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8 that the ſight of the ſun apparently failed, the heavens ſeemed to burn, and fire beams jell from them. In the twenty-ſecond year of his age, ſeveral bloody comets were ſeen, and the river Tiber overflowed the city of Rome.

PUBLIUS LENTULLUS' Epiſtle to Rome concerning CHRIST.

"There appeared in thoſe days a man of great virtue called JESUS CHRIST, who is yet living among us, and by the people is called a prophet; but his own diſciples call him the SON of GOD. he raiſeth the dead, cureth all manner of diſeaſes; a man of ſtature, ſomewhat tall and comely, with a reverend countenance, ſuch as the beholders may both fear and love: his hair is of the colour of a cheſnut full-ripe, and plain down almoſt to his ears, but from thence downward ſomewhat curled, but more orient of colours waving about his ſhoulders; in midſt of his head goeth a ſeam of hair, or parting, like that of the Nazarites; his forehead very plain and ſmooth; his face without ſpot or wrinkle, beautified with a comely red; his noſe and mouth ſo formed, that nothing can be reprehended, his beard thick, in colour of the hair of his head; his eyes grey, clear and quick; in ing