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verenee ofHivtng , saints * a belief in prophecies , * omens and dreams and the power of amulets and charms , and the admission of numerous orders of Dervishes ; the removal of all which excrescences , and the restoration of the simple Unitarianism of the Koran , it is
the professed object of the Wahaubees to effect . These powerful sectaries have taken the holy cities , and overrunning all Arabia , and part of Syria , have me - naced at the same time the Sophi of Persia and the Sultan of
Constantinople , peremptorily inviting them to recognise the divine commission of Wahaub , the Unitarian Chief , and restore the faith to ks primitive purity . Should the mission of this reformer
accomplish its aim , and meet with general success , we may then expedt to become acquainted with Mahometahishi j such as it was in itsf infancy . Mr . Leibnitz says of it , that
** * tis a kind of deism joined to the belief of some facts , and to tie Observation of some performances , that Mahomet and his followers have added , sometimes tMluckily enough , to natural religion , but that have been agreeable tx > the inclinations of several
countries : " and he adds , " we ate obli ged to that sect for the
, /* fhe tknowledge of future events w . obtained , they think , by the constant practice of virtue , fasting , and humi-^ Qn . The Etishmyshlcrden , ' « the Warners to the fulness of divine fer-Pretend to visions
^ ur > ^ ; yet Mahouts tedir td in the Koran Achir Perffl ^^ r Ui elasit Of the prophets , which w * po < lcrn Mahometans have explam-^ a * ttenal , to suit tjidir o ^ n notiohs . — I ^ S ^^^ ° ^ on ^ an Hist , b ^ pfe i .
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destruction of paganism in many parts of the world « "i-To this brief and just exposition , and the subsequent eulogy of the religion , I shall only add , that its main doctrine has been
allowed to be so similar to that of a great heretical Christian , that in times when theological controversies were more bitter than at present , sober treatises were written , to prove the conformity of the Mahometan belief with that of
the Socinians ; and that sect , on account of the irregularities of Adam Neuser was charged with , a conspiracy against Christianity , in conjunction with the Emperor
of the Turks . J What was once thought a disgrace to Soeinus , may now be considered an honour to the author of Islamism , who , when he declared There is but
one God , and Mahomet is his prophet , may , considering the infirmities of human nature , be scarcely so much condemned for the imposture of the latter article , as praised for having promulgated the sublime truth contained in the
first half of his concise creed . In short , of the prophet of Mecca we may say what Adrian Reland has pronounced of his commentator Kerabisensis , This Arabian delivers some truth- covered over
f A letter from Mr . Leibnitz to the author of the Reflections upon the Origin of Mahometanism , dated Berlin , 1706 . X See Historical and Critical Reflections upon Mahometanism and Socinianjsm , translated from the , French ,
London , 171 * . A . Turk hiring a Polish Sociniapi discourse on the Trinity and Incarnation , tvondered he did not get himself circumcised . See <§ & £ letter of ^ JLeikv nitz , who , qI the tj » o , prefers tl&c Mahometan , as more consistent than the Spcinian .
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present State of the Mahometan Religion in Turkey . 651
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/7/
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