The miserable destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes after the passion if Christ, was foreshewed before by manie wonders & signes, especially by a firie commet appea- ring in forme of a sword, and hanging ouer the steeple for the space of a whole yeare to- gither: shewing as it were by this signe, that the iustice of God would take punishment of the wicked nation of the Iewes by fire and blood, for their great impietie and wicked- nesse: which thing not onely came to passe, but also most raging famine tormenting them, there was found one who killed and eate her owne child.
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