God mightie in heauē that commands to keep the Sabboth day and I am mightie on earth that comcommaunds the contrary but his head his hands and his blasphemous tongue were cut off and hanged vpon the pinacles in the temple at Ierusalem And so the blasphemy of the Scribes and Pharisies saying that Christ the Lord did not cast out diuels by his owne vertue but by the power of Belzebab but the Lord left not them vnpunished The blasphemy of Benhadad saying that the Lord was the God of the mountaines onely not God of the valleys was not he strangled by Hazael his owne seruant in his owne house and in his owne bed Yet the Syrians prepared such a number for the second battel after they had escaped hardly from the first battell that they filled all the countrie and the children of Israel were like to little flockes of Kids in respect of their number but the Lord sent his Prophet to Achab saying Because the Syrians haue said that the Lord is the God of the mountaines and not God of the valleys behold this great multitude of men and Benhadad the King himselfe withal the two and thirtie Kings besides will I deliuer to thine hand and he shall know that I am the Lord as well of the valleys as the mountaines And so the Lorde brought it to passe that in that battell an hundred thousand footemen were slaine of the Syrians and seuen and twentie thousand that fled from the field to Aphec to saue themselues were killed by the fall of a wall that crushed them to death and Benhadad the King fled to the citie from chamber to chamber and hid himselfe according to the Prophets saying vntill many of his chiefe Princes that escaped hardly from the battell came with sackcloath about their loynes and ropes about their neckes in token of submission to entreate Achab king of Israel for the life of Benhadad which he graunted contrary to that which he was by the Lord commaunded for to do as Saul did by Agag king of the Amalekites so Achab did by Benhadad but it was told Achab by the Prophet that his life should goe for his life and his people for his people This Achab a wicked and Idolatrous King had such two great victories for that the Lord alwayes would haue Israel to forsake their calfe in Bethell and their Idolatry to Baall in Samaria but sinne was written in the table of their hearts and grauen vpon the edges of their Aultars with a penne of Iron and with an Adamant clawe said the Prophet that there was nothing among them more pretious then woods thicke trees groues mountaines hills and fields for altars to serue their Idolatrous woodden goddes so greatly they offended the Lord that he asked the Heathens if any heard such horrible things as his people had done yea the Priests to whom the lawe was committed the Prophets which wanted not the word of the Lorde and the graue wise Senators So that Israel would not be instructed neither take warning by the Prophets before the finall end and suddaine destruction of Ierusalem by Nabuchodonozer king of Babilon though the Lord commaunded the Prophet Amos to strike the lintell of the doore that the postes might shake signifying the threatning of the Lorde against Israel So was Ezechiel commaunded to take a bricke and to purtray the citie of Ierusalem vpon the bricke with a sharpe knife to signifie the destructiō of the people and of the citie and the ◅ame selfe Prophet sheweth the destruction of Ierusalem by Nabuchodonozer king of Babel by a parable of a seething potte and the day was commaunded to be written by the Prophet Ierusalem the the valley of vision so named because of the Prophets which were also called seers The Lorde said that hee would bring such a plague vpon Ierusalem that the eares of them that should heare it should glowe for I wil send many fishers to take them many hunters to hunt thē from all mountaines and hilles and out of the caues of stones saith the Lord. Yet though Ierusalem was so seuerely prophesied by Amos Ezechiel and other Prophets to be destroyed yet they were comforted by the Prophet Ieremy againe that they should returne frō their captiuitie after seuentie yeares and rebuild Ierusalem And as by Ieremy by hiding of his leather girdle by the riuer Perah as the Lord had cōmaunded him signifying that by the rottēnes of the girdle Ierusalē shuld be rebuilded after seuentie yeares And by the selfesame Prophet they were assured by his buying of the field Anothot and by the hiding of his writing of possession thereof in signes and tokens of their libertie againe and that Ierusatem should be builded againe and inhabited this was but the second ouerthrow of Ierusalem by Nabuchodonozer This was like Noah that preached the destruction of the world by a deluge before the deluge and yet married a wife much like to the Prophet Ieremy that preached the destruction of Ierusalem and yet bought lands The Prophets vsed many of these signes as eye-witnesses to confirme their memory better and to expect with more faith the words of the Prophets The Prophet Ieremy proceedeth forward to denounce the ouerthrow of those proud kingdomes that reioyced much at the destructiō of Ierusalem as Egipt and Babilon and all the euill that should come vpon Babilon Ieremy wrote it in a booke sent Sheraiah with his booke to read it and when he had done reading Ieremy commaunded him to binde a stone to the booke and to cast it into the midst of the riuer Euphrates and then to say thus shall Babilon be cōfounded thus the Prophets vsed besides their prophesies to adde some action to make the words the more to be remembred So also the Prophet Ezechiel prophesied against Egipt and against their great cities saying The sword of the Lord shall come to Memphis to Pellusium and to Alexandria I will ouerthrow Memphis saith the Lord I will destroy Pellusium the strength of Egipt and I will make a great slaughter of all the men in Alexandria For as Babilon was taken Maradach ouerthrowne and Bel cōfounded so was the strength of Egipt the arme of Pharao destroyed without any recouery of their Empires againe but so was not Ierusalem Nabuchodonozer in like sort as he ouerthrew Ierusalem and made a conquest of the countrey euen so his great citie of Babilon was caried by Cyrus away into Persia within seuentie yeares after he tooke Zedechiah the last king of Iudah captiue in Babilon so Egipt was taken by the Persians and last by the Romanes But Ierusalem as you heard by Ieremy should not bee so destroyed but should be defended against all her enemies and the Lord shall destroy all nations that come against Ierusalem for the Lord hath deliuered Israel out of the fierie furnace of Egipt and from all the stratagems of the Heathens I will
to these Prophets now they spared not IerusaleÌ„ nor Samaria but they had their message told them by the Prophet And so much of the manner and forme of the publishing and denouncing of warre by the Lords Heraulds his Prophets And now likewise to shewe the maner and forme of the Gentiles in denouncing of warre by their Heraulds The Gentiles in olde time proclaiming their warres against their enemies in seueral sorts as the Romains by their Priests called Faecials which were first instituted by Numa Pomp. and after appointed by the Romanes to be their heraulds both for warre and peace for the law was written in these words Belli pacis faederum induciarum or atorum faeciales Iudices sunto The chiefe of theÌ„ was called Pater Patratus being crowned with a garlaÌ„d made of Verbena who went with foure of them to the coÌ„fines of the enemies reciting the iust cause of the wars which were it not by the enemies satisfied answered within 33. daies after the Faecial Priests being sent froÌ„ the Senators and Citizens of Rome should throw after the word spokeÌ„ a bloudy dart or an iron speare into the enemies lands proclaiming warre against them Iure faeciali But if the Romains had their warres farre from Rome the Faeciall Priests should goe out of the citie through the gate Carmentalis to the Temple of Mars in the which Temple there was hanging a bloudie speare vpon one of the pillars of the TeÌ„ple called Columna bellica and from that place should the Faeciall Priest throw that bloudie dart towards those natioÌ„s whom they denounced to be their enemies then after this the Consul Proconsul or Praetor should goe to the Temple of Mars and take the Targets called Ancyllia in his hande and after pricke the Image of Mars with his speare or launce and say Mars Vigila The Persians also vsed this ceremony to throwe a bloudie dart towards the confines of theyr enemies thereby denouncing warre either to haue land and water by yeelding or else to abide warre The manners and customes among the Grecians wheÌ„ they went to publish warre they vsed to send their Herauld to the confines of the enemies after the iust cause of the warre being publikely declared vnlesse they were Perius sanctum legatorum satisfied the Greekes sent a Ramme to the enemies confines to signifie that they were readie armed for their enemies for the sending of the Ramme with the Greekes did signifie as much as the throwing of the bloudie dart or Iron speare with the Romanes for the Romanes were instructed in martiall discipline by the Greekes as the Greekes were by the Persians and the Persians by the Egiptians The old Gaules vsed this manner of order that their Senators called Druydes called a councell of the chiefe men which should be all armed and therefore called among them the armed councell and after consultation had between these Priests Druydes and the armed councell that whatsoeuer was agreed vpon betweene them ther of warre or peace was established for a lawe The Scythians had strange customes in defying their enemies and in proclaiming of warre they did send by Embassadors to Darius king of Persia a bird a mouse a frogge and an arrow signifying thereby that vnlesse the enemies would flye away like a bird creepe away like a mouse or swim away like a frogge out of Scythia that an arrow should pierce them through Warres being proclaimed by the Lacedemonians warlike people the herauld should carrie in his hand a vine twig wreathed about with wooll which the enemies if they would accept and receiue vpon conditions by the herauld opened it should be a full bond of peace otherwise a denouncing of warre and withall the herauld threw the vine twigge out of his hand as in defiance The Carthagineans though they could neuer abide the Romanes yet vsed they the selfesame ceremonies Hastae proiectio as the Romanes did in pronouncing of their warres There was a strange maner and custome among some nations when they proclaimed warre they would send a herauld with a present to theyr enemies wrapped round about with the likenesse of snakes which if the present would be vpoÌ„ conditions accepted they would take away the snakes and deliuer them the present if otherwise the herauld would deliuer the enemies the snakes in defiance and bring the present away this maner of defiance against their enemies the old Corinthithians vsed with others Now that you read the maner and forme of proclaiming of warres among diuers nations you shall also obserue diuers fashions and ceremonies touching composition of peace for both proclaiming of warre and concluding of peace were in all authoritie Per viâ—…faciale but altered in ceremonies CHAP. XIII Of the maner and diuers ceremonies in concluding of peace THe concluding of peace of diuers nations was in this sort those that were sent as Heraulds to proclaime warre were againe sent as Embassadors to entreate for peace in diuers Countries for as bloud was sought by warres so by bloud peace should be reconciled For as you heard the Lord did threaten warre long before warre came to the Hebrewes the Chaldeans Assyrians and the rest by the Prophets and his Heraulds and before these nations punished the first age for their sinnes with an vniuersal deluge ouer the whole world eight persons excepted and after made a league of peace and gaue the Rainebowe as a signe in the heauens not to destroy the world any more with water and when the people againe transgressed his commaundements the Lord commaunded his Prophets to threaten the Hebrues the Chaldeans and Assyrians denouncing warre to punish them as you heard of the Egiptians the Sodomites others with a condition of peace to continue betweene him and his people which was written out in the law of Moses This league was signified confirmed also with the bloud of a lamb as the bloud of couenant between God and man the true type figure of the lambe Christ Iesus which gaue vs euerlasting peace by his bloud in the new 〈◊〉 this peace was proclaimed to the Shepheards in the field at Bethelem by legions of Angels which came downe from heauen singing glory bee to God on high on earth peace towards meÌ„ This peace Christ repeated to his disciples saying Peace be vnto you this peace he brought into the world this peace he left with his people in the world which the world caÌ„not giue for there is no peace to the wicked faith the Lord. The ceremonies of euery natioÌ„ in all countries in concluding of peace was generally by bloud and as it were confirmed by an oath in supping each others bloud or by dipping in of their swords arrowes flint-stones or wooll As the Meades drewe bloud out of theyr armes the Lydians out of their shoulders the Arabians out of their fingers that by sucking and licking of each others bloud they thought it
either the Emperours of Rome which persecuted them or the kings of Syria which tyrannized ouer them could inuēt saying that they wold onely obey the lawes which the Lorde gaue vnto them by Moses and not the commaundement of the king then were the other brethren one after another put to death with the like tortures as their elder brother was in the sight of their mother who spake to her children these words My sonnes I neither gaue you breath nor soule nor life and as you regard not your selues to die for the law es of the Lord so shall the Lord restore vnto you your soules your liues to liue for euer And thus were theyto rtured to death one brother after another and the mother after her sonnes And now I wil returne to Pharao CHAP. VI. Of the seuenth and eight plagues of the Egiptians compared with the seuenth and eight persecutions of the Christians AMd Moses was sent with his seuenth message to Pharao saying How long will it be before thou submit thy self to me saith the Lord But Pharao being marked with Cains marke who could not die though he would faine die or like Esau who would repent could not though he sought it with teares So Pharao though he yeelded victorie to Moses yet could not hee yeeld his heart vnto the Lord but refused the offers of the Lord and despised his mercy and therefore Moses was commaunded to vex Pharao with the seuenth plague which he executed vpon Pharao with thunders haile lightnings fiery soldiers of the Lord this smote the hearbs brake the trees of the field this smote al the land of Egipt both man beast the thunder the raine the haile and the fire mingled together so hurtfull and so greeuous as there was not the like in Egipt since it was a natiō and yet the land of Gosen where the Hebrues dwelt neither hard thunders nor saw fire lightnings nor rain But Pharao stil against his promise staied the Hebrues in extreame bondage in Egipt and yet with terrour and feare of the punishments requested Moses and Aaron to cease the horrible thunders and fierie lightnings which being ceased Pharao ceased not to sinne vpon sin neither gaue he himselfe to seeke the Lord for all the terrors of so many plagues past The Macedonians at any Eclipse of the Moone wold be so frighted and terrified though the naturall cause were opened vnto them of the defects thereof by many of their Captaines yet would they not but against their will at the Eclipse time enter into battell So the old Romanes were so amazed that they tooke the ebbing flowing of the sea to be wrought by some diuine power of the gods So Scipio confessed at the besieging of Carthage and said to his souldier Ducem sequimini Neptunum Though the Romanes and the Macedonians confessed the Eclipse of the Sunne Moone and the ebbing and flowing of the Seas to be the works of God yet Pharao confessed not the wonders which Moses did in Egipt This cruell marching of Pharao against the Hebrues in Egipt resembleth much the cruell persecution vnder Decius Emperour of Rome vnder whom raigned stil persecutiōs of the Christians as vnder others his predecessors But the Lord so plagued the Empire at this time euen from the East vnto the West with plagues and diuers suche sicknesses as not onely the earth was infected but the ayre corrupted with such slaughter of man and beast by sicknesse that there wanted in many places of the Empire men aliue to burie the dead iustly plagued and punished so that betweene the cruell persecutions of Christians in Antioch Caesaria and Alexandria and the multitude of the Romanes that died made the ground of Rome and Italy to stink as Egipt stunk with their bloudie water and dead frogs and as in Pharaos dayes the Hebrewes so multiplied in Egipt for all Pharaos tirany so likewise the Christians encreased in Rome and euery where in the Romane Empire in spite of the Romane Emperours though they sought euery way to deuour them with sword and fire Moses is sent againe to Pharao and to say let my people goe behold to morrowe will I bring grassehoppers into thy land and they shall couer the face of the earth in euery place and quarter of Egipt that the earth cannot be seene and they shall eate the residue which remaineth vnto you and escaped the haile they shall eate all your greene trees vpon the fielde and shall fill your houses and all your seruants houses and these threatnings and cominations of Moses could nothing moue Pharao and yet dissembled like an hypocrite to Moses saying I haue sinned against the Lord and against you forgiue me therefore and pray for me it is to be wondred that Pharao and all Egipt wold suffer such horrible plagues for the Hebrews to them a straunge nation whom they mortally hated and yet stopt and stayed them in Egipt against the lawe of Mena and Bocoris and custome of Egipt and against the custome of all countries The Lacedemonians by Lycurgus lawe would not admit any straunger to stay in Lacedemon In Athens Pericles made a decree that no straunger might dwell in Athens but such as were banished for euer from their Countrey those onely might stay in Athens bringing their gods and their goods with them Likewise the Carthagineans could not abide strangers for those that sailed into Sardinia or to Hercules pillers escaped hardly the Carthagineans handes for that they would suffer no straunger to dwell in their territories So also in India no stranger might stay among them past three daies so straight were strangers looked vnto in all Countries that the Romanes would not admit any mercenarie souldier being a stranger in their warres The Hebrewes suffered no stranger to dwel among them to vse forraine religion therfore it was not lawfull for the Samaritans to come to Ierusalem nor for the Samaritans to conuerse themselues with the Iewes Yet Pharao against the lawes and customes of all countries and against the lawe of his owne country admitted strangers his owne enemies to dwell in Egipt Pharao as I said before had Esaus mark could not yeeld and let these strange Hebrewes goe How fitly this eight Egiptian plague resembleth the eight Romane persecution vnder the Emperor Valerianus who like as Antiochus compelled the Iewes to forsake the Lord their lawes and religion so Valerianus cōstrained the Christians to Idolatrie and forced them to forsake the religion of Christ commanding by his Letters sent to his lieftenants and generalls euery where to burne to kil and to murther all the Christians that professed the name of Christ so odious was the name of the Christians among the Romanes as the name of the Hebrewes among the Egiptians And like as the grasse-hoppers in Egipt did waste spoile and eate all that was left vntouched and vnspoyled by the plague of haile-stones and lightnings before so
nothing These were superstitious orders of Franciscans and not the vowes of Nazarites The Ethnicks likewise suffered their haires to grow because they might dedicate it either to Iupiter to Appollo to Mars or to some of their gods So did Thesius dedicate his haire vnto Appollo vpon his father Aegaeus graue So Achilles dedicated his haire vpō the tombe of his deare friend Patroclus So did Orestes consecrate his haire vpon the tombe of his father in lawe Agamemnon after he had killed him with the consent of his wife Clytemnestra So Euripides was of Archelaus king of Macedonia so honoured that hee lamented Euripides death in mourning apparell and with a shauen head and beard After the vowes of Iacob of Dauid of Asa and such godly men after the vowes of the Nazarites and of the Rechabites which was commanded from Ionadab the father vnto his children and to their posteritie was kept vnuiolated three hundred yeares These vowes were of the Lord accepted but for Heathen vowes which wilfully offer sacrifice their seruants their childrē thēselues to Moloch to satisfie the oracles of diuels speaking in dumbe Idols as vnto Curtius that rode sacrificing of a quick man which made Curtius on horseback in armor to ride into an open wide gulfe in Rome and Codrus king of Athens likewise in beggers apparell to sacrifice themselues to satisfie the oracles Yet Heliodorus was better aduised and more to be commended being sent by Seleucus king of Syria to rob and spoile the Temple of Ierusalem after he was scourged on both sides with many stripes by some diuine power hauing recouered his life by the prayer of Onias the high Priest Heliodorus offered sacrifice vnto God and made his vowes vnto the Lord which had graunted to him his life and thanked Onias confessing the name of the Lord to be great in Ierusalem Antiochus after his flight frō Persepolis in Persia thought to reuenge his wrath vpon Ierusalem aduancing himself that he would make Ierusalem a graue of all the Iewes but he was striken of the Lord that hee promised and vowed that whereas hee had spoiled the holy temple before now to garnish it with gifts to encrease the holy ornaments to become a Iew himselfe and to preach the power of the Lord through euery place of the world So Artaxerxes king of Persia so fauoured the Iewes through the goodnesse of the Lord that hee called Esdras the Priest and reader of the lawe of the Lord and willed him with all the Iewes that would goe with him to goe to Ierusalem allowed them golde and siluer and cattell to sacrifice vnto the Lord and to performe the vowes which they vowed vnto the Lord. So Nabuchodonozer Cyrus and Darius were moued by the Lord to fauour his people Israell And therefore olde Homer said that the sacrifices and oblations with all their vowes and ceremonies which the Troians offered to Iupiter were nothing of him accepted for that Iupiter rather esteemed the vowes and sacrifice of Agamemnon and the oblations of the Greckes before king Priamus and his Troians So the oracle of Ammon answered the Athenians that the gods esteemed more the vowes and prayers of the Lacedemonians with the sacrifice of milke honey frankincense cakes and wine according to Pythagoras rule then the rich spoiles and great gifts of the Athenians with the great sacrifice of Haecatombae So the Prophet answered the Iewes from the mouth of the Lord I abhorre your incense I cannot away with your new moones your sabbothes and solemne dayes I detest your ceremonies and fastings I hate although you make many praiers and offer many oblations yet do I neither heare your prayers nor accept your oblations CHAP. VII Of Oracles and soothsayings as well of the Iewes as of the Gentiles THe Lord commaunded in the lawes of Moses that no soothsaying should be among the Israelites yet things conteining of necessary causes are not forbidden for signes were asked of the Israelites and giuen vnto them of victories by the Lord. Ionathas desired a signe of the Lord and he had by the spirit of the Lord a token that if the Philistins would say vnto Ionathas come ye hither vnto vs Ionathas by that signe knew he should haue victorie The like signe was giuen to Gedeon of his victorie by a fleece of wooll that should be so full with deawe that the deawe therof filled a bowle with water and drie vpon all the earth besides Elizeus bad Ioas shoote eastward in token of his good successe in Aphec And againe hee bad Ioas smite the ground and hee smote the ground thrise so many great victories against the Syrians he had Samuel caught the lap of Sauls coate and rent it saying Thus shall God rent the kingdome out of thy hand and giue it to an other So did Ahiah the Prophet take the garment of Ieroboam and rent it into twelue peeces saying So shall the Lord rent the kingdome out of Salomons hand and giue tenne of the twelue Tribes vnto thee These were signes giuen before hand by the Prophets from the Lord. A prophet of Iudah came to Bethel and cried against the Aultar of Bethel and gaue them a signe that Iosias which was borne three hundred yeares after should offer Priests of the hill altars and burne mens bones vpon the altar and this shall be a signe the altar presently shall rent and the ashes that are in it shall fall out The being of Ionas in the Whales belly three dayes was a signe as Christ himselfe saide that the sonne of man should be three dayes in the belly of the earth It was lawfull for the Israelites to call for the Arke which was the presence of God the figure of Christ they would call for the Ephod they would consult with Vrim and Thummim before they tooke any battell in hand The Iewes required a signe the Grecians sought after wisdome but Christ crucified vnto the Iewes was euen a stumbling blocke and vnto the Grecians foolishnesse For the Greekes Persians went for Oracles to Delphos the Egiptians and Affricans to Ammon but the Hebrewes were taught to come to the doore of the Tabernacle and after the vse of the Tabernacle to consult with Vrim and Thummim to come to the Temple of Salomon or to the Prophets and there to be instructed what to doo The Hebrues tooke no warres in hand vnlesse they ◅ame to the Priest first who would stand with his Ephod◅rment ◅rment before the Arke of the Lorde and there to be ◅ught what to do So Ioshuah Generall of the Israelites vsed to stand b◅re Eleazar the Priest to take his instruction by Vrim and Thummim So Iudah the successor of Ioshua was chosen by Vrim and Thummim to be a Generall of the Hebrue army So did Samuel stand before the high Priest to receiue he Oracle of Vrim and Thummim The Hebrewes
Philip king of Macedonia at the spoile thereof had as great a pray as Alexander his sonne had of Babilon or Nabuchodonozer of Ierusalem CHAP. VIII Of sanctuaries allowed to the Hebrewes and of the multitude of sanctuaries among the Gentiles SAnctuaries were priuiledged among all Nations not onely for souldiers that fled from the warres and seruants that fled from their maisters but also for those that by chance kild any man or had committed such capitall crimes without proofe these might bee succoured in sanctuaries vntill the truth were knowne and proued and therefore the Hebrewes had sixe citties of refuge by the lawe of Moses where if any man had slaine vnwittingly or vnwillingly a man he might flee to any of these sixe Cities as to a sanctuary of refuge but they that had killed a man willingly and had committed any capitall crime purposely should not onely be taken away from the sanctuarie but bee pluckt away from the aultar as Ioab was for killing of Abner and Adonias though hee pretended treason before against Salomon yet had hee the priuiledge of the sanctuarie for that fault by Salomon but when hee sought to haue Abizaig to his wife he was pluckt from the Aultar as Ioab was Those that were lawfully succoured by Moses lawe in the sanctuary it was not lawfull for them that fled thither to returne home vnlesse it were at the death of the high Priest which was a shadow of the death of Christ by whose death the regenerate turne to their eternall home The Gentiles imitating the Hebrewes had too many licentious sanctuaries with the like libertie and priuiledge in so much that in continuance of time it grew that Temples Aultars Images of Emperours and Kings and graues of dead men were allowed for sanctuaries as if any that would flye vnto the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and claimed by the right of a sanctuarie to be defended hee was made free and had his libertie graunted vnto him and that continued a sanctuarie from the time of Alexander the great who amplyfied the Temple of Diana the quantitie of a furlong which temple was burnt before by Herostratus vpon the very day that Alexander was borne vntill the time of Augustus Caesar three hundred yeares after Alexander by whom the wickednesse of that sanctuary was was abrogated and quite taken away Cadmus as some write at the building of Thaebes was the first in Greece that gaue any priuiledge to sanctuaries Others thinke that some of the posteritie of Hercules erected vp in Athens the temple of mercie where euery man might flee for succour fearing least they should be punished and plagued for the iniuries that Hercules their predecessor did to others and the Athenians made a decree that none that fled to the aultar of mercie should be pulled away Romulus imitating Cadmus at the building of Rome for the encrease of his citie graunted impunitie to all such wicked men that came to Rome whose example all other Gentiles followed after in so much that kings and kings sonnes fled vnto sanctuaries so great was the priuiledge of sanctuaries that king Pausanias fled to the Temple of Minerua in Sparta and king Cleombrotus fled to the Temple of Neptune in Taenero and Adonias King Dauids sonne fled to the Temple in Ierusalem Likewise a souldier taken in the warre if he had fled from thence to the statue of any King Emperour or great captaine he was to haue his libertie The liberties and abuse of sanctuaries grew so great among all nations that where sanctuaries were allowed chiefly first for those that slew any man by chaunce against their will for captiue souldiers that fled from prison for poore distressed seruants that were abused by their maisters in time it became dens for theeues stewes for wicked men and leawd women that whatsoeuer was done if they came to the Temple of Osiris in Egipt or to the Temple of Diana in Thracia or to the Temple of Venus in Pâ—…hos they were freed might there take their libertie but poore Demosthenes was taken from the Temple of Neptune by the tyrant Archyas and brought to Athens before his onely enemy Antipater Sanctuaries grew so common that not onely souldiers but also any offenders might fleee from theyr liberties especially in Greece to the graues of Achilles Thesius and Aiax in other places to the graue of Hercules In other places the offender if he had fallen downe at the feete of Iupiters Priest of Mars or of Vulcan at the gates of their temples he should goe free Though the old auntient Romanes could not abide a souldier taken in the wars they would neither redeem him nor allow him sanctuarie yet Agesilaus king of the Lacedemonians allowed any temple of their gods to be a sanctuary for souldiers that fled for succour So did Cyrus proclaime sanctuaries for all banished bond men in Greece in all Asia leuied therby a huge army to fight against his brother Artaxerxes So did Sertorius one of Marius sect proclaime sanctuaries to all the Romaine fugitiues in Hispaine in Affrike that he as much harmed Rome being a Romaine borne and now out of his countrey as eyther Sylla or Marius did in their countrey Hauing sufficiently spoken of these kinde of sanctuaries of theyr too much libertie that grew thereby in all kingdomes as among the Hebrewes by Ieroboam in the battell at Mount Zemaraim among the Persians by Cyrus at the battell at Conauxa among the Romanes by Cinna and among the Affricans by Scotorius who all proclaimed sanctuaries and liberties to all fugitiue and banished souldiers we leaue sanctuaries which were appointed as a refuge for those that fled thither for succour and helpe vntill the truth were knowne and speake not of those that abused sanctuaries as a cloake of their tirannie and wickednesse You heard before how Adonias and Ioab were taken from the Aultar for they had abused the sanctuary for the Lord commaunded that his lawes should be seuerely kept and that no part thereof should be broken for King Oza vsurping the Leuites office against the lawe was striken with sudden death for the vnreuerent handling of the Arke which was the Leuites office Ozias the King was striken with leprosie for burning incense against the lawe which was the Priestes office Abihu and Nadab Aarons sonnes for that they both tooke Censors in their hands put fire therevpon and incense therein offered straunge fire before the Lord contrarie to the Lords commaundement fire from heauen destroyed them for the priests were commaunded to take no fire but from the aultar neither might they offer vncleane bread vpon the Lords table nor sowe cockles for corne in the Lords fields for the Lord will be more sanctified in his ministers then others and therfore he spared not Oza for handling the Arke nor Ozias for burning incense though they were both kings for transgressing one iot of his lawes
Mambre where he feasted them and intreated them on the behalfe of Zodome that if ten godly men might be found in it the citie might be saued but none was found there but iust Lot at this verie time vnder the oake of Mambre Isaac was promised to Abraham for so the Lorde named him at that time Sarah his mother being 90. yeares old So Samuel was borne of Anna his mother so Iacob and so Ioseph his sonne were borne of barren women as Isaac was foure also were named before they were borne Ismael the sonne of Abraham by Agar Isaac Solomon and Iosias Now againe to Abraham after Lot was rescued by him Lot dwelt againe in Zodom among reprobates and wicked vngodly men being named iust Lot hard it was for Lot to liue honest or iust among such wicked Zodomites and yet in Zodom Lot saued himself but in Zoar Lot was ouerthrowne Abraham could rescue Lot at the battell at Dan from 4. kings the Angels could saue Lot from the fire brimstone in Zodom yet could not Lot saue himself from drunkennesse in Zoar so fowle a fact by so iust a man may not be much spoken off Hence grew the first beginning of the Moabites and Ammonites enemies vnto God so much may be spoken of Ismael Abrahams sonne by Agar who grew so great so mighty on earth that they would not be called Agareni from Agar the bond-woman their mother from whence they tooke their beginning but they would be called Saraceni as borne of Sarah the true wife of Abrahā as the Ammonites and Moabites were left to plague the Hebrewes as pricks in their sides and needles in their eyes so the Saracens Turkes are now left to plague the Christians with sword and fire Before the battell at Siddim no battels in a manner haue bene fought but what was by Nimrod don who liued within a hundred thirtie yeares of the flood at what time people liued not knowing the name of a king vntill Nimrod grew so mightie and so great that hee brought the people vnder subiection in such feare and awe of him that they rather worshipped him as a God then obeyed him as a king whereof Nimrod waxed so proud that it grew to a prouerbe that if any Monarke or King should waxe too insolent or proud he should be noted named hic alter Nimrod for now Nimrod hauing obtained the Monarchy into his hands without resistance he called the people together to make a Tower frō the earth vnto heauē to reuenge the iniuries of his predecessors and to defend himselfe his Empire and to resist the violence of any further deludge He for want of men to fight withal on earth made a Tower that he might ascend vp to goe fight with the host of heauen So Cyrus imitating Nimrod hauing subdued all nations and kingdomes about him went for want of men to fight against him to fight against women into Scythia Alexander also imitating Cyrus after he had subdued all men and that no king would fight against him he went vnto India to fight with Elephants Leauing Nimrod to build his Towers in the aire Cyrus to fight with women in Scythia and Alexander the great to fight with Elephants in India we come to Ninus who tooke vpon him to be the first Monarch ouer the Assirians 150. yeares after Nimrod who after hee had ioyned his force with Aricus king of Arabia hee went with his army against Babilon subdued it and brought it into Assyria led his army vnto Armenia gaue battell to the Armenians subdued them also tooke their king Barsanes and went conquering all the kingdomes about vntill he came vnto Medea where the king fought with Ninus and the battell was equally fought of both parts but after that in another battell Ninus ouerthrewe the Meades and tooke their King in the battell and hangd him his wife and his seuen children in his owne kingdome So that within seuenteene yeares Ninus subdued all Asia and became so great that if the authors write truth hee had such an armie as none is read to haue the like especially at that time when the world was not populous within 50. yeares after the flood Before Ninus the Greeke nor the Romane writers make no mention of any warre or battell who proceeded forward and marched after he had conquered Arabia Medea and Babilon vnto the Bactrians and fought with Zoroastes their king who is said to haue first found the Art of Astronomy and Magique but this Zoroastes was slain in the field by Ninus and Ninus himselfe slaine with an arrow as Orosius saith others say that hee was slaine by his wife Semyramis It is written of this Zoroastes that when all other Infants weepe at their birth he laught In Ninus time we reade of the first Idolatry in scripture and that by Ninus himselfe who set vp the Image of Belus his father in a Temple which Ninus made dedicated to his father Belus after his death in Niniuie where all the countries and people came to worship and reuerence the name of Belus which grew in such credit in Asia and the East kingdomes that there was no lawe nor religion but what by Baals Priests and Baals Prophets were allowed And at that time that Nabuchodonozer raigned in Babilon a thousand yeares after Ninus Baal was so reuerenced and honored in Babilon that if any man should speake words against Baal or not kneele to him or worship him should die for it So was Sydrach and his fellowes throwne into a hot fierie fornace to be burned So was Daniel throwne into a denne to be deuoured of Lyons but neither Lyons nor fire had power to hurt the seruants of the Lord. This Baal was the onely Idoll in the East countrey vntill Elias found out the shifts of the false Prophets of Baal in the time of Achab King of Israel who first nourished Baals prophets in Israel After Elias Daniel found out in Babilon the falshood of Baals priestes how they cousoned Nabuchodonozer for his great allowance of bread wine and meate Leauing Belus to be the first Idoll and Ninus the first Idolater after whom little mention is made of the most part of the kings of Assyria sauing a catologue of their names though the Greekes as theyr manner is speake more then needs of them for the which Berosus the Chaldean writer doth much reprehend them for it and Plato their owne countrey man called them children for that they are addicted vnto fables and not giuen to learne antiquities but letting the Assirians to sleepe in silence I will returne to the marching of the Hebrewes vnder Moses out of Egipt CHAP. III. Of the calling of Moses and Aaron to lead the children of Israel out of Egipt THe Hebrewes which were 430. years bōdmē slaues vnto Pharao in Egipt vntil they multiplied to be such in number as Pharao doubted either to let them goe
Alexander from Persia to Macedonia was troden vnder foote in one or two victories and the Empire carried by Aemililius from Macedonia to Rome In this triumph of Pau. Aemilius the rich armours of all the Macedonian and Illyrian kings then al the plate cubbords and Iewels of the auntient kings of Macedonia were carried in charriots after followed foure hundred princely crownes of golde which the cities of Greece sent to honour Aemilius victorie and to beautifie his triumph in the which triumph such wealth and treasure was brought to Rome by Pau. Aemilius as farre exceeded the triumph of Scypio Asiaticus who carried in his triumphes the pictures of Townes and Citties of Asia painted in tables or the triumphes of Caesar who brought but the likenesse of hilles mountains and riuers or of Pompey the great who brought in his seuerall triumphes 339. kings kings children princes peeres noblemen yet none of these were equall to Pau. Aemilius in respect of the wealth he brought in one triumph to Rome who brought all the treasure wealth of two kingdomes Macedonia and Illyria not in shewe but in substance Others brought in their tryumphes the Images and statues of the kings which were slaine or otherwise died before they could bee taken captiues as Lucullus brought the statue or picture of Mithridates set out and painted very liuely in ensignes Scipio carried in his tryumphe at Carthage the Image of Asdrubal Hannibals brother So Augustus Caesar brought the Image of Cleopatra to Rome in his tryumphe after shee slue her selfe to beare company with her friend Mar. Antonius Others brought in their tryumphes kings aliue as Iul. Caesar brought king Iuba and his sonne with all their treasures of Mauritania in great tryumphe and pompe into Rome Marius brought in his tryumphe Iugurth with all spoyles and wealth of Numidia with all the solemnitie that could be Yet in the infancie of Rome before Rome grew to any greatnesse the first kings tryumphed on foote into the citie as Romulus who though he tryumphed ouer king Acron whom hee slue in a combat challenged yet he being a king carried vpō his shoulders the rich spoyls of the same king being set in order vpon a young green bough of an oake as trophies of tryumphes without either horse coach Elephant or braue shewes and yet his tryumphe was for two kingdomes So did Corneli Cossus who slue fighting in the field hand to hand Tolumnus Generall of the Thuscans And so did Marcellus who likewise slue with his owne hand Britomarus king of the old Gaules before they were called Frenchmen this honour happened to none of the Romaines besides but to these three for Rome yet was scant heard of out of Italy Vechoris king of Egipt by Herodot called Sesostris for examples sake of courage fortitude of souldiers and to kindle their mindes to attempt great exploits in wars hee vsed when hee had ouerthrowne a valiant Armie and manly souldiers he would set vp a marble pillar and vppon it the picture of a man in brasse with a naked swoord in his hande as a trophey in tryumph of his victorie ouer hardie men and if hee had vanquished but a cowardly company and timerous souldiers hee would cause to bee put vp the picture of a naked woman with a Glasse in her hand and a combe to disgrace the souldiers which hee had conquered signifying they were timerous cowardly and womanish souldiers For honour and rewarde of military discipline of all kingdomes and countreys were inuented by wit and by lawe confirmed to set vp monuments of fame to great conquerers and noble Captaines to stirre vp young men to embrace Armes and to exercise martiall feates As Pericles in Athens had nine seuerall trophies for nine seuerall victories and vpon euery one his name written So Sylla for his victorie against Archelaus had a trophey set vp and his name written with these words Victoria Sylla Domitius Aenobarbus and Fabius Maximus for their victories against the Allobroges were the first among the Romanes that builded vp high towers of stone and pillars of wood and hangd the enemies armors weapons theron as trophies monumēts of their victories Sicinius Dentatus to signifie his singular commendations had for his noble exploites in diuers warres eight golden crownes foure ciuill crownes three scaling crownes called Murales coronae foure score three chaines eighteen pure speares and had a hundred three score bracelets giuē him in rewards gifts for his braue seruice in seuerall battels The like praise had Manlius Capitolinus who besides foure ciuil crownes had twentie sixe military rewards and before he was seuenteen years old wanne two rich spoyles of the enemy So forward to winne fame and become famous were the old Romanes The old Romanes vsed to honour them that saued a citizens life with a garland of oaken boughes for so was Corilianus by the Dictator Titus Largius at the last battell of Torquine the proud crowned with a garland of oaken boughes Besides these crownes garlands chaines bracelets rings and armour giuen by the Generall they had certaine military garments and certaine acres of ground diuided betweene worthy and well deserued souldiers by the lawe Agraria appointed to encourage the souldiers to hardinesse Alexander the great so esteemed the Tribune of the souldiers that he would admit none in the place vnder three score yeares old vnlesse he had bene of great skill long experience and a man of good and long seruice to whome Alexander the great admitted to weare golden rings as a reward of a military honour neither was it lawfull to any Romaine citizen vnlesse hee were a Senator or of the order of knighthood to weare golden ringes in auncient time This officer called Tribunus militum with the Romanes was named with the Lacedemonians Harmostes an officer of the care and charge of seruice as the Tribune or the Collonell of souldiers and might not continue in that office past sixe moneths as long as the Dictator of Rome was to enioy his office And when the Emperor Prince or Generall would allow and commend the office place of the Tribune to a graue skilful Captaine he would put a naked sword in his hand signifying his authoritie ouer the souldiers repeating the wordes of the lawe of armes before the whole armie set downe in these words Milites quibus iussierunt Parento eorumque Tribuni sunto The same forme vsed Traiane the Emperour in his time when he appointed Zura a Tribune ouer the Praetorian souldiers giuing a sword in his hand saying Accipe gladium quem prome c. If I vse this gouernment well vse it for mee If I do euil vse it to destroy mee None might be with the Romanes admitted to be Tribunes of the souldiers vnlesse he had bene before a leader of the band called Cohortes neither might any man be taken Harmostes among the Lacedemonians vnlesse
enemies by the hand saying Herbando a word of yeelding For in all military discipline amōg all nations and by martial lawes of all countries those that were forced to seeke peace yeeld themselues to the conqueror were to be accepted Iure deditionis Yet the Romanes could scant away with yeelding souldiers for those Romane souldiers that yeelded themselues to Pirrhus were not redeemed by the Romains especially soldiers that yeelded in armour were neuer after accepted as Romaines and the souldiers that fled back from the enemies to his fellowes in the campe should be met by the way and slaine by their owne fellowes so that the Romaines would neuer grace a yeelded souldier So Philopomen said hearing certaine Grecians much commending a valiant captaine for his courage and policie Can you said Philopomen so commend a valiant captaine that yeelded himselfe and was contented to be takē prisoner aliue I like the Romanes said Philopomen that would neuer pay raunsome for a Romane captaine taken aliue in battell and yet they would raunsome the body of a captaine slaine in the field to bury him Yet at the battell of Pharsalia after Pompey and his captaines fled and his army scattered the rest yeelded to Caesar holding their targets on their heads and deliuering their weapons to Caesar. So much the Romanes esteemed their targets that laying them vpon their heades though they yeelded their swords their speares and other weapons to Caesar yet would they not yeelde their targets but together with their heads So did the Greekes esteeme their targets that the Lacedemonians mad◅ lawe that that captaine or that souldier that had lost his shield in the battell should loose his life after the battell And therfore the womē of Lacedemonia commanded their childrē whē they went to warres holding vp and shewing a Target in one of their hands saying Aut cuns hoc redeas aut super hoc moriaris eyther to dye vpon their shields and targets in the field or to bring with thē their targets from the field So odious were coward souldiers in Lacedemonia that the women of Sparta would meet their sonnes that fled from the battell and hold vp their clothes saying where will you flye you cowards will you creep again into your mothers belley Of all nations onely the Lacedemonians and the old Germans were so seuere against those that lost their shields in the battell that among the Germaines they should not be allowed to come to any publike councell nor bee admitted to come to the Temples or to the Church to heare seruice Though there was punishment appointed for souldiers that lost speare launce or any other military weapon yet not capitall punishment which was onely by law appointed to those souldiers that lost their shields for that both the Greekes and the Romane captaines had their names written within theyr shieldes and therefore they thought it moste ignominious that their shelds should be lost least their shields should bragge of their names which made that worthy Captaine Epaminondas beeing wounded to death at the battell at Mantinea to enquire if his Target were safe which beeing deliuered vnto him hee tooke it and kissed it and saide now Epaminondas dyeth not but beginneth to liue for I haue two daughters of mine Mantinea and Leuctres to celebrate the fame of Epaminondas which subdued the stout Lacedemodians subiect vnto the Thaebans Scypio Affricanus looking on a souldiers target which was most braue and most richly adorned said I much commend thee to make most of that which defendeth and saueth thy life most often So Marius and Catulus both Gonsuls of Rome in their warres against the Cymbrians their souldiers each one had his captaines name and his owne name written on his shield and other military weapons that by looking on their captaines name they might do the greater seruice to honour their captaines So auncient was the fame and honour in olde time giuen to targets and shields among the Grecians the Troians that the name of Neptune was written in the shields of the Grecians and the name of Minerua on the shields of the Troians I will therefore speake something of the Grecian warres against the Persians before I intreat of military discipline and I will mention but foure principall speciall victories which the Grecians had ouer the great kings of Persia for that the Grecians may not be thoght to esteeme their targets for nothing The first and most renowned victorie of the Grecians ouer the Persians at the battell of Plataea where of sixe hundred thousand fighting men which Mardonius Generall of the Persians had in his campe there was slaine two hundred thousand Persians and Mardonius himselfe slaine by a Spartan souldier vnder Pausanias In memory of this victory there is a common assembly of all the states of Greece at Plataea where the Plataeans make a solemne sacrifice vnto Iupiter protector of their libertie for those noble Grecians that were slaine at Plataea with chariots laden with braunches of firre trees with nosegaies garlands of triumphs then followed a black bull and some young noble gentlemen that carried great bowles full of wine and others carried pots full of milk to powre upon the graues of those dead noble captaines that died for their countrey others carried oyles perfumes and sweete odours in glasses After this followed the Generall holding a funerall pot in the one hand a naked sword in the other vnto the graues where these noble captaines gentlemen were buried that were slain in that battell and there the General washed the pillars arches Images of those noble valiant Greeks that were wrought vpon them then annointed them with oyles sweet sauours after beautified them with sweet flowers nosegaies crowned them with seueral kinds of garlands In this solemne sort the Generall tooke a great bowle of wine holding out his hād towards the graues saying I drinke to you noble captains and valiant gentlemē that died in the defence of Greece Alexander the great vpon the graue of Achilles vsed a funeral sacrifice not altogether vnlike the Grecians maner caused himselfe with diuers of his company to be washed and after to be annointed with ointments with garlands of mirtle vpō their heads and in solemne procession to goe round about Achilles graue all naked sixe hundred yeares after Achilles death So Traiane the Emperour in Alexandria vsed the like funerall sacrifice vpon Alexanders graue 400. yeares after Alexanders death after the Romane maners custome with garlands crowns made of flowers vpō his graue with sacrifice of frankincense other sweet odours in the very same house in Alexandria where Alexander dwelt for he died at Babilon was buried in Alexādria his owne towne They vsed the like funerall ceremonies in the feast called Parentalia in Rome which was celebrated with beanes pulses wafers and drie figges laide vpon a bare flint stone on
the wicked pa. ead The vowes of the Nazarites pa. 281 Monasticall vowes pa. ead The Rechabites vowes pa. 282 The Oracles of Ammon pa. 283 Signes of victories giuen by the Lord pa. 284 The Hebrewes consulted with Urim and Thummim pa. 285 The superstitious Oracles of the Gentiles pa. 286 The Consuls of Rome and the Kings of Sparta deposed pa. 287 Soothsaying by flying of fowles pa. 288 Cyrus and Alexander forewarned of their death by soothsaying pa. 289 Themistocles pa. ead Aristander Alexander his soothsayer pa. 290 Superstitious Oracles of the Gentiles pa. ead The greedinesse of Dacius and Xerxes of money pa. 291 Any stratageme in iust warres is lawfull pa. 292 The credit of Soothsayers pa. 293 The Idolatry of Israel pa. ead The rich spoile which Philip had in Delphos pa. 294 Sanctuaries allowed by the Lord to the Hebrewes pa. 295 Sanctuaries allowed among all nations pa. 296 Kings fledde to Sanctuaries pa. ead The abuse and ill order of Sanctuaries pa. 297 The breach of lawes seuerely punished in kings pa. 298 Numas religious lawes in Rome pa. 299 The prophanatiō of the ceremonies of Ceres by Alcibiades and Clodius pa. 300 20000. ware mourning apparell for Cicero in Rome pa. ead Ciceroes opinion of the Romaine victories pa. 301 Antalcidas saying to Agesilaus pa. 302 Alexander the great rewarded maimed souldiers pa. ead The liberalitie of Captaines pa. 303 Condemned murtherers sacrificed on Captaines graues pa. 304 Greedie Princes euer lost more the they wanne pa. 305 Of ambitious Generals and Captaines page 306. 307. 308 The Image of Iustice painted in Egipt without a head page 307 Platoes opinion against ambitious men pa. ead Philosophers slew themselues pa. 309 The victories of Sertorius page 310 Licurgus lawe allowed ambition pa. 311 Ambitious men banished from Athens pa. ead Themistocles banished pa. 312 Comparisons betweene the Romanes and the Grecians page 314 Pericles surnamed Olimpius pa. ead Pirrhus saying of Rome pa. 315 Philopomen the last Captaine of any fame in Greece pa. 316 Of diuers kindes of trumpets in warres 317. 318 Of diuers tents and sailes page 319 The watch word of diuers noble captaines in their warres page 320 Of sundrie stratagems pa. 321 Crassus slaine among the Parthians pa. 322 The ouerthrow of the Romanes by the Cymbrians pa. 323 Pub. Ventidius triumphes page 324 The victories of the Greekes at Marathon pa. 325 The victorie of the Syracusans ouer the Athenians pa. 326 The battell at Cranon pa. 327 Alexander feared in Greece pa. ead Libraries destroyed pa. 328 The librarie of Attalus and Eumenes in Asia destroyed page 329 Aiax Patroclus two Elephants so named of Antiochus pa. ead The librarie at Rome pa. ead The Romanes only professed armes pa. 330 The opinion of Cato pa. ead Callimachus and Chrysippus great writers pa. 331 The lawe of Armes broken pa. 332 Faire words deceiued many Captaines pa. ead Archidamus counsell to the Lacedemonians pa. 333 Much bloud spent in breach of faith pa. ead The breach of the lawe of Armes pa. 334. 335 Zopyrus stratagem pa. 336 Aiax foolish answere to his father pa. ead Cyrus and Agamemnons wish pa. pa. 337 The great pride of Xerxes and Nimrod pa. 338 Securitie in warres hurtfull pa. 339 Pompeys parasites pa. ead The victorie of Drusus pa. 340 The flatterers of Tigranes King of Armenia pa. ead The victorie of Lucullus ouer the Athenians pa. ead Themistocles celeritie in his victories pa. 341 30000. Archers draue Agesilaus out of Persia pa. 342 An Owle printed on the coyne of Athens pa. ead The celeritie and quick dispatch of great captaines pa. 343 Celeritie praised page 344 Astiages dreames pa. 345 Xerxes dreame pa. ead Hanibals dreame pa. 346 Ioseph enuied of his bretheren pa. ead Iosephs second dreame pa. 347 Ioseph and Daniel expounders of dreames pa. ead Isaac named pa. 348 Women among the Israelites gaue names to their children pa. ead The surnames of great Romaine captaines pa. 349 Moneths named after the name of Emperors pa. ead The surnames of great Captaines and Generals in Greece pa. 350 Arsaces the name of all the Kings in Parthia pa. 351 The Iuorie house of Achab. pa. 352 FINIS 39. Kings ouerthrowne by Moises and Ioshua Of combats The vow of Cherim Adam rescued by the seed of the womā Luke 11. Elizeus leadeth the Army of Benhadad blind frō Dothan to Samaria They that mourned in Ierusalem were marked with the letter Tau Pauls marke Iacobites marke Cains mark Esaus marke Turneb lib. 24. cap. 12. The markes of diuers nations with the letter Tau Appul lib. 9. Alex. Neapolit lib. 6. cap. 18. The time that Barbers were first seen in Rome Philip. Archidamus Abraham the first man marked Gen. 12. Abraham feared Abimelech and Pharao for his wife Abraham read Astronomy in Egipt Ioseph lib. 1. de Antiq. I◅ Abraham rescued the fiue kings and Lot his Nephew The victorie of Gedeon ouer the Madianites Iud. 7. Dauid rescued his two wiuess 1. Sam. 30. Gen. 14. Three Angels feasted at Mambre with Abraham Foure were named before they were borne Tantae virtutis est quātae difficultatis bonum esse inter malos Bernar. Epis. 25. Ismaelites would not be called Agareni of Agar but Saraceni of Sarah The Tower of Babel builded by Nimrod Cyrus army to Scythia Alexan. voyage to India Ninus the first Monarch Barsanes Diodor fic◅ lib. 3. Farnus K. of the Meades Seuen hundred thousand Zoroastes laught at his birth The first Idolatry by Ninus Baal the first Idoll Plato in T◅meo The male children of the Hebrues were thrown to Nilus The tyrannie of Pharao Oros. lib. 1. cap. 10. A comparison betweene the Egiptians and the Romanes The armies of the Lord in Egipt vnder Moses The first plague The comparison of the first plague with the first persecuton Orosi lib. 7. Nero slue himselfe Ester 3. 3. Reg. ca. 19 4. Reg. ca. 21 The second plague An armie of Frogges Exod. 8. The second tryumph of Moses in Egipt The blasphemy of Nicanor punished The comparison of the second plagne with the second persecution The horrible blasphemie both of Pharao and Domitianus alike Domitianus Image set vp in the temple as Ierusalem Domitianus slaine in his owne house by his seruants The third plague Exod. 8. Iamnes and Iambres The third persecution Pliny to Traiane Philo was not heard of Nero. Sapor King of Persia. The fourth plague The fourth yeelding of Pharao to Moses The fourth persecution The fighting of the Iewes with wilde beasts The yeelding of tyrants Blasphemers confesse the Lord to be God The fift plague Pharao and Esau compared The fift persecution Septimius and Antiochus murthered The tyrannie of Antiochus against the Iewes 1. Machab. 6. Ioseph li. 12. cap. 13. Antiochus at his death confessed the great wrong he did to Ierusalem and Iudah The sixt plague The fable of Manetho of Moses which he named Osarphis Tisithes Pliny his opinion of Moses Ioseph lib. 2. contra Appionem The sixt persecution Euseb. lib.