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A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

sacrificed which dark speech when no man knew Cyane haled her father by the head to the Altar telling them that he was that wicked person pointed at by the Oracle and there sacrificed him with her owne hands killing her selfe also with the same knife that her innocency might be witnessed even by her bloud Thus it pleased God even among the idolatrous heathen to execute justice and judgement upon the earth though by the meanes of the devill himselfe who is the authour of all such villany Valeria Thusculana was in love with her owne father and under colour of another maid got to lie with him which as soon as he understood he slew himselfe in detestation of his owne ignorant abhomination and wickednesse nay so monstrous and horrible is this sin even in the sight of man that Nausimenes a woman of Athens taking her owne son and daughter together was so amazed and grieved therewith that she never spake word after that time but remained dumbe all the rest of her life time as for the incestors themselves they lived not but became murderers of their owne lives Papyrius a Roman got with childe his owne sister Canusia which when their father understood he sent each of them a sword wherewith they slew themselves But above all the vengeance of God is most apparent in the punishment of Heraclius the Emperour who to his notorious wickednesses heresies persecutions and paganisme he added this villany to defile carnally his owne sister so to his notorious punishments the Sarasins sword dropsie and the ruine of the Empire the Lord added this infamous and cruell judgement that he could not give passage to his urine but it would flie into his face had not a pentise been applied to his belly to beat it downeward And this last plague was proper to his last sin wherein the very member which he had abused sought revenge of him that had abused it for that he had confounded nature and most wickedly sinned against his owne flesh Agathias writing of the manners of the Persians reporteth That certain Philosophers comming out of Aegypt into Greece where they had seen all manner of unnaturall mixtures found the carkase of a man without sepulchre which when in charity they buried the next day it was found unburied again and as they went about to bury it the second time a spirit appeared unto them and forbad them to do it saying that it was unworthy that honour seeing that when it lived he had committed incest with his owne mother A notable story shewing that the very earth abhorreth this monstrous confusion of nature the truth whereof let it lie upon the Authors credit Most abominable was the incest of Artaxerxes King of Persia for first he tooke to himselfe Aspasia his brother Cyrus concubine having overcome him in war and afterward gave the same Aspasia to his owne son Darius to wife from whom after carnall knowledge he tooke her againe committing incest upon incest and that most unnaturally but mark how the Lord punished all this first Darius his eldest son was put to death for treason then Othus succeeding in the inheritance slew Arsame another of his brethren and albeit Artaxerxes himselfe dyed without note of judgement yet his seed after him was punished for his offence for so miserable a calamity pursued them all that in the second generation not one was left to sit upon his throne Now to teach us how execrable and monstrous this kinde of sin is and how much to be abhorred of all men the example of a bruit beast may stand in stead of a lesson for us it being so worthy of remembrance that I thought meet to make rehearsall of it in this place It is reported by Varro a learned and grave Writer whom S. Augustine often commendeth in his booke de Civitate Dei of a certaine horse which by no meanes could bee brought to cover a mare that was his damme untill by hiding her head they beguiled his sences but after when he perceived their guile and knew his damme being uncovered he ran so furiously upon the keeper with his teeth that incontinently he tore him in pieces Truly a miraculous thing and no doubt divinely caused to reprove the enormous and too unruly lusts of men CHAP. XXXIV Of effeminate persons Sodomites and other such like Monsters SArdanapalus King of Assyria was so lascivious and effeminate that to the end to set forth his beauty he shamed not to paint his face with ointments and to attire his body with the habits and Ornaments of women and on that manner to sit and lie continually among whores and with them to commit all manner of filthinesse and villany wherefore being thought unworthy to beare rule over men first Arbaces his lieutenant rebelled then the Medes and Baby lonians revolted and joyntly made war upon him till they vanquished and put him to flight and in his flight hee returned to a tower in his palace which moved with griefe and despaire he set on fire and was consumed therein Such like was the impudent lasciviousnesse of two unworthy Emperors Commodus and Heliogabolus who laying aside all Imperiall gravity shewed themselves oftentimes publikely in womans attire an act as in nature monstrous so very dishonest and ignominious but like as these cursed monsters ran too much out of frame in their unbridled lusts and affections so there wanted not many that hastened and emboldened themselves to conspire their destruction as unworthy in their judgements to enjoy the benefit of this light wherefore to one of them poison was ministred and when that would take no effect strangling came in the roome thereof and brought him to his end the other was slaine in a jakes where he hid himselfe and his body drawne like carrion through the streetes found no better sepulchre then the dunghill Touching those abominable wretches of Sodome and Gomorrah which gave themselves over with all violence and without all shame and measure to their infamous lusts polluting their bodies with unnaturall sins God sent upon them an unnaturall raine not of water but of fire and brimstone to burne and consume them that were so hot and fervent in their cursed vices so that they were quite rooted and raked out of the earth and their Cities and habitations destroyed yea and the very soile that bore them made desolate and fruitlesse and all this by fire whose smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace yea and in signe of a further curse for to be a witnesse and a marke of this terrible judgement the earth and face of that countrey continueth still parched and withered and as Iosephus saith whereas before it was a most plentifull and fertile soile and as it were an earthly paradise bedecked with five gallant Cities now it lyeth desart unhabitable and barren yeelding fruit in shew but such as being touched turneth to cinders In a word the wrath of God is so

meant to have made so glorious a building came never to any good effect the one at Ipswich being cleane defaced the other at Oxford unfinished And thus much of sacriledge Now let us come and see the punishment of simple theft the principall cause whereof is covetousnesse which is so unruly an evill and so deep rooted in the heart of man that ever yet it hath used to encroach upon the goods of others and to keep possession of that which was none of its owne breaking all the bonds of humanity equity and right without being contained in any measure or meane whereof wee have a most notable example in the old world before the flood which by Moses report overflowed with iniquity and extortion the mighty ones oppressed the weak the greater trode under foot the lesse and the rich devoured the poore When the Lord saw the generall deluge of sin and disorder thus universally spread which indeed was a signe of great defection and contempt of him he like a just judge that could not endure these monstrous iniquities sent a deluge of waters amongst them by opening the windowes of heaven and breaking up the fountaines of the great deepes and giving passage to the waters both by heaven and earth so that it raigned forty daies and forty nights without ceasing and the waters prevailed upon the earth and overcovered the high mountaines by fifteen cubites the earth being reduced into the same estate which it had in the beginning before the waters were tooke away from the face thereof verily it was a most hideous and sad spectacle to see first the vallies then the hils and last the highest mountaines so overflowne with water that no shew or appearance of them might be perceived it was a dreadfull sight to behold whole houses tossed to and fro up and downe in the waves and at last to be shivered in pieces there was not a City nor village that perished not in the deep not a tree nor tower so high that could overpeere the waters as they increased more and more in abundance so feare horrour and despaire of safety encreased in the heart of every living soule And on this fashion did God punish those wicked rebels not at one blow but by little and little increasing their paine that as they had a long time abused his patience and made no reckoning of amendment so the punishment of their sin might be long and tedious Now in this extremity one could not help another nor one envy another but all were concluded under the same destruction all surprised assieged and environed alike as well he that roved in the fields as he that stayed in the houses he that climbed up into the mountaines as he that abode in the vallies the mercilesse waters spared none it was to no purpose that some ascended their high houses some climbed upon trees and some scaled the rockes neither one nor other found any refuge or safety in any place the rich were not saved by their riches nor the strong by the pith of their strength but all perished and were drowned together except Noah and his family which punishment was correspondent unto the worlds iniquity for as the earth was corrupted and polluted with abundance of sin so God sent abundance of water to purge and cleanse away the filthinesse thereof as at the latter day hee will send fire to purifie and refine heaven and earth from their dregs and restore them to their first and purest estate And thus God revenged the extortion and cruelty of that age But yet for all this those sins were not then so defaced and rooted up but that they be burnished againe and growne in time to as big a bulke for even at this day the greatest part of the world is given to practise fraud and deceit and by unlawfull meanes to incroach upon others goods which subtilties though they desire never so to disguise and cloke yet will they ever be condemned and reputed kindes of theft before God now as some are of greater power authority than others in the world so answerable to themselves is the quality of their sins and by consequence the punishment the greater of power the greater theeves and the greater judgment for if a poore man that through poverty and necessity cutteth a purse or stealeth any other trifle be culpable how much more culpable shall he that is rich be that usurpeth the goods of his neighbour Draco the lawgiver of Athens appointed death to be the punishment of sheft Solon mitigated that rigour and punished it with double restitution The Locrians put out his eyes that had stolne ought from his neighbour The Hetrurians stoned them to death The Scythians abhorred them more than all creatures because they had a community of all things except their cups the Vatoeiane used such severity towards this kinde of men that as 〈…〉 taken a handfull of 〈◊〉 he was sure to die for it 〈…〉 being Censor 〈◊〉 demeed his owne son Buteo to death being apprehended for theft Tiberius the Emperour punished a souldier after the time 〈◊〉 for stealing i●●eaco●ke in summe there was no Commonwealth 〈…〉 was not highly detested and sharply 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 where it w●s permitted and tollerated 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 〈…〉 yet as 〈…〉 a just dead of Tamberlaine that mighty 〈◊〉 and Conquerour of Asia when a poore woman complained 〈…〉 of his souldiers that had taken from her a little milke and a 〈…〉 the caused the souldiers belly to be ripped to see that her 〈◊〉 had falsely accused him on no and finding the milke in his stomacke adjudged him worthy of that punishment for stealing from poore ●● woman When Theophilus raigned Emperour in the East there was a certaine souldier possessed of a very gallant and brave horse which his Captaine by all mea●es possible sought to get from him but he would not in any case 〈…〉 he put him forth of pay and tooke his horse from him by force and sent him for a present to the Emperour Theophilus now it chanced that this poore souldier was slaine in the battell for want of his horse and his wife and children lest destitute of succour insomuch that through necessity she was constrained to flie to Constant inople and to complaine to the Emperour of the injury done unto her husband with this resolution entring the City she met the Emperour riding upon her husbands horse and catching the horse bridle challenged him not on●y for stealing the horse but also being the cause of her husbands death The Emperour wondring at the woman boldnesse examined her more narrowly and found out the whole practise of that wicked Captaine whom he banished presently his Empire and bestowed his possession in recommence upon the distressed widdow Ibicus the Poet being set upon by Theeves when he saw that they would not only spoile him of his money but of 〈◊〉 he also cryed for help and revenge to the cranes that flew over his head a while after