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12 houſe, that no man durſt inhabit it, ſo that it became deſolate: for every day there appeared the form of this epicure, ſitting with a great many gueſts, drinking, carouſing, and making good cheer; the table being furniſhed ſeemingly with all manner of delicacies, and attended on by many perſons, together with fidlers, trumpeters, and the like, ſo that whatever he delighted in while he was alive, was there daily to be ſeen, God permitting Satan to deceive mens' ſight by ſuch appearances, to deter others from living in ſuch a courſe of Atheiſm and impiety.—''Theat. Hiſt.''

XI. At a village called Benarides in Spain, two young men (one whereof was noted to be an outragious ſwearer and blaſphemer of God's holy name) being together in the fields, on a ſudden there aroſe a terrible tempeſt of rain and wind, accompanied with ſo impetuous a whirlwind, that it amazed all that beheld it; the two young men ſeeing it furiouſly coming towards them, to avoid the danger ran away as faſt as they could poſſibly; but notwithſtanding their haſte, it overtook them, and for fear it ſhould carry them up into the air, they fell flat down upon the ground, where the whirl-wind whiſked about them for ſometime, and then paſſed forward; one of them aroſe ſo affrighted, and in ſuch an agony, that he was ſcarce able to ſtand on his feet; the other lying ſtill without motion, ſome that ſtood under an hedge hard by, came to ſee how he did, and found him to be ſtark dead, not without ſome wonderful ſymptoms of divine juſtice; for all his bones were ſo cruſhed, that the joints of his legs and arms were to be turned every way, as though his whole body had been made of moſs; and beſides, his tongue was plucked out by the roots, and could not by any means be found,