A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

(2) To speak of the other, the second, which is in many respects like unto it, v•z. his Mahometan kingdom, which is another great kingdom of mighty power and vast extent, set up by Satan against the kingdom of Christ: he set this up in the Eastern empire, as he did that of Antichrist in the Western.

(2) To speak of the other, the second, which is in many respects like unto it, v•z. his M•hometan kingdom, which is another great kingdom of mighty power and vast extent, set up by Satan against the ki•gdom of Christ: he set this up in the Eastern empire, as he did that of Antichrist in the Western.

Mahomet was born in the year of Christ •70, in Arabia. When he was about forty years of age, he began to give forth that he was the great prophet of God, and began to teach his new invented religion, of which he was to be worshipped as the head next under God. He published his Alcoran, which he pretended he received from the angel Gabriel; and being a subtle crafty man, and possessed of considerable wealth, and living among a people who were very ignorant, and greatly divided in their opinions of religious matters, by subtlety, and fair promises of a sensual paradi••, he ⟨p. 219⟩gained a number to be his followers, and set up for their prince, and propagated his religion by the sword, and made it meritorious of paradise to fight for him. By which means his party grew, and went on fighting till they conquered and brought over the neighbouring countries; and so his party gradually grew till they over-ran a great part of the world. First, the Saracens, who were some of his followers, and were a people of the country of Arabia, where Mahomet lived, about the year 700, began dreadfully to waste the Roman empire. They over-ran a great many countries belonging to the empire, and continued their conquest for a long time. These are supposed to be meant by the locusts that we read of in the 9th chapter of Revelation.