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voluptuous appetites, but refufed G od fuch part of their wealth as
was due to him: the tenth will be cloathed with garments daubed with
pitch; and thefe are the proud, the vain-glorious, and the arrogant.
As to the place where they are to be affembled to judgment, the
Koran and the traditions of Mohammed agree that it will be on the
earth, but in what part of the earth it is not agreed. Some fay their
prophet mentioned Syria for the place; others, a white and even tradl
o f land, without inhabitants or any ligns of buildings. A l Ghazali
imagines it will be a fecond earth, which he fuppofes to be of fil-
ver; and others an earth which has nothing in common with ours,
but the name; having, it is poffible, heard fomething of the new
heavens and new earth mentioned in fcripture: whence the Koran has
this exprelfion, on the day wherein the earth Jhall be changed into another
earth
The end of the refurredtion the Mohammedans declare to be, that
they who are fo raifed may give an account of their adtions, and receive
the reward .thereof. And they believe that not only mankind,
but the genii and irrational animals alfo 2 fhall be judged on this great
. day; when the unarmed cattle fhall take vengeance on the horned,
till entire fatisfaftion fhall be given to the injured ?.
As to mankind, they hold that when they are all affembled together,
they will not be immediately brought to judgment, but the angels
will keep them in their ranks and order while they attend for
that purpofe ; and this attendance fome fay is to laft forty years,
others feventy, others 300, nay fome fay no lefs than 50,000 years,
each of them vouching their prophet's authority. Daring this fpace
they will ftand looking up to heaven, but without receiving any information
or orders thence, and are to fuffer grievous torments, both
the juft and the unjuft, though with manifeft difference. For the
limbs of the former, particularly thofe parts which they ufed to wadi
in making the ceremonial ablution before prayer, fhall fhine glo-
rioufly, and their fufferings fhall be light in comparifon, and fhall laft
no longer than the time neceffary to fay the appointed prayers; but
the latter will have their faces obfcured with blacknefs, and disfigured 1
1 Chap 9. . 2 Kor. chap. 6. V. Maimonid. More lSTev. part 3. c. 17. 3 This opinion the
learned Greaves fuppofed to' have taken its rife from the following words of Ezekiel, wrongly un-
derftood; And as for ye, O my flock, thusfaitb the Lord God, Behold I judge between cattle and cattle,
between the rams and the he-goats.— Behold I even I will judge between the fat cattle, and between the lean
cattle \ becaufe ye have thrujl with fide and with fhoulder, and pujhed all the difeafed with your horns, till
ye have fcattered them abroad; therefore will I fave my flock, arid they Jhall no more be a prey,, and I will
•judge between cattle and cattle, &c. Ezek. xxxiv. 17, &c. 20, 21, 22. Much might be laid concerning
brutes deferving future reward and punilhmcnt. SeeBayle, Difi,Hifi. Art.Rorarius, Rem. D. See.
with all the marks of forrow and deformity. What will then occa-
fion not the leaft of their pain, is a wonderful and incredible fweat,
which will even flop their mouths, and in which they will be im-
merfed in various degrees according to their demerits, fome to the ancles
only, fome to the knees, fome to the middle, fome fo high .as
their mouth, and others as their ears. And this fweat, they fay, will
be provoked not only by that vaft concourfe of all forts of creatures
mutually preffmg and treading on one another’s feet, but by the near
and unufual approach of the fun, which will be then no farther from
them than the diftance of a mile, or (as fome translate the word the
fignification of which is ambiguou.s) than the length of a bodkin. So
that their fculls will boil like a p o t', and they will be all bathed in
fweat. From this inconvenience however the good will be protected
by the Shade of G od’s throne; but the wicked Will be fo miferably
tormented with it, and alfo with hunger, and thirft, and a ftifling
air, that they will cry out, Lord, deliver us from this anguijh, tho' thou
fend us into hell-fire K What they fable o f the extraordinary heat o f
the fun on this occafion, the Mohammedans certainly borrowed from
the fiews, who fay that for the punishment of the wicked on the laft
day, that planet fhall be drawn forth from its Jheath, in which it is
now put up, left it Should deftroy all things by its exceSfive heat3.
When thofe who have rifen Shall have waited the limited time, The man-
the Mohammedans believe G od will at length appear to judge them;
Mohammed undertaking the oSfice of interceffor, after it Shall haveingjudg-
been declined by Adam, Noah, Abraham, and fejus, who Shall beged-
deliverance only for their own fouls. They fay that on this folemn
occafion G od will come in the clouds, furrounded by angels, and
will produce the books wherein the adtions of every perfon are recorded
by their guardian angels +, and will command the prophets to
bear witnefs againft thofe to whom they have been refpedtively fent.
Then every one will be examined concerning all his words and actions,
uttered and done by him in this life; not as if G od needed
any information in thofe refpedts, but to oblige the perfon to make
public confeffion and acknowledgement of G o d’s juftice. The particulars
of which they Shall give an account, as Mohammed himfelf
enumerated them, are; of their time, how they fpent i t ; of their
wealth, by what means they acquired it, and how they employed it;
of their bodies, wherein they exercifed them ; of their knowledge and
learning, what ufe they made of them.. It is faid however that Mohammed