He raved against idolaters of the Kirk and of the Bible, and against all preachers who, by his way of it, had perverted the Word.

"I see ye are an idolater from the tents of Shem, on whom judgment will be speedy and surprising.

The general made a polite answer to the king, with thanks for his civility, and gave orders to bring the fleet nearer to the city, in doing which all the ordnance was fired as a salute, to the great astonishment of the natives, the idolaters among them saying that it was impossible to resist us.

This is the power which even Mohammed, in the loftiness of his contemplations, more dimly saw, and imperfectly taught to the idolaters around him, and which gives to his system all that was really valuable.

By the idolaters in the text, are apparently meant the Negroes of the interior, where the gold came from by way of Sofala.

He is an operator for the soul, and corrects other men's sins with greater of his own, as the Jews were punished for their idolatry by greater idolaters than themselves.