[100] They might speciously allege, that in preaching the religion it was needless to violate the harmony of nature; that a creed unclouded with mystery may be excused from miracles; and that the sword of Mahomet was not less potent than the rod of Moses.
[Footnote 96: See, more remarkably, Koran, c.

2, 6, 12, 13, 17.

Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, p.

18, 19) has confounded the impostor.

Maracci, with a more learned apparatus, has shown that the passages which deny his miracles are clear and positive, (Alcoran, tom.i.part ii.p.