The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Author
Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.

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§. 9. Caius beginning to shew himself in his own colours.

Not to insist longer upon the vizor of this dissembler, but to take him as he was, and not as he seemed, his nature began more evidently to shew it self after his recovery of his sickness, mentioned, and then the State began by degrees to be sick indeed. His be∣ginnings were in lightness, sports, and lavishing of money; but his proceedings were in bestiality, cruelty and effusion of blood. His Banquets, Plays, Sword-fights, Fighting of Beasts (as 400 Bears, and as many other African wild Beasts at one time) his Musick, Shews, strictness that none should be absent from them, and expensiveness in all (insomuch that he spent above twenty millions in such vanities in less than three years) may be thought as vertues in him, in comparison of that that followed, and of the mischiefs that he mingled between.

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