CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

INTRODUCTION. - Pages 1-110.

Success of Mahometanism.

A subject of great and general

interest. Not satisfactorily accounted for. Inquiry on

just principles recommended. General features. Ob-

scure origin. Social and political state of Arabia. Sudden

rise of Mahometanism. Rapid and wide propagation.

Permanence. Completeness of mental dominion. Trans-

formative power, as conquering, as conquered. Abstract

nature of belief. Simplicity of rites. Summary. Ob-

jections of infidels. Mr. Gibbon. Replies of Christian

advocates. Dr. Paley. Dr. White. Instances of argu-

mentative unfairness. Fanciful causes of success. Mis-

taken estimate of real causes. Re-statement. Subject

examined on a new principle. Two promises to Abraham.

Covenant of Isaac. Covenant of Ishmael. Analogy in

terms and results. Advantages of this view.

able matter measured by a just standard. Ways of Pro-

vidence vindicated. Basis of the present argument.
Its

general outline. Correspondence with prophetic Scrip-

ture. Agreement with actual phenomena. Twofold

prediction and accomplishment. Temporal, spiritual.

Isaac; Jews, Christians. Ishmael; Arabs, Turks, Tartars.

Child of promise; true revelation. Spurious offspring;

false creed. Plan of work. Concluding reflections.

Objection-

SECTION I.-Pages 113-161.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GOD'S TWOFOLD COVENANT
WITH ABRAHAM, IN BEHALF OF HIS SONS ISAAC AND

ISHMAEL.

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Original promise to Abraham. Two parts-lineal-social.
Twice renewed in former part. Third renewal-to Hagar
for Ishmael. Enlarged for Isaac-in both parts. Two
distinct covenants - Bishop Sherlock. Spiritual blessing
peculiar to Isaac. Chief portion of Ishmael-temporal
blessing. Not without spiritual signification-proofs.
Common predictions-corresponding fulfilments. Nature
of proof. Tabular view of promises. As to worldly
prosperity covenants nearly identical. Balance in favour
of Ishmael - a great nation. Subject of inquiry- not the
fact but mode of fulfilment. Comparison of prophecy
with events. History of Jews of Arabs. Twelve pa-
triarchs -- twelve princes. Twelve tribes-twelve na-
tions. Judah - Jews Messiah. Kedar - Kedarites -
Mahomet. Covenant of Isaac Christianity. Covenant
of Ishmael Mahometanism. Appropriate characters of
promises and accomplishments. Two promises to Abra-
ham confounded by Jews. Temporal blessing-ap-
plication of to Jews to ancient Arabs. Appearance of
Mahomet clears the two promises - completes the ana-
logous fulfilments. Nations of earth adopted into fami-
lies of Isaac and Ishmael. Mahometanism compared with
Christianity with Judaism. Correspondence and con-
trast of systems equally important. Existence of two-fold
promise a pledge of twofold accomplishment. Covenant
of Isaac fulfilled manner of fulfilment known its ful-
filment an assurance that Ishmael's will be accomplished
in like manner. Anticipations met by history of Israel-
ites and Ishmaelites — of Jews and Saracens sustained
by intermediate prophecies - realized in Christianity and
Mahometanism.

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PROPHETICAL ANTICIPATIONS OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS
OF MAHOMETANISM; AND PROPHETICAL PARALLEL BE-
TWEEN MAHOMETANISM AND CHRISTIANITY.

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Covenants of Old and New Testaments allegorized by cove-
nants of Ishmael and Isaac. Child of spirit—child of flesh.
Religion of peace-religion of persecution.
sprung from Ishmael superior to all other false creeds.
In this view a blessing. The only false creed foretold by
prophecy. Book of Daniel-history of God's world-of
God's church. Western church-Eastern church. Ana-
logy of Scripture. Corresponding predictions in Daniel
and Apocalypse. Two little horns. two beasts. Papacy
Mahometanism. No other power so answering de-
scription. Broad view recommended. Prophecy and
Providence reciprocal interpreters. Little horn of he-
goat. Various applications of. Applied to Mahometan-
ism. Harmony of vision and interpretation. Theatre of
the prophecy at large. Great horn broken. Four notable
horns unbroken. Little horn comes out of one of them.
Agreements of Mahometanism with little horn-a king-
understanding dark sentences. Spiritual tyranny indi-
cated. Host of heaven cast down by horn-by Maho-
metanism. An host given to horn against daily sacrifice
-explained from Mahometan apostasy. Described by
Saint John under same type. Terms of Jewish ritual
denote Christian Church-more properly than Jewish-
Bishop Newton. Symbol of horn appropriated to Maho-
metanism. Dan. xi. xii. a commentary on Dan. viii.
Interpreted of Mahometanism by Sir Isaac Newton -
Bishop Newton. Text must have same sense as comment.

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Periods of Daniel identified with those of St. John. Final
object of these related prophecies.

PROPHETICAL ANTICIPATIONS OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS
OF MAHOMETANISM; AND PROPHETICAL PARALLEL BE-
TWEEN MAHOMETANISM AND CHRISTIANITY.

Mention among the great predictions of Old Testament im-

plies mention among those of New Testament. Rev. ix.

Fifth trumpet. Characteristic description of Saracens —
Dr. Zouch. Locusts an appropriate symbol. Prophetic
locusts more so than natural. Signs of spiritual pestilence
in their origin. Chronology alike responding to natural
and Saracenic plague. Sixth trumpet. Four angels.
Horsemen of the Euphrates. Seljukian princes. Turkish
armies. Marks of spiritual tyranny. Agreements with
book of Daniel. Rev. xiii. Horns of Daniel - beasts of
Apocalypse. First horn and first beast admitted to be
papal Rome
second horn and second beast inferred to
be Mahometanism. Distinctness of beasts:-Sea-West;
Earth-East. So distinguished by Jews. Mr. Cul-
bertson. Dr. Hales. Distinctness marred by every other
application of prophecy. Beasts antichristian powers.
Islamism identified with the second beast. The mark histo-

rically verified. Number of the name. Second beast-false

prophet proper title of Mahomet. Unheeded prophe-

cies example of. Prophecy interpreter of Providence

value of as first-principle. Predictions and events

commensurate. Dan. vii. viii. compared. Rev. xiii. 1—10.

xiii. 11-18. compared. Beasts identified with little

horns. Distinct tyrannies- kindred tyrannies. Their

true character. Objections examined. The powers sym-

bolized are allied as heads of antichrist. Mahometan

antichrist erects an image of papal-similar tyranny.

Papacy the offspring of Christian church — Islamism only

engrafted on it - image. Authority of the first beast ex-

ercised by second in what sense. Chronology - Dean

Prideaux Bishop Newton- Dr. Hales. Time of end a

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