(9ò8'. the gravity and greatnefleoftheir name, the institutions of their an- ceüors,and alto to odious,and hateful1 to the immortal! gods, be., caufe the nation whofe they'were,was vanquifhed,removed,perfecu ted : for fohe playeth, and maketh a flourifh, and °Rentation of his eloquence againftthe Godof heaven, in his Oration for Paccar. That was but a light matter,that Auguffus commended his nephew Cain° for contemning the religion of the Jews. Tiberim didperfe- cute themwith fo great hatred , that he compelled alitheir wor-' fhippers or Lovers to.burn all their holygarments, with all theirfur niture; who alfo appointed and diftributed the Jews youth by a' kindof oath, into the province ofa corrupt ayr,and he banifhed the rest of that nation and their fellowes, under a penalty ofperpetuall flavery and fevitude, if they were not obedient, as Suetonius in his Tiberius witneffeth, Chap. 36, yet notwithftanding, he would after- ward have had Chrift regiftred among the gods, if the authority of the Senate had not hindred it,, whole ancient decree it wae, that no god (houldbeconfecrated'by the Emperor,unleffe it were approve& by the Senate. O the notoriousblafphemie of this King, with whom thedivinity is weighed,and efteemed,according to mans arbitremet r,' and judgement, except. God do pleafe men, he (hall not be God man mutt nov be propitious and favourable to God, as Tcrtullian' fpeaketh in his Apologeticxs. Verygreat profperitygoeth with their intolerable pride, which' hath been in noKingdome greater then here. With what prcfperous enterprifes from the'firit foundations hath every thing been begun,' çontinued, and perfefted ? One,war,háth ahvay es drawn on another, and newoccafions did continually follow eachother;, focommodi- ous, fit and' feafonable, as that the Roman armies might feem no fo much to have fought principality, as.to be called thereunto. Upon juft catfe did ScrvimsTullius, one.ofthe firft Kings, feem to have familiar company withFortune ; which profyerity was no whit le,l tined in fucceeding ages, and generations ; thofe efpecially, . after the fubduingof Syria : whence it came,that Reme had fo many eminent, renowned, and ftately temples of Fortune, 'but none of Wifdòme,Temperance,Patience,Fortitude,andMagnanimity:doubt- leffe the RomanPeople did more inçreafe byFortune, then'by Pro - wefle. Surely that Title, or Votto.of their words, which Cefar in bis pompous pageant, bare before him-in his triumph ofPontes, Vent, vidi, vici, 1came,,.1jaW., Iovercame,. might . have been common to, the whole Empire..
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