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ſhe keeping her ſtation. only opening the book, at which the armies fled, and preſently all the lamps about Mahomets tomb went out, for when the viſion vaniſhed, an hour before ſun riſing, a murmuring wind was heard, to which they imputed the extinguiſhing of the lamps.
Q. Is there not a remarkable ſtory of the great Mogul in the Eaſt Indies?
A Yes, it happen’d ſome years before Sir Thomas Rowe was ambaſſador for king James the firſt to his court, that a juggler of Bengal brought an ape before the Mogul that did many ſtrange fears: the king to try his ſkil plucked a ring of his finger, an‘ gave it to one of his boys to hide, which he preſently dilſcovered, at laſt this ſtrange fancy came into his head, there are many diſputes, lays he, concerning the true prophet that ſhould come into the world. We are for Mahomet, the Perſions magnify Mettis Ally: the Hindoes or Heathens extol Braman Ram and others, the Jews are for Moſes, and the Chriſtians for Chriſt, adding ſeveral others to the number of twelve, whoſe names he cauſed to be writ on twelve ſcrolls and put in a baſon; this done the ape puts n his paw among them and pulls out the name of Chriſt. He then cauſed the names to be written a ſecond time, in other ſcrolls. and the ape again pluckt out the name of Chriſt as before. Upon this one of the Mogul’s favourites ſaid it was an impoſtor of the Chriſtians, and deſired a third tryal, with only eleven names, reſerving that of Chriſt’s in his hand The ape ſearching as before pulled out his empty paw: whereupon th Mogul was told that poſſibly the thing he looked for was not there; the ape was bid to ſearch for it, who bringing thoſe 11 names one after another in ſeeming indignation rent them all to pieces; and catching the favourite by the hand, where the name of Chriſt was concealed, opened and held it up to the Mogul without tearing the ſame. Upon which the Mogul gave hi ke per penſion calling him the divining ape. The truth whereof faith Mr. Perry, Capt. to Sir Thomas Rowe, confirm-d by ſeveral perſons of different religions.
Q. What were theſe women called Sybils who propheſied of our bleſſed Lord. ſome hundreds of years before he was born?
A They were reckoned to be ten in number, and to have the ſpirit of prophecy, and uttered many ſpeeches concerning Chriſt very agreeable to thoſe of the jewiſh prophets or rather in more plain terms than they, tho’ the heathens to whom they were ſpoken underſtood them not. Yea, they are thought of great importance for confirming the truth of the chriſtian religion, and they are often adduced by the fathers of the primitive church, againſt the enemies to the faith of Jeſus. And Conſtantine the firſt chriſtian emperor
