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to bring a huge ftone, thereon to make great facrifices: 

 For the effecting whereof hee fenta great number of 

 people with engins and inftruments to bring it : which 

 they could by no meanes moove^although (being ob* 

 ftinatc)they had broken many inftrumcms.But as they 

 ftrove ftill to raifeit, they heard a voyce ioyning to the 

 ftone,which faid they laboured in vaine, and that they 

 ihould not raife it, for that the Lorde of things created 

 would no more differ thofe things to be doone there. 

 2^^p^4vnderftandingthis 5 commaundcd thefacri- 

 fice to be perfourmcd in that place , and they fay the 

 voyce fpake againe : HA ve I not told you, that it is not the 

 fie afore of the Lord of things created, that itflwuld be done: 

 and that you may weft know That it itfo, Iwillfujfer myfclfe 

 to be trawfporteaalittle, then after you flail not meeve mee* 

 Which happened fo indeede, for prefently they carri 

 ed it a final! diftancc with great facility 5 then afterwards 

 they could not mooveit, till that after many prayeis,it 

 fuffered it felfe to be tranfported to the entry of the ci t- 

 ty of ?/Y/V0, where fbdainly it fel into the Lake,where 

 feeking for it, they could not finde it, but it was after 

 wards found in the fame place from whence they had 

 rcmooved it , wherewith they remayned amazed and 

 confounded . At the fame time there appeared in the 

 element a great flame of fire, very bright, in the forme 

 ofa Pyramide, which beganne to appeare at midnight,, 

 and went ftill mounting vntill the Sunne rifing in the 

 morning, where it flayed at the Southland then vani- 

 flied away. It foeweditfelfeinthisfortthe fpaceofa 

 whole yeare, and ever as it appeared the people caft 

 foorth great cries as they were accuftomed 3 beleeving 

 it was a prefage of great misfortune. It happened alfo 

 that fire tooke the Temple,whenas no body was with 

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