...success of the Mahometans in conquering the eastern division of the church. Mahomet formed the plan of establishing a new religion, or, as he expressed...professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the prophets; by destroying idolatry ? and weeding out the corruptions which the later Jews and Christians...

...the richest in Mecca. After he began by this advantageous match to live at his ease it was that be formed the scheme of establishing a new religion,...which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and * He was not his eldest son, as Dr. Prideaux tells us ; whose reflections built on that foundation...

...began by this advantageous match to live at his ease it was that he formed the scheme of establishiog a new religion, or, as he expressed it, of replanting...which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and * He was not his eldest snn, as Dr. Pridenux tells us: whose reflections built on th't foundation must...

...respectability, and was soon raised to an equality with the richest people in Mecca. Soon after his marriage, he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion,...ancient one professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesue, and all the prophets, by destroying the gross idolatry into which most of his countrymen had...

...tho richest in Mecca. ^ After lie began by this advantageous match to live at his ease it was that \ he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion,...which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and ' He was not his eldest son, as Dr. Prideaux tells us; whose reflections built on that foundation must...

...for God is He that heareth and doeth.—Koran, cap. xvii. 2 Mahommed's chief object was to destroy the gross idolatry into which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and weed out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter Jews and Christians had introduced into...

...with the richest in Mecca. After he began by this advantageous match to live at his ease it was that he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion,...which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and ' He was not his eldest son, as Dr. Prideaux tells us ; whose reflections built on that foundation...

...with the richest in Mecca. After he began by this advantageous match to live at his ease, it was, that he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion,...destroying the gross idolatry into which the generality of hia countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter Jews...

...a new religion, or, to use his own expression, of replanting the only true and ancient one — that professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets — by destroying the idolatry into which his countrymen had generally fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions...

...indeed but little more than the outgrowth of his life. After his advantageous marriage with Kadijah he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion or, as he expressed it, of reestablishing the only true and ancient one revealed to Abraham and practiced by his descendants,...