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Rh get beyond it. Now going on their voyage, and coming to the place before mentioned, the ſhip ſtood ſtill, and the ſea was ſo calm, that they conldcould [sic] go no further; whereupon they reſolved, that Alaman ſhould perform his embaſſage, ſo he placed himſelf upon the poop of the ſhip and cried aloud. Be it known unto you, that the great god Pan is dead. When he had uttered theſe words, they heard many mournful cries, groans and lamentations, that continued ſome time, which ſurpriſed thoſe in the ſhip: but having a proſperous gale, they followed their courſe, arrived at Rome and told the adventure; and told Tiberius the Emperor, all the truth thereof.

It is evident that Satan in all parts was baniſhed by the death of Chriſt, and it is ſuppoſed that this god Pan is not to be underſtood only as the god of the ſhepherds, but was rather ſome maſter devil, who loſt his power and empire, as they all did at the death of Jeſus Chriſt.

About forty years after the death of Jeſus Chriſt, the Jews had many warnings ſhewn them from heaven. Before Veſpaſian came in the feaſt of weeks, the prieſt heard a man walking in the temple, ſaying, with a terrible voice, "Come, let us go away out of this place, let us make away from hence." Now