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A57329	An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. A premonition to princes.	1698 (1698)	Wing R151A; ESTC R32268	273,979	474

from Night but with reference to the Sun's Creation in which this dispersed Light was united v. 14. 'till when there was no Motion to be measur'd by Time So that the Day named v. 5. was but such a space as after by the Sun's motion made a natural Day As then the Earth and the Waters were the Matter of the Air Firmament upper and lower Waters and of the Creatures therein so may the Light be called the Material Substance of the Sun and other Lights of Heaven How beit neither the Sun nor other Heavenly Bodies are that Light but the Sun is enlightned by it most of all other and by it the Moon and so the next Region which the Greeks call Aether the supposed Element of Fire is affected and by it all Bodies living in this our Air. And though the nature of Light be not yet understood yet I suppose the Light Created the First Day was the substance of the Sun though it had not formal Perfection Beauty Circle and bounded Magnitude 'till the Fourth Day when dispersed Light was united and fixed to a certain place after which it had Life and Motion and from that time separated Day from Night So that what is said of the Day before was by Anticipation for 'till the Creatures were produced God's Wisdom found no Cause why Light should move or give heat or operation § 8. Firmament between the Waters is the extended distance between the Sea and Waters in the Earth and those in the Clouds ingendred in the superiour Air This Firmament in which the Birds flye is also called Heaven in Scripture Gen. 49.25 Psal. 104.18 Mat. 8.26 The Crystalline Heaven Basil calls Childish § 9. God having Created the Matter of all things and distinguished every general Nature and given their proper Form as Levity to what should ascend and Gravity to what should descend and set each in his place in the three first Days in the three last he beautified and furnish'd them with their proper kinds as the Sun Moon and Stars in the higher Firmament of Heaven Fowls in the Air Fishes in the Waters Beasts on the Earth giving generative power for continuation of their Kinds to such as in the Individuals should be subject to decay or needed increase § 10. Nature is an operating Power infused by God into every Creature not any self-ability to be the Original of any thing of it self no more than the Helm can guide the Ship without an Hand or an Hand without Judgment All Agents work by virtue of the first Act and as the Eye seeth Ear heareth c. yet it is the Soul which giveth Power Life and Motions to these Organs So it is God which worketh by Angels Men Nature Stars or infus'd Properties as by his Instruments all second Causes being but Conduits to convey and disperse what they have received from the Fountain of the Universal It is God's infinite Power and Omnipotence that giveth Power to the Sun and all second Causes and to Nature her self to perform their Offices which operative Power from God being once stopp'd Nature is without Virtue Things flourish by God said Orpheus I endeavour not to destroy those various Virtues given by God to his Creatures for all his Works in their Virtues praise him but how he works in or by them no Man could ever conceive as Lactantius confounding the Wisdom of Philosophers denyed that all their study had found it for could the precise Knowledge of any thing be had then of necessity all other things might be known § 11. Destiny might safely be admitted but for the inevitable necessity even over Mens Minds and Wills held by Stoicks Chaldeans Pharisees Priscilianists c. Hermes and Apuleius conceived well That Fate is an obedience of second Causes to the First Plotinus calls it a disposing from the Acts of the Celestial Orbs working unchangeably in inferiour Bodies which is true in things not ordered by a rational Mind Fate is that which God hath spoken concerning us say the Stoicks Seneca Ptolomy And no doubt Stars are of a greater use than to give an obscure Light neither are the Seasons of Winter and Summer so certain in Heat and Cold by the motions of Sun and Moon which are so certain but the working of the Stars with them God hath given Virtues to Springs Plan●● Stones c. yea to Excrements of base Creatures Why then should we rob the Beautiful Stars of working power being so many in Number and so eminent in Beauty and Magnitude The Treasure of His Wisdom who is so Infinite could not be short in giving them their peculiar Virtues and Operations as he gave to Herbs Plants c. which adorn the Earth As therefore these Ornaments of the Earth have their Virtue to feed and cure so no doubt those Heavenly Ornaments want not their further use wherein to serve his Divine Providence as his just Will shall please to determine But in this question of Fate let us neither bind God to his Creatures nor rob them of the Office he hath given them If second Causes restrain God or God by them inforce Man's Mind or Will then wicked Men might lay the fault on God § 12. Prescience or Fore-knowledge if we may speak of God after the manner of Men goeth before his Providence for God infallibly foreknew all things before they had any Being to be cared for yet was it not the Cause of things following nor did it impose a Necessity § 13. Providence is an intellectual Knowledg Foreseeing Caring for and Ordering all things Beholding things past present and to come and is the Cause of their so being and such we call Provident who considering things Past and comparing them with the Present can thereby with Judgment provide for the Future § 14. Predestination we distinguish from Prescience and Providence these belong to all Creatures from the highest Angel to the basest Worm but this only concerns Mens Salvation in the common use of Divines or Perdition according to some Augustine sets it out by two Cities one predestinated eternally to reign with God the other to everlasting Torments Calvin Beza Buchanus and the like are of the same Opinion Why it pleased God to create some Vess●ls to honour some to dishonour though the Reason may be hid unjust it cannot be § 15. Fortune the God of Fools so much Reverenced and as much Reviled falleth before Fate and Providence and was little known before Homer and Hesiod who taught the Birth of those humane Gods have not a Word of this new Goddess which at length grew so potent that she ordered all things from Kings and Kingdoms to the Beggar and his Cottage She made the Wise miserable and prospered Fools and Man's life was but her Pastime This Image of Power was made by Ignorants who ascribed that to Fortune of which they saw no manifest Cause Yet Plato taught That nothing ever came to pass under the Sun of which there was not a just

River Reason teaching us That Wisdom or Knowledge goes before Religion for God is first to be known and then to be Worshipped Wisdom said Plato is the Knowledge of the absolute Good Faith is not extorted by Violence but perswaded by Reason and Example said Isidore To inquire farther into God's Essence Power and Skill is to grow mad with Reason What is beyond the reach of true Reason is no shame to be ignorant of neither is our Faith weakened by our being Ignorant how God Created the World which Reason perswades he did I cannot stand to excuse divers Passages in the following History the whole being exceeding weak especially the Division of the Books I being directed to inlarge the Building after the Foundation was laid Generally as to the Order I took Counsel from the Argument After Babel's Fall the Assyrians are first of whose Actions we find but little Recorded and more in Fame than Faith Other Kings Actions are also related by Digressions with some other things belonging to those Ages These Digressions the whole Course of our Lives which is but Digression may excuse Yet I am not wholly ignorant of the Law of History The Persian Empire was by Order next to be attended and the Nations which had reference thereto then followed the Grecians and the Romans Other Nations which resisted their Beginnings are not neglected The weak Phrase shews the Parent In Hebrew words I made use of learned Friends and Expositors though in Eleven Years I might have learn'd any Language at leisure Many will say a Story of my own time would have pleased better But I say He which in a Modern Story shall follow Truth too near the Heels it may chance to strike out his Teeth and no Mistress hath led her Followers into greater Miseries He which follows her too far off loseth her and himself He which keeps at a middle distance I know not which to call it Temper or Baseness I never labour'd for Mens Opinions when I might have made the best use of them and now my Days are too few Ambitiously or Cowardly to flatter between the Bed and the Grave even when D●ath has me on his Shoulders If it be said I Tax the Living in the Persons of the Dead I cannot help it tho' Innocent If any finding themselves spotted like the Tygers of old times shall find fault with me for Painting them over a-new they shall therein Accuse themselves justly and me falsely For I Protest before the Majesty of GOD I have no Malice against any Man under the Sun I know it is impossible to please all seeing few or none are so pleased with themselves by reason of their subjection to private Passions but that they seem divers Persons in one and the same Day Seneca said it and so do I One is to me instead of All Yea as it hath deplorably fallen out as an Ancient Philosopher said One is enough None is enough For it was for the service of that inestimable Prince Henry the successive Hope and one of the greatest of the Christian World that I undertook this Work And it pleased him to peruse part thereof and to pardon what was amiss It is now left to the World without a Master from which all that is presented to it receiveth both Blows and Thanks For we approve and reprehend the same things And this is the End of every Judgment when the Controversie is committed to many The Charitable will judge charitably And against the Malicious my present Adversity hath disarm'd me I am on the Ground already and therefore have not far too fall And for rising again as in the Natural Privation there is no recession to Habit so is it seldom seen in the Politick Privation I do therefore forbear to stile my Readers Gentle Courteous and Friendly so to beg their good Opinions Or promise a Second and Third Volume which I intended if the First receive a good Acceptance For that which is already done may be thought enough and too much And let us claw the Reader with never so many Courteous Phrases yet we shall ever be thought Fools that Write Foolishly THE CONTENTS OF THE Chapters Paragraphs and Sections OF THE First Book of the History of the WORLD CHAP. I. Of the First Ages from the Creation to Abraham § 1. OF the Creation and Preservation of the World Page 1. 2. The Worlds Creation acknowledged by Antient Philosophers 2 3. Of the meaning of In the Beginning 3 4. Of Heaven and Earth ibid. 5. What Moses meant by the word Earth ibid. 6. God moved on the Waters How to be understood ibid. 7. The Creation of the Light 4 8. The Firmament between the Waters ibid. 9. A Summary of the Creation 5 10. Nature is an Operating Power infus'd by God ibid. 11. Of Fate or Destiny ibid. 12. Of Prescience 6 13. Of Providence ibid. 14. Of Predestination 7 15. Of Fortune as it may seem against Reason and Providence ibid. CHAP. II. Of Man's Estate in the Creation and of God's Rest. 8 § 1. Man the last and most admirable of God's Works 9 2. Of the Intellectual Mind of Man and God's Image in it ibid 3. Of the frailty of our Bodies and the Care due to our immortal Souls 11 4. Of the Spirit of Life breathed by God into Man 12 5. Man a little World his Mortality Disobedience God rested on the Seventh Day 13 CHAP III. Of Paradise and the various Opinions about it 14 § 1. That it was the First Habitation of Man ibid. 2. By some held to be Allegorical ibid. 3. Moses's Description of Paradise ibid. 4. 'T is no vain Curiosity to enquire after it 15 5. Paradise not totally defac'd by the Flood ibid. 6 7 8. Paradise not the whole Earth Various opinions about it 16 9 10. Paradise was in Eden 17 11 12. Two Objections touching the Dvision of the Rivers and Eden's Fertility answerd 19 13 14. Pison and Gehon two Rivers of Paradise 20 21 15. Paradise most Pleasant and Fruitful being in 35 Degrees 21 CHAP. IV. Of the two chief Trees in Paradise 22 § 1. The Tree of Life a material Tree ibid. 2 3. Becanus's Opinion that it was the Indian Fig-Tree 23 4. Of the Name of the Tree of Knowledge and Adam's Sin 24. CHAP. V. Memorable things between Adam and Noah 25 § 1 2. Cain Murders his Brother Dwells in the Land of Nod. ibid. 3. Moses very brief in the Story of Cain 26 4 5. The various and Long Lives of the Patriarchs ib. 6. The Patriarchs deliver their Knowledge by Tradition Enoch wrote before the Flood 27. 7 8. Of the Men of War and Gyants before the Flood 28. CHAP. VI. The Original of Idolatry and Reliques of Antiquity in Fables 29 § 1 2 3 Ancient Truths in Old Corruptions as in the Family of Noah and the Old Aegyptians ib. 4 5 6. Jupiter was Cain Vulcan Tubal-Cain c. Of the several sorts of Jupiters 30 7. The Opinions of the wise

216 CHAP. VII The Greek Affairs from the Persian Wars to the Peloponesian 221 CHAP. VIII The Peloponesian War with the Condition of Athens and Sparta at the beginning of it Alcibiades his Victories his deposing 224 CHAP. IX Matters concurring with the Peloponesian War and some time after 230 CHAP. X. Cyrus the Younger his Expedition into Persia and the great Services of Xenophon 232 CHAP. XI Of the Greek Affairs under the Lacedemonians Command 237 CHAP. XII Of the flourishing Condition of Thebes from the Battle of Leuctra to that of Mantinea Of the Peace that succeeded A Comparison between Agasilaus and the Roman Pompey 241 BOOK IV. CHAP. I. Of the Macedonian Kingdom from Philip Father to Alexander the Great to the Race of Antigonus 247 CHAP. II. Of Alexander the Great his Wars with Darius and others his Cruelty Death and Character 251 CHAP. III. Aordaeus's Reign after Alexander 271 CHAP. IV. Of Antigonus's growth in Asia 282 CHAP. V. Of the Civil Wars of Alexander's Captains 286 CHAP. VI. Of the Wars between the New Kings 'till they were all destroy'd 287 CHAP. VII Rome's Growth and the setling of the Eastern State 299 BOOK V. From the setled Rule of Alexander's Successors 'till the Romans Conquer'd Asia and Macedon CHAP. I. Of the First Punick War 307 CHAP. II. What pass'd between the First and Second Punick War 326 CHAP. III. Of the Second Punick War 336 CHAP. IV. Philip King of Macedon Father of Perseus subdu'd by the Romans 370 CHAP. V. Of the Roman Wars with Antiochus and his Adherents 380 CHAP. VI. Of the Second Macedonian War With the death of Philopoemen Hannibal Scipio c. 396 ERRATA PAge 13. l. 31. r. but one p. 32. l. ult after slew add many thousands of them p. 37. l. 25. instead of Cursed r. not needful to be taken in p. 38. l. 19. dele Toy E. p. 54. l. 26. r. of Chush p. 64. l. 9. for Legal r. Regal p. 65. l. 29. for Babel r. Babylon p. 70. l. 23. for no r. a. p. 94. l. 13. for Linages r. Images p. 96. l. 10. r. many things p. 96. l. 19. for Their r. Therefore and for that r. a. p. 131. l. 15. for lightsomely r. plainly p. 139. l. 24. for Three r. Third p. 216. l. 27. after Thousand r. Darici p. 220. l. 10. for thirty thousand r. three hundred thousand ibid l. 20. after fifty thousand r. more p. 226. l. 26. for first r. worst p. 243. l. 35. after grown r. powerful p. 248. l. 28. r. set up Pausanius p. 286. l. 13. r. he would not share THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I. OF THE First Ages from the Creation to Abraham CHAP. I. Of the Creation and Preservation of the World § GOD Invisible is seen in his Creatures God acknowledged by the wisest men to be a Power uneffable a Virtue infinite a Light by the abundant Clarity invisible an Understanding which it self can only comprehend an Essence eternal and spiritual of absolute Pureness and Simplicity was and is pleased to make himself known by the Works of the World In the wonderful magnitude whereof we behold the Image of that Glory which cannot be measured and that one Universal Nature which cannot be defined In the glorious Lights of Heaven we perceive a shadow of his Divine Countenance in his Provision for all that live his manifold Goodness and in creating by the absolute power of his own Word his All-sufficiency which All-sufficiency in Power and Wisdom which Light Virtue and Goodness being but Attributes of one simple Essence and one God we in all admire and in part discern by the Glass of his Creatures in the disposition order and variety of Bodies Celestial and Terrestrial Terrestrial in strange manifold Diversities Celestial in their Beauty Magnitude and continual contrary motions yet neither repugned intermixed nor confounded By these potent Effects we approach to the knowledge of the Omnipotent Cause and by these motions their Almighty wise Mover In these more than wonderful Works God speaketh to Men who by their Reason may know their Maker to be God who with Corporal Eyes can no otherways be seen but by his Word and this visible World Of all which Works there was no other Cause preceding but his Will no Matter but his Power no Workman but his Word no other Consideration but his own Goodness § 2. The Worlds Creation acknowledged by ancient Philosophers Mercurius Trismegistus called God the Original of the Vniverse and that God made it only by his Word Jupiter having hidden all things in himself did after send forth into the grateful Light the admirable Works he had fore-thought Pindar calls him the one God Father and Creator of all And Original of all saith P●ato Though Scripture have no need of Foreign Testimonies yet St. Paul despised not the Use of Philosophers c. Truth by whomsoever uttered is of the Holy Ghost said Ambrose § 3. All things began to be in the Creation before which was neither Matter nor Form of any thing but the Eternal For had there been a former Matter the Creation had not been first and if any thing were before Created there must be a double Creation if any thing had been uncreated but God there must have been a Beginning and two infinite Eternals § 4. Heaven and Earth first Created was not Matter without all Form without which nothing can exist but it was that solid Substance and Matter as well of the Heavens and Orbs as of the Globe of the Earth and Waters which cover'd it the Seed of that Vniversal saith Calvin § 5. As Moses by Heaven meant the Matter of all Heavenly Bodies and Natures so by Earth comprehending the Waters he meant the Matter of all things under the Moon Waters in the plural signifying a double Liquor of divers natures mixed with Earth 'till God separated them § 6. Spirit of God moved c. Seeing that God is every way above Reason though the Effects which follow his wonderful ways of working may in some measure be perceived by Man's Understanding yet that manner and first operation of his divine Power cannot be conceived by any Mind or Spirit united with a mortal Body And St. Paul saith they are past finding out Therefore whether that motion vitality and operation were by Incubation or any other way that 's only known to God The English word Moved is most proper and significant for of motion proceeds all production and whatsoever is effected This moving ●pirit can be no other but that infinite Power of God which then formed and distinguished and which now sustains the Universe This motion of the Spirit upon the Waters produced their Spiritual and Natural motion which brought forth Heat whereof came rarefaction of Parts thus was Air begotten an Element lighter and superiour to the Waters § 7. The Light is next which for Excellency is first called good but as I conceive did not yet distinguish Day