CONTENTS. Success of Mahometanism. A subject of great and general interest. Not satisfactorily accounted for. Inquiry on just principles recommended. General features. Ob- scure origin. Social and political state of Arabia. Sudden rise of Mahometanism. Rapid and wide propagation. Permanence. Completeness of mental dominion. Trans- formative power, as conquering, as conquered. Abstract nature of belief. Simplicity of rites. Summary. Ob- jections of infidels. Mr. Gibbon. Replies of Christian advocates. Dr. Paley. Dr. White. Instances of argu- mentative unfairness. Fanciful causes of success. Mis- taken estimate of real causes. Re-statement. Subject examined on a new principle. Two promises to Abraham. Covenant of Isaac. Covenant of Ishmael. Analogy in terms and results. Advantages of this view. able matter measured by a just standard. Ways of Pro- vidence vindicated. Basis of the present argument. Its general outline. Correspondence with prophetic Scrip- ture. Agreement with actual phenomena. Twofold prediction and accomplishment. Temporal, spiritual. Isaac; Jews, Christians. Ishmael; Arabs, Turks, Tartars. SECTION I.- Pages 113-161. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GOD'S TWOFOLD COVENANT - - -- - Original promise to Abraham. Two parts - lineal-social. - - - SECTION II.-— Pages 162–209. PROPHETICAL ANTICIPATIONS OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS Covenants of Old and New Testaments allegorized by cove- - - - explained from Mahometan apostasy. Described by PROPHETICAL ANTICIPATIONS OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS Mention among the great predictions of Old Testament im- plies mention among those of New Testament. Rev. ix. Fifth trumpet. Characteristic description of Saracens - Dr. Zouch. Locusts an appropriate symbol. Prophetic locusts more so than natural. Signs of spiritual pestilence in their origin. Chronology alike responding to natural and Saracenic plague. Sixth trumpet. Four angels. Horsemen of the Euphrates. Seljukian princes. Turkish armies. Marks of spiritual tyranny. Agreements with book of Daniel. Rev. xiii. Horns of Daniel beasts of Apocalypse. First horn and first beast admitted to be papal Rome second horn and second beast inferred to be Mahometanism. Distinctness of beasts :-Sea-West; -Earth-East. So distinguished by Jews. Mr. Cul- bertson. Dr. Hales. Distinctness marred by every other application of prophecy. Beasts antichristian powers. Islamism identified with the second beast. The mark histo- rically verified. Number of the name. Second beast-false prophet proper title of Mahomet. Unheeded prophe- cies example of. Prophecy interpreter of Providence value of as first-principle. Predictions and events commensurate. Dan. vii. viii. compared. Rev. xiii. 1—10. xiii. 11-18. compared. Beasts identified with little horns. Distinct tyrannies- kindred tyrannies. Their antichrist erects an image of papal similar tyranny. Papacy the offspring of Christian church - Islamism only engrafted on it — image. Authority of the first beast ex- |