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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04666	A compendious and most marueilous history of the latter tymes of the Iewes commune weale beginnynge where the Bible or Scriptures leaue, and continuing to the vtter subuersion and laste destruction of that countrey and people: written in Hebrew by Ioseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who sawe the most thinges him selfe, and was auctour and doer of a great part of the same. Translated into Englishe by Peter Morvvyng of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.; Josippon. English. Abridgments.	Morwen, Peter.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180. Sefer ha-Kabalah.; Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.	1558 (1558)	STC 14795; ESTC S122046	196,775	569

Prophets slaine amongst those holy men For before the holy temple was the Prophet Sechariahu that iust and holye man buchered and murthered yea without al burial nether was his bloud couered with earthe but yet stil wandreth about and muttereth in the. The blud of Anani also and Iosua the chiefe Priestes was yet neuer couered which were bothe slaine in thy temple as men be wont to kil theues yea the bloud of the godly yonge men and valeant men that would haue reuenged them was shed also by the sedicious like floudes of water How are the harts of the people turned so auckwardly that they wil heare no admonicion of iuste men But are like vnto blockishe images that neither see nor heare nor yet vnderstand any thinge All beas●es be they neuer so brutish al plantes and thinges that growe vpon th earth withstande them that inuade them to do them iniury and endeuour to auoid the force of their enemye but thy children the thou kepest within thee are chaunged into ennemies and one brother murthereth an other with the sworde Where is now thy valeauntnes thou that neuer wouldest how to beare the yoke of the gentils vpon thy shoulders but hast cast away the bondage of the Egiptians Philistines Aramites Assirians Chaldeis Persians and Medes Where is the strengthe that God gaue to the Chasmonaites that with a verye smal companye defended thee and preuailed againste the huge and puissaunte armye of the Grekes destroyed the stout souldioures of Babilon vanquished the mightye armye of the Persians slue Kamitiarus and Antiochus and pursued their armies making great slaughters of them and filling al places ful of dead carcases of the gentils They would not be ruled by sinners but vētred thē selues to die offring their liues not for their sonnes and doughters but for the sanctuarye of the Lord his temple leaste it shuld be polluted with the idols of the gentils Wher remaineth now the rod of god that holy rod that budded blossomed in the daies of gladnes Nowe is both the sprigs withered and the rod it self also The rod of faith is withered the rod of the kingdom the rod also of thy people frō whome the holy law is taken away nether is ther any man the can tel where to draw any waters of the heauenly mercy Alas the merciful mē that haue bene in times paste to their brethrē both aliue dead how are they now turned into moste cruel tirantes haue mercye of no man Where is the multitude of their mercies wherwith they were wōt honorably to bury their dead Now the corses of their dead bodies couer the face of the hole earthe there is no body wil vouchsafe to bury thē yea they the wold cā not be suffred but straitwaies cometh other to thē kils thē before they can do it so that they also die lie vnburied are strowed about here there in the fields Such is the guise in the now a daies nether the father to bury the sōne nor the sonne the father the sedicious watch so dilig●tly those that be dead least any man should bury them which if they do thei are also slaine by them and lie vnburied them selues The temple of the lord that is in thee and was wont to smell swetelye of spices anointmentes and perfumes How is it now choked with carian donge and most pestilēt stenche of dead bodies bloud of the woūded Thy streates are strowed full of deade men some run throughe with glaues and iauelines and other dead for hunger yea they that remaine yet aliue in the citye are as good as deade also and maye be taken for no lesse For they are weary of their liues because of the pestilente dampe of the deade bodyes whiche also hathe bene the deathe of manye and hathe cast many into most daungerous diseases This may worthelye seme to be it that Dauid the annointed of the God of Iacob the pleasaunte and swete musicall Poet of Israell speaketh of Lorde the gentilles are comen into thine inheritaunce they haue polluted the tēple of thy holines And woulde to God it had bene gentils tilles that thou haddest brought vppe nourished and exalted to do this dede to rebell and sinne againste thee and to pollute thus the holye temple that is in thee For in the maliciousnesse of an ennemye a manne finedeth the halfe of his comforte but in the malice of a frende there is no comforte at all Yea the verye children that thou hast bred broughte vppe and promoted the selfe same haue stuffed the tēple of the Lord that is in thee with vnburied carcases euery manne killinge his neighboure and the seditious suffringe no man to burye them but sleainge all that attempte to bestowe anye suche benefite vppon the deade in suche sort that they fall deade vppon the corses which they woulde haue buried by that meanes bothe the corses lie caste oute in the fielde no better then the carcases of brute beastes that be founde in deserte places Yea the iniquitie and crueltie of thy citizens O Ierusalem is grown so farre that they were not contente onlye to kil their neighbours but they muste also hewe their bodies in pieces for els they thought thei wer not sufficientlye reuenged althoughe that in so doynge manye tymes the stenche of the deade toke worthye vengeaunce againe of the liuynge by castyng him into vncurable diseases All whiche euils are come vppon thy children because they haue forsaken the lawe of the Lorde and haue traungressed hys couenaunt that hee made wyth their brethren because also they haue sinned againste the Lorde GOD of their fathers in sheadinge the bloude of iust menne and innocentes that were in in thee euen in the temple of the Lord. And therefore are our sorowfull sighbynges multiplied and our wepinge daiely encreased for that we haue bene the cause of all these euils that are befallen vs and are not yet ended O Lorde our God our Sinnes are gone ouer our heades and the wicked actes that we haue committed in thy sight are innumerable The Lorde our God is righteous it is we that haue rebelled against his will we haue prophaned and vnhalowed his lawe we haue broken his couenaunt And euer the more that his Wrathe enkindleth againste vs the more haue we traunsgressed against him Wherfore to hym belongeth iustice iudgement he hath worthelye poured the furye of hys displeasure vppon vs to vs onelye belongeth shame as wee haue aboundauntly at this daie But he will once turne againe and haue mercie vpon vs vainquishe all oure sinnes and caste theim all into the deepe bottomes of the sea So be it AFter these thinges the thirde daye of the firste moneth in the firste yeare of the raygne of Vaspasian Titus his sōne toke muster of his men in the plaine of Cesaria to knowe the certain number of theim which he had not done afore sence his fathers departure and he founde them verie manye in so muche that they