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

For both sacred and profane things are tottering.

By what judgment the Empty-gospellers are to be judged to be alien from God.

ABefore I undertake the matter, I will explain the genius of those who recede from the common consensus of the church, based on the authority of ancient writers, so that it may be liquidly clear whether the Ceneuangelistæ Empty-gospellers are deservedly to be held among heretics and aliens from the church of Christ. Therefore, firstly, Augustinus Augustine teaches that they agree with the Manichaeans in his book On the Morals of the Manichaeans, Chapter 19, saying thus: "Wherefore is it that they want a perpetual persecution to be future to them in this world, and that they are held to be more commendable for that reason, interpreting from this that this world hates them, and affirming that they have the truth among themselves, because it was said in the promises of the Holy Spirit the Paraclete that this world could not receive him." The Ceneuangelistæ bring forward exactly the same things today, when some of them are burned for the sake of public peace, as if they are good because they are punished, and are hostile to all who are alien to that doctrine. "As if, truly, the republic only animadverts against the good and not against the wicked; the world hates virtue when it is safe, and persecutes it, but laws and magistrates remove the noxious from the midst." The Ceneuangelistæ, as if they were the holiest by the consensus of all, say that princes are tyrants and bishops are Pharisees because they restrain their lusts: Muhamedes Muhammad used to say the same thing. "They will wage war against your people without intermission, etc." By thus twisting what properly pertains to the church and its members, the heretics adapt it to themselves as if they were most holy.