BP

172 F734

THERE ARE TWO OBJECTS OF CURIOSITY,· THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, AND THE MAHOMETAN WORLD: ALL THE REST MAY BE CONSIDERED AS BARBAROUS.

DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON.

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.

MAHOMETANISM UNVEILED:

J228770

AN INQUIRY,

IN WHICH

THAT ARCH-HERESY,

ITS DIFFUSION AND CONTINUANCE,

ARE EXAMINED ON A NEW PRINCIPLE,

TENDING TO CONFIRM THE EVIDENCES,

AND AID THE PROPAGATION,

OF

THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

BY

2.7.F7

THE REV. CHARLES FORSTER, B.D.

CHANCELLOR OF ARDFERT, AND EXAMINING CHAPLAIN
TO THE LORD BISHOP OF LIMERICK.

Mahometanism began as a Christian heresy.

JOSEPH MEDE.

The extraordinary success, which has attended the imposture of Mahomet, has
exercised the ingenuity of Christian writers; and yet does not appear to
have been satisfactorily explained.
PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN HISTORY.

Ex Hagare Ismaëlem suscepit Abrahamus; rem omnem, ad arcanos fines, ita
dirigente Numine.
BUDDEUS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DUNCAN, 87. PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND J. COCHRAN, 108. STRAND.

MDCCCXXIX.

IN inscribing these pages to Your Lordship, were it my object simply to express my respect and grateful affection towards the friend of my youth, and the guide of my maturer years and studies, a sense of delicacy would have obliged me to convey these sentiments in the shortest and simplest form of dedication.