CXLVIII.

Mahometism. Mahometismus.

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_Mahomet_, 1. a warlike Man, invented to himself a new Religion, mixed with _Judaism_, _Christianity_ and _Gentilism_, _Mahomet_, 1. Homo bellator, excogitabat sibi novam Religionem, mixtam ex _Judaismo_, _Christianismo_ & _Gentilismo_, by the advice of a _Jew_, 2. and an _Arian Monk_, 3. named _Sergius_; feigning, whilst he had the _Fit_ _of the Falling-sickness_, consilio _Judæi_, 2. & _Monachi Ariani_, 3. nomine _Sergii_; fingens, dum laboraret _Epilepsia_, that the _Archangel Gabriel_ and the _Holy Ghost_, talked with him, using a _Pigeon_, 4. to fetch Meat out of his Ear. _Archangelum Gabrielem_, & _Spiritum Sanctum_, secum colloqui, adsuefaciens _Columbam_, 4. petere Escam ex Aure sua.

His _Followers_ refrain themselves from _Wine_; are circumcised, have many _Wives_; _Asseclæ_ ejus abstinent se à _Vino_; circumciduntur, sunt _Polygami_; build _Chapels_, 5. from the _Steeples_ whereof, they are called to Holy Service not by _Bells_, but by a _Priest_, 6. exstruunt _Sacella_, 5. de quorum _Turriculis_, convocantur ad sacra non a _Campanis_, sed a _Sacerdote_, 6. they wash themselves often, 7. they deny the _Holy Trinity_: they _honour Christ_, not as the _Son of God_, sæpius se abluunt, 7. negant _SS. Trinitatem_: _Christum honorant_, non ut _Dei Filium_, but as a great _Prophet_, yet less than _Mahomet_; they call their _Law_, the _Alchoran_. sed ut magnum _Prophetam_, minorem tamen _Mahomete_; _Legem_ suam vocant _Alcoran_.