_And bid me mistrust a miracle in_ Elias, etc.] The History is 18. 1 _Reg._ It should be _Elijah_. The Author in _15. cap. lib. 7. Pseudodox._ sheweth it was not perform'd naturally; he was (as he saith) a perfect miracle. _To think the combustion of_ Sodom _might be natural_.] Of that opinion was _Strabo_, whereupon he is reprehended by _Genebrard_ in these words: _Strabo falsus est----dum eversionem addicit sulphuri et bitumini e terra erumpentibus, quæ erat assignanda Cœlo_, i.e. _Deo irato_. _Tacitus_ reports it according to the Bible, _fulminis ictu arsisse_. _Sect. 20. Pag. 33._ _Those that held Religion was the difference of man from Beasts_, etc.] _Lactantius_ was one of those: _Religioni ergo serviendum est, quam qui non suspicit, ipse se prosternit in terram, et vitam pecudum secutus humanitate se abdicat._ Lactant _de fals. Sapientia_, cap. 10. _The Doctrine of_ Epicurus _that denied the providence of God, was no Atheism, but_, etc.] I doubt not but he means that delivered in his Epistle to _Menæceus_, and recorded by _Diogenes Laertius_, lib. 10. _Quod beatum æternumque est, id nec habet ipsum negotii quicquam, nec exhibit alteri, itaque neque ira, neque gratia tenetur, quod quæ talia sunt imbecillia sunt omnia_; which the _Epicurean_ Poet hath delivered almost in the same words. _Omnis enim per se divum natura necesse 'st Immortali ævo summa cum pace fruatur, Semota à nostris rebus sejunctaq; longè: Nam privata dolore omni, privata periclis Ipsa suis pollens opibus nihil indiga nostri Nec bene pro meritis capitur, nec tangitur ira._ Lucret. _lib. 2._ _That Villaine and Secretary of Hell, that composed that miscreant piece of the three Impostors._] It was _Ochinus_ that composed this piece; but there was no less a man than the Emperour _Frederick_ the Second, that was as lavish of his tongue as the other of his pen; _Cui sæpe in ore, Tres fuisse insignes Impostores, qui genus humanum seduxerunt: Moysem, Christum, Mahumetem. Lips. monit. et exempl. Politic._ cap. 4. And a greater than he, Pope _Leo_ the Tenth, was as little favourable to our Saviour, when he us'd that speech which is reported of him, _Quantas nobis divitias comparavit ista de Christo fabula_. _Sect. 21. Pag. 34._ _There are in Scripture, stories that do exceed the fables of Poets._] So the Author of _Relig. Laici. Certè mira admodum in_ S. S. _plus quam in reliquis omnibus Historiis traduntur_; (and then he concludes with the Author) _sed quæ non retundunt intellectum, sed exercent_. _Yet raise no question who shall rise with that_ Rib _at the Resurrection_.] The Author _cap. 2 l. 7_. _Pseudodox_. sheweth that it appeares in Anatomy, that the Ribs of Man and Woman are equal.