Alcoran,

and the Wound heal'd, may refer, in the 13th Chapter of the Revelations.

Chaib preach'd the Alcoran to the People cb. 26. of a Foreft near Medina, who traduc'd him as a Lyar, but they were cover'd with a Cloud that rain'd on 'em a Showre of Fire, and they were burnt. Mahomet fays, This was a Token of my Power. To this Story the Revelation relates, as a Miracle of the falfe Prophet's making Fire come from Heaven. Mahomet fays, Thunder was darted against them that flew the Camel of Salbee. On Mahomet's Seal are engraven thefe words, Mahomet, the Messenger of God.

7. These Abfurdities may be read in the Alcoran: The Virgin Mary is Daughter to Mofes, Children and Beasts speak, Solomon rais'd an Army of Men and Angels; God prays for Mahomet; Abraham had two Sons, Ifaac and Jacob.

8. Thefe Immoralities are taught by the Alcoran :

1. They allow the Mufelmen to fwear deceitfully, and three days Faft will fatisfie for Perjury. They allow Depredations, and command the propagating Religion by the Sword. They allow Liberty of all Religions, in which they fay all Men may be faved.

2. Divorce is lawful: Mahomet told Zaida, that God had given him leave to take his Wife. They ufe many Concubines. The Turks believe Senfual Pleafures in Pa radife.

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The Turks had their Circumcifion from Hagar, and their fabulous Stories from the Talmud; as, the Names of Angels, their Mercy to Beasts, and their Multitudes of Heavens.

The Hagarens worship'd the Morning Star before Mahomet's time, and Mahomet took from these Idolaters his Fable, That a Woman was turned into that Star; and Friday was therefore obferved by the Mufel men, and they fwear by that Star: And Mahomet is call'd a falling Star in the Reve lations.

This is the Mufelmens Faith; at 8 Years old they are obliged to fay, There is one God, and Mahomet his Prophet, Erecto manus pollice, and they who profefs this are faved, tho' they live wicked Lives, in all manner of Luxury, Perfidioufnefs, and Murder.

Irenaus, by the Beast in the 13th Chapter of the Revelations, understands Antichrift; he makes the second Beaft the falfe Prophet, or his Armiger, and believes his Miracles to be done by magical Illufions, as the Magi in Egypt did; or the Devil might perform them, to feduce Mankind. Ireneus thought the Name of Antichrift might be many Words, as, Teitan, or Lateinos, but that till Antichrift was come it could not be certainly known. He fays, Antichrift muft not be destroy'd till the coming of Chrift, and then the fourth Monarchy will end in the Kingdom of the Saints.

Ireneus had his account of the Apocalypfe from Polycarp, the Disciple of St. John, and he was Polycarp's Difciple. Jerome makes him a Difciple of Papias; and Irenaus was young when he faw old Polycarp: Heaffirms, that the Juft having liv'd a thousand Years, and enjoy'd Temporal Pleasures, should enter into Heaven, to poffefs Eternal Happinefs. He was born about 140, and lived till 202; he spake thus of the Revelations, Neq; enim ante multum temporis vifum eft, fed pene fub noftro feculo, fub finem imperii Do

mitiani.

Irenaus compares the ten Toes of Daniel's Image, to the ten Kingdoms. Chrift is the Stone that must break them to pieces, and fet up the Eternal Kingdom. These Horns chang'd in every Age, fo the Scots are now none, tho' one of the ancientest.

Some farther Collections from Irenæus, concerning the Refurrection and Millen

nium.

HE fame Bodies fhall rife, as Christ's

Tdid, the Souls are kept in feparate

Places under the Earth till the Refurrection; and from thence Chrift brought many at his Refurrection.

The Just shall rife firft, and then will be the Judgment; the Creatures will be renewed, which they expect at the Revelation of the Sons of God, and then they shall

be

be deliver'd from the Bondage of Corruption.

The Saints must rife in the fame Bodies they fuffer'd, that they may be rewarded in them: Then they will drink new Wine in the Kingdom of the Father, with Jefus Christ, and then Chrift will reward our Charity to the Poor, and for all our Loffes we must expect to receive a hundred fold in that Age.

In Jacob's Bleffing, Let the Gentiles ferve thee, and Princes adore thec; this was not perform'd in his Life-time to him, therefore it must be done in the Millennium: Those Presbyters testify that they heard from St. John, that the Just shall rife and reign, and then the Creature fhould be renew'd, and obey Man, as they did in Paradife. All these things Irenæus fays Papias, the Disciple of St. John, and Fellow-Pupil with Polycarp, teftifies in his Writings in his fourth Book.

The Jews expected a temporal Kingdom under the Meffiah, as the Requeft of the Mother of Zebedee's Sons intimates, and the Question of the Disciples, after Chrift's Refurrection, Whether he would then restore the Kingdom to Ifrael.

Ireneus denies that there is an Allegory in the Prophecies concerning Antichrist and Chrift's Kingdom in the Millennium, for Men will then truly rife from the Dead, and not allegorically, and be truly incorruptible, and be prepar'd in the thousand Years

for

for the Society of Chrift and good Men, and be made capable of living in the Glory of the Father; all things fhall be truly renew'd, and they fhall live in the City of God; and all these things are faid to be faithful and true, and written by God's Command, and fhall be done; and the Heavens and Earth fhall not be destroy'd, but chang'd. Irenaus fays, there are different Manfions for those that shall be rewarded; fome fhall be receiv'd into Heaven, others into Paradise, and the rest of the Just into the Holy City.

Chrift raised Lazarus in the fame Body; and in the Refurrection the corruptible Body must put on incorruption: Chrift rofe in the fame Body; and if the Body rife not, Chrift needed not to have taken a humane Body, to reconcile it thro' his Blood: And as we have born the Image of the Earthly, fo we must bear the Image of the Heavenly, therefore after the Refurrection, the Body will be made immortal; Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; that is, they who are led by the Flesh, and do the Deeds to which it inclines them.

Note, That fince our Bodies will be the fame as our Saviour's was after his Resurrection, in which he did ear and drink with his Difciples, fo will Men in the Millennium ufe the fame Diet as was appointed for them in Paradife, without any Excefs or Luxury, and the Tree of Life will make them immortal,

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