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)

the second a fool, and the third lame in his feet, I say, though it be without head or tail, as we use to speak, being immethodicall and confused, contradictory in many things, written in a rude Lnaguage the Author himself being no Linguist or Scholer, nay, not able to read or write, though also it conflict of lyes and sensless follies, yet thu benefit we may reap; I say, in reading of it, that we shall be forced to admire and praise the goodness of God to wards us Christians, who having suffered a great part of the world to fit in the valley of shadow of death, to be oppressed with Cimmerian, yea more then palpable Egyptian darkness, hath placed us in the Temple, where we have the golden Candlestick of his Word, and a clearer and more durable Lamp then that of Salomons Temple, yea even the Sun of righteousness shining upon us in the land of Goshan, whilst a great part of the world doth follow the Antichristian beast, we follow the Lamb upon mount Sion; while they hear the voyce of Satyres, Ostrages, and Schrich-Owls, we hear the voice of the Turtle, and the Songs of Soin in our own Land; whilst they feed on husks with swine, and drink the corrupted puddles of Mahomets inventions, we are fed with Angels food, and eat cælestiall Manna, and drink of the pure river of life, clear as crystall: Again, we may tremble at the reading of this Alcoran, when we consider the severity of Gods Judgments, and the fierceness of his anger, who for the contempt of his Gospel, in those Countries where Mahomet is worshipped, hath suffered so many millions of people to be deluded, blinded, abused, and inslaved by that false Prophet, to believe his lyes, and by loathing the sweet Evangelical Manna, to devour greedily the poysonable quailes of his doctrine, and with it the Wrath of God which hath faln on them, whilst the flesh is between their teeth, so that they must needs perish everlastingly. Who would have thought that those Countreys which were honored by Gods own presence, by the Oracles of the Prophets, nu the presence, miracles, and preaching of Christ, by the planting of the Apostles, by the blood of so many Martyrs, should be thus besotted, and enslaved by the tyranny of this grand Impostor? When we think on those things, let us work out our salvation with fear and trembling, and let him who thinks he standeth take heed least he fall: they were not greater sinners then