Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

oh people! worship one God alone, he it is who hath created you of the dust of the Earth, and filled it with many sorts of fruits, that you might inhabit it; beg pardon of him, and be converted, he hearkeneth to his creatures, and heareth their prayers: they answered, oh Salhe! it was hoped thou wouldst have been our Captain, before the prohibition was made, to adore the Gods of our fathers, we exceedingly doubt of what thou preachest; Oh people! said Salhe, know ye not that God taught me what to you I preach, and that he hath given me his grace? who shall protect me if I disobey him? You can but augment my pain, should I believe you. O People! this Camell, which God for you hath created, shall be to you a miracle, and instruction, suffer it to feed, and do it no harm, lest you be suddenly chastised. They through contempt, wounded the Camell. Then said he unto them, ye shall live in your houses for the space of three dayes before ye be destroyed; what is foretold to you, is no Fiction: when we destroyed them, we, through our especial grace saved Salhe, and the true believers that were with him; thunder surprized those Infidels, and in the morning they were found in their houses dead, extended as carkases: Thus did Temod and his people contemne the Commandments of God, to their disadvantage. Our Messengers that came to Abrahams house, declared to him the birth of Isaac, Jacob, and their posterity; they mutually saluted, when they entred into his house, he caused rosted flesh to be brought to them to eate, and perceiving that they did not eate, contemned them in himself, and was terrified with their comming; they said unto him, fear not, we are sent to Lot, to extirpate the inhabitants of his City; Abrahams wife being present, began to laugh, when they foretold the birth of Isaac, Jacob, and their posterity; she said, ah God! shall I bear a son, I, who am old, and have an husband extremly aged? this would be a miracle; they answered, are ye astonished at the power of God? O ye of the family of Abraham! God hath given you his blessing, praise and glory are due to him in all places. When Abraham was freed from his fear, and they having announced the birth of his children, he disputed with them a long