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A06134	The consent of time disciphering the errors of the Grecians in their Olympiads, the vncertaine computation of the Romanes in their penteterydes and building of Rome, of the Persians in their accompt of Cyrus, and of the vanities of the Gentiles in fables of antiquities, disagreeing with the Hebrewes, and with the sacred histories in consent of time. VVherein is also set downe the beginning, continuance, succession, and ouerthrowes of kings, kingdomes, states, and gouernments. By Lodovvik Lloid Esquire.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1590 (1590)	STC 16619; ESTC S108762	565,858	746

to bee martyred yea some from the Emperours Court of his familie as Dor theus Gorgonius and other Courtiers yea they of the Emperours chamber his owne cousins being some but very young of great honour and great fauour loue and liking with the Emperor made more choise of this seruice and cruell death then of that Courtly and gallant life among whome I finde one named Petrus a young lustie prince who refused to bowe to Idoles or to doe any sacrifice vnto them hee was commaunded to bee lifted vp naked and there to be whipped and scourged vntill hee woulde willingly sacrifice to Idoles ●…hee stoode stout and constant vntill by beating vnto the very bones his fiesh from his body fell by pieces and then they tooke salt and vineger mingled together and powred it in purulentis corporis partibus as the historie sayth and yet hee yeelded not then th●… brought him to the fire where they pinche●… him with hote irons and pricked him with sharpe bodkins and perceiuing that hee would not recant he was commanded to be burned In this Dioclesians time all prisons were full of Christians and all Townes and Cities full of persecutions In Arabia multitudes of Martyrs were tormented with sundry inuentions as breaking of their legges pulling out their eyes cutting of their nostrels and their lippes knocking out their teeth and such vnchristian like torments In Antiochia with burning coles they tortured the Martyrs of Christ Iesus In Pontus the Martyrs were thus tortured with sharpe long and strong needles thrusting them vp vnder the nailes of their fingers and vnder the nailes of their toes To bee short in some places their right eye was put out and the left knee was cutte off in some other places in boyling leade they were by little and little tormented and in other places with all tortures in their priuie members most terrible to be spoken punished and martyred In all places all kinde of torments were most cruelly vsed against the Saintes and people of God When Dioclesianus had reigned twentie yeeres and had fomed like a bloody bore against the Church hee dyed in whose time the Christians multiplied by his tyrannie more then reason or sence can alleadge After him succeded Maxentius an Emperor who though hee dissembled for a while to gette the Romanes good will yet he shortly proued a tyraunt and so hatefull to good men that betweene Maximinus in the East coūtries with his hypocrisie and superstition and Maxentius in Rome with his filthinesse and tyrannie the Church againe and the members thereof were most miserably afflicted in such sort that neither Mazentius in Rome nor Maximinus abroade coulde neither stoppe nor staye the multitude that dayly came into Gods Church neither their murthering and killing in euery countrie could feare them any thing at all Maximinus one of the greatest persecutors sauing Dioclesian who in thirtie daies slue and martyred 1700. Christians by some diuine iustice of God fell grieuously sicke at Tarsus where despairing of his life feeling his cōscience accusing him for the great slaughter he vsed against the Christians he caused by an edict persecution to stay and to loose prisoners out of prison to set captiue Christians at libertie but this cōtinued not but while the emperor was sicke liketo die for whē he recouered his health he waxed more cruel thē before sparing neither man woman nor childe vsing all kinde of torments on the Byshops and learned men in all Countries so that his tyrannie ouer the Christians might bee well compared to the rage and furie of Pharao ouer the Israelites But he was cutte offrō this murthering slaughter of the Christians by Licinius the Emperour who then had maried Constantia sister to Constantine the great for at this time foure emperors were at once gouernors of Rome so a litle before Maxentius the other persecutour was discomfited and vanquished by Constantine the great at Miluius bridge Thus farre fomed tyraunts in Christian blood and the Church was sore afflicted euery where where the Romane Emperours gouerned And thus farre doth Eusebius his tenne bookes handle and set forth of those kingdomes and Countries where this persecution and affliction of the Church remained euen from the Apostles time vntill Constantine the great This Constantine was a godly Emperor who defended the Christians and the Church of Christ that in steade of persecution brought libertie to the Church and in steade of warre peace for after that Constantine the great had vanquished Licinius had gotten the Empire into his owne hand he established first religion and caused a Synod of Byshops at Rome to determine and to agree concerning the agreement in religion he wrote to Miltiades Byshop of Rome he sent to Affrike to his lieutenant Anilinus that Cecilianus Byshop of Carthage with the other tenne Byshops that accused him should be sent to Rome there further to examine the faults and errors of Cecilianus and to auoide that controuersie betweene these byshops that then in diuers places liued Hee wrote that bishops out of Fraunce and out of Affrike should againe come together to reason in causes of the Church and to moderate the same for during the time that Licinius his Collegue in the Empire reigned specially in the end Licinius beganne to hate Constantine and to persecute the Church waxed cruell against good byshops persecuted them most vehemently and threwe their Churches downe slue and murthered the people most miserably for then Licinius commenced not onely warre against Constantinus but also against God and his Church Hee caused Basilius Byshop of Amasia in Pontus to bee slaine with the sworde and a hundred other His furie continued not long and therefore God raysed vp this good Emperour to reuenge his people not onely nowe vpon Licinius but also vpon Maxentius and Maximinus two great persecutours of the Christians After this as you heard Constantinus studied howe hee might benefite the Church establish religion and ayde the afflicted members that long suffered sharpe persecution and were nowe scattered into wildernesses into mountaines and into such places where they might hide themselues from the sworde and from the fire This time florished Egypt with sundry learned and godly Philosophers Also in Mesopotamia the like godly men liued some in wildernesses and in mountaines as these whose names I lay downe as I founde them in Rufinus 1 Marcereus and another of that name liued in the wildernesse 2 Isidorus in a place called Scithi 3 Pembus in the desert of Egypt Moyses and Beniamin in a place called Nitria 4. 5. 6. Scyron and Helias and Paulus liued and hid themselues in Apeliote 7. 8. Poemen and Ioseph in Pispirihill these with many others that liued in diuers partes of Egypt true and sound Christians Nowe when Constantine the great had by his greatnesse enlarged the Empire of Rome farre more then any of his

inuenter of Musike as the harpe the organes and other instruments Zillah bare him a sonne named Tubal Caine he found first the vse of iron and brasse he was the first author of cunning craft in grauing Here is Plinie much deceiued to name Amphion the first Musition here was Diodorus ouerseene to preferre Apollo and the most part of prophane histories doe greatly erre attributing to Mercurie to Orpheus to Linus and to others which are read in Genesis in the first age found for Propheticall histories are farre more auncient then prophane by 2000. yeres beside the first age and first Fathers liued so long a time therein they must of necessitie be first acquainted with all things for the chiefest cause of long life in the first age was that all men vniuersally might praise the Lord God in magnifying his name acknowledging his workes in his creatures Thus did Adam Seth Enos Henoch Methusalem Lamech and Noah see yea and foresee the workes of God in his creation in his Church in his redemption in his promise and in his election for Iosephus writeth that the creation of man the commandement the state the Church institution of mariages all other gouernments fit for the children of God were by Adam in two tables of stones and some olde ancient writers affirme as Melancthon that the first age was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for that they excell in wisedome iustice gouernment and authoritie full of inuentions full of of artes and sciences and therefore a long life was by God granted vnto them for no doubt Adam before his fall had that full and perfect knowledge of God in his workes that he his posterities taught afterward in the word The second age was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein began the magnanimitie and fortitude in warres force and violence In vvarres Empires and kingdomes tooke beginning in the vvorld and this second age began in Nimrode and continued vntill Iulius Caesars time The third age 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 endureth the vvhole time of the fourth monarche giuē to delicacie pleasure for though the vvorld be full of secret contention and hidden enuie full of open vvarres one kingdom against another yet not accomplished as in the fore ages But to returne to Caine and his posterities hovv they grevv from the beginning in idolatrie in superstition in outvvard pompe of vaine ceremonies framing to themselues a nevv kind of religion not in sinceritie and trueth but in externall forme and fashion being ignorant of God and of his vvord Christ the Messias that vvas to come This idolatrie began in the house of Caine from Caine himselfe vnto the time of Belus 150. yeere after the flood This Belus being dead his sonne Ninus erected vp his fathers image or statue vvith such honour and vvith such priuiledge and vvith such solemne pompe as he that vvas guiltie of any great crime might flee Adstatuā Beli to the image of Belus as to a sure sanctuarie of his safetie vvhat fault soeuer he committed Here began the second cause of idolatrie here images vvere made idols set vp and all kind of grauen vvorke in stones or trees vvere honoured as gods amongst the Gentiles deriued frō the name of Belus some calling them Baal some Bel some Belcebuc according to the varietie of tongues as Eusebius vvriteth And this idolatrie continued frō Belus vntill Alexander the great to vvhom at the siege of Babylon certaine Astrologers called Magi signified vnto Alexander vnlesse hee vvould restore the tombe of Belus being spoiled and defaced by the Persians he should haue no good successe at Babylon but Alexander litle esteeming their Chaldaicall diuination as Diodorus at large doth report marcheth forward with his siege At what time vvas Lucius Cornelius Quintus Pompeius Consuls at Rome so the first idolatrie of Cain and his posteritie vvere vvel and iustly revvarded by the flud The second age vvhen idolatrie began in Belus ended in Sardanapalus 12. hundred and odde yeeres being the 36. king and last king of Assyria as Eusebius affirmeth All this vvhile God had his Church for his elect the Lord had appointed another seede vnto Adam for Abel vvhich vvas Seth in vvhose time men began to call vpon the name of the Lord and the Lord did moone the hearts of the godly to restore religion The posteritie of Seth vvhich vvas by Caine and his familie suppressed and continued seuen generations vntill such time that Naema the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal Caine taught men the vse of fine flaxe to be soft clothed and to be trimme attired vvith cloth and linnen vvhere before men vvere clothed vvith leather and skinnes Novve the posteritie of Caine became right vvorldlings in follovving their fancies and pleasures from vice to vice nothing acquainted vvith the afflictions and crosses of the true Church so vvhen men began to bee multiplied vpon earth and had daughters borne vnto them then the sonnes of God as Moses calleth them vvhich Iosephus calleth the angels of God meaning the seede of Seth vvhich began to forsake the godlines and simplicitie of their forefathers savv the daughters of men vvhich issued out from Caines house that they vvere faire tooke them to their vviues of all that liked them of this vnlavvfull and vvicked mixture of the good vvith the bad of this holie seede vvith profane blood of godly men vvith vvicked vvomen sprang vp an huge people much like vnto the gyants or as Homer saith in his sixt Odysse speaking of the Cyclope Poliphemus to vvhom Moses compareth them alluding the course of their life ad Cyclopicam vitam men more to be feared then to be follovved yet Seth a man singularly beloued of God endevved much vvith Gods blessings studious to please God desirous to plant true religion and giuen to all kinde of vertuous practising all godly exercises and liuing in all felicitie left behind him godly children as Enos godly and vertuous like Seth his father vvhome Moses preferreth to be the first that earnestly called vpon the Lord Iehouah detesting the house of Caine as dead Then Henoch a godly sincere man led an vpright life before God the seuenth from Adam prophesied of such wicked men saying Behold the Lord commeth vvith thousands of his Saints to giue iudgement against all and to rebuke all the vngodly of their vvickednesse and of their cruell speaking against him for euen that Henoch saieth Paul vvas taken avvay to shevv that there vvas a better life prepared and to bee a testimonie of the immortalitie of soules and bodies and that hee shoulde not see death for his faith towardes God for before he vvas taken avvay he vvas reported that he had pleased God he was seene no more for God tooke him avvay Henoch vvalked vvith Lamech the father of Noah hauing respect to the promise desired to see the Messias vvhich should be sent and yet he savve but a

was sure of the kingdome and had setled himselfe as a King hee straight commaunded Townes and Cities to be builded and erected many strong Fortes made good lawes and gouerned the Medes with equitie and iustice for the space of fiftie three yeres as both Herodot and Diodorus Siculus affirme This Deiocis likewise appointed a certeine garde for his person for change of state is dangerous for nowe Deiocis from a Magistrate was made a king and therefore with greater care and feare he foresawe things belonging to his person hee had his garison and his garde to attend his person and prouided that the Medes who both loued him and honoured him so much shoulde bee in all seruice at his becke he commaunded then to builde one great Towne a chiefe Citie and to bee the onely seate of the king as in all kingdomes the Palace of the king is the chiefest Nowe the Medes hauing this commaundement beganne with one consent to builde one great Towne aboue the rest fortified with walles and strengthened with garisons This citie was great and large and was called Ecbatana where this king Deiocis liued vsing such iustice and seueritie as hereby no man might haue accesse vnto him but by meanes hee grew so seuere that no man might haue sight of him no man might laugh cough or spit before him This was the onely king that brideled the Medes and asmuch commended for his seuere punishment of iniuries as for his sounde iudgement of iustice and equitie praysed There were many nations subiect vnto the Medes as Buse Paretaceni Arezantij Budi and others In his time reigned in Macedonia Perdiccas in Iudea Ezechias and his sonne Manasses in Rome reigned Romulus in the later ende of his reigne and in Lydia Candaules the fourth king of Lydia This time reigned in Egypt 12. gouernours of equal authoritie these ruled Egypt as supreame magistrates 15. yeres vntill Psammeticus one of these 12. Iudges had gotten the kingdome vnto his owne hands who reigned 54. yeeres king in Egypt You shall reade in Herodot and in Diodorus Siculus the whole historie euen from this king Psammeticus vntill the time of Cambyses As Kingdomes and Countries florished and became mightie strong in armes so they inuented militarie discipline to defende themselues their Countries euery Kingdome had their proper and seuerall order of fighting with varietie and change of their marching into battell with sundry and diuers kindes of Trumpets and ensignes The Egyptians had Crocodiles and cattes in their ensignes for those which they honoured as goddes in the Citie they vsed them in their warres in their ensignes and a Trumpet made of a horne The Indians had in their ensignes the picture of Hercules caried before them into battell with many little Belles and Timbrels for their Trumpets The Persians preferred in their ensignes the image of the sunne and burning lampes which should be caried in the middest of the armie The old Athenians caused an owle to be set in their ensignes and the Thebans the image of Sphinx with shaulmes flates for trumpets The Macedonians had a wolfe caried in their ensignes The ancient Romanes before they grew to their greatnes vsed a handfull of hay tied to the ende of their speares which should be caried before them as ensignes and thereby called manipulares miliets they had not yet vsed in their ensignes the picture of a horse which they vsed after the hay or of a bore or of Minotaurus or of the eagle which nowe they vse for their ensignes The Cimbrians had in their ensignes a brasen bull The olde auncient Germanes vsed to paint in their ensignes the likenesse of shining light The Parthians tied little brasen belles to their speares and infinite number of hornes hauing before them caried in their ensigne a flagge of red leather painted ouer ful of keies And so I might speake of more that vsed their coūtrie orders and maners in warres but mightie Emperours and Kings had in their seuerall ensignes what pleased them as Hanibal had a red flagge with a naked sword for his ensigne Old Osiris had the dogge Anubis in his ensigne Great Porus king of India had the image of Hercules caried before him in his ensigne Cyrus king of Persia a cocke Iulius Caesar an Elephant Eumenes king of Asia had in his ensigne the image of Ceres and the statue of Alexander the great Neoptolemus the image of Minerua Ca. Marius in the Cymbrian warres vsed to cary in his ensigne a siluer eagle and so vpon their tents they vsed the like And so of their secret watchword which the Emperours and great kings vsed in their warres I thought good to set downe some briefe examples of mightie great conquerours and captaines which they vsed in the fielde in the time of warre to their officers and souldiers Cyrus king of Persia would vse this for his watch-word Iupiter belli Dux Antiochus sirnamed Soter vsed this watchworde Bene valere Augustus Caesar Emperour of Rome vsed this word Faelicitas sometime Victoria M. Antonius in his warres vsed this worde Lar Deus Pompey the great vsed Invictus Hercules Caius Caligula the Emperour vsed Priapus and Venus for his watcheword Demetrius king of Macedonia had for his watchworde Iupiter Victoria The Emperour Septimus Seuerus vsed this word Laboremus As Pertinx the emperour vsed Militemus for their watch-words in their campe Claudius Caesar neuer missed this watchworde Virum vlcisci decet The watchworde of Silla was but Apollo The sixt king of the Medes was named Phaortes a man of great promesse and of great fortune who much encreased the state of Media with winning of many countreys and adding of many nations to the kingdome of Media he moued warres first against the Persians and brought them at length vnder his hand and vanquished them who became subiects vnder Phaortes to the Empire of Media After that he passed further vnto Asia destroying and vanquishing many stoute nations in so much that he brought all Asia vnder the Medes Againe he went with great force against the Assyrians layde siege to Niniue where he was slaine and all his armie vanquished he raigned in Media 22. yeeres about the 33. Olympiad 105. yeeres after the building of Rome At this time raigned in Iudea the good king Iosias who destroied idolatrie restored religion cōmanding the groues the altars and other superstitious places to be had in pieces he caused all the wickednes which raigned among the Iewes in his fathers dayes king Amon to be quite taken away Now in Lydia gouerned Ardeis the 6. king of the Lydians In Rome gouerned Tullus Hostilius the 3. king of the Romanes in Agrigentū at this time the great tyrant Phalaris exercised his tyrannie After Phaortes had brought all Asia vnder the Empire and had vanquished the Persians and now the monarchie was in Media the Medes grew so strong that they subdued

was so full of renowmed cities famous riuers notable mountaines a countrey of singular rarenesse in althings that it were to much labour to write the due praise of Greece But I referre him that would reade the setting forth of Greece to the eight ninth booke of Strabo to the second booke of Pomponius Mela where all Greece is particularly described at large and I will proceede to the seuerall gouernment of Greece in seuerall countreis and will set downe the continuance of euery Region with the names of the kings where and how long they raigned and for that the countrey of Morea is the first inhabited countrey of Greece and the largest region of the same called in Strabo Arxtotius Greciae I wi●… beginne with their common wealth This region was first named Aegialia by the name of Aegialeus their first king and continued so vntill the time of Apis the 4. king after whom this region was named Apia which name continued vnto the time of Sicyon the 19. king of Morea After this king Sicyons time the countrey was called Sicyonium and continued vntill Pelops time by whom againe the countrey was called Peloponesus and now at this time is called Morea so that Peloponesus had fiue seueral change of names from the first gouernment vnder Aegialeus the first king vntill Xeuxippus raigne the last king of the Peloponesians And although the kings of that region did nothing worth the memorie hauing bene twentie and sixe kings successiuely yet they are the very way to come further vnto Greece for all this while the whole countrey of Greece was inhabited with barbarous people and was farre from the fame which they gained afterwarde therefore I will briefly passe ouer the historie of their kings and their raigne because I might speake of other countreys in Greece which flourished together with Morea For the first king of this region was named Aegialeus he gouerned that part of Greece at what time Ninus raigned in Assyria and as Eusebius writeth Thebaei ruled Egypt in the yeere of the world two thousand one hundreth and seuen yet Bibliander would not allow so many yeeres by two hundreth and odde which is rather to bee followed for that it doeth with the Genesis agree For in the fiue and twentieth yere of this king Ninus was Abraham borne which was within two hundreth and ninetie yeeres after the flood and therefore better agreeth with Ninus time The second king after Aegialeus was named Europs hee raigned fiue and fourtie yeeres this time flourished Zoroastes the great king of the Bactrians he was thought to be the first that read Astrologie and taught to others Astronomie in whose time Tribeta the sonne of Ninus by Semiramis was expulsed out of the kingdome of Assyria and hee builded a towne in the coast of Gallia and called it Treueris The thirde king of Sicyonium was named Stelchium hee raigned twentie yeres at what time the kingdome of Creete beganne and had for the first king one named Cres after whose name the countrey of Creete was called This Cres builded a citie in Creete and named it Nosus in the which he also builded a temple to the goddesse Cybeles After him succeeded Apis the fourth king of that region after whom as I haue written before it was called Apia hee raigned then when Ninus the sonne of Ninus and Semiramis gouerned the Assyrians After him followed the fift king named Telasion in whose time died Noah the righteous preacher and patriarch and at which time Abraham begate Ismael vpon Agar the bond woman of this Ismael came all the Ismaelites a wicked nation that offended the Lorde In time afterward they were called Agareni after the name of Agar and now are called Saraceni which are infidels and heathens Now succeeded Telasion the sixt king of Peloponesus named Aegidius at what time raigned in Assyria Analius About this season Isaac the sonne of Abraham begate two twinnes vpon Rebecca his wife Esau which was also called Edom of whom the Idumeans came and Iacob afterwarde called Israel of whom issued the twelue tribes of Israel In this kings time Sodom Gomorrha Zeboim Adama and Zoar fiue principal great cities in the lande of Palestine were destroyed and burned with fire and brimstone from heauen the iust iudgement of God for sinne Thurimachus the eight king raigned 45. yeres in this kings gouernment Eusebius noteth the seuenteenth Dynastia of the Egyptians to begin where Shepheards gouerned as chiefe rulers for the space of 103. yeeres soueraigntie About which time the kingdome of the Argiues first sprang vp where Inachus raigned the first king within the kingdome of Argiue and afterwarde continued from Inachus vnto the time of Tenelanthus the last king of the Argiues as Marianus Scotus writeth foure hundreth yeeres After this Leucippus succeeded Messapius in Peloponesus at what time Bellochus raigned King in Assyria and Thelassus gouerned the countrey of Thessalia Among the Argiues raigned now Phoroneus the sonne of Inachus and Niobes the second king after his father this made lawes first to the Argiues and instituted orders in gouernment and wrote decrees for his subiects and ruled the Argiues to his great fame as Eusebius in his histories setteth forth In Licippus time Sem the sonne of Noah died after hee had liued sixe hundreth yeeres and had seene much miserie and great calamitie but not so much as his father before him had seene he liued after Abrahams dayes thirtie and fiue yeeres Osiris whom the Egyptians call Apis and sometime Serapis for that they adored this as their God liued about this time and destroyed that monster in Thracia called Licurgus Reade more of this in Herodotus Ismael Abrahams base sonne by Agar the bondwoman died now and left behinde him twelue sonnes great princes ouer many tribes and nations which began in time to grow enemies to the Church of God and to persecute the people of God and were named Ismaelites In this time raigned in Assyria Bellochus sirnamed Priscus their twelft king and in Egypt gouerned Menam the first king that taught the Egyptians many ceremonies as newe sacrifices to their gods religions and seruice and instructed them in many things for this time Egypt was raw and rude in skil and knowledge This Menam was thought of Functius to be that which is read in Scripture to be Mizraim and of Berosus called Oceanus There is nothing to be written of these kings worth the memorie of man for all this while Greece was inhabited with barbarous people nay the most of Greece was not yet inhabited Athens was not builded neither Sparta nor Corinth for the kingdom of Lacedemonia and the kingdome of Corinth began about Dauids birth The Argiues were the most ancient people in Greece next after the Peloponesians for they beganne to raigne in Argos in the time of Iacob the Patriarch at what time Baleus sirnamed Xerxes gouerned in Assyria