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Title: The strange and prodigious religions, customs, and manners of sundry nations ...
Year: 1688 (1680s)
Authors: R. B., 1632?-1725?
Subjects: Religions Jews Islam Indians
Publisher: London. : Printed and sold by Hen. Rodes...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Birds of the Air, anc;Beafts of the Earth, wondred at her Beauty : yea, thc(Angels every day faluted her, and brought her Odono«tof Paradife,till (hebroughtforthS^^^alone,havingbefore at every Burthen brought forth a Brother and 2Sifter. Seth inherited fhis Light, which remained betweenHeaven and Earth, the Angels thereby afcending anc,<le(cending upon Sethy and crying always, *Rejoyc<**thon Earth, worthy of the Light o£ Mahomet, on hinr** be Prayer and Salvation of God. Adam drawing neaito his end, declared unto him, by his Teftament, theMyfteries of that Light, and the Genealogy of the Pro-phets. Then defcended Gabriely accompanied with threeicore and ten thoufand Angels, bearing every one othem a white Leaf and a Pen, which figned the Wri-ting for the Continuance of the Order of the propheticaGeneration. Seth received this Writing, and was cloath-ed with a double red Garment, fliining as the Sun, a.fofc as the Violet Flower. From Feojyh av^iheirFdgra.ma^e. toM^ccoFag• r^O
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Rehgtons^CuJioms^aHdMan9fers. 4j From him it pafled by Succdiion to Noah and Sem-^ thentO/^hahamyZt who(e Birth two Lights from the Eaft andWeft(mccting in the midft) lightned the whole World ;and theAngcls were heard finging, that it was the Lightof the Prophet Mahomet, who fliould be born of hisSeed, whofe Words (hould be the virtue of God. ThisLight pafled from Abraham to the face of Hia^^/ir, beingwith Child, and after to Ijhmael^ and God told him,thacthe Soul oi Mahomet in the beginning of the Creation,was mingled with his.and that hisName in Heaven (houldbey^^^in Earth Mahomet, & in ^zxz^x^^Ahvaltrax.im,At this Sarah grieved,until three Angels comforted herwith the Promife o^Ifaac, From IJhmael it removed toKeydar his Son, who being endued with k^^n Gifts,marryed Nulta of the Land oflfaac j but being warn-ed by an Oracle, he took to Wife Algadira^ an Arabiaarij and after, by divine Warning, carried the Chefl: ofthis Light unto Jacob. Then was Hamel born to him,and received t

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