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 God restored the person to life. The people being tarraged to see how the sorcerer had imposed upon them, were ready to have stoned him to death, had not the Apostle's charity and generosity rescued lin. Yet this had so little influence upon him, that a while' fter lie had the presumption or folly, to enter upon another bold undertaking, which was to fly up into heaven ; but his artificial wings, or his two invisible ievils, as it is said, failing him, he fell to the grourid with such broken bones and bruises, as in a few days put an end to his life.

Q. Was there ever an attempt made to rebuild the temple af Jerusalem ?

A. Yes; Julian the Apostate, Emperor of Rome, who was once a Christian, but afterwards returned co idolatry, resolved to build the tempie in despite bf Christ; and that this prophecy might not prove frue, " That one stone shall not be left ubon anoth- er;" but then the workmen were laying the founil- ation, a drvasiful earthquake happened, and fire i-sa- el out of the earth, destroyed all the men, and dis- persed all the stones, so that there was not one stone but what was separated from another.

Q. What happened at their laying the foundation

A. There was a stone which slipt from its plats, an I discovered the mouth of a cave out in a rock, but the overseer's of the work, not being able to see the bottom of it, let down a labourer by a rope, and heing come to the bottom, he was up to the ancley in water, and found the place four square, en laying lis hals on a little pillar above water, le met with a book wrapped up in a clean linen cloth; and when they had drawn hiin np, the spectatores were amaz. ed it should be so fresli, lying in such a damp hole. The book it being opened, surprised both tbe Jews and the Grecians that were present, they finding