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The Serpent came, and Lucifer earneftly defired Leave to get into 

 his Body ; the Serpent did fo, and placed Lucifer in the Roof of 

 its Mouth, and carried him into Paradife. When he came near 

 the Forbidden Tree, it endeavoured in vain to make Lucifer 

 come out. Lucifer ftuck faft, and forced the Serpent to get upon 

 that Tree, under which Adaju and Eve ufed to (it down, Eve 

 was then alone, near the Tree : She faw the Serpent, who fpoke 

 to the Woman in thefe Words, viz. 



Charming Creature, if you would tafte this Fruit, you 

 would be like God himfelf in Wifdom and Knowledge : All the 

 Secrets and all the Myfteries you are now ignorant of, will be 

 manifefted to you. Adam came during the Difcourfe, and having 

 told him what the Serpent had faid, propofed to him to eat of the 

 forbidden Fruit, which after a fliort Paufe he comply'd with. 

 The Tree was a large Vine ; Eve took twelve Grains o2 a Bunch' 

 of Grapes, gave eight to her Hufband, and kept four to herfelf. 



At that very moment, Adam beard a very terrible Voice, Wo 

 to thee I baji thou fo foon forgot the only Commandment thou hadfi 

 promifed to obferve ? how comes it that thou hafl (by thy Greedinefs) 

 polluted the Purity of my Habitation f Adam being confounded, 

 excufed himfelf by laying the Fault upon Eve, who endeavour'd 

 to juflify herfelf by accufing the Serpent. Upon which God 

 ordered the Angels immediately to drive Adam and Eve from 

 Paradife, to ftrip them of their Clothes, and take away the 

 Crowns they had on their Heads *.—-—« — But it is high time to 

 return. 



Satan, who imploy'd the Serpent in his Service, is fuppofed 

 to be punifh'd here under the Figure of a Serpent : But why in 

 the Prefence of our firft Parents? Perhaps for fuch Reafons as 

 thefe, viz. i. To reproach their Inadvertency for fufFering them- 

 felves to be impofed upon by a lying Spirit, who, if but refifted 

 by a meer Negation, would have fled. 2. To let them fee that 

 no Creature, tho' never fo great, can rebel with Impunity -, from 

 whence they might conclude, what to expedt from new Provo- 

 cations. 3. They had no other way to fee a Spirit punifl:i'd, but 



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* Mahometifm fu'ljf explained, by Mahomet Raljadan, a Moor of Arragon ?'» 

 Spain, for the hiJtruHion of the Moors in that Kingdom, -who 'were then violently 

 perjecuted there. Tranflited out of Spavijh by Mr, Morgan, with a defign to give us 

 a better Notion of the Mahometavs, and to place it in the rich Library of the late 

 JEarl of Ox/br<^. Printed .<tf. D, 1721. 



