their enemies the Thuricenses in battell, banquetted in the place where they won the victory, using the dead bodies of their adversaries instead of stooles, & tables.
Cruelty complained of, Gen. 49. 7. Exod. 6. 9. Deut. 32. 33. Psal. 25. 19. & 71. 4. Prov. 12. 10. Jer. 6. 23. & 50. 42. Lam. 4. 3. Heb. 11. 36. Ps. 27. 12. & 74. 20. Ezek. 34. 4.
The evils of it, Prov. 11. 17. & 27. 4.
Scriptural examples. Adonibezek, Jud. 1. 7. Cain, Gen. 1. 8. Simeon and Levi, Gen. 342. 5. Pharaoh, Exod. 1. 16, 22. Saul, 1 Sam. 22. 18, 19. Athaliah, 1 Chron. 22. 10. Menahem, 2 King. 15. 16. Jehoram, 2 Chron. 21. 4. A∣bimelech, Jud 9. 5. Philistines, Jud. 15. 6. David, 2 Sam. 12. 31. 1 Chron. 20. 3. Hazael, 2 King. 8. 12. Manasseh, 2 King. 21. 16. Amaziah, 2 Chron. 25. 12. Nebuchadnez∣zar, 2 Chron. 36. 17. Ezek. 23. 25. Jer. 51. 34. Haman, Esther. 3. 5, 6. Medes, Is. 13. 18. Edom, Amos 1. 11. Ammon, Amos 1. 13. Moab, Amos 2. 1. Paul, Act. 9. 1. & 22. 4.
It's recorded of Julius Caesar that in his warres he [ 47] slew eleven hundred ninty and two thousand men, and at last was himself slaine by his seeming friends in the Senate-house. Plin.
Gains Caligula the fourth Emperour of Rome was [ 48] of a most bloody, and cruel disposition; he caused Tiberius, who was made coheire with him, to be mur∣thered. He caused Syllanus his wives father to mur∣ther himself: He caused divers of the Senators to be privily murthered, and then gave it out that they had murthered themselves: many other noble men he stig∣matized & then condemned them to the mettal-mines, or to mending the high-wayes, or to the wilde beasts: Some he sawed a sunder in the middest. He forced parents to be present at the torments of their children: and whereas one excused himself by reason of sick∣nesse, he sent his horse-litter for him: Another asking whether he might not wink? for that he caused him to