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I is to be observed, that the Scripture makes mention of three Judasses; the first is Judas Maccabeus; the second judas the son of Joseph, the reputed father of our Lord; and the third Judas Iscariot, the son of a tanner, living in repute at Joppa, a sea-port town near Jerusalem. This Judas, who betrayed our Lord, was his mother’s first child, who dreamed that the child in her womb would prove both a thief and a murderer, and bring her and her generation to shame and disgrace; which so terrified her, that she was like to go distracted; but her husband strove to pacify her, bidding her leave it to God, the wise disposer of all things, who might take it away in its