The book A View of the Evidences of Christianity volume 2 was written by author Paley, William, 1743-1805 Here you can read free online of A View of the Evidences of Christianity volume 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A View of the Evidences of Christianity volume 2 a good or bad book?
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P. 112. 265 and of the most laborious part of his insti- tution, the pilgrimage to Mecca*. What has hitherto been collected from the records of the Mussulman history, re- lates to the twelve or thirteen years of Ma- homet's peaceable preaching ; which part alone of his life and enterprise admits of the smallest comparison with the origin of Christianity. A new scene is now unfolded. The city of Medina, distant about ten days' journey from Mecca, was at that time dis- tracted by the hereditary c...ontentions of two hostile tribes. These feuds were ex- asperated by the mutual persecutions of the Jews and Christians, and of the different Christian sects by which the city was in- habited -f*. The religion of Mahomet pre- sented, in some measure, a point of union or compromise to these divided opinions. It embraced the principles which were com- * This latter, however, already prevailed amongst the Arabs, and had grown out of their exccessive veneration for the Caaba. Mahomet's law, in this respect, was rather a compliance than an innovation J.
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