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Rh though it was diligently ſought for; and this was the miſerable end of this wretched youth, who was made an example to the world, of God's vengeance againſt ſwearers and blaſphemers.—Beard's Theatre.

XII. Martiques, governor of Brittany in France, in the war againſt the Proteſtants, perſuaded them to yield to the king, ſince their ſtrong God had now forſaken them, and ſcoffingly ſaid, It was time for them to ſing, Help us now, O Lord, for it is time: but he ſoon found that their ſtrong God was able to defend them, and to confound the proud and inſolent, he himſelf being preſently after ſlain in the ſiege.—Acts and Men.

XIII. It is related in eccleſiaſtical hiſtory, that, when the emperor Julian was ſetting out upon his Parthian expedition, he threatened to perſecute the Chriſtians with the utmoſt ſeverity, as ſoon as he returned victorious. Upon this occaſion, Libanius the rhetorician, aſked one of them, with an inſulting air: What the carpenter's ſon was doing, while ſuch a ſtorm hung over his followers?—The Creator of the world, replied the Chriſtian, whom thou diſdainfully calleſt the carpenter's ſon, is making a coffin for your emperor.The event proved the anſwer to be prophetic; for, in an engagement with the enemy, that royal, but wretched apoſtate, was mortally wounded; and cried with his expiring breath, ''Viciſti, O Galilaee! I am vanquiſhed, O Galilean! Thy right hand hath the pre-eminence!''

XIV. In the year 510, an Arian biſhop called Olympius, being in the baths of Carthage, openly ſcoffed and blaſphemed the holy and ſacred Trinity; but lightning fell down from heaven upon him three