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Title: The strange and prodigious religions, customs, and manners of sundry nations ...
Year: 1688 (1680s)
Authors: R. B., 1632?-1725?
Subjects: Religions Jews Islam Indians
Publisher: London. : Printed and sold by Hen. Rodes...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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eliver themfrom the hands of the Seditious, began again to affailthg Romans that were gone to the Walls, with muchforce, that many of them they flew, the refidue they 1put to flight, and the Jews followed the Chace almoftto yffilona. Then the Jews mockd and flouted the Romans, call-ing them frefli-Water Souldiers, Men of no Experience,and innocent Fools that never faw the Trains of Warbefore • clapping alfo their Targets, and (baking theirSwords againft them in Mockage. The Roman Cap-tains feeing thefe things, they took great Difdain, andin great Anger would have turned back upon the Jewsagain, had not Titus commanded the Retreat to be After that Titushz^ given Caution to his Officers fbfthe preventing being any more deceived by the Wilesand Stratagems of their Enemies, confidering how ear-neilJy the Jerufalemites were bent againfl one another,how they were become fuch cruel Enemies, that each of thera Strang ^^periiivru that appeared^ itl theClovtds atj^ SiegeoflerufcLUrrvFagt 133.
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Keligtons^CuJioms^afid Manners. 141 them confpired the others Death, he cauled the Pits,Cifterns and Trenches that were about Jerufalew tobe dammM up, and ftopd with Earth, that the Waysmight be levelled for his Army, This done, he en-campd himfelf nearer the Walls; againft which At-tempt the Jews ifTued not out of the City after their ac-cuftomed manner, to put them back from the Walls,For Schimeo7t was otherwife bufied 5 he had enrertaindten thoufand Men of the (editious Jews^ and joynedhimfelf to Jacob the EdomiteSZz^t^m of nine thoufandEdomites, with whom he had made a Confpiracy ut-terly todedroy Captain Jekochanant and fetting uponhim, they compelled him to flee into the Court ofthe Temple where he remained in the Gate of the en-trance of the Temple, with eight thoufand and fourhundred good Men of War, all well appointed in Ar-mour. Eleazer alfowas agalnfl: him, and joyned with Sch/^meon, becoming an Enemy to him that before had la-ved his Life • and fothey both together aflai

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