. To all his other Villanies he added this, That he fought against Heaven, and was the first Persecutor of the Word of God. And, as notorious Instances of this cursed and Hellish Rage, Those two great Apostles and Pillars of the Church, St. Paul and St. Peter fell by his Hands. Pli∣ny had Reason then to call this Em∣perour humani generis hostem, one that had bid defiance to all Ranks of Mankind, and to style one of the Comets that was seen in his Reign Sidus Saevum, a furious and outra∣gious Star, l. 2. c. 25. Nay, we are told that upon the sight of a Co∣met he found himself enflamed a∣fresh to Bloudshed: and he used to put some Noblemen to Death to expiate and purge away the Hurt which these Prodigies procure, as an Astrologer taught him, saith Suetonius. And the same is averred by another credible Historian,Tacit. An∣nal. l. 15.Si∣dus Cometes, sanguine illustri sem∣per 0