for your Labour, and take delight in your Lord, and
he will delight in you. And for my own part, you will find me, according
to your own Hearts desire, just such an one as you could wish; and I
hope that I shall lead you in the right way, free from Evils and
Dangers: and really I perceive some Glimmerings now, by the help of
which I shall inflame your Desire, and put you upon entring this way, by
telling you the Story of _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ and _Asal_, and _Salaman_ (as
_Avicenna_ calls them); in which, those that understand themselves right
will find matter of Improvement, and worthy their Imitation.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In the Name, &c--_This is the usual Form with which the_
Mahometans _begin all their Writings, Books and Epistles.
Every Chapter in the_ Alcoran _begins so, and all their Authors
have followed this way ever price. The Eastern Christians, to distinguish
themselves from the_ Mahometans, _begin their Writings
with_ Bismi'labi Wa'libni, _&c_. In the Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, One God:_and so do
the_ AEthiopians. _We here in_ England _observe something like
this in Wills, where the usual Form is_, In the Name of God,
Amen.]

[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_.]

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