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degrees that this figtree was the time of their fall and ruine after such forewarnings is not so determinate in respect of us as the time of Ierusalem's and Iudah's ruine after our Saviours death and resurrection were For the time of their ruine was both foretold by the Prophets and prefigured by matter of fact as by their fore-elders wandring forty yeares in the wildernesse and by the forty dayes which after our Saviours resurrection were given them to bethinke themselves better and to make their peace with God as the Ninevites did upon forewarning given them by Ionas But leaving these punctuall or speciall forewarnings wee are to follow the forewarnings here mentioned in the 3. and 4. verses of this Chapter with the like generall signes of times ensuing The province of Galilee had its forewarning in the massacre of these Galileans whose bloud Pilate mingled with the sacrifices The inhabitants of Ierusalem had their particular forewaring likewise in the lamentable disaster of those eighteene upon whom the tower in Siloe fell These Galileans were they many or few did perish in Ierusalem and their disaster for this reason was more publique such as the whole nation of the Iewes could not but take notice of so that both signes put together with the circumstances of the time and place wherein they hapned did portend that the utter ruine of the whole nation should be in Ierusalem It might be true in part which the chiefe Priests and Pharisees had observed Ioh. 7. 52. Serch and looke for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet Nor was our Saviour to whom they apply this observation in particular a Galilean by birth but a neighbour-born unto Ierusalem for he was borne in Bethlehem the city of David But at the time of this great Prophets birth who was to falsifie their observation in respect of future times for he made Peter Iohn and Iames and other Galileans more then Prophets there arose a seditious sect in Galilee which did first oppose the payment of tribute unto Caesar. And all the opposition which this rebellious people made against the Roman empire tooke its originall from Iudas the Gaulonite and his sons And as Galilee was the beginning of woe unto Ierusalem and the Iewish Nation so it was the first in the plagues and woes here denounced For Vespasian being sent to quell this rebellion made his first invasion upon Galilee and tooke in all the cities and principall townes within that province before hee made any assault upon Ierusalem or other cities of Iudas The number of Galileans which perished in that warre was so great that I should hardly believe Iosephus his relations or them unlesse our Saviour had foretold this calamity was to bee nationall and universall for all were to perish besides such as did in time repent which God wote were but a few But had those Galileans no signes of the times besides these forewarnings in my text to disswade them from that desperate warre yes signes they had many and most pregnant which did verifie the literall meaning of our Saviours prophecie signes abundant to instruct them that the Lord had appointed the Romans to rule over them and these signes they had partly before partly after Vespaians comming to manage the warre on the Romans part against them King Agrippa of whom wee read Acts 26. in that excellent oration set downe by Iosephus in his second booke and sixteenth Chapter did forewarne them more like a Prophet than a polititian but these forewarnings concern'd the whole Nation as much as they did Galilee After the invasion made upon Galiles by Vespasian Josephus himselfe who wrote the history of those warres in which he had beene a principall agent tooke warning by the visible signes of the time to yeeld himselfe to the Romans upon the taking of Iotopata But a more feare full forewarning they had in the second taking of Ioppa whither the Galileans had fled in great abundance hoping at least to have escaped the Romans forces by ships if they were not able to defend themselves by land but they found the wind and weather to fight more bitterly against them than the Romans had done The tempest did drive them from the Sea and the Romans from the city Some were swallowed by the waves some killed themselves for feare of being drowned many were dashed against the rocks so that the sea was bloudy and all the shore was covered with dead bodies Such as escaped the Sea were killed by the Romans foure thousand two hundred dead bodies were cast upon the shore lib. 3. Chap. 15. Did the rest of the Galileans take warning by these mens disaster or by the destruction of this and other cities and the generall desolation of their countrey They did in part but to no purpose They saw it was in vaine to defend the cities of Galilee but even the desperate estate hereof they tooke as a signe of the time or as a watch-word to fortify Ierusalem the chiefe city and Metropolis of their Nation This was the city which the Lord had chosen amongst all the cities of Israel to place his name there and God they thought was bound in honour to defend his chosen city Out of this perswasion all the men of warre that were left in Galilee and in other places overrunne by Vespasian did repaire unto Ierusalem and in the issue of this resolution they fulfilled that which our Saviour had foretold that not only the Galileans but the inhabitants of Ierusalem should perish Had those Galileans after despaire of defending their owne cities or strong holds or after they saw Vespsiaan's army bent against Ierusalem fled as our Saviour admonished his followers into the mountaines or dispersed themselves amongst other Nations they might have escaped that butchery which the Romans practised upon them and they upon others of their owne Nation And unlesse they and others of their owne Nation contrary to our Saviour's admonition had floc'kd unto Ierusalem after they had seene it begirt with the Roman forces the Burgesses or inhabitants of that famous city had submitted themselves unto the Romans who were ready to give them better quarter than now one Christian Nation will upon like occasion give another But the inhabitants of that city being over-crowded with the multitude which daily flocked unto them and which they admitted to be partakers with them of the legall sacrifices they became partakers of that vengeance which still pursued the seditious what place soever they made choice of for their refuge Thus by neglecting or contemning the signes of the time which our Saviour had given them the greater part of that Nation more then five to one of such as were then ready to beare armes were first shut upon Ierusalem as in a prison or as so many fatted beasts in a market The Temple afterwards becomming as the slaughter-house or shambles To recount all the miseries which they suffered in the city and in the Temple by the famine and by the