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contradict the univerfal belief of the Chrijiians of that , 
and the preceeding ages, founded on the hiftory of the 
Gofpel> hath been forced to give teftimonie to feveral 
particulars of it. 
They confefs then that Chriji was born of a pure fpotlefs 
yirgin, the Virgin Mary, chofen by God and fandtifyed 
above all the women in the World; and that the Angel ^ 
Gabriel was difpatched out of Heaven to acquaint her 
with the news of it. That fuch a kind of miraculous and 
fupernatural birth never hapned to any befides, and that 
Chrifl^2i% conceived by the Holy GhoJl,zx\6. that he wrought 
mighty miracles, for inftance, that he cleanfed lepers, 
gave fight to the blind , reftored fick perfons to theiif 
health, and railed the dead. 
That he is a great Prophet, fent by God to convert men 
from the vanity and error of their falfe worfliip to the 
knowledge of the true G(^^, to preach righteoufneis, and . 
to corredt and reftore the imperfed:ion and mifcarhages 
of humane nature; that he was of a moftholyand ex- 
emplary life, that he was the true word of God, xYiQ^po- 
file or Ambajfadoroi God , that his Gofpel was revealed 
to him from Heaven, and that he is in Heav^en ftanding 
nigh to the throne of God. They blafpheme indeed with 
abr^tifhnefs andftupidity only befitting T^^r/^j-, the my- 
fteries oi th^holy Trinity, and of the divinity of our 5. 
Saviour, and deny that he was put to death, and fay that 
another in his ftiape was crucifyed by the ^ews, and that 
he himlelf was aflumed into Heaven in his body without 
dying at all, and confequently they will not own, that 
he fatisfyed divine juftice for the fins of the World; fo 
great an affinity is there between the herefy of Socinus and 
profefs't Mahometantjm, 
I could never yet fee any Turhijh tranflation of the Al- ' 
corari', they cry up the elegance of the ftyle, which being 
Enthufiaftick and high-flown, by reafon alfo of the tinck- 
ling of the periods, is very delightful to their ears, who 
feern 
