presents the evil forces of Mahometanism, not the invisible bulwarks of the city of God.
And when the Prophet tells us that this God, is a God "whom his fathers knew not," he refers to that, which we have already pointed out, that the god of Mahomet is not the true God, but a god invented by his own imagination, inspired as it was by Satan. The true God had already revealed Himself to man, as One God in Three Persons, a Trinity of Persons in the Unity of one nature and substance. This revelation of God Mahomet impiously denied, and he substituted for it a creation of his own. The god therefore of Mahomet is not the God of Revelation, but a false god, and when we examine in the Alcoran the character of this god, as He reveals himself in that impious book both in his commands and in what he permits, it is clear that this god is no other than Satan himself, as I have already said in reference to one of the preceding verses of this same chapter.
But the Prophet continues, "And he shall worship him with gold and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price." In these words the Prophet emphatically predicts two of the most remarkable features of Mahometanism: the first is the personal unity of the God it worships, "he shall worship Him;" and
