This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ...up towards heaven; and on the top of if was seen a large cross of light, more bright and 'resplendent than the body of the pillar. Upon which so strange a spectacle, the people of the city gathered apace together upon the sands to wonder; and so after put themselves into a numIter of small boats, to go nearer to this marvellous ( ght. But when the boats were come vviihin (a-feout) sixty yards of the pillar, they found themselves all bound, and could go no farther, yet so as they might move to go about, but might not approach nearer; so as the boats stood all as in a theatre, beholding this light as an heavenly sign, it so fell out, that there was in one of the boats: one of the wise men of the society of Solomon's fcofise; which house or college, (my good brethren) Is the very eye of this kingdom; who having a while attentively and devoutly viewed and contemplated this pillar and cross, fell down upon his face; and then raising himself upon his knees, and lifting up his hands to heaven, made his prayers in this manner: .. 'in.. . Lord God of heaven and earth; thou hast vouchsafed of thy grace, to those of our order, to know thy works of creation, and the secrets of them; and to discern (as far as appertained to the generations of men) between divine miracles, works of nature, works of art, and impostures and illusions of all sorts. I do here acknowledge and testify before this people, that the thing we now, seQ' before our eyes, is thy finger, and a true miracle: And forasmuch as we learn in our books, that thou, never workest miracles, but to a divine and excel?. lent end, (for the laws of nature are thine owu laws, and thou exceedest them not but upon great, cause) we most humbly beseech thee to prosper thif great sign, and to give...