London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

Valentius being a great Favourer of the Arians, and a great Persecutor of the Orthodox (the Arians exceeding the ¹Heathens in cruelty) was in Battle against the Goths in Thracia wounded, and being carried to a house that was near, it was set on fire by the Enemy, in which he miserably perished.

Valentius being a great Favourer of the Arrians, and a great Persecutor of the Orthodox (the Arrians exceeding the ¹Heathens in cruelty) was in Battel against the Goths in Thracia wounded, and being carried to a house that was near, it was set on fire by the Enemy, in which he miserably perished.

1. 1Euseb. Hist. lib. 9. cap. 8. The Christians compared his destruction in the water to Pharaoh's drowning in the Red Sea.

Maxentius and his chief Officers being put to flight on the other side of the River Tiber by Constantine, was necessitated to return by a Bridge whereupon he had made devices in a secret way to have drowned Constantine, by which he and those that ⟨p. 164⟩were with him were drowned in the River: upon which occasion the Christians took occasion to sing that word, Psal. 9. 16. The Lord is known by the judgments which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hand: And that word, Psal. 7. 15. He made a pit and digged it, and he himself is fallen into it.

Maxentius and his chief Officers being put to flight on the other side of the River Tyber by Constantine, was necessitated to return by a Bridge whereupon he had made devices in a secret way to have drowned Constantine, by which he and those that