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Rh they came out again empty-handed: but the compaſſion they had for the dead, made them not one jot tenderer to the living; for they ſtabbed every man they met, till the narrow paſſages and alleys were choaked up with carcaſes; ſo that the channels of the city ran blood as if it had been to quench the fire. In the evening they gave over killing, and at night they fell afreſh to burning.

The eighth of the month Gorpieus put an end to the conflagration of Jeruſalem, (A. D. 70.) and if all the bleſſings it ever enjoyed, from the foundation of it, had been but comparable in proportion to the calamities ſuffered in this ſiege, that city had been undoubtedly the envy of the world. But the greateſt plague of all came out of its own bowels; in that infernal race of vipers that it brought forth to eat out the belly of the mother.

While Titus was now taking a view of the ruins of this glorious city: the works, the fortifications, and eſpecially the turrets, which the tyrants had ſo ſortiſhly abandoned: While Cæfar, I ſay, was entertaining himſelf in the contemplations of the height, dimenſions, and ſituations of theſe towers; the deſign, workmanſhip, and curioſity of the fabric, with the wonderful contrivance of the whole: He let fall this expreſſion, “Well, ſays-he, If God had not fought for us, and with us, we could never have been maſters of theſe