The Book of the Concord of the Koran or Law of Muhammad and the Evangelists

For I felt it very painfully that so much time was being lost to me from such a great undertaking, and it was permitted to provide for it at the expense of my own printers. For a few years before, the faculty of theologians, because books of pernicious dogmas tending toward the subversion and faction of the republic were coming out daily from the printing houses, saw to it that the King should pass a law of this kind: that it should not be permitted for any printer anywhere to print or distribute recently edited or augmented books anywhere, unless they were first visited and permitted by that faculty. By this reason, although many printers would have liked to buy my copies at a high price, some because of the novelty of the argument, some because of the history of Muhamedicarium Muhammadan affairs which is plausible to this age, I was not permitted to publish my books here unless I myself provided for it at my own expense and risk. For after Mallarius, a man of singular learning and most prepared to accept everything in the name of a friend, had held it for six months in that name, it was by his work that the first book, already printed, was examined by him, Ioach. Perionio, and others, whose opinion I changed in that which they judged. Finally, he circulated both that one and the other three, so that he might constitute meetings, by whose work they would be examined after so much time, and who would refer them to the congregation. It had already been decided, when one man, against the opinion of all, removed everyone from that deliberation as is the custom, by objecting that I called the theologians sophists. That one reason proscribed Postellum, innocent and well-deserving of that order. Thus, the tyranny of royal law is exercised against me, and that work is rejected not because it was disapproved or examined, but as if it did not pertain to the faculty.