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)

then we, therefore doubtless except we repent we shall all likewise perish; the remissnes of Heraclius Government, his falling into the heresie of the Monothelites, the contempt of the Gospel, the flighting of the Pastors, the wickedness of the people, the continual Schisms, rents, jars, and divisions of their Churches, where both the causes and occasions of these miseries which have faln upon them; let us take heed then we be not partakers of their sins, least we also partake of their plagues.

10. The reading of the Alcoran will enable us to beat Mahomet with his own weapons, to cut off the head of this Goliah with his own sword, and to wound this unclean bird with quills pickt out of his own wings, for even unwittingly and unwillingly he is forced to acknowledg many truths of Christian Religion, in affirming there is but one true God the Creator of all tings, and though he goeth about to overthrow the doctrine of the Trinity, yet he doth plainly confirm it; when he speaks of God, of the Word and of the Spirit, which three indeed are one in essence, though distinct in subsistence; though he laboureth to overthrow the Gospel, yet he confirms it, when he calls it good, full, right, a light, and a guide to salvation, for if it be full, good, &c. what need was then of his Alcoran? and though he indeavoreth to overthrow Christs Divinity with Arius and Nestorius, and the Jews his ghostly fathers, yet he affirms it, in calling Christ the Word; for as the internal word of the minde is coeternal with the minde, so is Christ the Word of his Father, coeternal with the Father; he establisheth also the Article of Christs Conception and Nativity, affirming him to be conceived by the holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary, whom he confesseth to have been a pure Virgin, both before and after Christs birth: so he confirms the Article of Christs ascension into heaven, and divers other points of Christianity, to whom we are more beholding for his reverend esteem of Christ, then the Jews who revile and blaspheme him.

11. In reading the Alcoran, though we finde much dung, yet in it we shall meet with some gold, as Virgil did in reading of Ennios his Verses. Æsops Cock found a precious stone in a dunghill; where is much dross some pure metal will be found: even so in the dirt of the Alcoran you shall finde some jewels of Christians vertues