 | Timothy Dwight - Clergy - 1818 - 650 pages
...Religion ; and in many respects did not preserve even the form of godliness. His two great doctrines were. That there is but one God, and That Mohammed is his prophet. By the latter doctrine he secured to himself the right of dictating to his followers just what he pleased.... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...JElia," (as Jerusalem was then called,) "and to the inhabitants thereof," requiring them to testify that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is His Prophet. In that case, he would leave the city free. Or, if they refused this, he demanded tribute. If they... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Religion - 1824 - 652 pages
...and in many respects did not preserve even ' the form of godliness.' His two great doctrines were, That there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet. By the latter doctrine he secured to himself the right of dictating to his followers just what he pleased.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1827 - 1012 pages
...helief in this religion are contained in the Koran, a hook left by Mohammed ; and the chief of them are, that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet; that men ought to observe hodily purifications, and pray to God five times each day with their faces... | |
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Middle Ages - 1834 - 334 pages
...of faith which Mohammed taught to his disciples, and which has been preserved unaltered to this day, is, that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet. Was he an impostor because he called himself a prophet ? Even on this head, a melancholy experience... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...Mohammedanism sprang up in Arabia in the seventh century, and that the doctrines promulgated were, — that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet ; — that the articles of faith were belief in God, in his angels, and in his prophets, in a final... | |
 | 1841 - 844 pages
...of Jesus of Nazareth, which was special to the latter, as forms of polytheism ; and in promulgating that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet, it reduced our divine Lord to the level merely of a superseded teacher. The danger was not unreal ; for... | |
 | Emily Elizabeth Willement - 1854 - 226 pages
...died in 631, at Medina, a city situated between Arabia Felix and Arabia Deserta. His creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his Prophet; it enjoins observance of prayers, washings, almsgiving, fasting, .sobriety, pilgrimage to Mecca, &c. What... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - History - 1854 - 304 pages
...of conscience. Let us take yet another case. Suppose I am a Mohammedan. I teach my children at home that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his Prophet. I teach them the Koran as a Divine revelation, and carefully instruct them that all men, except the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Religion in the public schools - 1854 - 314 pages
...of conscience. Let us take yet another case. Suppose I am a Mohammedan. I teach my children at home that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his Prophet. I teach them the Koran as a Divine revelation, and carefully instruct them that all men, except the... | |
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They visit a man in his grave directly after he has been buried, and examine him concerning his faith. If he acknowledge that there is but one God and that Mohammed is his prophet... 
