* Salmon, who is an industrious collector and compiler from others,
saith, in his account of Assyria, “ In this country the famous city of
Nineveh once stood, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, oppo-
site to the place where Mosul now stands There is nothing now
to be seen but heaps of rubbish, almost a league along the river
Tigris, over against Mosul, which people imagine to be the remains
of this vast city.” But it is more than probable that these ruins are
the remains of the Persian Nineveh, and not of the Assyrian. Ipse
periere ruine : even the ruins of old Nineveh have been, as I may
say, long ago ruined and destroyed: such an utter end hath been
made of it, and such is the truth of the Divine predictions! |
This, perhaps, may strike us the more strongly by supposing only —
a parallel instance. Let us then suppose, that a person should come ~
in the name of a prophet, preaching repentance to the people of this —
kingdom, or otherwise denouncing the destruction of the capital city, —
within a few years; with an overrunning flood will God make an —
utter end of the place thereof, he will make an utter end; its place —
may be sought, but it shall never be found. I presume we should ©
look upon such a prophet as a madman, and show no farther atten-_





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(p. 62.) et Nineven pons tantum intercedit: Hac devastata est: attamen multos pagos et ¢
arces habet. At vero Haiton Armenius (De Tartar. c. xi. p. 406.) (anno 1300) Ista 4
civitas (Nineve) ad presens est totaliter devastata. [Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote his —
Itinerary in the year of our Lord 1173, saith (page 62.) that between Almoxal and Nineveh Ps
there is at present only a bridge. The latter place is in ruins, yet it hath still many small
villages and castles. But Haiton, the Armenian, in his book concerning the Tartars,
chap. xi. page 406, (he wrote in the year 1300,) saith that the city of Nineveh is at present —
totally in ruins.| Marshami Chron. Sec. xviii. p. 558. Sed per ea, que adhuc sunt ap-—
parentia in eadem, firmiter credi potest quod fuerit una ex majoribus civitatibus hujus mundi. 