his people This division gave hope again to the Danes to set up themselves in the Nation and in a little time they grew so great Etheldred was content to give them yearly tribute of 1000. li. to purchase his peace to sit in the Throne But the Danes finding Etheldred willing to lye down to the burthen while his people had money to pay by degrees they enhanced the 1000. li. per. an to 48000. li. per. an and when the King could not pay the tax he secretly laid a plot to which the people oppressed readily comply'd to pay the Danes for all together So upon the 12. day of Novemb. 1012. the Saxons kill'd all the Danes in the night In revenge of this Massacre Swain King of Denmark invaded England with fire and sword and possessed himself of this Monarchy All the strength that Etheldred could raise was no ways able to repel these conquering Danes but King Swain tyrannized over the Saxons Etheldred died when he had reigned 38. year An. 1014. Swain King of Denmark left his son Canutus to rule in England But Edmund called Iron-side a valiant man son to Etheldred set up himself in the Kingdom after his father and made War upon Canutus the new King of the Danes Many bloudy battels were fought between the Danes and the Saxons and neither part prevailed so that the Kings agreed to end the quarrel for the Empire between them These stout Kings fought hand to hand for the Crown In which Combat they manifested their skill in arms as well as courage and wearied out themselves in fighting but neither overcame and so they agreed to divide the Nation between them this was accordingly done But not long after Edmund was treacherously murdered by one that thought thereby to be preferred by Canutus Yet Canutus like a man of worth hated that wicked murder of so gallant a Prince and for his reward caused the Murderer to be tormented to death and cast into a Ditch Yet here the Kingdom of England was only reduced under Canutus An. 1018. Canutus having thus brought the Nation of England unto the Government of the Danes He put to death the next heir apparent of the Saxons which was in England But the better to confirm the Kingdom to him he propounded a motion of a Marriage with the Widow of Etheldred who was fled into Normandy with two of her sons Emma the widow agreed to match with Canutus upon condition that the Kingdom of England should be confirmed unto the children begotten of her Shortly after she bare a son to Canutus called Hardie Canutus By this Affinity Canutus strengthened himself greatly and subduing the Scots was King of England Scotland Denmark and Norway and reigned 20. years An. 1028. Hardie Canutus having his residence in Denmark Harold son to Canutus by a former wife by assistance of the Danes set up himself King of England Harold knowing by what interest he was brought in and setled in the Throne he displaced the English and put the Danes into places of Honour and Trust. He banished Emma and put Alured her youngest son by Etheldred to death and reigned 3. years An. 1041. Hardie Canutus after the death of his brother Harold possessed the Crown of England and in hatred of his brothers wickedness caused Harolds body to be digged out of the earth and cast in into the Thames But Hardie Canutus being at a marriage feast died suddenly in the midst of his cups in the third year of his reign in England An. 1043. Here ended the Line of the Danish Kings and the Saxons again restored Edward the remaining son of King Etheldred was again brought into England and crowned at Winchester He released the money paid to the Danes call'd Danes-gift He also collected a body of Common Laws He cured the swelling of the Throat since called the Kings evil And for holiness of life was called Sr. Edward and Edward the Consessor King Edward took to wife Edgiâ—ha the daughter of Earl Godwin but died without issue when he had reigned 23. years and 6. moneths and odd daies An. 1067. In the life time of Edward he made Harold son to Earl Godwin Regent of England in the non-age oâ— Edgar grand-child to Edmund Ironside who was the heir apparent to the Crown until he should come to age Unto which Edward the Confessor took an Oath of Harold But when Edward was dead Harold refused the Regentship and crowned himself King of England which shortly after brought distraction upon him and misery to all the Nation Yet for all I may not pass in silence the good nature of the man that he had some respect to Prince Edgar For though he took his Kingdom yet Harold gave him the Earldom of Oxford and above all spared his life But the righteous God soon raised black clouds and sad storms to disquiet Harold with his dear purchased Crown and the whole Nation for their wicked compliance with a sorsworn King Harold King of Norway came with a great Army to fall upon England both by Sea and Land And while Harold of England was preparing to encounter the King of Norway William Duke of Normandy landed a compleat Army in England the 28. of September An. 1067. and claimed the right to the Crown of England by gift from Edward the Confessor This the Duke pretended and what small probability there is to assert the truth of it men may easily judge by Edwards care to set up Edgar the next in succession of bloud Harold of England at this time had much wasted his men in a great battel fought with Harold of Norway But having got the better of that enemy he rallied his wearied Souldiers to fight William Duke of Normandy a new competitor for his ill got Crown In this battel Harold was slain and the Normans got the Victory and the Kingdom together where there fell with their King 66654. English Souldiers when Harold had reigned but 3. moneths An. 1067. Here ended the Race of Saxon Kings in England Normans Kings of England WIlliam Duke of Normandy called William the Conqueror was a Bastard-son of Robert Duke of Normandy who began his reign over England the 14. day of October 1067. or by many 1066. Upon these Wars Edgar the true heir to the Crown of England fled into Scotland and many English men with him who after raised an Army and came into England and besieged York where William had a Garison for himself Edgar got the City and possessed it But William came with a great Army and dâ—ave Edgar back to Scotland At Williams first coming to the Crown very considerable Cities in England stood against him so that he was established in the Throne by shedding of bloud of much innocent bloud which God hath and will yet judge some for In the 4. year of his reign was a dreadful Famine in
issue was the King was sent to the Tower to be tryed by Parliament where he was deposed and murdered or as some write the King resigned the Kingdom to Henry Duke of Lancaster and Hereford much confessing his mis-government when he had ruled 22. years 3. months and some daies An. 1400. Henry the 4. son of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was now elected and crowned King of England He was descended of Edward the 3. though not next in succession of bloud and here comes in the Line of Lancaster King Richard quickly deposed was sent to Pomfret Castle and as some write there quickly murdered King Richard had yet a great party of Nobility and others that still appeared for him when he was deposed and many conspiracies there were against Henry to have killed or poyson'd him Indeed King Henry cut them off apace but it 's probable these were the death of Richard Henry put men to death for words About this time the Welch on one part and the Scots in the North did wast greatly In the 3. year of Henry Henry Percie son to the Earl of Northumberland Thomas Percie Earl of Worcester with a great part of the Barons and Commons fought a great battel against King Henry In this battel at Shrewsbury many fell on both parts but there Sir Thomas Percie was taken prisoner and after beheaded It was a sad time with England by frequent Mutinies amongst them and great judgements of Plague and Earthquakes upon them And when Henry had sat upon the royal Throne 13. years 6. moneths and odd daies he died the 20. of March An. 1414. Henry the 5. now bare the Crown Yet the Earl of Cambridge Sir Thomas Grey with others conspired his death but being discovered he took off their heads The King prepared a great Army and with a Fleet of 1000. sail of Ships he past to Normandy and got great Victories After this Henry was made Regent of France and then married Katherine the Kings daughter Katherine bare Henry the Kings son but Henry died himself in France the last day of August Anno 1423. when he had reigned 9. years 5. moneths and odd daies Henry son to Henry the 5. succeeded his father and was crowned at 8. months old In his Infancy the Government of the Nation was committed to the Duke of Glocester the guard of his person to the Duke of Excester and the guidance of France to the Duke of Bedford In this year Charles King of France died and the Kingdom descended to Henry the 6. and so the most of the Nobility delivered the possession thereof to the Duke of Bedford for the Kings use After in An. 1432. Henry was crowned King of France in Paris and so returned to England Yet to make all sure he took to wife Margret the Kings daughter of Cicily An. 1445. But this glorious rising Sun soon declined After the death of the Duke of Bedford in France France fell off the Dukedom of Normanday lost And here at home the Duke of Glocester by order of Parliament was Arrest upon which in sorrow he soon died Also the Duke of Suffolk was banished but as he was passing the Sea a Ship of war met him and there they beheaded him and cast his body into the Sea These things brought discontents and mutinies at which time came up to London the Commons of Kent who made fearful slaughters by fire and sword After this the Duke of York began commotions and the Barons were divided The King the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Somerset the Earles of Pembrook Northumberland Devonshire Stafford Dorset and Wiltshire with many Barons marched to St. Albans and in the Town of St. Albanes in Peters street was a fierce and cruel battel fought where on the Kings side were slain the Duke of Somerset the Lord Clifford and many others and the King taken whom the Duke of York the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury brought to London and in a Parliament the Duke of York was made Protector the Earl of Salisbury Chancellour and the Earl of Warwick Captain of Calice But by the Queens interest the Duke of Yorke was dismist the Protectorship These evil sparks for a time were concealed and a feigned agreement seemed to be amongst them But about a year after the Duke of York and his party appeared again with a puissant Army in the field and gave the King battel at Northampton where his Army was routed and the King taken prisoner in the field The Duke of York now claimed the Crown and by Parliament he was proclaimed heir apparent But the Queen gathered up a company of Northern men who neer Wakefield in a sharp fight kill'd the Duke of York and his son Edmund Also the Queen routed the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Norfolk neer St. Albanes and delivered King Henry her husband The Earl of Warwick fled into Wales to the Earl of March who had in a battel put to flight the Earl of Pembrook and Wiltshire and with the Earl of Warwick went most of the South Country people Upon these Earls joyning they marched towards London and the King having intelligence of it drew away towards the North and went to York But the Earls marched on to London where they were joyfully entertained and the 4. day of March Edward Earl of March was proclaimed King of England And thus Henry the 6. lost the Crown when he had reigned 38. years 6. months and odd daies An. 1462. Edward Earl of March called Edward the 4. was son to Richard Duke of York descending from the fourth son of Edward the 3. and so brought in the house of York to the Crown When Edward had adorned his Temples with the Crown he now endeavoured to keep it on his head and presently drew his Army towards King Henry at York Neer Todcaster a bloudy battel was fought where many Nobles fell and in all were slain 35711. persons But Edward had the field Upon this fearful rout the Duke of Exceter the Duke of Somerset with many others fled to the King at York and then King Henry his Queen and their party left York and fled to Scotland Yet after this King Henry came into England to venture the hazard of another fight and was again routed at the battel of Hexam where many Nobles were slain but King Henry escaped with life yet he and some others lived in Woods and Caves unknown about a year Now King Edward was quiet he took to wife the Widow to Sir John Grey In the 5. year of Edward King Henry was taken neer York and carried prisoner to the Tower of London But now the Duke of Clarence raised an Army in the North against King Edward his brother and to him fell in the Earl of Warwick which brought great trouble to the Nation King Edward hearing this left his Army at Nottingham and fled into
reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab King of Israel he walked in all the waies of Asa his father and took out of the land those Sodomites that remained in his fathers daies In his time he made peace with Israel by matching his son with Ahabs daughter and by that neer affinity to that wicked King joyned with him to fight his battles which sin of his was deeply threatend and soundly reproved from the Lord. This good man had great infirmities yet did more in reforming his people then any King after Solomon to his time and reigned 25. years about Ann. mund 3045. Nevertheless the High places were not taken away Jehoram succeeded his father Jehoshaphat in the Kingdom but not in his piety when he was settled in the Throne he murdered his six brethren the sons of his father and divers Princes This was a woful beginning and yet the holy Pen-man gives this account of him that he walked in the waies of the Kings of Israel like as did the house of Ahab for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife Marriage with Idolatrous wives hath been the ruine of many men and Nations And to all the rest of this wickedness Jehoram set up Idols and compelled Judah to worship them I shall omit some things but I may not pass the miseries God brought upon his people and this vild person as the just reward of his sin yet less then he deserved though eternity may pay for all In his time the Edomites revolted and set up a King amongst themselves at the same time also Libnah revolted because Jehoram had forsaken the Lord. But Jehorams sad doom was sent to him in writing from the Prophet Elijah possibly it might be in this extraordinary way either to give the full certainty of the sad judgements determined against him or rather to prevent some bloudy design of of this wicked King against the Prophet for the discharge of his duty But soon after the Lord stirred up the Philistines and Arabians who came to judah and carryed away all the substance that was Jound in the Kings house and his sons and his wives so that Jehoahaz the yongest son was saved And after all this the Lord smote Jehoram with an incurable disease in his bowels of which he languished for the space of two years and in the end his bowels fell out and so died but Judah buried him not in the Sepulchres of their Kings Thus he lived wickedly dyed miserably and was buried shamefully when he had reigned or rather raged 8. years About Ann. mun 3053. In the 12. year of Joram King of Israel the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Azariah the youngest son of Jehoram who was lest alive King of Judah This is the general account the Holy Ghost gives of him That he walked in the waies of the house of Ahab for his mother Athaliah the daughter of Omri King of Israel was his Counsellor to do wickedly In 2 King 8. 26. it's said Azariah was 22. years old when he began to reign but 2 Chron. 22. 2. it 's said he was 42. years old when he began to reign This deserves further thoughts to reconcile yet in both places it is said he reigned but one year Azariah had but a short reign and the Holy Ghost adds this as a further reason which is worth observing he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab for they were his Counsellors to his distruction About Anno mund 3054. Ahaziah going to visit Joram King of Israel son of his grand-father Ahab when Jehu came to execute judgement upon Ahabs house he found Ahaziah King of Judah hid in Samaria and put him to death with the rest this news being brought to Athaliah his mother she set up her self Queen of Judah and at first she murthered the seed Royal of her own son to sit quietly in the Throne Yet to make good his word to David the Lord preserved Joash who was secretly stole away from amongst the Kings children by Jehosheba Ahaziahs sister and hid five years with his Nurse in the house of the Lord. Jehosheba was wife to Jehoiada the Priest by whose Counsel and help Joash was saved alive In the seventh year Jehoiada made Joash known to the Captaines of the Army and taking an Oath of them Guards were appointed the Kings son was brought forth and Crowned at which there was great rejoycing when Athaliah heard the great noise in the Temple she came forth to know the matter But seeing the King stand by the Pillar according to the usual manner of the Kings of Judah at their Coronation she rent her cloaths and cryed Treason Treason But Jehoiada commanded to lay hold on her and to have her out of the range of the Temple and to kill her which they did when she had reigned 7. years about Anno 3061. Joash or Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign which was the seventh year of Jehu so soon as Joash was Crowned King Jehoiada caused a Covenant to be made between the King and the people and between the King people and the Lord and presently all the people went into the house of Baal and they destroyed it thoroughly Joash reigned well while Jehoiada lived yet the High places were not taken away but after the death of Jehoiada the Princes of Judah had full recourse to the King and by their flatteries the King was drawn to Idolatry that both the King and his Courtiers left off to worship God in the Temple and served Groves and Idols The Lord in mercy sent Prophets to reprove their sin and bring them back again but they would not harken to these then the Lord sent Zachariah the son of Jehoiada the Priest who dealt plainly both with the King and people he told them Because yea have forsaken the Lord the Lord also hath forsaken you and that was the reason they could not prosper This home preaching they could not digest and by the command of the King the good man was stoned to death in the Court of the Lords house though he was an extraordinary Prophet sent by God and the son of Jehoiada It 's a known truth Tyranny can know no relations when they are not any thing yet Zachariah left his bloud at their doors and appealing to the righteous God and Judge of all the earth who upon his death said The Lord look upon it and require it And the Lord did so For about the end of the year the Syrians came to Jerusalem with a small company and the Lord delivered a very great Host into their hand because they had forsaken the Lord God thus God executed his judgement against
Provence In his time there fell great strife between the King and the Barons At first they kept Parliaments apart and after their consultations raised Armies and in a battel the King with his sons Edward and Richard and many Nobles were taken prisoners But Edward being set at liberty got up an Army and fell on afresh so at last the Earl of Leicester and many great ones were slain in the battel of Evesham This begot bloudy wars and brought woful desolations to poor England And to the merciless sword the Lord brought fearful judgements of Plagues Famine Earthquakes and many other strange wonders in heaven and earth But Henry resigned all to death the 16. of November 1273. when he had reigned 56. years and 28. days Edward the eldest son of Henry succeeded his father He married Elianor the daughter of the King of Spain in his fathers life-time Ann. 1254. King Edward banished the Jewes this Nation In the memory of Queen Elianor he built stately Crosses where the Corpes rested every night In his reign there was great wars with the French Welch and especially with the Scots who oft rebelled but were as oft subdued yet in those wars the King got a bloudy Flix of which he died the 7. of July An. 1308. when he had reigned 34. years 7. moneths and odd days Edward the 2. succeeded his father He was said to be a dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned of the Common people He married Isabel daughter to the French King In his time also the Scots rebelled vanquished the Kings Army and after besieged him in York and burnt the Suburbs The Barons also raised War against the King for defending Piercy and the Spencers his creatures against justice In which straits the King sent the Queen to mediate with her brother the French King She took with her her son Edward But she not returning so soon as her husband appointed her and with all discovering some compliance with some Nobles sled out of England to France the King proclaimed them all to be banished But the Queen her son Edmund Woodstock all of Kent the Kings brother with many Nobles came into England and joyned with the Barons and City of London by which they raised a great Army took divers strong Holds and at last the King and his creatures The King was committed prisoner to the Earl of Lancaster but the creatures were hanged headed and quartered The Queen her son and Barons came presently to London and the next day called a Parliament where the King was deposed when he had reigned 19. years 6. moneths and some daies An. 1328. Edward the eldest son of Edward the 2. was set up in his fathers stead at 14. years of age It is said His father was soon after murdered in Corfe-Castle But the young King was much ordered by his mother A peace was made with the Scots and Daviâ—â— Scotland married Joan King Edwards â—â—ster But to keep all quiet at home the old Queen who contrived the death of King Edward her husband also plotted the death of his brother the 〈◊〉 of Kent and caused him to be beheaded at Winchester the 3. year of King Edward the 3 's reign In the 6. year of Edward the Scots rebelled and possessed Barwick The King laid siege before them and the Scots endeavoured with their Forces to raise the siege But were overcome in battel where were shin of the Scots 8. Earls with 1300 horse and 35000. footmen Upon this Barwick was delivered the King placed Edward Baliol Governour who was after King of Scotland About the 11. year of this King War arose with France King Edward â—â—ised a Navy of about 200. sail of Ships and went to Flanders where in a Sea-sight he overcame the French and Normans and stiled himself King of England and France Thiâ— King took Calice and made great inroads and woâ—â— desolations in France and the 〈◊〉 iâ— the Scots upon England They burnt Calice Penneth and came killing and burning down to Durham But after King Edward made peace both with the French and Scots upon honourable terms After this the King of Spain was driven out of his Kingdom by his Bastard brother and Edward Prince or Wales went to the Kings relief with a great Army and in a battel put the Bastard to flight King Edward reigned 50. years and 4. months who departed this life the 21. of June An. 1378. Richard the son of Prince Edward his father being dead succeeded his Grand-father Edward the 3. He came to the Crown at 11. years of age As he was young he hearkned to young Counsellours and neglected his old and wise Council which brought sad troubles to the Nation and woful misery to himself In the first year of his reign the French made great inroads and wasted many Towns in England and at this time Guns were invented The King in these straits laid a great Tax upon the Nation Upon which some Countries rose in Arms went to London and did great hurt but were after appeased by the King through fair promises This Richard married Anne daughter to the King of Bohemia who brought hither the use of women riding side-ways on horseback Some Earls and Barons seeing the King missed and the Nation misgoverned by a few persons they considered how it might be reformed and thereupon raised an Army of 40000. and came to London to the King upon this the King called a Parliament suddenly in which Parliament Sir Robert Tresilian chief Justice of England and divers others were convicted of Treason and put to death An. 1388. Richard sent to the City of London Ann. 1392. to borrow of them 1000. li. but they refusing he called the Maior Sheriffs and Aldermen of London to a Council at Nottingham and there appearing the King Arrested and imprisoned them and nulled all their liberties Queen Anne dying the King took Isabel the King of France's daughter to wife and so made peace there The King now grew high again and put to cruel death the Earl of Arundel and divers others for dealing with him about his ill Government This King shed much bloud of the Nobility and Bishops besides others which lay in the bosoms of many and not forgot though he carried it with a high hand But the King going into Ireland Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster with others who were out of the Land came into Yorkeshire to whom went the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Westmerland and many Lords and gathering up an Army they laid siege to Bristol where they took the Lord Treasurer and some others and beheaded them The King hearing of this hasted out of Ireland and landed in Wales and more fully understanding the Dukes strength took to the Castle of Conway and desired a Treaty The Duke of Lancaster met the King but the
I was for some time unresolved of a Subject to write upon but seeking to the Lord in Prayer God set the sence of the old Dragons and the Whore of Babylons long-continued Tyranny over the Saints much upon my soul and I judged it was now a time seasonable and a Work necessary afresh to take a view of this old World under Monarchical Tyranny in States and under mystical Babylons usurpations over the Church of Christ. In the time of the Jewish Church-state and for some time after the New-Testament-church-state was begun Daniels four parted terrible Image and his four monstrous Beasts had all their answerable times and terms that with Christs Incarnation Johns Serpent or Dragon with seven Heads and ten Horns the Heathen Roman Empire was entered the stage of this World and acted like himself But as this Beast grew weak and fell in power the great Whore Mystery Babylon took her opportunity to get up and rides that Scarlet-coloured Beast to this day Since the Pope or Papacy hath ridden the Dragon or earthly Monarchy the Whore hath made great use of the Kings of the Earth to exercise her bloudy cruelty upon the Saints that have owned and sought those priviledges where-with the Lord Jesus Christ hath made them free What the Dragons and the Whores time and Tyranny hath been is not unknown to many Saints and light will break forth more and more to the perfect day Large and vast are those Volumes which have been written upon these four great Empires of the World and the Papacy of Rome but these for the greatest part have been written in strange Tongues and are in the studies of great Scholars to little Spiritual use When Nebuchadnezzar had taken Jerusalem and setled the Empire of Babylon in himself his desires were to know what after should come to passe in the latter daies His mind being thus busied he had a Vision of a great and terrible Image whose head was of Gold his brest and arms of Silver his belly and his thighes of Brasse his leggs of Iron his feet part of Iron and part of Clay a stone cut out without hands smote the Image upon his feet and brake them to peeces that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain and filled the whole earth This Vision was revealed from the Lord to Daniel and by Daniel to King Nebuchadnezzar wherein is presented the future state of the world from that time to the Kingdom of Christ or Kingdom of the Stone and end of this old World From that time the world was to bee under the successive government of four Kingdoms of which Babylon was the first And in the days of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever The Lords revealing this dream and the interpretation of it to Nebuchadnezzar caused that Heathen King to give glory to God as God of gods and greatly honoured Daniel as honoured of the Lord to reveal the secret I may hence infer it s now a work becoming the Lords people to be inquiring after light in this Prophecie and be saying to the Lords Watch-men as those of Sier Watch-man what of the night watch-man what of the night that is how much of the time of these four Kingdoms are run out or what remains yet to be fulfilled of them when the fifth Kingdom is to begin and the watch-men may answer The morning cometh also the night that is the morning for Saints and the night for sinners It was a mercy that the Lord should have this Prophecie as a ground for faith and prayer to his people but God hath abundantly fore-told the suffering state of his Church under these four Kingdoms hath by his Prophets and Apostles which are now so plain that Saints doe run and â—ead them God Omniscient fore-seeing the need saints would have of support under so long â—â—me of sufferings gives a further discovery of these four Kingdoms to the Prophet Daniel in the first year of Belshazzer King of Babylon In this Vision these â—â—ur Kings or Kingdoms are represented â—nder four monstrous Beasts and these â—â—eat Beasts which are four are interâ—â—eted of four Kings which should arise â—â—t of the earth and for a support to the â—â—rds people the Angel also further adds â—â—at the Saints of the most High shall â—â—ke the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom for ever even for ever and ever The Babylonian Monarchy the Median and Persian Monarchy and the Grecian Monarchy are three of these four Kingdoms expresly sonamed by and to Daniel And the fourth Beast which was dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly can be no other than the Empire of Rome Time hath now interpreted who the fourth Beast is but Daniels fourth Beast and the Apostle Johns Dragon arâ— one and the same and generally understood to represent the Roman Monarchy Earth and Sea Corruption and Confusion was the original of these Kingdoms and I may as truly say Pride and Contention are the support of earthly Kings and Crowns For the sake of Saints I have gathered this Compendium of these four Kingdoms of Babylon Media and Persia Greece and Rome out of large anâ— vast Volumes to give light into Daniel Visions and Johns Revelations They that with serious thoughts shall read these few pages and run down the line of Monarchy in the several Beasts reigns do noâ— need Spiritual light to discover what implacable enmity hath at all times run the veins of Kings against King Jesuâ— and his Saints The Popes and Prelacy had the same original with earthly Monarchy and no less an enemy to the intrest of Christ and his Saints the Papacy is a Beast arising out of the earth as well as Monarchy yet hath Horns like a Lamb but speaks as a Dragon This Whore hath not only drunk but hath been drunken with the bloud of Saints and the Martyrs of Jesus as well as Monarchy and the time is now near that the Saints shall have commission from the Lord Jesus Christ King of Kings and Lord of Lords not only to give Babylon bloud to drink but to reward her double according to her works in the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double I say this time is near in the whole and in part begun in England I say again and again this is my faith That the hour of Gods Judgements is come to turn the waters of his indignation upon his Churches enemies Beleevers have the Word Covenant and Oath of the erernal God for all this they have the ingagement of the faithful Almighty God that cannot Iye and why should we not expect it Surely the work is upon the wheel that turns fast and nothing but Voyces and Thunders and Earth-quakes nothing but shakings
Joash At this time Hazael King of Syria destroyed all those wicked Princes from among the people and to pacifie him Joash King of Judah took all the holy things dedicated by Jehoshaphat Jehoram and Ahazia his father with all the gold found in the Treasury of the Temple and in the Kings house and sent them to Hazael and he carryed them to Damascus this was a just and dreadful misery that the Kings sin especially brought upon the Jewes But the Lords hand stayed not there For Joash himself was afflicted with great diseases and for the bloud of the sons of Jehoiada the Priest his own servants conspired against him and kill'd him in his bed And after they buried him but not in the Sepulchres of the Kings This I would leave to consideration That none can stand long when they leave the Lord and the Lord forsakes them but a shameful end shall follow a wicked life this King reigned 40. years about Ann. mun 3100. In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz King of Israel Amaziah son of Joash King of Judah was set up King at his first coming to the Crown he did some good things in hypocrisie as his father did but when he was settled in the Kingdom he put to death those servants that killed his father After this Amaziah raised an Army of three hundred thousand choise men to make War with the Edomites yet thinking himself too weak he hired also 100 thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel But by a Prophet the King was admonished not to joyn with that Army of Israel because God was not with those Idolatrous wicked people upon which Amaziah dismist them but in much discontent they returned and taking the time they fell upon many Cities of Judah as they went flew 3000. of them and took much spoil Amaziah prospered in this battel and smote 10000. men and 10000. men which they took prisoners they carryed to the top of a steep Rock and threw them down that they were broken in pieces Amongst the spoil of the Edomites Amaziah took their gods and set them up to be his gods and burnt Incense to them Good Lord what folly will not wise and great men commit when God leaves them Amaziah was exceedingly lift up in this Victory and now he thinks to revenge the wrong done to him by the Army of Israel and therefore he sent a Challenge to Joash King of Israel The King of Israel was unwilling to meet Amaziah and disswaded him from it But Amaziah would not be so satisfied therefore Joash King of Israel went to Bethshemesh in the land of Judah and gave battel to Amaziah In this battel Judah was worsted and Amaziah taken prisoner The King of Israel now having the field he marched his Army to Jerusalem brake down the Wall took all the gold silver and vessels in the Lords house with the Treasures of the Kings house He also took Hostages for subjection and so lest Amaziah in Jerusalem This was in the 14. year of Amaziahs reign but Amaziah after this sell from the Lord the people conspired against him in Jerusalem upon which he sled to Lachish yet they sent after him and flew him there when he had reigned 29 years about Anno mundi 3129. After the Death of Amaziah Judah was without a King 13. years which this appears In the 15 year of Amaziah the son of Joash King of Judah Jeroboam son of Joash King of Israel began to reign And in the 27. year of Jeroboam King of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah King of Judah to reign Now from the 15. of Amaziah to the 29. is 14. years to Jeroboams reign so that to the 27. of Jeroboam there must needs be an interval of 13. years to the Crowning of Amaziah about An. mun 3142. The People of Judah took Azariah son of Amaziah and made him King in his fathers stead At 16. years old Azariah was Crowned King of Judah in the 27. year of Jeroboam King of Israel Azariah or Uzziah did well in all the former part of his reign He was a man of War built divers Forts in Jerusalem and both built and took in several Cities he also did much in reformation of Religion and so long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper But when he was strong his heart was lifted up in him to his destruction For he transgressed against the Lord his God by going into the Temple and usurping the Priests Office to burn incense upon the Altar Azariah the Priest with 80. Priests of the Lord went in after the King and withstood him and said It pertaineth not to thee Uzziah to burn Incense to the Lord but to the Priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated for it Go out of the Sanctuary for thou hast transgressed neither shall it be for thy Honour Then was the King wroth with the Priests and presently the Leprosie rose upon his forehead and the Priests discerning of it they thrust him out from thence and he himself also hasted to go out because the Lord had smitten him After the King dwelt in a house several from others and was a Leper until the day of his death and Jotham his son was over the Kings house judging the people of the landâ— Uzziah or Azariah reigned 52. years about An. mund 3194. In the second year of Pekah King of Israel Jotham began to reign over Judah Jotham did according to all that his father Uzziah did before him but yet the High places were not taken away and the people did corruptly In his time he built the high Gate of the house of the Lord and built Cities and Forts Jotham became mighty because he prepared his waies before the Lord his God he was 25. years old when he began to reign and reigned 16. years about An. 3200. In the 17. year of Pekah King of Isreal Ahaz the son of Uzziah King of Judah began to reign He was 20. years old when he began to reign but he did wickedly and walked in the ways of the Kings of Israel and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abomination of the Heathen he made Moulten Images for Baalim and burnt Incense in the high places then Rezin King of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah King of Israel joyned their forces and came up and laid siege to Jerusalem at this time the King of Syria recovered the City Elah which was taken from his Kingdom by Azariah King of Judah and between Rezin and Pekah they almost destroyed the Kingdom of Judah for the Lord delivered them into their enemies hands The King of Syria smote the Army of Ahaz and carryed away a great multitude of them to Damascus And Pekah slew in Judah 120000. valiant men in one
Zachariah had reigned but six moneths about An. 3195. Now sin was high and judgement neer Shallum had lost shame and Conscience to murder the King openly yet this was the fulfilling the word of the Lord and the end of Jehu's race In the 39. of Azariah or Uzziah King of Judah Shallum began to reign over Israel and Menahem smote him and flew him when he had reigned a just moneth Now it was ordinary to murder Kings for a Crown and the people wofully slaved by Tyranny yet all the fruit of sin An. 3195. In the 39. year of Azariah King of Judah Menahem began to reign over Israel I may not omit to mention the bloudy beast-like cruelty of this wretched Tyrant which was great When Menahem came up from Tirzah which was formerly the chief City and the seat of the Kings of Israel with purpose to murder the King at Samaria the City Tizrah refused to open the gates to him Thereupon he destroyed the City and all the Coasts thereof and ript up all the women who were with child But though he murdered the King to sit on his Throne yet he departed not all his daies from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin It doth appear this bloudy Tyrant sat not quietly in his new aspired seat for upon discontents amongst the people Pul King of Assyria took the opportunity of that division to bring up his Army against Israel In this strait Menahem gave Pul 1000. Talents of silver to be on his side to confirm the Kingdom in his hand And Menahem exacted it of the people especially of the wealthyest of them Oh the woful bondage and slavery Israel were now brought to A bloudy Tyrant kills their King and exacts money from them to confirm himself in the Throne he got by murder yet thus he reigned 10. years about Anno 3205. In the 50. year of Azariah King of Judah Pekaiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin But Pekah the son of Remaliah a Captain of his conspired against him and killed him when he had reigned two years about An. 3207. In the 52. year of Azariah King of Judah Pekah began to reign over Israel he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin In his daies came Tiglah Pilneser King of Assyria and took from him a great part of his Kingdom even eight Cities and Countries and Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah and slew him when had reigned 20. years about An. 3220. In the 12. year of Ahaz King of Judah Hoshea began to reign over Israel He was bad but not so bad as the Kings that were before him This we must believe because it 's sacred Scripture But the Lord would let us know that many of the Kings of Israel were more then bloudy Murderers It is plain Hoshea did murder Pekah yet stands nine years before he took the Crown of Israel and became King about Anno 3229. In his time Shalmanezer King of Assyria came up against him and Hoshea subjected to him and paid him tribute as a sub-King but the King of Assyria not having his tribute paid for some years and finding that Hoshea did hold confedracy with the King of Egypt Shalmaneser shut up Hoshea in prison After which he brought up his Army and besieged Samaria three years The siege was laid in the 7. year of Hoshea continued the 8. year and Samaria was taken in the 9. year of Hoshea which was the 6. year of Hezekiah King of Judah This was the final Captivity of the Kingdom and people of Israel and the sad fruit of their own doings which is largely exprest by the sacred Pen-man of this History so that Israels destruction which they brought upon themselves by their vile abominations was finished about Anno mun 3238. What dreadful miseries these desperate Idolaters and vile Murderers called Kings brought upon this people Israel who were the Lords peculiar people I leave to sad and serious thoughts But to gather the better account of these times which seem greatly to differ I will here put down a very brief Chronology of the beginning and time of the reign of the Kings of Judah and Israel c. Kings of Judah IN the 18. year of Jeroboam Abijam son of Rehoboam began to reign 1 King 15. 1 2. and reigned 3. years In the 20. year of Jeroboam Asa son of Abijam reigned 1 King 15. 9 10. he reigned 41. In the 4. year of Ahab Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign and continued 25. years 1 King 22. 41 42. In the 5. year of Joram Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat was crowned in his fathers life-time and reigned 8. years 2 King 8. 16 17. In the 12. year of Joram the people crowned Azariah the youngest son of Jehoram King who reigned one year 2 King 8. 25 26. Athaliah destroy'd the seed Royal and set up her self and continued 7. years 2 King 11. 1 4. In the 7. year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign and reigned 40. years 2 King 12. 1. In the 2. year of Joash Amaziah son of Joash King of Judah began to reign and continued 29. years 2 King 14. 1 2. and was then kill'd by a conspiracy vers 19. In the 27. year of Jeroboam all the people took Azariah and made him King in his fathers stead 2 King 14. 21. he reigned 52. years 2 Chro. 26. 3. Before him Judah had no King for 12. years In the 2. year of Pekah Jotham the son of Azariah or Uzzah began to reign and continued 16. years 2 King 15. 32 33. Consider 52. and 2. of Pekah In the 17. year of Pekah Ahaz the son of Jotham began to reign and continued 16. years 2 King 16. 1 2. In the 3. year of Hoshea Hezekiah the son of Ahaz began to reign and reigned 29. years Kings of Israel IN the 2. year of Asa Nadab the son of Jeroboam reigned 1 King 15. 28. he reigned 1. year In the 3. year of Asa Baasha set up himself King 1 King 15. 28. he reigned 24. years vers 33. In the 26. year of Asa Elah the son of Baasha reigned 1 King 16. 8. he reigned 2. years In the 27. year of Asa Zimri set up himself 1 King 16. 10. seven daies vers 15. In the 31. year of Asa Omri set up himself and reigned 12. years 1 King 16. 23. In the 38. year of Asa Ahab son of Omri began to reign and continued 22. years 1 King 16. 29. In the 17. year of Jehoshaphat Ahaziah son of Ahab began to reign and continued part of 2. years 1 King 22. 51. and had no son In the 18. year of Jehoshaphat Jehoram the
son of Ahab began to reign and continued 12. years 2 King 3. 1. In the 12. year of Joram King of Israel Jehu kill'd him and set up himself and reigned 28. years 2 King 9. and 10. 36. In the 23 year of Joash Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign and continued 17. years 2 King 13. 1. In the 37. year of Joash Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign and continued 16. years 13. 10. In the 15. year of Amaziah Jeroboam the son of Jehoash began to reign and continued 41. years 2 King 14. 23. In the 38. year of Azariah Zachariah the son of Jeroboam began to reign and continued but 6. moneths 2 King 14. 13. In the 39. year of Azariah Shallum kill'd Zachariah and set up himself and reigned one moneth 2 King 15. 13. 10. In the 39. year or same of Azariah Menahem kill'd Shallum and set up himself and continued 10. years 2 King 1 h. 14 17. In the 50. year of Azariah Pekaiah son of Menahem began to reign and continued 2. years 2 King 15. 23. In the 52. year of Azariah Pekah kill'd Pekaiah and set up himself and reigned 20. years 2 King 15. 25 27. In the 12. year of Ahaz Hoshea began to reign and all Israel was taken Captives the 9. year of his reign 2 King 17. 1 6. and 18. 10 11. This was the final Captivity of Israel Thus you have the several Kings of Judah and Israel gathered up in a few words but for the better finding out of a true computation of these times I will yet give them more briefly Kings of Judah 1. Saul 40. years 2888. 2. David 40. years and 6. moneths he began his reign 2929 3. Solomon 40. years 2969 1. Rehoboam 17. years 2986 2. Abijam 3. years 3989 3. Asa 41. years 3020 4. Jehoshaphat 25. years 3045 5. Jehoram 8. years 3053 6. Ahaziah 1. year 3054 7. Athaliah 7. years 3061 8. Joash 40. years 3100 9. Amaziah 29. years 3129 10. Azariah 52. years 3194 11. Jotham 16. years 3200 12. Ahaz 16. years 3216 13. Hezekiah 29. years 3245 Thus far the Kings of Judah have the beginning of their Reigns accounted from the reigns of the Kings of Israel except the four first Kings Manasseh 55. years  3300 14. Amon 2. years 3302 15. Josiah 31. years 3333 16. Jehoahaz 3. moneths  17. Jehoiakim 11. years 3344 18. Jehoiakin 3. moneths  19. Zedekiah 11. years which with Zedekiahs reign is 3355 These were Kings of Judah after the division and before who ended about An. mun 3355. By this account this kingly race lasted 519. with Saul and from David 477. years Kings of Israel 1. Jeroboam 22. years he began his reign with Rehoboam 2969 2. Nadab 1. year 2971 3. Baasha 24. years 3017 4. Elah 2. years 3011 5. Zimri 7. daies 3019 6. Omri 12. years 3031 7. Ahab 22. years 3053 8. Ahaziah 2. years 3055 9. Jehoram 12. years 3067 10. Jehu 28. years 3095 11. Jehoahaz 17. years 3112 12. Jehoash 16. years 3130 13. Jeroboam 41. years 3171 14. Zachariah 6. moneths 3195 15. Shallum one moneth 3195 16. Menahem 10. years 3205 17. Pekaiah 2. years 3207 18. Pekah 20. years 3227 19. Hoshea 9. years 3236 These were the Kings of Israel after the division which began about Anno mun 2969. and lasted 267. years The Monarchy of Chaldea CHaldea is a Country or Province in that part of the World called Asia it hath on the East Assyria on the West Syria on the North Armenia and on the South Arabia Deserta The chief Cities were Ur Erech Accad Carnel and Babel or Babylon Nimrod was the first founder of the Tower of Babel and of the City Babylon neer Euphrates and was the first that ever took the title of King about 150. years after the Flood and Anno mundi 1807. Belus succeeded in the Kingdom Belus was called Jupiter Babylonious the image of whom was worshiped and had the name of Bel and Baal Historians give account of the growth of this Monarchy and record the names of 44. Kings from Belus to Nebuchadnezzer the Great who subdued all Syria part of Egypt and Judea of whom Daniel speaks c. Nebuchadnezzer the first of that name was son to Merodach-Baladan Lieutenant of Babylon under Assaradon King of Assyria But having his opportunity he revolted and overcoming Assaradon in the 12. year of his reign Merodach possessed the Empire and after lest Nebuchadnezzer his son to reign in his stead Nebuchadnezzer began his reign in the fourth year of Jehoiakim King of Judah Ann. mund 3346. In the fourth year of his reign in the eighth year of the reign of Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzer made War with Pharaoh-Necho King of Egypt and took all from him which he had gotten from the River of Egypt unto the River Euphrates and so Jehoiakim King of Judah became a servant and was tributary to Nebuchadnezzer King of Babylon three years In the 11. year of Jehoiakim he rebelled against the King of Babylon who came up and bound him in fetters and carryed him to Babylon and Jehoiakim his son reigned in his stead In the 18. year of Nebuchadnezzer he came up against Jerusalem and laid siege to it in the 9. year of Zedekiah King of Judah and took the City in the 11. year of Zedekiah which was the 19. year of Nebuchadnezzer At which time he made the Temple and City desolate and this was the last and great Captivity of the Jews Anno mundi 3365. In the 23. year of Nebuchadnezzer when he had subdued the Kings of the Ammonites Moabites c. he led his Army into Egypt and having gotten the whole Country Nebuchadnezzer began his Monarchy and was now the first of the four Kings In the second year of Nebuchadnezzers Empire he had the Dream expounded by Daniel for the 2. year of his reign as King of Assyria was 17. years before the last Captivity After this Nebuchadnezzer reigned as Emperour of Babylon 22. years and in all 45. which I thus compute Nebuchadnezzer began to reign in the fourth year of Jehoiakim Jehoiakim reigned 7. years more Jehoiakin three moneths but was not taken away until the end of the year Zedekiah reigned 11. years In the 37. year of Jehoiakins captivity Evilmerodach began to reign Jer. 52. 31. so that Nebuchadnezzer had reigned 19. years at the captivity and after sway'd the Scepter 26. years in all 45. After Nebuchadnezzer succeeded Evilmerodach his son who reigned 30. years I finde Chronologers differ much about the successors of Evilmerodach yet I Judge from the word of the Prophet Jeremiah Belshazzer only succeeded 37. years so that more years of necessity then 30. are to be allowed to Evilmerodach to compleat the 70. years of the Jews Captivity in Babylon Authors speak of others But the sacred History saith The Jews were servants to Nebuchadnczzer and his sons until the
reign of the Kingdom of Persia 3435. The Monarchy of Media and Persia. MEdia and Persia are two Regions in in Asia Media is limitted on the East with Parthia on the West with Armenia on the South with Persia on the North with the Caspian Sea The chief Cities of old in this Country were Laodicea Appannia Rhaga Tauris Persia is bounded on the East with the River Indus on the West with the Persian Gulf on the North with the Caspian Sea on the South with the main Ocean Persia hath 10. several Provinces and many Cities of which as chief were Persepolis Casbin and Susis Media and Persia were distinct Kingdoms but were united under Cyrus King of Persia which after became the second Monarchy This Kingdome is signified by the breast and arms of Silver in Nebuchadnezzers image But in regard Cyrus was the chief King and Monarch and yet the taking of the Kingdom of Babylon is given to Darius King of the Medes it 's necessary to reconcile this in the first place Darius of the Medes call'd Cyaxares the son of Astyages or as Daniel nam'd him Ahasuerus the eighth King of the Medes being old and having no son and withal finding his Souldiers unconstant to him Darius gave Mandana his daughter unto Cyrus King of Persia who was his sisters son and joyned him in the Government with him and so united the Kingdoms of Media and Persia but how long time they reigned together is not certain Darius called to his help Cyrus his son in law and at that time won the most mighty City of Babyon and so brought the Empire to Media and Persia. This Victory is given to Darius as the chief in Government and aged about 62. years who it's thought lived not passing one year after this Victory and then Cyrus came to be sole Emperour of Persia where began the second Monarchy Historians agree not about the Kings of Persia neither for number names or times of their Reigns neither need we much to seek after them sith now the Computation of times falls into Daniels Numbers Therefore I will forbear to set down any of them but refer the Reader to a further view of these in the Annotations I give upon Dan. 9. But all Writers with one consent agree That Alexander son of Philip King of Macedon made War against Darius and overcame him in three Battels where Alexander took Darius his Mother his Wife and Children but Darius himself was murthered by his own Souldiers in flying to save himself So the Empire of Persia had its end and was translated to Grecia The Monarchy of Grecia GRrecia or Greece is a Country in Europe bounded on the East with the AEgean Sea the Hellespont on the West Italy and the Adriatique Sea on the North with Mount Hemus on the South with the Jonian Sea Greece is parted into Provinces Peloponnesus Athalia Epirus Albania Macedonia Migdonia and Thracia Peloponnesus is in compass 600. miles and rounded with the Sea only it joyns to the main Country by a neck of land of five miles in breadth 1. Peloponnesus contains five Countries and many Cities of which were Lacedemon in Laconia and Corinth 2. Achaia contains seven Countries and beautified with many Cities of which was famous Athens in Attica Thebes in Boetia Delphos in Phocis Lepanto in Lacris 3. Epirus was famous amongst other things for Mount Pindus 4. Albania 5. Macedonia had also Countries and Cities This Province was famous for the Birth of Alexander the great 6. Migdonia this Province hath many Cities of which are Apollonia Neapolis and Thessalonica 7. Thracia in which are the famous Cities of Adrianopolis and Constantinople Grecia continued a Kingdome for the reign of 22. Kings to Alexander the great who became Monarch of the World Alexander son to Philip King of Macedonia in the 7. year of his reign fully overthrew Darius of Persia and brought the Empire to Grecia and after reigned Monarch 5. years some say 7. years It is said that Alexander reigned 12. years but it 's supposed 12. years as King of Macedon not as Emperour of Grecia But Alexander going to Babylon there died of an Ague others say of Poyson at 30. years of age However in this sickness perceiving he should dye He called his servants such as were honourable and had been brought up with him from his youth and parted his Kingdom among them whilst he was yet alive Of which the chief are these four Seleucus had Syria Ptolomeus Egypt Antigonus Asia the less and Cassander had Macedonia All these put Crowns upon themselves and each affecting Soverainty over the rest they soon fell to great and continual Wars amongst themselves but the main conflicts were between the Kings of Syria Egypt call'd by Daniel The Kings of the North and South Dan. 11. This was the third Kingdom represented in Nebuchadnezzer's image c. and in Daniel vision by c. But amongst all these I will only mention the Race of the Syrian Kings as most sit for us to consider and giveth the most light to understand the 11. Chap. of Daniel Syria hath on the East Euphrates on the West the Mediterranean Sea on the South Palestine or Canaan and on the North Cilicia and other parts of the lesser Asia This Country is thought in part or in whole to be the very place of Paradise the Garden of Eden Syria contains three Provinces 1. Phoenicia lying upon Canaan where are these Cities Ptolomais Sarepta Sidon Tyrus 2. Province is Coelosyria the chief City of which was Damascus the Royal seat and of these Kings of Syria Scriptures speak much The 3. Province is Syro-Phoenicia whose chief Cities were Beritus Aleppo or Sabab Biblis Tripolis and Antiochia There was also Palmyra which was a City and Province The Kings of this Country were as follows Seleucus Nicanor was the first King of Syria and reigned 32. years 2. Antiochus Soter 19. years 3. Antiochus Theos 15. years 4. Seleucus Gallinicus 20. years 5. Selences Ceraunius 3. years 6. Antiochus Magnus 36. years 7. Seleucus Philopater 12. years 8. Antiochus Epiphanes son to Antiochus Magnus succeeded his brother Seleucus and is the vile person Daniel speaks of Dan. 11. 21. and that wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes son of Antiochus the King and he reigned in the 137. year of the Kingdom of the Greeks 1 Mac. 1. 10. On the 15. day of the month Casleu by the Romans November in the 145. year of the Grecian Kingdom they set the abomination of desolation upon the Altar and burnt the books of the Law 1 Mac. 1. 54. c. Joseph Antiq. 12. lib. 7. chap. Dan. 8. 9. to 12. Thus Antiochus prevailed against the Jews and fulfilled the word of the Lord spoken by Daniel but the Lord again appearing in mercy to a few of his own people who had kept themselves from the abominations of those evil
times and deeply mourned over the sins and sufferings of their brethren and especially the woful desolations of the Temple and worship of God gave them a glorious deliverance from the Armies of Antiochus and liberty again to restore the pure worship of God This news being brought to Antiochus he was astonished and lying down upon his bed fell sick with grief and in his trouble lamented his cruelty against the Jewes whom he destroyed without cause acknowledging the just hand of the Lord was upon him for it So giving order for the education of his son he died in the 149. year of the Kingdom of Grecia and in all reigned 12. years 9. Antiochus named Eupater succeeded Antiochus Epiphanes his father in the Kingdom and reigned two years 10. Demetrius son of Seleucus came from Rome and gathered an Army whereby he surprized Antiochus in his Palace and reigned in his stead 9. years 11. Alexander the son of Antiochus Epiphanes got an Army and came against Demetrius who had slain his brother Eupater and possessed the Kingdom and in a set battel Alexander overthrew the Army of Demetrius where he also was slain and Alexander sat upon the Throne When Alexander was now established in the Kingdom he sent Embassadours to Ptolomy King of Egypt to make a league of amity with him and to give him Cleopatra his daughter to wife Ptolomy King of Egypt seemed to rejoyce in the motion and appointed Ptolomais to be the place of their meeting for to accomplish the Marriage which was done with great glory But both these Kings hearts were to do mischief and according to Daniels Prophesie they spake lies at one Table for Ptolomy went about through deceit to get Alexanders Kingdom and joyn it to his own 12. In the 165. year Demetrius Nicanor son of Demetrius who was overcome by Alexander came out of Crete with an Army against Alexander but Ptolomy King of Egypt having by deceit got into many of Alexanders Cities left Garisons therein and in the mean time offers a league with Demetrius and to give his daughter Cleopatra to him whom he had given before to Alexander which was done Thus Ptolomy quieted Demetrius and so took the opportunity to set the Crown of Asia and Egypt both upon his own head When Alexander heard of this he came with his Army out of Cilicia and made War with Ptolomy but was worsted and flying into Arabia Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexanders head and sent it to Ptolomy but Ptolomy died the third day after and so Demetrius came to the Crown in the 167 year of the Kingdom Demetrius Nicanor came thus to the Kingdom yet injoyed little peace for Tryphon who had been of Alexanders party finding Demetrius his Army murmuring against him set up Antiochus the son of Alexander and lav sore upon Sinialcus the Arabian to deliver young Antiochus that he might reign in his fathers stead At last Tryphon got Antiochus Crowned and drawing unto him many Souldiers who were discontented from Demetrius won Antioch and so got much power All this was done in policy by Tryphon for when opportunity served he kill'd Antiochus and set the Crown upon his own head by this means Demetrius was full of trouble all his days and going with his Army towards Media to get help to fight with Tryphon Arsaces King of Persia smote his Host and took Demetrius prisoner in the year of the Kingdom 172. 13. Antiochus Sadetes son of Demetrius the King gathered a great Army in the Isles of the Sea to recover his Kingdom from Tryphon He came up in the 174. year at which time most of Tryphons forces left him and joyned with Antiochus Tryphon seeing troubles coming upon him fled to the City Dora where Antiochus laid siege against him with an Army of 120000. foot and 8000. horsemen and beset the Town by Land and Sea But Tryphon got away and went by Sea to Oethosias and the King pursued him At this time Antiochus brake his Covenant with the Jews and made War upon them where Judas was slain Yet John his brother pursued the Victory and gave an utter overthrow to the Army of Antiochus How long Antiochus reigned is not left certain but he is thought to reign 3. years 14. Antiochus Pius 12. years 15. Demetrius Nicanor 4. years 16. Alexander 2. years 17. Antiochus Gryphius 29. years There now arose much strife amongst the Nations which continued about 10. years but the Syrians to end the strife amongst the Princes chose Tygranes King of Armenia to govern them who reigned about 18. years And now the Syrian Monarchy being thus weakened through strife and division Pompey the Roman General came up with an Army overcame Tygranes conquered Syria and brought all in subjection to the Roman Empire about Ann. mund 3902. A View of the Roman Empire THis Empire had it's Original from Rome as is well known Italy is a Country in this part of the World called Europe and lies thus Italy is rounded with the Ionian and Adriatique Seas except towards France and Germany from whom it is parted by the Alps. This Region was distinguished into four parts 1. Hesperia 2. Latium 3. Ausonia and 4. Oenotria Of all the Cities wherewith Italy was beautified Rome had the first place and became Mistress of the World This City is supposed to be founded by Romulus and Rhemus in the reign of Hezekiah King of Judah about Ann. mund 3230. This City in her glory spread her lines to the compass of 50. miles But this City felt the fury of the Gaules and by them was laid in heaps So that now Rome standeth lower upon the Bank of Tiber and is drawn into narrower bounds This Empire hath according to Daniels Prophesie differed greatly from the other three and in nothing more then in the several changes of Government yet as the Lord described to Daniel this fourth and last earthly Kingdom in several parts and properties it is apparent that no City or Empire of the World hath answered the Vision like this of Rome Daniels fourth beast is described with 10. horns but John in the Revelation having a Vision of the same beast saw him with seven heads and ten horns where the Holy Ghost there interpreteth the seven heads to be seven mountains and the ten horns ten Kings Both which time hath proved true in Rome First Rome in her plantation was built upon seven hills which are thus named and numbered 1. Palatinus 2. Capitolinus 3. Viminalis 4. Aventinus 5. Exquilinus 6. Caelius 7. Quirinalis Secondly Rome hath been eminent for seven changes in the Government of the Empire every of which in their time had Supreme Authority 1. By Kings 2. Consulls 3. Decemviri 4. Dictators 5. Tribunes 6. Senate 7. Emperours or Caesars But though ambition and avarice did cause these changes in the Roman State yet the word of the Lord
Salsbury Plain and took the King prisoner In this low condition the King was constrained to give Kent Sussex Suffolk and Norfolk to Hingest and there he set up his Kingdom In this interim of time Aurelius Ambrosius son to Constantine brought over an Army out of France to recover his right and falling upon Vortiger burnt him in his Castle in Wales when he had reigned 6. years more An. 466. Aurelius Ambrose being set in the Throne hasted speedily with an Army against Occa son of Hingest at York In that battel he took Occa prisoner and soon after set up the great stones upon Salisbury Plain in memory of the Brittains that were buryed there who were treacherously murdered by the Saxons as before In this Kings time the Saxons grew fast They set up the South Kingdom of Saxons containing Somersetshire Dorsetshire and Cornewall Also Porthe set up the East Kingdom of the Saxons containing Norfolk and Suffolk Not long after Aurelius Ambrose was poysoned when he had reigned 32. years An 498. Uter Pendragon then bare the royal Diadem No Lady would please him but the Duke of Cornewall's wife and on her he begat Arthur Pendragon and reigned 18. years An. 516. Arthur the son of Uter succeeded his father He fought twelve battels with the Saxons when Arthur had much subdued these enemies at home he committed the Government of Brittain to one Mordred and followed the Wars beyond Sea But in his absence Mordred confederated with the King of the West Saxons and set up himself King of Brittain The news of this coming to Arthur he speedily returned to Brittain with an Army and gave battel to Mordred in Cornewal where Mordred was slain and Arthur deadly wounded yet they brought him to Glastenbury where he died when he had governed 16. years An. 532. Constantine a kinsman of Arthur got the Crown after him But Aurelius a Brittain raised War against him and slew him when he had reigned 3. years An. 535. Aurelius Conan Nephew to Arthur was crowned King of Brittain about An. 545. There was now great strife for the Kingdom and it appears that for some time one King was kill'd before another got to the Throne At this time Arthurs brother was next heir to the Crown but Aurelius his Couzin got it by great hand having the longer Sword and kept his Uncle a prisoner In the time while these were striving for the Crown the Saxons got ground and set up the fifth and sixth Kingdoms of the Saxons Aurelius reigned 33. years An. 578. Vortipor succeeded his father Conan He was a vile person he put away his wife and kept his daughter for his Concubine He reigned 4. years An. 582. Malgo-Conan then had the rule He delighted in the filthy sin of Sodomy he kill'd his wife and took his brothers daughter In wickedness he reigned 4. years An. 586. Cara next got the Crown This King was so vile abominable and wicked that the people moved the Saxons and the King of Ireland to make War against him and after two years they drove him out of his Kingdom An. 588. The Brittains were now exceedingly wasted the Christian faith before received neer worn out The Saxons prevailing against the Brittains drive them to the desolate Mountains in Wales and got the whole Dominion of this Land In the time of the Saxons the Inhabitants of this Land were called Angles or Anglishmen and now English-men and the Brittains Welch-men But though the Brittains were driven into Wales yet there they elected Kings over them and as they had strength made War upon the Saxons until King Cadwalladar Anno 687. The Saxons being now masters of Angland or England they set up their Heptarchy or seven several Kingdoms and every King had his Dominion But when other competitors were gone Ambition and a varice set them at variance until one Kingdom had swallowed up all the other Alas alas It 's not Towns or Countries or some Nations that will satisfie aspiring spirits Time and great experience hath proved this Possibly it may be expected that I should go through the Lines of these several Saxon Kings But I find them treading in the same steps of those that went before them and those that follow after are the right sons of their Progenitors Therefore I will enter again with Monarchy and pass all the rest from the expulsion of the Brittains into Wales and the whole Land as divided amongst the Saxons until the Nation was again run up into one Monarchy which was from An. 588. to 872. In the time of the Saxon Heptarchy the Danes made their first inroad into England by Portland Island in the West but were then repulsed An. 800. Yet after they came with redoubled force and entered in Northumberlaud against whom Ethreldred King of the West Saxons who had greatest strength of the Saxon Kings gave them battel but the King was there slain when he had reigned 5. years and the Danes still kept their hold about An. 871. Alfred or Alured last King of the West Saxons began the first Monarchy of the Saxons in England He put the Saxons Laws into English he restored and repaired the City of London and made it again habitable which was wasted and burnt by the Danes An. 839. It is thought also that this King was the first Founder of the University of Oxford He reigned 29. years and 6. moneths Ann. 900. Edward the elder succeeded his father Alfred He subdued the Kings of Scotland and Wales He built divers Towns and Nottingham-Bridge and reigned 24. years An. 924. Adelstain or Athelstain son to Edward took the Throne and did much in his time He expell'd the Danes out of the Land and reigned 15. years Anno 939. Edmund succeeded his brother Athelstain and was slain when he had reigned 5. years An. 344. Edmund left two sons young and Eldred brother to Edmund took on him the Government as Protector but soon after he was Crowned King and reigned 9. years An. 953. Edwin the son of Edmund succeeded his Uncle Eldred and in the day he was Crowned he ravished his own kinswoman the wife of a Noble man and put her husband afterwards to death that he might have her For this and some other abominable acts his Subjects deprived him of his Royal dignity when he had reigned 4. years An. 957. After Edwin Edgar his brother was set on the Throne He was a good Commonwealths-man and reigned 16. years An. 973. Edward the second son of Edgar succeeded his father but was murdered when he had reigned 3. years Anno 976. Etheldred the second son of Edgar murdered his brother and set up himself in the Throne But by this bloody act and other ill carriages he lost the hearts of
that by the help of the Souldiery he kept his Chair and slighted the Emperor continued his government 13 years anno 701. John the sixth followed Sergius he still sought to promote the Papal Dignity as not having what was aymed at The better to perswade John to subscribe the General Councils Justinian sent to him a Confession of his Faith but John also refused it and gave this reason Because of certain Articles in them which were contrary to the Church of Rome This Pope ruled three years anno 704. John the seventh took the next turn but by this time the Popes of Rome began to grow great in the world and did cause others to know it The Eastern Empire was now brought low by the Lumbards in the West and the Saracens in the East that the Emperour was constrained quietly to put up all affronts from the Pope and speak him fair too It is said also that Aripert King of the Lumbards to keep John on his part gave to the Sea of Rome the Cottian Alpes Anno 705. yet John kept the Sea but three years anno 707. Zosimus the second came next to the Papal Dignity yet held it so little time that some Historians pass him by without naming Constantine followed next but did improve his time above many his Predecessors Upon offence given by the Patriarch of Constantinople to the Emperour he sent the Patriarch prisoner to Rome thinking thereby the more to please the Pope Anno 708. as yet the Emperours Exarchs at Ravenna kept the Pope under that he could not work his will but in this Popes time the Souldiers conspired against Justinian slew him and made Philipicus Bardanes Emperour By this means the Eastern Empire was brought near to ruine and a door was opened for the second Beast to enter Philipicus coming thus to the Empire thought to doe some eminent act to please the good people and so made an Edict That all Images should bee puld down in the Churches upon this the Pope took occasion to cast off the Emperor pronounced him an Heretick and forbad the people of Rome to receive the Emperours Commands his Image on their Coyn or mention him in their Service This was not so much an Excommunication as a final Deposition of the Emperour and soon after hee had his eyes put out and thrust out of the Empire This was the first Pope that proceeded so high against the Emperours and this doth sufficiently evidence that the Antichrist is now come and hath taken his Throne All this was accomplished by Constantine who governed seven years Anno 714. Gregory the second succeeded Constantine and was not inferiour to any that went before him in Pride Policy or Tyranny It is said that this Pope was so expert in Conjuring that he was called Gregory the Diabolist At this time Leo Isaurius General of the Emperours Army put down Theodotius from government and set up himself Emperour and having a little respit from the Saracens he renewed the Edict of the former Emperour against Images and hoped to maintain it in Italy But Gregory called in the Lumbards and by their help routed the Emperours Army now Gregory and the Lumbards shared Italy and by this means a huge Dominion was added to the Church Though the Lumbards had done the Pope great service in this expedition yet Gregory casts how to clear Italy to the Sea of Rome It seems the Pope feared a complyance of the Lumbards with Charls Martil of France who now grew great and to engage him for the Church Gregory sent an Ambassador to Charls with a present of the Keys of the Holy Sepulcher and St. Peters Chain These unheard of Relicks were greatly accepted and Charls Martil ratified an accord with the Pope Gregory did this for the Sea and after he had ruled seventeen years departed Anno 731. Gregory the third succeeded Gregory the first Hee Decreed in a Synod That whosoever would not doe religious honour unto Images should bee cut off from the Body and Bloud of Christ and the unity of the whole Church At this time Thrasamond Duke of Spoleto intending to revolt from Luitprand King of the Lumbards he fell in with Gregory and to ingage the Church on his Party Thrasamond delivered into the Popes handsome strong Holds which he had kept for the Lumbards and upon this ground the King of Lumbards raised an Army and came against the Duke and worsted him in that Battel The Duke fled to Rome and the King demanded him of the Pope but the Pope refused to deliver him thereupon he laid siege to Rome Gregory was now sore puzled and sent for Charls Martil to interpose upon the perswasion of Charls the King of Lumbards raised his siege and returned into Pavia and in that year Gregory dyed when he had ruled ten years Anno 741. Zachary next took place and carried on the main design stoutly and now an opportunity was offered to compleat the work Pipin Master of the Kings House to Childrick King of France had a great desire to get into the throne yet had some scruples how to be absolved from his Oath but in a little time Pipin was informed that the Pope had the power of Christ and St. Peter and could doe all things Pipin dispatches away Ambassadours to Pope Zachary about the businesse At first the Pope made a pause and thought the attempt vile but considering of what advantage this might be to the Roman Sea he put on impudence and exercised all his power Zachary deposed Childrick absolved the French people from their Allegiance and gave the Kingdom to Pipin This was such an ingagement upon Pipin that hee must not refuse the commands of his new Father the Pope and as a requital to Zachary Pipin drove the Lumbards out of Italy and gave the whole Dominion to the Church of Rome This Booty did so please Zachary that in token of thankfulnesse he confirmed Pipin in the Kingdom of France gave him the title of most Christian King and to answer this new kindness Pipin prostrated himself kist the Popes feet and sware Fealty to him Thus you have the advance of Antichrist and the ingagements of the French Crown to Peters Chair I need not seek further for the discovery of that Man of Sin that Son o Perdition spoken of by the Prophet and Apostles nor need any a sharp sight to discern him sitting in the Sea of Rome Now was that word of the Lord perfectly fulfilled spoken by the Prophets and Apostles who described the Antichrist by several marks some of which I will here observe These are the Prerogative Royal of God Almighty to dispose of Kingdoms and pardon Sin so that he who shall assume these out of the Hand of God is the Antichrist as described at large by the Apostle Paul and both these Pope Zachary took upon
him at this time when he absolved Pipin and the French people from their Allegiance to Childrick King of France and when hee deposed Childrick set the Crown upon Pipin I might give the particular Characters the Holy Ghost hath set upon Antichrist and shew how clearly they are fulfilled in the Popes of Rome above any other order of men in the world but this would swell my Discourse too much neither doe I need to go further than what I have here noted for though some Emperours have deposed Kings and disposed of their Kingdoms yet Emperours have not taken upon them to absolve from Oathes pardon Sin though some Priests have taken upon them to pardon sin yet they have not taken upon them power to dispose of Kingdoms these only have been assumed by the Popes of Rome and so the Pope is the Antichrist I have now attained my end in this Epitomy to wit to discover the Antichrist and therefore will not detain the Reader with any farther relation of this abominable blasphemous Beast yet these two things in general I may not passe which evidence the Popes Pride and fulfill the Word of God First when Zachary had brought about that design which had been so long in hatching hee was cloathed in his Pontifical Robes and caused himself to bee carried in Triumph upon mens shoulders to the Church of St. Lateran He appointed Lettanies to bee said in every Church of Rome He also caused the Sculls of the Apostles if you can beleeve it and other like Reliques to be openly shewed which were not before and from this time the Popes of Rome have been carried upon mens shoulders Secondly this is considerable the unsatisfied ambition of the Popes ceased not till they had perfectly inflaved the Roman Empire to make good tha Word of the Lord spoken by the Apostle John I saw a Woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured Beast full of Names of Blasphemy c. At the first the Bishops of Rome contended only for a priority of piace in Councils then for Jurisdiction over the Bishops of their Province but after they took upon them to call Councils to depose and translate Emperours and Kings at their pleasure so that while they bare the Title of Christs Vicars they blushed not to assume the Prerogatives of God Almighty and put upon their heads a Triple Crown as King of Heaven Earth and Hell All these things are published at large both by Protestant and Popish Writers to whom I referre those who desire a fuller relation in the particulars FINIS Gen. 15. 13. Exod. 12. 40 41. 1 Cor. 10 11. Mat. 24. 36 Rev. 11. 15. 2 Pet. 3. 13 Dan. 7. 26 27. Dan. 12. 10 Rev. 17. 3 Dan. 2. 28 29 31 32 33 34 35. Vers. 38. Vers. 44. Vers. 46 47 48. Isa. 11. 11 Vers. 12. Dan. 7. 1 Ver. 3 4 c. Ver. 17. Ver. 18. The Kingdom of the Saints begins with the fall of the four Monarchies Dan. 2. 38 Dan. 8. 20 21. Dan. 7. 7 Rev. 12. 3 The original of earthly Monarchy Rev. 13. 11. Rev. 17. 6 Rev. 18. 5 6. Eze. 21. 27 Psal. 2. 8 9 Rev. 15. 3 Hag. 2. 6 7 Rev. 10. 7 Acts 7. 2. 3. Gen. 12. 1 2. Gen. 17. 1 Rom. 4. 11 12. Gen. 21. 1 2 3. Gen. 25. 26. Gen. 49. 1 c. Israels going into Egypt Gen. 46. 26 27. Exo. 12. 40 41. Exo. 3. 7 11. Israels deliverance out of Egypt was about Ann. mun 2398. Gen. 46. 26. Num. 1. 46 47. Israels increase in Egypt The first institution of Judges Act. 13. 20 1 Sam. 8. 1 3 4. Vers. 5. The Original of kingly Government Heathenish Vers. 6. Kings first given with a curse Vers. 7. Ver. 11 12 c. Ver. 19 20. c. Note Rev. 12. Rev. 16. 13 15. Psal. 2. 12. c. Eph. 1. 21 22 23. Isa. 2. 2. c. first King of Israel 2848. 1 Sam. 10. 17 21. Kings by Election of the people Kingly Office hath made good men bad 1 Sam. 13. 13. 1 Sam. 31. 4. Act. 13. 21. 2888. David second King of Israel 1 Sam. 16. 12. Vers. 13. 2 Sam. 2. 4. Vers. 8. Ver. 12 13 16. Ishboshet set up by Abner 2 Sam. 3. 7. Vers. 12. Ver. 17. 20. Vers. 22. Abner kill'd by Joab Ver. 27. 2 Sam. 4. 1. Vile treason Ver. 2. Vers. 7. Vers. 8. Ishbosheth murdered Vers. 12. The due reward of treason 2 Sam. 5. 1. Psa. 51. 4. 1 Chro. 22. 8. 2 Sam. 5. 4. 5. Note 1 King 1. 2929. Solomon the third King of Israel 1 Kin. 6. 37. Vers. 38. The first Temple 7. years in building 1 King 10. 23. 1 King 11. 4. 5. Vers. 11. Vers. 12. Vers. 13. 2969. Rehoboam the first King of Judah after the division 1 King 12. 1 2 3. Vers. 4. Kings by agreement with the people Vers. 7. Vers. 8. Evil Counsel Ver. 10 11. Solomons Kingdom rent c. 1 King 14. 30. Vers. 25. 26. The first spoilling of the Temple Ver. 22 23. 2 Vers. 21. 2 Chro. 12. 2986. Chro. 12. 14. Abijah second King of Judah 2 Chro. 13. 1 2. 1 King 15. 1 2 3. Asa the third King of Judah 1 King 15. 9. Vers. 11. Vers. 13. Vers. 16. â— Vers. 10. 3020. Note Jehoshaphat the fourth King of Judah 1 King 22. 41 43. Vers. 46. 44. 2 Chro. 18. 1. and 19. 2. It 's ill siding with bad men 2 Chro. 17. and 18. and 19. 1 King 22. 42 43. 3045. Jehoram the fifth King of Judah 2 King 8. 16. 2 Chro. 21. 1 2 3 4. Vers. 6. Note Vers. 11. Idolatries commanded by the King Vers. 8. Vers. 9. The ground of revolt Vers. 12. Vers. 16. 17. Vers. 18. Vers. 19. Jehorams miserable end 20. 2 Chro. 21. 5. 3053. Azariah the sixth King of Judah 2 King 8. 25 26 27. 2 Chro. 22. 1. 2. 3. An observation for Kings An. 3054 Athaliah Queen of Judah 2 King 9. 27 28. 2 Chro. 22. 6 8 9. 2 King 11. 1. Cruel murder of children to get the Crown 2 King 11. 2 3. A Priest married the Kings sister 2 Chro. 22. 11. 2 King 11. 4. Ver. 11 12. 13. 14. 15. Ver. 20. An. 3061 Joash the seventh King of Judah 2 King 12. 1. 2 King 11. 17. Vers. 18. The King in covenant with the people 2 King 12. 2. The King corrupted by evil counsel the worship of God was laid down 2 Chro. 24. 17 18. Vers. 19. Vers. 20. They cannot prosper that forsake God Vers. 21. Zachariah kill'd for the discharge of his duty Vers. 22. Vers. 24. Vers. 25. 2 Chro 24. 23 24. Wicked Kings will undo a Nation to keep a Crown 2 King 12. 17 18. The Lord ordinâ—â—ily gives bloud for bloud 2 Chro. 24. 25. 2 King 12. 1. An. 3100 Amaziah the eighth King of Judah 〈…〉 2 King 13. 10. with the 14. 1. ver 3 5. 2 Chro. 25. 5 6. Vers. 7. Ver. 10 11 12 13. Vers. 14. Note 2 King 14. 8.
Mar. 2. 12. Sleidan Heilen Heylin Scriptures Harmony Mat. 1. 7. Sleidan Mar. 1. 5 6. Dan. 11. 2. Dan. 2. 32. Dan. 5. 8. Heylin Paradise Heylin Abomination of desolation set up by Antiochus 1 Mac. 4. 41 52 1 Mac. 6. 16 1 Mac. 7. 1. and 10. 50. 1 Mac. 10. 51. Dan. 11. 27 1 Mac. 10. 67. 1 Mac. 11. 8 9 10. 1 Mac. 11. 17 18 19 Mac. 11. 38 39 40 54 55. Here was killing to get a Crown 1 Mac. 13. 31 32. and 14. 1 2 3. 1 Mac. 15. 10 11 12 13 14. Ver. 37 39 1 Mac. 16. 8 9. Maginus Merula Romes first building about Anno mun 3230. Sleidan Funke Dan. 7. 7. Rev. 12. 3. Rev. 17. 9 12. Rome built upon seven hills Rome had 7. several Governments Abbot Note A false friend Plutarch Augustus first Emp. of Rome An. mun 3848. The birth of Christ. 3891 Luk. 2. 1. An. 15. Tiberius the 2. Emp Sleidan Luk. 3. 1 21 23. Mat. 3. 13. and 4. 1 15. Christ's Bapt. and Death Cytreus An. 37. Caius thâ— 3. Emperour Euseb. Sleidan The miserable end of Pilate who condemned Jesus Christ. An. 42. Claudius the 4. Emperour Flor. Hist. Euseb. An. 56. Nero the 5. Emperour The first persecution The Gospel brought to England Euseb. An. 69. Galba the 6. Emperor Otho the 7. Emperour Vitellius the 8. Emperour Vespatian the 9. Emperour Jerusalems destroy'd by fire and sword Joseph Euseb. Titus the 10. Domitian the 11. Emperour The second persecution The Revelation given to John Rev. 1. 9. Euseb. Nerva the 12. Emper. Peace to the Church Dorotheus Trajan the 13. Emper. The third persecution Adrian the 14. Emp. The Jewes dispersion c. Ann. 136. Euseb. Joseph An. 139. Pius the 15 Emperour An. 162. Verus the 16. Emperour raised the fourth persecution An. 181. Commodus the 17. Emp. An. 194. Pertinax the 18. Emp. Severus the 19. Emp. raised the fifth persecution An. 212. Caracalla the 20. Emperour An. 220. Macrinus 21. Heliogabalus 22. Alexander the 23 Emp. Sleidan An. 238. Maximinus the 24. Emperour Euseb. Sleidan An. 241. Gordianus the 25. Emp. Euseb. An. 247. Philip the 26. An. 254. Decius the 27. Emp. Euseb. Sleidan An. 255. Gallus the 28. Emp. Sleidan An. 257. Amilianus the 29. Emp. Sleidan Valerian the 30. Emperour The eighth persecution Clarks Martyr Gallienus the 31. Emp. Sleidan Euseb. An. 272. Claudius the 32. Emp. An. 272. Quintilius 33. Aurelius the 34. Emp. The ninth persecution add how it was suddenly stayed Euseb. The Empire vacant Tacitus 35 Florianus 36. Probus the 37. Emp. Sleidan Euseb. An. 286. Carus the 38. Numerianus the 39. Carianus 40. Euseb. Sleidan An. 289. Dioclesian the 14. Emp. The division of the Empire Dioclesian worshipped as God The tenth persecution Scriptures burnt The woful end of persecutors Euseb. An. 309. Constantius the 42. Emp. of Rome Constantine the great the 43. Emp. Sleidan Socrates In the life of Constantine lib. 1. c. 22. 25. Socrates Sleidan The division of the Empire by Constan. Constantines Baptism An. 340. Constantius the 2. the 44. Emp. The Roman Empire again united Socrates An. 365. Julian call'd the Apostate the 45. Emp. Socrates Devilish Policy Julians persecution The last building and utter destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem Socrates An. 367. Jovinian the 46. Emp. Valentinian the 47. Emperour Sleidan Socrates An. 380. Valens the 48. Emp. Socrates An. 383. Gratian the 49. Emp. Sleidan An. 391. Theodosius the 50. Emp. Socratos An. 414. Honorius the 1. Emp. of Rome The Empire again divided Valentinian the 52. Emp. Avitus the 53. Emp. Majorinus the 54. Emp. Severus the 53. Emp. Anthemius the 56. Emp. Olimbrius the 57. Emp. Glicerius the 58. Emp. Nepos the 59. Emp. Orestes the 60. Augustulus the 61. and last Emp. of Rome Stowe England one of the Dragons ten horns Sleidan Camden Stowe This Horn took the Crown England cast off the Roman Government An. 441. Vortiger the 1. King of Brittain An. 447. Stowe The first coming of the Saxons into England An. 452. King Vortiger deposed An. 454. Vortimer the 2. King of Brit. poyson'd by his mother in law An. 460. Vortiger King the second time The treachery of Hingest The first Kingdom of the Saxons in England An. 466. Ambrose 3 King of Brit. The setting up of the stones upon Salisbury Plain about An. 467. Ambrose poysoned An. 49â— Uter Pandragon the 4. Brit. King An. 516. Arthur the 5. King of Brit. The just end of an Usurper An. 532. Constantine 6. King of Brit. An. 535. While diverse did strive for the Crown the Saxon got the Kingdom An. 578. Vortipor the 8. King of Brit. An. 582. Malgo the 9. King An. 586. Cara the last King of Brit. An. 588. The Saxons possâ—ssâ—d of all Eng. land Stowe The Saxons Heptarchy The Saxon Heptarchy lasted 284. years Danes first entered England The Danes second coming to England An. 871. Alfred 1. Monarch of England The university of Oxford founded Stowe An. 900. Edward the 2. Saxon Monarch An. 924. Athelstain 3. Saxon Monarch An. 939. Edmund 4. Saxon Monarch An. 944. Eldred Protector made himself King An. 953. Edwin 6. Saxon King The King deposed An. 957. Edgar 7. Saxon King An. 973. Edward the 8. King murdered An. 976. Etheldred the 9. Saxon King A wicked King was the ruine of the Nation The Lur-Danes or Lord Danes murdered The Danes Conquered England An. 1014 Swain the first Danish King left Canutus in Rule England divided between the Danes and Saxons The just reward of a Traytor England reduced again to the Danes Canutus murdered the heir apparent of the Saxons Canutus married the Widow of Etheldred Harold 2. Danish King of England Kings rule by might and not right An. 1041 Hardie Canutus the 3. Dan. King and last An. 1043 Edward the 4. the 11. Saxon King The Kings-evil first healed by the King An. 1067 Harold the 2. King It is a dreadful thing to break a solemn Oath to get a Crown England punishâ—d for Harolds perjury Small pretences will serve to claim a Kingdom Gods speedy and sad recompence upon Harold for breaking Oath made before God William a Bastard the 1. K. of the Norman Race in England Stowe It 's ordinary to swim thâ—ough blood to a Crown A great Famine in England An. 1071 England reduced to extream misery The King sweatted An. 1088 William Rufus Norm King The family and 〈…〉 judged by God The just judgement of God upon William for his fathers and his own op pression Tyrants dead are basely esteemed An. 1101 Henry 1. the 3. Norm King A cruel butcherly brother to take his Crown liberty and life The first King that bad power over the Clergy in England An. 1136 Steven the 4. Norm King England hath paid dear for the pride averice and murder of Kings An. 1155 Henry the 2. The Saxon line again restorâ—d by marriage A Crown sâ—ts the children against their father An. 1190 Richard the 1. The Kings fraud to get