j Consequences of the Deluge. I

| polished and subverted from the very foun-i Rations, and not fewer then 1700 Persons, ^ver-whelmed and buried ; and more theni half that number of the Thronii.

. in his first Book, 84.^1! us,that

1 1(1 the Reign of Tiler ins Cæsar , there hap-

' P e ned an Earthquake (the greatest that everin the memory of Man) wherein twelveCities of Asa were prostrated in one night.

But what is that to what St. Augustine^rites [ Lib. 2. De Miraculh SS. cap. 3. ] ifhat Book be his, In famofo quodam terras* B ®* a centum Libyæ Ztrbes corruiffe: That ina famous Earthquake an hundred Cities ofLibya were demoliihed.

The City of Antioch , where the Disciples°f Christ were first called Christians, with agreat part of Asia bordering upon it, was> a iuiost wholly subverted and swallowed up

■ an Earthquake in Trajan s time, as Dionj . a Jstus writes : Trajan himself then winter-j lri g there.

■ _The some City of Antioch , in the time

Justinian , in the Year of our Lord 528.^ again shaken with a terrible Earthquake,

| Wherein were overwhelmed and buried in! he ruins of the Houses above 40000 of the| Wizens.

•dnd lastly, in the 61 Year after the lastI Mentioned Earthquake, being again shakenI N 4 by