[Footnote 2: _These words_,--Who hath taught us the Use of the Pen; who hath taught Man what he did not know, _are taken out of the_ XCVI. _Chapter of the_ Alcoran, _according to those Editions of it which are now in use_: _but_ Joannes Andreas Maurus, _(who was_ Alfaqui, or _chief Doctor of the_ Moors _in_ Sciatinia, _in the kingdom of_ Valentia _in_ Spain, _and afterwards converted to the Christian Religion in the Year of our Lord_ 1487) _says, that it is the first Chapter that was written of all the_ Alcoran. _But be that how it will, we may from hence, and infinite other places, observe the strange way which these Eastern Writers have of Quoting the_ Alcoran; _for they intermix those Expressions which they take out of it with their own words, without giving the Reader the least Notice or Hint whence they had them, or where to find them_.] [Footnote 3: And I testify, &c.--_After be testified the Unity of the Godhead, be immediately adds_ La Sharica Leho, That he has no Partner. _These words frequently occur in the_ Alcoran, _and are particularly levell'd against the Christians, which_ Mahomet _frequently will_ Mushricoun, _i.e._. Associantes, Joyning Partners with God, _because they acknowledge the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour_.] [Footnote 4: _The whole_ Mahometan _Creed consists only of these two Articles,_ 1. There is no God but God, [i.e. _There is but One God] and_ 2. Mahomet is his Apostle. _A very short Creed, but their Explications of it, make amends for its shortness. The Reader may see a Paraphrase of it out of_ Algazali, _in Dr_. Pocock's Specimen Historiae Arabum, p. 174.]