, to make her image all of iron -hang in the middle of it, as if it were in the air.
Page 163 - Let what is written in all the books of the NT be tried by that which is the touchstone of all religions, I mean that religion of nature and reason which God has written in the hearts of every one of us from the first creation ; and if it varies from it in any one particular, if it prescribes any one thing which may in the...
Page v - ... from among them, which the gospel was given to promote ; and, instead thereof, continually provoked each other to that malice, rancour, and every evil work ; that they had lost the whole substance of their religion, while they thus eagerly contended for their own imaginations concerning it ; and, in a manner, quite drove Christianity out of the world, by those very controversies in which they disputed with each other about itq.
Page 8 - ... which he carried on in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, having made him well acquainted with both Christians and Jews, and given him an opportunity of observing with what eagerness they and the several sects into which the Christians of the East were then miserably divided, engaged against each other, he concluded that nothing would be more likely to gain a party firm to him for the attaining the ends at which he aimed, than the invention of a new religion.