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AN HISTORICAL
CATECHISM:
CONTAINING
Ingenious anſwers to many notable queſtions, of ſeveral wonderful matters in
ANCIENT HISTORY.
As, What is the opinion of all our hiſtorians about the apple old mother Eve tempted Adam withal. Why the devil ſhould take the ſhape of a ſerpent. Of the building of the tower of Babel nine miles round by 500000 men who left off confounded in their language Alſo ſerious queſtions about Sodom and Gomorah Noah’s ark, and Solomon’s temple. Informing us from ſcripture what day that was that the like was never before, nor ever ſhall be. Likewiſe giving a full account of the deſtruction of Jeruſalem and the ſlaughter of three millions of Jews, and how the remainder were diſpers’d and ſcattered over the face of the whole earth Alſo Joſephus and the Romans account of our Saviour, and the miracles wrought at his birth. Particularly a remarkable ſtory about the great Mogul and a divining ape; with a wonderful apparition that happen’d at Mahomet’s tomb. The wonderful prophecies of the ten Sybils; and a marvelous relation of ſeven ſleepers, who ſlept above 200 years.
GLASGOW:
PRINTED IN THE YEAR,
M, DCC, LXXII.
