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)

pardoneth, and punished as it pleaseth him, he is the King of all that is in Heaven or Earth, and of whatever is between them, he is the refuge of the righteous. Oh ye that have knowledge in the written Law! The Prophet, the Apostle of God is come to instruct you in a time that there is none other Prophet but he on the Earth; Will you say that no man preached to you the torments of Hell? Certainly the word of God is this day preached to you, the torment of Hell, and the Omnipotencie of his Divine Majestie. Remember thou what Moses said to his people, Oh people, call to minde the grace of God towards you, he hath chosen from among you Prophets, and Kings, hath conferred on you what he hath given to none in the world: Enter into the holy Land, as God hath commanded, turne not your backs to your enemies, lest you be in the number of Reprobates: They answered, oh Moses! there are Gyants and Tyrants in the Holy Land, we will not enter into it, untill they be gone out of it, if they forsake it, we will enter into it. Then two men of them that were in the grace of God, said to them, enter at the gate, and fight against them, you shall be victorious, trust in God, if you believe in his Law: They said, oh Moses! we will not enter, so long as those Tyrants dwell therein, goe and fight against them with thy Lord, we will here attend. Then, said Moses, Lord, I dispose but of mine owne, and my brothers person; separate us from this wicked people; the Lord said to him, the entrance into the Holy Land is prohibited to this people, they shall wander forty years upon the Earth, in confusion and amazement, afflict not thy selfe with the deportments of the wicked; teach them the Historie of the Sonnes of Adam, how they offered sacrifices, how the sacrifice of the one was accepted, that of the other was not: he through envie menaced his brother, to murther him; his brother said to him, God receiveth the sacrifices, and holocausts of such as have his feare before their eyes: assuredly if thou extendest thine hand to slay me, I will not stretch forth mine to hurt thee; I fear the Lord of the Universe; If thou chargest thy selfe with the murther of my person, with thy past sinnes, thou shalt goe to hell, where the