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"Dina da-Shlama," or the Religion of Islam. The religion
of Moses was national and particular, and therefore its
hereditary priesthood, its Levitical sacrifices and pompous
rituals, its Sabbaths, jubilees, and festivals, and all its laws
and corrupted scriptures would be abolished and substituted
by new ones having a universal character, force, and
durability. Prophet Jesus was a Jew; he could not have accom-
plished such a gigantic and stupendous undertaking because
it was materially impossible for him to do it. "I came not
to change the law or the prophets," (l) said he. On the
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other hand, the rank idolatry, with all its abominable pagan
practices, superstition, and sorcery, to which the Arab
of Moses was national and particular, and therefore its
hereditary priesthood, its Levitical sacrifices and pompous
rituals, its Sabbaths, jubilees, and festivals, and all its laws
and corrupted scriptures would be abolished and substituted
by new ones having a universal character, force, and
durability. Prophet Jesus was a Jew; he could not have accom-
plished such a gigantic and stupendous undertaking because
it was materially impossible for him to do it. "I came not
to change the law or the prophets," (l) said he. On the
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other hand, the rank idolatry, with all its abominable pagan
practices, superstition, and sorcery, to which the Arab