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.

§. 3. Petronius his Letter to the Emperor.

The gentle Governor failed not of his promise, nor of the trust the Jews had reposed in him, but though it may breed his own smart, he addresseth a message to the Emperor in their behalf, and useth the utmost of his perswasive skill and faculty in it. He layeth before him that the prosecution of his commanded and intended enterprise, would be the destruction of a whole Nation, the loss of a fair and goodly Tribute and Revenue, the impairing of the Roman strength and honour, the prejudice of his Majesties journey in∣to Alexandria, which he intended ere long to take: That they were already grown de∣sperate, and began to neglect their harvest and occasions, whereby a certain famine would follow upon the Land, and a disadvantage to the Countries round about: with other

Arguments of the same nature, sensible, strong, and perswasive, had not the Emperor been wedded to his own sensless will, and bewitched and led away with destructive coun∣sel. Two caitives he had about him that continually suggested evil to him against the Jews, as if for either ear one, Helicon an Egyptian mentioned before, and Apelles an Ascalonite, such another as he. These were ever adding spurs to his malice against that Nation, which was in its full carreer already, and blowing those coals which it was impossible to quench. Wretched men that they were, that sought to rear their fortunes upon others ruines, and to cement estates with other mens blood. Such instruments it pleased God to use for the scourging of that ungracious and condemned Nation, and having done the work by them that he had appointed, he cast these rods into the fire, Apelles being tor∣tured by Caius, whom he had indoctrinated to cruelty, and Helicon slain by Claudius, the Emperor that succeeded in Caius his room.