“ The devil addressed Alexander in the following words: Now my brave and valiant servant, you have been the best servant I ever had, I am now come to give you your reward; at which Alexander fell a shrieking and crying. Forthwith the devil laid hold on him, and tore him in pieces before their eyes. A number of his companions were so struck at this fearful catastrophe thinking the same might be their fate, if they pursued such sinful courses as they had done, and were observed ever afterwards very pious, for they greatly amended what they had done. ”

“ IN Libyssa there lately lived one, called Alexander Libanus, who, in his younger years, appeared to have great zeal for truth and piety, he began to show his great regard for truth and piety, when he was about fourteen years of age, and continued very godly till he was arrived at twenty-one years of age, and then he began to be drawn off by worldly pleasures. He was very much drawn off by the female sex, which had a tendency to deprive him of all his money, and, being very much disquieted, he went one day into a very large wood, not far from the place where he used to resort. ”

“ At last one of them came down with amazing rapidity upon the coffin, at which the people were so affrighted, that they let the dead corpse fall upon the ground, and ran off with great haste; the corpse falling, the coffin was broken to pieces. Several persons were so affrighted, that they never had the use of their reason afterwards. Others cried that the devil was not content with Alexander Libanus, but that he would take the whole world too. His relations prepared another coffin for him, for the other was so shattered that it could not carry the corpse to the church-yard ”