“ Within the thirty third year of Christ's life, he was crucified by the wicked hands of the Jews which caused many miracles attested both by heathens and Christians. At his death there was a mighty darkness: In the day time, from six till nine, that is, from our twelve, to our three in the afternoon, and yet no eclipse of the sun, it being full moon, so it was contrary to the order of nature, but the power of God deprived the sun of its light. ”

“ The latter being reserved for the triumph, and John made prisoner for life. The Romans, after this burnt the remainder of the city, and threw down the walls.
The power of God on the one hand, and his goodness on the other, was very remarkable upon this occasion: For the tyrants ruined themselves, by quitting those holds of their own accord, that could never have been taken but by famine: And this after the Jews had spent so much time to no purpose upon other places of less value. ”

“ The temple was built upon a rocky mountain, and the place at the top, was not at first big enough for the temple and court, the hill being very steep, but the people every day brought earth thither, and they at last made it plain and large enough, with wonderful curiosity and labour, inclosed with three walls which were many days labour, with the cost of all the holy treasure offered to God from all parts; the foundation of the temple was laid three hundred cubits deep ”

“ The putrid corruption of dead bodies sent out a vapour to prison as many as came within the reach of it. Some were not able to endure it, and so went out of the way; others had their hearts so set upon Sooty, that they rifled the very carcases, and trampled upon the dead bodies as they lay soaking in their corruption ”

“ In the 22d year of his age, several bloody comets were seen, and the river Tybar overflowed the city of Rome.
Publius Lentullus's Epistle to Rome concerning
CHRIST.
There appeared in those days a man of great virtue called Jesus Christ, is yet living among us, and of the people is called a prophet; but his own disciples call him the Son of God; he raiseth the dead, cureth all manner of diseases: a man of stature, somewhat tall and comely with a reverend countenance, such as the beholders nay both fear and love ”

“ But neither the antiquity, wealth, fame, nor the honour of the religion itself, was any security against the appointments of fate, and them which afterwards saw it could not believe that ever there had been such a city there, yet the dispised Jews begged leave to build part of the city, but after sixty five years, when they began to revolt. ”

“ Peter, who from thence returned back to Jerusalem, and was present at the great apostoical synod, where the eontroversy about Mosaieal rites was determined, some report, that he was in Britain, and eonverted many to ehristianity: but toward the end of Nero's reign, he returned to Rome, where he found the peoples minds hardened against embraeing the Christian religion, by the subtilities and magie arts of Simon Magus ”

“ And Nebuchadnezzer laid this glorious city, with the temple, palace, walls, and towers, even to the ground, 2 Kings xix, After eighteen months siege in the eleventh year of Zedikiah, the ninth day of the fourth month, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, the princess of Babylon surprised and took this brave city ”