The doctrine of eternal decrees and absolute predestination is strictly embraced by the Mahometans; and they struggle, with the common difficulties, how to reconcile the prescience of God with the freedom and responsibility of man; how to explain the permission of evil under the reign of infinite power and infinite goodness.
[Footnote 74: Koran, c.

9, p.153.Al Beidawi, and the other commentators quoted by Sale, adhere to the charge; but I do not understand that it is colored by the most obscure or absurd tradition of the Talmud.] [Footnote 75: Hottinger, Hist.Orient.p.

225-228.

The Collyridian heresy was carried from Thrace to Arabia by some women, and the name was borrowed from the cake, which they offered to the goddess.

This example, that of Beryllus bishop of Bostra, (Euseb.Hist.Eccles.l.vi.