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your account, after other Gods. 
man is he—is hea tall man? 
¥ olf —Not very tall; but the most of his 
cardinals are very fat men, and are clothed in 
scarlet, according to the prediction of Jesus 
Christ. 
Mullah David.—Send us only the gospel. 
What kind of 
We must furnish one specimen of the 
temper of the man. Wolff visited the Jewish 
College at Constantinople :— 
Rabbias.—We wish to hear of you words of 
wisdom. 
-Wolf.—You are disciples of the wise men, I 
shall therefore ask you questions. Of whom did 
the prophet Isaiah speak in the 53d chapter? 
Rab.—(Looking at it)—This istoo mysterious 
for us. 
WF olff—David, king and prophet in Israel, said 
— The Lord said to my Lord’—who was the 
Lord of David? 
- Rab.—Jehovah was the Lord of Dayid. 
¥W olff —David speaks here of two Lords. 
Rab.—We know not. 
FF ol ff. —That Lord was the Messiah. 
Rab.—How can the Messiah have been that 
Lord—tle Messiah being the son of David, the 
branch of David ? 
Wolff.—But that branch was the Lord our 
righteousness. 
Rab.—But the Messiah is still to come. 
¥ olff —This is another question ; but I tell you 
that the Messiah has already come. 
Rab.—Un the greatest Jury)—Are you a 
Jew? 
Wolff—aA Jew } 
Rab.—You arean apostate, your name shall be 
blotted out from the book of life ; (and to this they 
added blasphemies.) 
WF olff Hold your tongue this very moment, I 
command you, hold your tongue ; the names of all 
the compilers of the Talmud are cursed for ever— 
and you hayenow betrayed your ignorance, in the 
presence of your disciples. And then I said—All 
ye children of Israel hear; Jesus of Nazareth is 
the very Christ—Jesus of Nazareth is the son of 
God. Then I went to the coffee-house, &c. 
His discussions with the Seip nt pee are 
equally curious :— 
Mullah.—Oh, Mullah Wolff, do you believe in 
the existence of the devil? 
Wolff —Yes. 
Mullah.—Where is he? 
Wolff—tn you.—A lond fit of laughter took 
place, and this answer came about in the town 
(Shiraz). 
Mullah.—The gospel you have is corrupted. 
Fol ff.—Prove it. 
Mullah.—Our prophet—the comfort and peace 
of God upon him—tells it us in the Koran. 
W olff—The words of your Koran are no proof 
for me. 
Mullah.—According to the Taurat (law of 
Moses) you must believe in Mahomet, for the 
Jews themselves tell us that he was mentioned 
Ly Moses, and that he is called in Hebrew mad- 
mad. , 
W olff.—There is no such word in Hebrew as 
fad-mad. Mad is an English word, which occurs 
in the English bible--which is said of Nabal. 
- Mullah.—What do you believe Jesus Christ to 
have been? 
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I olff—The son of God. 
Mullah.—Gou has no wife. 
ol ff.—Abuse not my Saviour, and blaspheme 
not the Lord of Hosts. God, who created Adam 
by the power of his word, out of a piece of clay, 
was able likewise to overshadow, &c. 
Mullah.—In this sense we might all be called 
sons of God, for we are all made by God. 
Here is a specimen of mystical inter- 
pretation, which might very well be paral- 
leled among ourselves :— 
Wolff—What do you think of Mahomet’s 
journey to heaven? 
Mussulman.—t do not believe it literally ; but 
I believe that it indicates Mahomet’s approach to 
truth. 
Wolff asks the same person which is the 
true prophet—the one who acts by force, or 
the one who works by persuasion ? 
Mussulman.—One General takes a city by 
persuading the inhabitants to deliver the town— 
another takes it by foree—both are generals. 
And thus Jesus, who gained the world by per- 
suasion, and Mahomet who applied the sword, 
have been prophets. 
Wolff asked a dervish, how it came about 
that Hafiz (poets are next to prophets s¢ill 
with the Persians) so much praised the wine 
of Shiraz, as it is a draught forbidden among 
Mussulmans. 
Hafiz, said he, meant the mystical wine 
of truth. Mei hakeket, adds Wolff. 
Upon some occasion W olff was railing at 
the Koran, as being the most sensual book 
that ever was written. 
Mussulman.—You must understand the mean- 
ing of the Koran in a mystical sense. 
Wolff.—The Koran is a code of laws—therefore 
Mahomet understood every thing literally; and 
what mystery can be inthe swelling breasts of 
girls, which are mentioned in the Koran? 
It was well for the disputant, his oppo- 
nent knew nothing of the canticles. Wolff, 
we suppose, trusted to his ignorance—or did 
he really forget ? 
We have no space for the extracts we had 
marked relative to Henry Martyn, who is 
not yet forgotten—the Guebres and Nes- 
torians; and must conclude with the fol- 
lowing effusion, which is worth reading on 
more accounts than one :— 
The British and Foreign Bible Society, which 
has reached the highest degree of fame, is now 
nigh, very nigh to her decline, toteach the mem- 
bers who compose that society more humility, and 
more dependence upon God, than upon human 
patrons. Popery will acquire more power in the 
world, and then utterly sink and full before ten 
years are past ; and then a purified chureh will 
rise. I write this down with my own hand, but 
the spirit of the Lord dictated the words. I 
beg my friends in England not to imagine that 
I was warm-headed at the time I wrote it 
down. I never was cvoler than I am at this 
moment; but I argue from the whole history of 
the Bible Society, and from their mivtu fidei et 
phantasie; andi am forced at this moment to 
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