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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

Treasure spent in the quarrell of the Babylonians yet did he Conquer Aeolis Doris and Jonia Provinces possessed by the Greeks in Asia the less adjoyning to his Kingdom of Lydia He gave Laws also to the Phrygians Bithynians Carians Mysians Paephlagonians and other Nations He also enforced the Ephesians to acknowledge him for their Lord He also obtained a signall Victory against the Sacaeans a Nation of the Scythians All which he performed in fourteen years And being now confident by reason of his good successes and withall envious at Cyrus his Fame and prosperity doubting also that his great Victories might in the end grow perilous to himself he consulted with the Oracle of Apollo whom he presented with marvellous rich Gifts what success he might hope for in his undertakings against Cyrus from whom he received this ambiguous answer Craesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertes opum vim Craesus passing over the River Halys shall dissolve a great Dominion For the Devil being doubtfull of his success gave him this Riddle which might be construed either way to the ruine of Persia or of his own Lydia Hereupon Craesus interpreting it as he most desired resolved to stop the course of Cyrus his progress and therefore despised all the Arguments used by Sandanes to the contrary who desired him to consider afore-hand that he provoked a Nation inhabiting a barren Mountanous Region a People not covered with the soft silk of Worms but with the hard skins of Beasts not fed with meat to their Fansies but content with what they found Drinkers of Water and not of Wine and in a word a Nation Warlike Patient Valiant and Porsperous over whom if he became Victorious he could thereby enrich himself in nothing but Fame in which he already excelled and if by them he should be beaten and subdued so great would his loss appear of all things which the world makes account of that the same could neither be hastily recounted nor easily conceived Notwithstanding this solid and seasonable Counsel Craesus having prepared a powerfull Army advanced with the same toward Media but in his passage he was retarded at Pterium a City in Cappadocia of great strength which whilst he attempted both by power and policy to take and Conquer Cyrus came on and found the Lydians encamped before it Neither of these Champions were inferior to other either in strength or opinion For out of doubt Craesus as he excelled any Prince of that age in Riches and ability so was he not inferior unto any in Territories and Fame that then lived But Kingdoms and Commonwealths have their increase and Periods from Divine Ordinance This time was the Winter of Craesus his prosperity the leaves of his flourishing estate being ready to fall and that of Cyrus but in the first Spring and Flower the God of all Power had given a date to the one and a beginning of Glory to the other When these two Armies were in view each of other after divers skirmishes had passed between them the Persians and Lydians began to joyn together and to encounter each other in grose Bodies and as either of them began to retreat fresh supplies were sent in from both their Kings And as the Persians had somewhat the better of the Day so when the dark vail of night had hidden each Army from the others view Craesus doubting what success the rising Sun might bring with it quitted the Field to Cyrus and withall speed possible retreated towards his own Country and taking the next way thither he recovered Sardis the first City of Lydia and his Regal Seat without any pursuit made by Cyrus to retard him where being arrived and nothing suspecting Cyrus his approach or any other War for that Winter he dismised his Army and sent the Troops of his sundry Nations to their own Provinces appointing them to re-assemble at the end of five Moneths acquainting his Commanders with his intent of renewing the War at the time appointed The morning being come Cyrus finding that the Lydians were departed put his Army in order to pursue after them yet not so hastily and at their heels as to be discovered But getting good intelligence of Craesus his proceedings he so ordered the matter that he presented not himself before Sardis till such time as Craesus had disposed of his Army and sent them to their Winter Quarters His coming being altogether unlooked for and unfeared he had opportunity enough to surround Sardis with his Army wherein Craesus had no other Companies than the Citizens and his ordinary Guards insomuch as after fourteen days Seige Cyrus took the City by Storm and put all to the Sword that made resistance Craesus now having neither Arms to Fight nor Wings to fly in this common calamity he throst himself into the heap and multitude of his miserable Subjects and had undergone the same lot with the rest of the vanquished persons had not a Son of his who had been dumb all his Life before by the extremity of Passion and Fear cryed out to a common Souldier who was with a drawn Sword pursuing his Father that he should not kill Craesus Hereupon he was taken and imprisoned and despoiled of all things but onely the expectation of Death Shortly after he was bound with Fetters and Placed upon a large and high pile of Wood to be burnt to ashes thereon To which when Fire was set and kindled Craesus remembring the discourse which long before he had with Solon the Athenian Lawgiver he thrice cryed out O Solon Solon Solon and being demanded what he meant by the invocation of Solon he at first used silence But being urged again he told them that now he found that true which wise Solon had long since told him That many men in the race and course of their lives might well be accounted Fortunate but no man could discern himself to be happy indeed till his end Of this his answer Cyrus being speedily informed and thereby being put in mind of the mutability of Fortune and of his own mortality he commanded his Ministers of Justice speedily to withdraw the Fire and to save Craesus and bring him to his presence which being done Cyrus demanded of him who it was that had perswaded him or what reason had instigated him to invade his Territories and to make him of a Friend an Enemy To which Craesus thus answered It was thy prosperous and my unprosperous destiny the Grecian Gods with all flattering my Ambition that were the inventers and conducters of Craesus War against Cyrus Cyrus being much affected w th this answer of Craesus and bewailing his estate though he was victorious over him did not only spare his life but intertained him ever after as a King and his companion Thus Heroditus relates it But Xenophon saith that Cyrus did entertain Craesus friendly at the first sight and makes no mention of any such cruell intent of burning him alive

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

Gods goodness and a willing advancer of his Kingdom upon earth which must last for ever Cyrus had Issue two Sons Cambyses and Smerdis and three Daughters Atossa Meroe and Artistoua At his Death he bequeathed his Empire to his Eldest Son Cambyses appointing Smerdis his younger Son to be Satrapa or Leiutenant of Media Armenia and Cadusia He reigned about one and thirty years and died aged The Greek Historians wholly ascribe the Conquest of Babylon to Cyrus because that he commanded the Army in Chief yet the Scriptures attribute it to Darius King of the Medes whose General Cyrus was For when Babylon was taken and Belshazzar slain It s said Dan. 5. 31. that Darius the Median took the Kingdom being about sixty two years old It was Darius also that placed Officers over the severall Provinces thereof as we read Dan. 6. 1 2. It pleased Darius to set over the Kingdom a hundred and twenty Princes which should be over the whole Kingdom and over these three Presidents of whom Daniel was the first c. And thus was it Prophesied by Isay long before Behold I will stir up the Medes against them c. and by the Prophet Jeremy The Lord hath raised up the Spirit of the King of the Medes for his device is against Babylon c. Jer. 55. 11. And again verse 28. Prepare against her the Nations with the Kings of the Medes the Captains thereof and all the Rulers thereof and all the Land of his Dominion But certain it is that the Honour of that great Victory over Babylon was wholly given to Cyrus who was the Instrument preordained and forenamed by God himself not onely for this Action but also for the delivery of his Church Yet Daniel makes it plain that himself not onely lived a great Officer under King Darius but that he continued in that estate to the first year of Cyrus which was not long after which also was the year of Daniels Death As for the age of Cyrus we are beholding to Tully for it who in his first Book de Divinatione Cites it out of one Dionysius a Persian Writer in this manner The Sun saith Dionysius appeared unto Cyrus in his sleep standing at his feet which when Cyrus thrice endeavoured to take in his hands the Sun still turned aside and went away and the Magi who were the most learned men amongst the Persians said that by his thrice offering to take hold of the Sun was portended to him that he should raign thirty years which came to pass accordingly For he lived to the Age of seventy years and began not to raign till he was forty In the first year of Belshazzar Daniel had the Vision shewed him of the four Beasts signifying the four Monarchies and of God delivering over all power and Sovereignty to the Son of man Dan. 7. In the third year of Belshazzar the Vision of the Ram and Goat foreshewing the destruction of the Persian Monarchy by Alexander the Great and the great misery which Antiochus should bring upon the People of God was shewed to Daniel living then at Susa in the Province of Elam upon the bank of the River Vlai which environed the Castle of Susa and parted the Provinces of Susa and Elemais Dan. 8. whence we may collect that at that time the Province of Susa was not in the hands of the Medes and Persians but of the Babylonians under whom Daniel then lived Darius the Mede son of Cyaxares or Ahasuerus the Son of Adyages took upon him the Kingdom which was delivered over to him by Cyrus the Conquerer Dan. 5. 31. 9. 1. The Angel in this first year of his Raign is said to have confirmed and strengthened him in his Kingdom Dan. 11. 1. After which he raigned two years Towards the end of the first year of Darius the Mede the seventy years of the Babylonish Captivity expired which began under Jehoiakim in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar at which time God promised that they should return into their own Country Jer. 29. 10. Thus saith the Lord that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good Word towards you in causing you to return to this place Upon consideration of which very time now so neer approaching it was that Daniel powred out that most fervent Prayer for the Remission of his own sins and of his Peoples and for that promised deliverance out of their Captivity Whereupon the Angel Gabriel brought him an answer not onely concerning this but also for the spiritual deliverance of the Church to be wrought at last by the Death of the Messias uttering that most famous and memorable Prophesie of the seventy Weeks Dan. 9. 12 c. The Samaritans by the means of some Courtiers about Cyrus whom they had bribed for that purpose distributed the Jews in their building of the Temple Ezra 4. 5. Whence proceeded that three weeks mourning of the Prophet Daniel which Fast he begun about the third Day of the first Moneth in the third year of Cyrus Dan. 10. 1. 4. 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