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A33322	The life & death of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great, the first founder of the Babylonian Empire, represented by the golden head of that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by the lion with eagles wings, Dan. 7. 4. as also of Cyrus, the Great, the first founder of the Empire of the Medes and Persians, represented by the breast, and arms of silver in that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by a bear, Dan. 7. by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1664 (1664)	Wing C4530; ESTC R15232	35,680	56

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This Great Monarch having thus spent his younger days in inlarging his Dominions he betook himself to rest that he might reap the fruit of his former labours and the first thing that he applyed himself to was to beautifie his Imperiall City of Babylon adding a new City to the Old which he compassed about with three Walls and made in them stately Gates And neer the former Pallace he built a New one more stately than it wherein he raised stone-works like unto Mountains which he planted with all manner of Trees He made also Pensile Gardens one of the Worlds wonders born upon Arches foursquare each square being four hundred Foot long filled above with Earth whereon grew all sorts of Trees and Plants The Arches were built one above another in a convenient heigth still increasing as they ascended The highest which did bear the Walls on the top were fifty Cubits high so that they equalized the highest Mountains He made also Aquaeducts for the watering of this Garden which seemed to hang in the air This most sumptuous frame which out-lasted all the remainder of the Assyrian and all the Persian Empire is said to have been reared and finished in fifteen Days He erected also an Image of Gold in the Plain of Dura sixty Cubits high and six broad commanding all his Servants and Subjects to fall down and Worship it Dan. 3. 1 c. But of all this and other his Magnficence we find little else recorded save that which indeed is most profitable for us to consider to wit his overvalewing of his own greatness which abased him to a condition inferior to the poorest of men For whereas God had honoured him not only with many great and glorious Victories and much happiness in his own life but with a rare discovery of things that were to come after him yea and had manifested the certainty of his Dreams by the miraculous reducing of it into his Memory and given him the interpretation thereof by the Prophet Daniel He notwithstanding became so forgetfull of God whose wonderfull power he had seen and acknowledged that he caused that Golden Image to be set u● and Worshipped appointing a cruell Death for them that should dare to disobey him which was utterly unlawfull and repugnant to the Law of him that is King of Kings And thus he who so lately had Worshipped Daniel the servant of God as if he had been God himself now commanded a Statue to be erected unto himself wherein himself might be worshipped as God From this impiety it pleased God to recall and reclaim him by the wonderful and miraculous delivery of those three blessed Saints out of the fiery Furnace who being thrown bound into the midst of it for refusing to commit that abominable Idolatry were preserved from all hurt of the fire loosned from their Bonds accompanied by an Angel and at last called out by the King and restored to their former honour Nebuchadnezzar being amazed at the Miracle mad a Decre tending to the honour of God whom by the erection of his Image he had dishonoured Yet was not this devotion so rooted in him that it could bring forth fruit answerable to his hasty zeal Therefore was he forewarned of God in a Dream of a terrible Judgement which hung over his Head which Daniel expounding withall counselled him to break off his sin by righteousness and his iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor that there might be a lengthening of his tranquillity Dan. 4. 27. whence it seems that injustice and cruelty were his faults for which he was thus threatened But neither did the Dream nor advice of Daniel so prevail For probably he believed it not but looked upon it as an idle Dream for that it seemed altogether unlikely that so great a Monarch should be driven from amongst men yea compelled to dwell with the Beasts of the Field and made to eat Grass as the Oxen this was altogether incredible in mans Judgement and therefore giving so little heed to it it s no marvell that he had forgotten it by the years end One whole year was given to this haughty Prince wherein to repent which respiting of the execution may seem to have bred in him forgetfulness of Gods sentence For at the end of twelve Moneths as he was walking in his Royall Pallace in Babel he was so overjoyed and transported with a vain contemplation of his own seeming happiness that without all fear of Gods heavy Judgement pronounced against him he uttered these proud words Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdom by the might of my power and for the Honour of my Majesty But his proud speeches were not fully ended when a voice from Heaven told him that his Kingdom was departed from him c. And the same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and did eat grass as Oxen and his Body was wet with the dew of Heaven till his hair was grown like Eagles Feathers and his hails like Birds Claws Dan. 4. 33 c. This his punishment was singular and unexpected For he ran amongst beasts in the fields and woods where for seven years he lived not only as a salvage man but as a salvage Beast for a Beast he thought himself to be therefore fed himself in the same manner and with the same food that Beasts do Not that he was changed in his externall shape from a man to a Beast For as St Jerome well expounds it when he saith vers 34. that his understanding was restored unto him he shewed that he had not lost his Humane shape but his understanding being stricken with a Frenzy or deep Melancholly which made him think himself a Beast Seven years being expired Nebuchadnezzar was restored both to his understanding to his Kingdom and saith he I blessed the most High and I praised honoured him that liveth for ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and his Kingdom is from Generation to Generation And all the Inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing and he doth according to his Will in the Army of Heaven and amongst the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What dost thou At the same time my reason returned unto me and for the Glory of my Kingdom mine honour and brightness returned unto me and my Counsellers and my Lords sought unto me and I was established in my Kingdom and excellent Majesty was added unto me Now therefore I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extoll and honour the King of Heaven all whose works are truth and his way is Judgement and those that walk in Pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 34 35 36 37. How long helived after this is uncertain but all agree that he raigned about twenty moneths copartner with his Father in the Kingdom and about three

hast thou not Glorified Then was the part of the hand sent from him and this writing was written Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin Whereof this is the Interpretation Mene God hath numbred thy Kingdom and finished it Tekel Thou art weighted in the ballanees and art found wanting Peres Thy Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians The very evening or Night of this Day wherein Belshazzar thus Feasted and wherein these things were done Cyrus either by his Espeials or being inspired by God himself whose Ensign he followed in these Wars finding the time and opportunity fit for him even whilst the Kings Head and the Heads of his Nobility were no less distempered with the vapours of Wine than their hearts were with the fear of Gods Judgements he caused all the Banks and Heads of his Trenches to be opened and cut down with all speed and diligence whereby that great River Euphrates was quickly drawn dry and himself with his Army passing through the Channell which was now dry without any opposition they easily made their entrance into the City finding none to disturb them Invadunt urbem somno Vinoque sepultam All the Town lay buried in Wine and Sleep and such as came in the Persians way were put to the Sword unless they saved themselves by flight as some did who ran away crying and filled the Streets with an uncertain tumult Such of the Assyrian Lords as had formerly revolted from Belshazzar to Cyrus did now conduct a Selected company to the Kings Pallace which being easily forced by them they rushed strait into the Chamber where the King and his Princes were Banquetting and there slew both him and them without mercy who strove in vain to keep those lives which God had newly threatened to take away Now was that prophesie fulfilled Jer. 51. 30 31 32. The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight they have remained in their Holds their might hath failed they became as women they have burnt their dwelling places Her barrs are broken One Post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to shew the King of Babylon that his City is taken at one end And that the passages are stopped viz. of the River Euphrates and the Reeds they have burnt with fire and the men of War are affrighted The Prophet Isay also two hundred years before this subversion of Babylon in his forty seventh Chapter and elsewhere describeth this destruction so feelingly and lively as if he had been present both at the terrible slaughter there committed and had seen the great and unseared change and calamity of this great Empire Yea and had also heard the sorrows and bewallings of every surviving Soul thereunto subject which Prophesie he begins with these words Come down and sit in the dust O Virgin daughter of Babylon sit on the Ground there is no Throne O daughter of the Chaldeans For thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate c. And though it cannot be doubted that God used Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans as his Instruments to punish the Idolatry and wickedness of the Jews yet did he not forget that in the Execution of Gods Judgements they had used much rigour and extremity as we see Isay 47. 6. I was wroth with my People I have polluted mine Inheritance and given them into thine hand Thou didst shew them no mercy Vpon the Ancient hast thou very heavily laid the Yoke and again I will rise up against them saith the Lord of Hosts and will cut off from Babel the Name and the remnant and the Son and the Nephew Meaning Evilmerodach and Belshazzar And again Isay 13. 15 c. Every one that is found shall be thrust thorow and every one that is joyned to them shall be slain with the Sword their Children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes their Houses shall be spoiled and their Wives ravished Behold I will stir up the Medes against them which shall not regard Silver and as for Gold they shall not delight in it their Bowes also shall d●sh the young men to pieces and they shall have no pitty on the fruit of the Womb their eye shall not spare children And Babylon the Glory of Kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldees excellency shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah c. Read also Chapter fourteenth No Historian that was either present at this Victory of Cyrus or that received the report from others truly as it was could better describe and leave the same to posterity after it was acted than Isay hath done in many parts of his Prophesie which were written two hundred years before any of these things were attempted The Greatness and Magnificence of Babylon were it not by divers grave Authours recorded might seem altogether Fabulous For it is reported for truth that one part of the City knew not that the other was taken three days after which is not impossible if we consider the vast Circumference of it Diodorus Siculus saith that it was in compass three hundred and sixty Furlongs which make forty five Miles The Walls were so thick that six Chariots might pass in front thereon and they were three hundred sixty and five Foot high and were adorned and beautified with one hundred and fifty Towers Strabo gives a greater circuit adding twenty five Forlongs more to the former compass reckoning it at three hundred eighty five Furlongs which makes forty eight Miles and one Furlong Herodotus finds the compass yet to be greater namely four hundred and eightty Furlongs in circuit the thickness of the Wall he measures at fifty Cubits and the height at two hundred of the same Regall Cubits For entrance it had a hundred Gates of Brass with Posts and Hooks to hang them on of the same Mettall and therefore did the Prophet Isay rightly intitle Babylon The Princess and Glory of Kingdoms Isay 47. 5. 13. 19. But when Cyrus had won her he stript her out of her Princely Robes and made her a slave dividing not onely her goodly Houses and her whole Territory with all the Riches therein contained amongst his Souldiers but also bestowed the Inhabitants themselves as Bondslaves upon those that had taken possession of their goods Cyrus having obtained this great and Signall Victory the glory of which was a reward for his service done for him who was the Authour of it and of all goodness and thereby translated the Empire of the Chaldeans to himself according to the Prophesies which went afore of him in this first year of his Empire he made a Decree that the Captive Jews should return again into their own Country of Judea and that they should build again the House of God in Jerusalem having now endured and finished the seventy years Captivity foretold by the Prophet Jeremy The tenour of which Decree was thus Thus saith Cyrus King of Persin The Lord God of Heaven hath given me all

the Kingdoms of the Earth and hath charged me to build him an House at Jerusalem which is in Judah Who is there among you of all his People Let his God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and build the House of the Lord God of Israel He is God which is at Jerusalem And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place help him with Silver and with Gold and with goods and with Beasts besides the free-will Offering for the House of God that is in Jerusalem Ezra 1 2 3 4. He also brought forth and restored the Vessels of the House of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of the Temple at Jerusalem and had put them into the House of his gods These were brought forth and numbred unto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Judah and this is the number of them Thirty Charges of Gold a thousand Chargers of Silver nine and twenty Knives thirty Basins of Gold Silver Basins of a second sort four hundred and ten and of other vessels a thousand All the vessels of Gold and Silver were five thousand and four hundred The number of Jews that then returned out of Chaldea under their Leader Zorobabel the Son of Salathiel and Nephew to King Jeconias and Joshua the Son of Josedech the High Priest were about fifty thousand And as soon as they arrived at Jerusalem they built an Altar to the living God and sacrificed thereon according to their Law and afterwards bethought themselves how to prepare materials for the building of the Temple Cyrus having set all things in order at Babylon returned through Media into Persia to his Father Cambyses and his Mother Mandanes who were yet living and from thence returning again into Media he married the only Daughter and Heir of Cyaxares and for Dowry had the whole Kingdom of Media given him with her And when the Marriage was finished he presently went his way and took her with him and coming to Babylon from thence he sent Governours into all his Dominions Into Arabia he sent Megabyzus into Phrygia the greater Artacaman into Lydia and Jonia Chrysantas into Caria Adusius into Phrygia Helle spontiaca or the less Pharmichas But into Cilicia Cyprus Paphlagonia he sent no Persians to Govern them because they voluntarily and of their own accord took his part against the King of Babylon yet he caused even them also to pay him Tribute Cyrus having spent one whole year with his Wife in Babylon gathered thither his whole Army consisting of one hundred and twenty Thousand Horse and two Thousand Iron Chariots and six hundred Thousand Footmen and having furnished himself with all necessary provisions he undertook that journey wherein he subdued all the Nations inhabiting from Syria to the Red Sea The time that Cyrus enjoyed in rest and pleasure after these great Victories and the attainment of his Empire is generally agreed upon by all Chronologers to have lasted only seven years In which time he made such Laws and Constitutions as differ little from the Ordinances of all wife Kings that are desirous to establish a Royal power to themselves and their Posterity which are recorded by Xenophon The last War and the end of this Great King Cyrus is diversly written by Historians Herodotus and Justine say That after these Conquests Cyrus invaded the Massagets a very Warlike Nation of the Scythians Governed by Tomyris their Queen and that in an encounter between the Persians and these Northern Nomades Tomyris lost her Army together with her Son Spa●gapises that was the Generall of it In revenge whereof this Queen making new levies of men of War and prosecuting the War against Cyrus in a second sore Battel the Persians were beaten and Cyrus was taken Prisoner and that Tomyris cut off his Head from his Body and threw it into a Bowle of blood using these words Thou that hast all thy time thirsted for blood now drink thy fill and satiate thy self with it This War which Metasthenes calls Tomyrique lasted about six years But more probably this Scythian War was that which is mentioned before which Cyrus made against the Scythians after the Conquest of Lydia according to Ctesias who calleth Tomyris Sparetha and makes the end of it otherwise as you may see before The same Ctesias also recordeth that the last War which Cyrus made was against Amarhaus King of the Derbitians another Nation of the Scythians whom though he overcame in Battel yet there he received a wound whereof he died three days after Strabo also affirmeth that he was buried in his own City of Pasagardes which himself had built and where his Epitaph was to be read in Strabo's time which he saith was this O vir quicunque es undecunque advenis neque enim te adventurum ignoravi Ego sum Cyrus qui Persis Imperium constitui pusillum hoc Terrae quo meum tegitur Corpus mihi ne invideas O thou man whosoever thou art and whensoever thou comest for I was not ignorant that thou shouldst come I am Cyrus that founded the Persian Empire Do not envy unto me this little Earth with which my Body is covered When Alexander the Great returned from his Indian Conquests he visited Pasagardes and caused this Tomb of Cyrus to be opened either upon hope of great Treasure supposed to have been buried with him or upon a desire to honour his dead Body with certain Ceremonies when the Sepulchre was opened there was found nothing in it save an old rotten Target two Scythian Bows and a Sword The Coffin wherein his Body lay Alexander caused to be covered with his own Garment and a Crown of Gold to be set upon it Cyrus finding in himself that he could not long enjoy the World he called unto him his Nobility with his two Sons Cambyses and Smerdis and after a long Oration wherein he assured himself and taught others about the immortality of the Soul and of the punishments and rewards following the ill and good deservings of every man in this life He exhorted his Sons by the strongest Arguments he had to a perpetuall Concord and agreement Many other things he uttered which makes it probable that he received the knowledge of the true God from Daniel whilst he Governed Susa in Persia and that Cyrus himself had read the Prophesie of Isay wherein he was expresly named and by God preordained for the delivery of his People out of Captivity which act of delivering the Jews and of restoring of the holy Temple and the City of Jerusalem was in true consideration the Noblest-work that ever Cyrus performed For in other actions he was an Instrument of Gods Power used for the chastising of many Nations and the establishing of a Government in those parts of the world which yet was not to continue long But herein he had the favour to be an Instrument of