Amongst other of his Learned Works, he wrote an Arabick Lexicon; but it is lost.  Besides all this, he was a Vizier, and met with a great many Troubles, which nevertheless did not abate his indefatigable Industry.  The Soldiers once mutiny’d, and broke open his House, and carry’d him to Prison, and would fain have persuaded the Sultan Shemfoddaulah to have put him to Death, which he refusing, was forc’d to Banish him.  After a Life spent in Study and Troubles, having written more Learned Books than he liv’d Years, he died, Aged 58 Years.]

[Footnote 6:  Subhheni—­Praise be to me. Which is an expression never us’d but when they speak of God.]

[Footnote 7:  I am Truth—­or, I am the True God. For the Arabick word Albakko signifies both, and is very often us’d for one of the Names or Attributes of God.  Kamus. Dr. Pocock, Specimen pag. 168.]

[Footnote 8:  Abu Hamed Algazali—­What Abu Hamed Algazali thought concerning those Men who were so wild and Enthusiastick as to use such extravagant expressions, appears plainly from those words of his quoted by Dr. Pocock in his Specimen. p. 167, where he says, “People ran on to such a degree, (of madness you may be sure) as to pretend to an Union with God, and a fight of him without the interposition of any Veil, and familiarly discourse with him. And a little after, which sort of Speeches have occasion’d great mischiefs among the common People; so that some Country Fellows laying aside their Husbandry, have pretended to the same things:  for Men are naturally pleas’d with such discourses, as give them a liberty to neglect their business, and withal promise them purity of Mind, and the attainment of strange degrees and proprieties.  Now the most stupid Wretches in Nature may pretend to this, and have in their Mouths such false and deceitful expressions.  And if any one denies what they say, they immediately tell you, that this Unbelief of yours proceeds from Learning and Logick:  and that Learning is a Veil, and Logick labour of the brain, but that these things which they affirm, are discovered only inwardly then by the Light of the TRUTH.  And this which they affirm, has spread it self through a great many Countries, and produc’d a great deal of Mischief.” Thus far Algazali. How exactly this answers the wild extravagancies of our Enthusiasts, let themselves judge.  And withal I would have them from hence learn the Modesty not to pretend to be the first after the Apostles who had endeavour’d to turn Men from Darkness to LIGHT, since they see so many worthy Persons among the Mahometans gone before them.]