“ It cannot be remembered that any body has seen him laugh, but often to weep: In proportion of body well shaped and straight; his arms and hands delectable to behold. In speaking very temperate, modest and wise: a Man for his singular beauty far exceeding the sons of men. ”

“ Q. Was there ever any attempt made to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem?
A. Yes: Julian the apostate, emperor of Rome, resolved to build it in opposition to Christ’s prophecy, “that one stone should not be left upon another,” but when the workmen were laying the foundation a dreadful earthquake happened, so that the work and workmen were destroyed. ”

“ 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. ”

“ A. Melanet n savs, from man’s being deluded by the serpent in Paradise, the devil delighted in that shape, and out of man’s corruption and the filth of his sin, worms and serpents do pring: for man being prone to sin, from the putrefaction of his body such creatures are ingendered, as a mark of our original sin. ”

“ The first gate 20 cubits high, and had 20 doors: all the fore parts were gilded. and within cover’d with fine gold about the wall was a golden vine the clusters like grapes of gold, each cluster six feet long. It had golden gates and hinges wrought with gold, and had the fabrick covered with massy gold.
The tops was set with rod of gold sharp like spikes, lest birds should sit thereon and defile it. The temple was first built by king olomon. and afterwards plundered by Sisback king of Egypt and others: but lastly by Nebuchadnezzar who laid this city and temple even to the ground. ”

“ A. as the world declines so does the natureof all therein, meteors, comets and eclipses produce diseases were then seldom seen, together with our excessive drinking, which destroys more than the sword. ”

“ Yet after that, rebuilt by Herod the great: but about forty years after the death of our Saviour, the sins of the Jews being come to their height, it was destoyed by Titus, son of Vespasian, emperor of Rome.
Q What were the dreadful signs and wonders which foretol the destruction of Jerusalem?
A. The year before the Roman, came, a bright star appear d ov r the temple, as if a man had held many drawn swords in his hands and the temple was as light as at noonday seven nights togther. ”