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 answered, Who is there? Who is it that calls? What would you have? When the voice spoke more high! and said, Alaman I require when you pass the gulph of Langu all you remember to call aloud, and make them to understand that the great god Pan is dead. At these words all in the ship were astonished, and concluded that the pilot should not take notice of the voice, nor stay in the gulph to utter such words if they could get beyond it: Now going on their voyage, and coming to the place before mentioned, the ship stood still, and the sea was calm, that they could go no farther : 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, and arrived at Rome, and told the adventure, and told Tiberius the Emperor, all the truth thereof.

Where 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 restrained only to the god of the shepherds, but was rather some master devil, who lost his power and empire, as the others had done before, by the death of Jesus Christ.

About forty years after the death of Christ, the Jews had many warnings shewed them from heaven. Before Vespasion 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 the sins of the Jews being come to the full height, who with cruel hands had crucified the Lord of Life, that innocent blood, which they desired might fall on them and their children, it began now to be