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AT the time when the blessed Saint in the Text fell the first Martyr under the first Persecution that reign'd in the Christian Chutch, all the new Converts were dispersed from Jerusalem into the Parts of Ju~ data and Samaria; only some few devout Men remaining, who out-brav'd the Malice and Fury of their Persecutors , and baffled the Violence of that fiery Trial 5 seeming resolutely bent rather to die Martyrs upon the spot themselves, than to(...)".