groaning, and had first one Hand cut off, and then both his Feet, and then the other Hand, then he was kill'd and burnt, and his Ashes thrown into the_ River Tigris, _and his Head set upon a Pole in the City of_ Bagdad. _See_ Abulpharagius. p. 287.] [Footnote 22: _Alcoran_.] [Footnote 23: _Because Words borrowed from and us'd about sensible and material Things, would lead Men into Mistakes, when us'd to explain things Spiritual, if they be taken in a literal Sense_. See Sec. 85.] [Footnote 24: _The Author means_, the nearest Approach to God.] [Footnote 25: _As the Author his in the three foregoing Sections describ'd the Condition of those glorified Spirits, who continually enjoy the Beatifick Vision; so in this he describes the miserable State of those who are deprived of it,_ i.e. _the Damn'd_.] [Footnote 26: _I have omitted the following Passage, because I could not well tell how to make it intelligible; the meaning of it in gross, is still to express the miserable Condition, and horrible Confusion of those Spirits which are separated from the_ Vision of God. _However, I shall set it down in_ Latin _out of Mr_. Pocock's _Translation_. Et ferris discindi inter repellendum & attrabendum; vidit etiam hic alias Essentias, praeter istas, quae cruciabantur, quae apparebant & deinde evanescebant, & connexae erant & cum dissolvebantur; & hic se cohibuit illasque bene perpendit & vidit ingentes terrores, & negotia magna, & turbam occupatam, & operationem, efficacem, & complanationem, & inflationem, & productionem, & destructionem. _The particulars of this Passage, would be best explain'd by the Commentators upon the_ Alcoran, _which I have no Opportunity of consulting_.] [Footnote 27: Alcoran, _Chap._ 81, _and_ 101.] [Footnote 28: _The Arabick Words_, Watathabaka indaho' 'Imekoul w'almenkoul _signify_, And that which was understood agreed with that which was copied. _But because that way of expressing it is obscure, I have chose rather to leave the Arabick Word, and express the Sense, which is this_. Hai Ebn Yokdhan, _having no Advantages of Education, had acquir'd all his Knowledge by singular Industry and Application, till at last he attain'd to the Vision of God himself, by which means he saw all things relating to a future State_, viz. _by beholding in God the Architypal Ideas, of which all things created, and whatsoever is reveal'd to us, are suppos'd to be Copies. Now_ Asal, _by conversing with him, found, that the_ Mekoul, _i.e. what_ Hai Ebn Yokdhan _saw by this sort of Speculation; and the_ Menkoul, _i.e. what_ Asal _had learn'd out of the_ Alcoran, _and the Tradition of the Prophets_, did exactly answer one the other, as a Copy does its Original.] [Footnote 29: _Mahomet_.] [Footnote 30: _Alcoran, Chap_. 2 and 83.] [Footnote 31: _This is an Expression taken out of the_ Alcoran, _and is design'd to express the Confusion which the Wicked shall be in at the Day of Judgment_.] [Footnote 32: _Alcoran, Chap._ 24 and 19.]