An historical catechism. [electronic resource] : with answers to the questions of many of the matters in ancient history. What is the opinion of all our historians about the apple Eve tempted Adam with: why the devil should take the shape of a serpent: of the building of the tower of babel, nine miles round, by five hundred thousand men, who left off, confounded in their language; sesions questions about Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark, and the Temple of Solomon, informing us from scripture what day what was, of which the like never was before nor ever shall be. Alikewise, A full account of the destruction of Jerusalem and the slaughter of three millions of jews, Josephus' account of our saviour, and the miracles which were wrought as his birth, particular a very remarkable story of the great mogul and a ... with a wonderful apparition that happened at Mohamit's tomb. the strange, and wonderful prophesies of the ten Sybyls; and a miraculous relation of the seven sleepers, who slept above two hundred years. Dilligently Revised and corrected. Illustrated and adorned with cuts.