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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46295	The wonderful, and most deplorable history of the latter times of the Jews with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. By Josephus Ben Gorion whereunto is added a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtrait of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful, and presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times and crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.; Josippon. English. Abridgments.	Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1671 (1671)	Wing J1086A; ESTC R216340	213,458	417

slaughters of them filling all places full of dead carcases of the Gentiles They would not be ruled by sinners but ventured themselves to die offering their lives not for their sous and daughters but for the Sanctuary of the Lord and his Temple left it should be polluted with the Idols of the Gentiles Where remaineth now the rod of God that holy rod that budded and blossomed in the daies of gladness Now is both the spring withered and the rod it self also The rod of faith is withered the rod of the Kingdom the rod also of thy people whence the holy Law is taken away neither is there any man that can tell where to draw any waters of thy Heavenly mercy Alas the mercifull men that have been in times past to their brethren both alive and dead how are they now turned into most cruel tyrants and have mercy of no man Where is the multitude of their mercies wherewith they were wont honorably to bury their dead Now the corses of their dead bodies cover the face of the whole earth and there is no body will vouchsafe to bury them yea they that would cannot be suffered but straightwaies come others to them that kill them before they can do it so that they also die and lie unburied and are strewed about here and there in the fields Such is the guise in thee now adaies neither the father to bury the son nor the son the father the Seditious watch so diligently those that be dead lest any man should bury them which if they do they are also slain by them and lie unburied themselves The Temple of the Lord that is in thee which was wont to smel sweetly of spices anointings and perfumes how is it now choked with carriondung and most pestilent stinch of dead bodies and blood of the wounded Thy streets are strowed full of dead men some run-through with glaves and javelins and other dead for hunger yea they that remain yet alive in the City are as good as dead also and may be take●… for no less For they are weary of their lives because of the pestilent damp of the dead bodies the outragiousness whereof hath cast many into most dangerous diseases and hath been the death of numbers already This may worthily seem to be it that David the anointed of the God of Jacob the pleasant and sweet musical Poet of Israel speaketh o●… Lord the Gentiles are come into thine inheritance they have polluted the Temple of thy holiness And would to God it had been the Gentiles only that had exalted themselves against thee and polluted thus the holy Temple that is in thee For in the maliciousness of an enemy a man findeth the half of his comfort but in the malice of a friend there is no comfort at all Yea the very children that thou hast bred brought up and promoted the self same have stuffed the Temple of the Lord that is in thee with unburied carcases every man killing his neighbour and the Seditious suffering no man to bury them but slaying all that attempt to bestow any such work of mercy upon the dead in such sort that they fall dead upon the corpses which they would have buried and by that means both the corpses lye cast out into the field no better than the carcases of brute beasts that be found in desart places Yea the iniquity and cruelty of thy Citizens O Jerusalem is grown so far that they were not content only to kill their neighbours but they must also hew their miserable limbs in pieces for else they thought they were not sufficiently revenged although that in so doing many times the stinch of the dead took worthy vengeance again of the living by casting them into incurable diseases All these evills are come upon thy people because they have forsaken the law of the Lord and have transgressed the Covenant that he made with their brethren because also they have sinned against the Lord God of their fathers in shedding the blood of just men and innocents that were within thee even in the Temple of the Lord. And therefore are our sorrowfull sighings multiplied and our weepings daily increased for that we have been the cause of all these evils that are befallen us and are not yet ended O Lord our God our sins are gone over our heads and the wicked acts that we have committed in thy sight are innumerable The Lord our God is righteous it is we that have rebelled against his will we have prophaned and unhallowed his Law we have broken his Covenant and ever the more that his wrath kindled against us the more have we transgressed against him Wherefore to him belongeth justice and judgment he hath worthily powred the fury of his displeasure on us to us only belongeth shame as we have abundantly at this day But he will once turn again and have mercy upon us vanquish all our fins and cast them all into the deep bottome of the sea so be it After these things the third day of the first month in the first year of the reign of Vespasian Titus his son took muster of his men in the plain of Cesarea to know the certain number of them which he had not done afore since his fathers departure and he found them very many insomuch that they seemed almost to cover the earth This done he took his journey from Cesarea with his people and came to Samaria where the Citizens received him with great joy and much honored him wherefore he spared them and did them no harm From thence he came to Ajelona thirty furlongs from Jerusalem there he pitched his tents and leaving them there took six hundred horsemen with him and came to Jerusalem to view the Town to know of what height the walls were of what strength there was in the Town especially of the Seditious of whom every where great rumour was finally to receive peaceably all such as were desirous of peace So when he came to the wa●…l he saw no man neither to go out nor in for the gates were shut up and the Seditious had laid an ambush without the Town to trap Titus who went somewhat before accompanied with a few the rest following a pretty way behind Whiles therefore he was in viewing the walls the Seditious issued out of their ambush that they had laid nigh unto Ajelona and set upon the back of Titus men behind Then issued another Party out of the Town so that they had Titus between them and running upon him seperated him from his men and environed him on every side where they slew sixty of his men and might have slain him also save that they coveted to take him alive Titus seeing himself beset and forsaken of his own men that thought it was impossible for him to escape perceiving also that they went not about to kill him but to take him alive moreover that he could in no wise escape except he would make an irruption and run through their bands