Atlantis. 



. and couldgp m further % yet foas they might moVe to go about, Jut might 

 net abroach nearer \ So as the r B:ats flood all as in a Theater , heboid* 

 i ng this Light , as an HeaVen'y $ ign. It fo fell out ? that there was in 

 one of the Boats , one of the Wife Men, of the Society of Salomons 

 Houfe : which Houk $r College (my good Brethren) is the very Eye 

 of this %ingdome ; Who baVivg a fbktle attentively and deVoutly View- 

 ed, and contemplated tins PtlUr and Croffe , fell down ttpn his fate j 

 And then raifed btmfdf upon his knees , and lifting up his Hands to 

 Heaven , made his f r oyer sin this nunner. 



LOrd God of Heaven and Earth, thou haH youch- 

 fafed of thy (jrace, to thofe of our Order, to kpow 

 thy Works of Creation, and true Secrets of them; And 

 to discern ( as far as appcrtaineth to the (fenerations of 

 *5Men ) between Divine trades JVorks of fh(a~ 

 ture Worlds of Art , and Imposlures, and lUufions of all 

 forts. 1 do here acknowledge and teflifie before this 

 'People , that the Thing we now fee before our eyes, is 

 thy Finger, and a Miracle, And for ^as-much, 

 as we learn in oiir Hookas, that thou never worfyB Mi- 

 racles, hut to a DiVwe and Excellent End, Q for the 

 Laws oj 3\[^ature are thine own Laws, and thou ex- 

 ceedefl them not but upon good caufe") we mofl humbly 

 befeech thee, to pro fper tins great Sign, And to give us 

 the Interpretation and ufeoftt in Mercy:, Which thou 

 dofl in fome part fecretly promt fe, by fending it unto 

 \ us. 



When he had made his Grayer , he prefently found the (Boat he 

 T>?4f in j moveable and unbound . whereas all the refi remained pill 

 i fafl; And taking that for an afjurance of Leave to approach , he 

 ! caufed the r Boat to be foft'y ? and ~to'uh filence rowed towards fta Pil- 

 lar. <Bid ere he came near it } the Pillar and CrolTe of Light hrah 

 up 5 and cafl it flf abroad , as it 'were into a Firmament of manj 

 Starves ; which a'fo Van'tfhed foon after , and there *9>as nothingleftt 

 be feen } but a (mall Ark , or Cheft<?/ Cedar, dry , and not wet a! 



