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 the emperors from Tiberius to Constantine the Great, who established the Christian religion, died peaceably in his bed, though for three hundred years before few or none escaped divine vengeance, whose miserable deaths, noble Christian, above a thousand years ago, wrote, to show that they all fell by the power of Jesus, besides Julian the apostate, and Valens an Arian heretic, were made instances of divine Justice, for their detestable enormities.

Q. What befel the Jews for crucifying the Saviour of the world?

A. The Jewish historian relates such intolerable calamities and miseries that befel them, soon after our Saviour's ascension, as can hardly be imagined, first by Pilate their governor, and then by Protonius under Caligula, and several others afterwards, which made them at length rebel against the Romans, which hastened their utter ruin and extirpation by Titus Vespasian, with the burning of their temple, and destruction of Jerusalem, eleven hundred of them being slain in the siege, seventy-seven thousand taken prisoners, who were either put to death, carried in triumph, or sold for slaves in all parts of the world.

Q. What time is it said that this universal destruction of the Jews happened?

A. It is very remarkable, that their utter destruction came upon them forty years after our Saviour's death, namely, at the lost of the passover, when the whole nation, out of all countries and tribes were assembled together, and that by the hands of the Roman Caesar, for whom they had rejected Christ, saying, we have no king but Caesar; and as they apprehended Christ on mount Oliver, Titus planted his first battery for their destruction upon that mount, and as