Mahometanism Unveiled; An Inquiry, in Which That Arch-Heresy, Its Diffusion and Continuance, Are Examined on a New Principle, Tending to Confirm the Evidences, and Aid the Propagation, of the Christian Faith Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...--Decline and Fall, chap. Ixv. vol. xii. pp. 16--19. Compare the historical fact, in this instance, with the declaration of the prophecy concerning the king of the North, and who can fail to own and admire the exactness of the fulfilment? " But tidings out of the East shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many." A contemporary could not have more graphically painted, the approach of Timour, the march of Bajaiet, and the bloody field of Angora. With the expedition of Tamerlane, all providential hindrances were withdrawn. The king of the North had now none left to trouble him. The transition is forthwith marked unequivocally in the next verse of the prophecy: which (however the accuracy of the description has escaped the notice of the commentators) closes the eleventh chapter with a vivid representation of the triumph of Mahomet II.; the fall of Constantinople; and the final erection of the Turkish crescent, and the Mahometan creed, upon the ruins of the Greek empire, and of eastern Christianity. " And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain." 4 Brief as this description is, the most skilful geographer could not more nicely define the site, nor the most exact historian more faithfully depict the past and present fortunes, of the second Rome. Situated on the straits which connect the Euxine with the Mediterranean, Constantinople is properly characterized as seated " between the seas." As described by the geographical accuracy of Mr. Gibbon, " the imperial city com-manded, Jrom her seven hills, the opposite shores of Europe and Asia: " she is therefore correctly represented under the figure of a " mountain." As the seat of civil empire, ...