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Show 33 Thefecond Booke of therstpart 284 --_- Efaycallethit the Daughterof Zidon , which erogus oe reypanecm €ap.23, affinity of name makes Thir4s the fonneof Zap bs to be the - ee pane i no doubtit was very ancient ( for fo muchthe Prophet E/ay a aera a oi a" : your. glorious Cities whofe antiquity ts of ancient dayes ?) yet, that Thirasthe onne of Zphet Cap.23. fet himfelfe in the bofome ofthe Canaanites who built Zidon, and peopled all that Regi: n:1{€e nothing to perfwade me. . But that new. hail after-times fo renowned, feemeth to bee "i ere nf . sorte Iuflin.x8. Curtladand of this opinion was Cartius: and Jofephus,and Enfebius make this ity elder than se. 2pig lomons Temple 240.yeercs : Cedrenus 36 t. who alfoaddeth that Tyrwsthe wife of de ap. or gaue ithername\? bur of Agenor 1will{peake more atlarge in the ftory. of their Cedren-paet7. Kings. ; Forftrengthandfor the commodity of the harbour, and the betterto receiue Trade fromall places/it wasin this new erection foundedin an Iland,700. paces from theconExck,28.2.27, tinents and therefore Exehiel placethitin the middett of the Sca, as fome reade, orasowwerle3. thers in the inner-moft part of the Sea, wheace he calleth it /itwate at the entry ofthe Ses, as alfo the fame Prophet callethit the adart ofthe people for mary tes: and Efayya Martof Efi. 3.3. the Nations: and {o Proude,Wealthy, and Magnificent wasthis City, as the Prophet 27.8. Efay calleththe Merchants thereof Princes, and: their Chapmen the Nobles of the World. 0 Ttexcelled both in learning,and in manu-fa@ure : efpecially in the making and dying? ofPurple, and Scarlet-cloth : which, faith zalivs Pollux, was firtt found out by Hercules Dogge,who paffing alongthe Sea-coaft,and eating ofthe Fith Comchilis or Purpura : the haire of his lippes became of thatcolour. It worfhipped the fame Idols that Zédon did: fauing that Hercules became their Patron in after-times. For Alexander Macedon, whet . the Tyrians prefented him witha Crowne ofgold,andother gifts,defiring to remainhis friends and allies, anfwered them,that he had voweda facrificeto Hercules che Defender oftheir City, and the Ancefter ofthe Macedonians Kings: and muft therefore enter tt Whereuponthey fent him word, that Hercules his Tem ple was inthe Mountaineof ol Tyre: wherehe might performethat ceremony: Butthis auailed not: For Alexander Wis | not fo fuperftitiousas ambitious; he defired to enter the Towne,whichbeing denied,hed as one whom no peril] could feare, norlabour Weaty, gathered together as many hips as hecould,and brought from Libanusfo gteata numbe rofcedars,and fo many weighty ftones;fromtheold'Cityof Tyre adioyning,as notwithftanding that his materials wet often watht away witli the ftrength ofthe Sea‘and the Tydes,yet he neuer refted, till hee had madea foote paffage fromthe Continent to the Iland : and haning approach their Walls, he ouer-topt them with Turrets ofwood,and other framesonce : from whence (hauingfilled the body offorce with the violent mouing {piritof. refoluriomhe becu™ Lord thereof ,puttin g all to the Sword that refitte d safter which; hevponcol caufed'2dooo.mor be hungvp ina ranke all alongft the Sea-fhore; whichexequution bloodet? bet Performed ( as fome Authours affirme) vpontheiffues ofthofe flaues whichhad former? seats ly flaine all their Matters, taking their Wiues,Childt en,Riches;an delice, d power of Goren ©Menttothemfelues. This victory ofAlexander ouer the Tyrian s, Jofephus remembreth and howSamaballetreuolted from Darias,and came to. Alexandérwith Sooo. Souldier s: whowas the lat Satrapa or Prouinciall Gouernout, which Darins' {eared in samaris : te fame who hauing matricd his Daughterto Manaff e, brotherto Yaddas the high Price = Hiersfalem, obtained ofAlexander thar a Templemigh Dibell. fur, £3.64. : t be builton the Mountaine 8 tthe forces ofthe lewes being divided) alexander might cheb terholdthemin obedie nee. The honpurof which Priefthood ice beftowedo in law: Adaxaffe, whom nhis the Iewes oppugned, forthathe had:married ont of their Tribes, ANd witha Gentile Bar While Udlexander befieg t+ calleth Sanabula,died; ed Ga24;Sanaballat, whom Guil.7)™ * as Longbefore this defolati on of Tyre by the ciuclty of Alexander, it was attempxed by Sadmanafer the Affp he rian King-when the growing pride hadvonqueredthe:ten Tribes, wit ofthe Affjriansafter that " bithe rett ofsyrdaybecatne enuliouis'of chesyand power of that City, He befieged the beauty? itbothion the Land-fide,and with rhseeelor, thippesof W arre held the Port' s'to the end that neitherany vigtualsnor php. ant, oh, &OMighrentet ir : bur any' fopply ° the 7yréaxswith twelue faile {cattered 908p-t4y that fleer,and tooke 5: by prifongrs ofthe -Afjr ‘eesDotwithftanding the Affrian continued his refointionr™ oS per Ol Cuar.7.§.3.$.) ofthe'Hiftory ofthe orld, 285 before iit by his Liewtenantsfiue yeeres; but with ill fuccefle. Andthis liege. Menande r Es x. phefius,cited by /ephus,madereportof in his Chronicles; as hee found the Story among» the Aanalls ofthe Tyrians (which the faid Atemander conuetted into Greeke Elyleus,whomTriuscalleth Helj/exs, was then King of Zyre, hauing J adding that %**/ gouerned the {ame ix fixe and twenty yecres. Sooneafter this repulfe of Salmane/ far,and about 260, yeeres*® before the victory of -Lexander, Nakuchodonofor at fachtime as he deftroyed Hierufaleys with the Temple, came beforethis City : who indeed gaueto Alexander the example of that delpairefull worke} of foyning-it to che Continent. For Nabichod onofer had for- merly doneit :though bythe diligence of the Citizens; andthe ftreti gth of the'Sea, the To fame cawfey'and paflagew: asagaine broken downe, and demolithed. Againft Nabuchedonoforytor many yeeres, the Tyrians defen ded themfeluies = fox {> long did thofe Bzbylonians continue before it} as cuery head was made bald td der made baresfaich Ezekiel,whowith the Prophet E/ay had manifeftly > and cuery {houl. Exe.Sod29.18, foretold the defiry. 173-8 ction of this proude placéy! Inthe end andafter thirteene yeeres ans defpoiled of all theirhopes, and remembring ouer-la te the fiege or mote, the Tyriz predictions and threat: nings of Gods Prophets, hauing Prepared a conuenient numb erof fhippes, abandoned their City, wranfporting with them flues theableft of allthat remained : and with their Wiues, children, and portable tictnes,fayled thenceinto Cyprus, Carth age,and other Matitimate Cities of their Tributaries,or Confederates: {0 20 therein,citherto fatisfiefo many labours and perils,or as the Babylonians finding nothing any perfon vpon whom to auende themfelues for the loflé of foiniany bodies in that Warr e: it pleafed God in recompence thereof(who ftrengthened this refolution,as ina work nofor viGorious ouerthe Egyptians : and gaue himth e of his owne)to make Webuchodgof, as it were in wagesfor his Army. Whereupo at Kingdome and the {poilethere- Ezek. 29.29 n Sain ueth not the good deéds ofthe Heathen vnrewarded t Hierome noteth, that God Iea: who though they cannot hope by any laudable worldly aétion,to attainé vnto that etern all happinefle referuedforhis Ser. sents and Saints :yet fuch isthe boundlefle goodn efle ofGod,as he often tepayeth them withmany worldly gifts and temporall bleffings, Nowofthis cnterprife of Nebuchodonéfors again {t Tyre, prophane Hiftorians haue 30 not beer filenti For both Diocles,and Philo fratus (as fecond Booke, the other in his Pheniciax Hiftories, Jofephus citeth them ) the oneinhig !er-42, 10; ememberit. a After thefetwo great v2)fations by the Kings of Babyl on and Adacedon : this City of Tyre repaired and recoueredit felfe againe:and conti nued in great glory about 3 00,yeers; cuentothecomming ofourSiauioar Chrift: andafter cere 690.yeeres:the 4rchbifbop whereofgaue placehim flourithedin the Chriftian Faith to none but to the Patriarke ofHie. rufatemoncly,who within his owne Dioce ffe and foure teene great Cities, withtheir Bifhops and futfragans: namely Caiphajotherwif e Porphiria, Acon, or Ptolomais,Sareptin, Zj+ Guil.Xyr, hele 40n,Cxfared bilepi, Berytu, Byblus, Berrys, Tr4polis,Or thofia, Archis, Aradus, Antaradus( or sos Tortofa)and. Ataraclea, Butih the yecte64¥6. it was withthe reft ofchat beautifull Re40 gion of Phanicia and Paleftina 3 fubiected tothe crucll and faithlefle Savacen. Vnder the burthen and yoke:of whofe' tytanayit fiffered; with the other Palefine Cities, 488. yeeres. In theyeere tr13. it was attempted by Ba/dwine King of Hierufalem : but in‘ vaine:'Guil- yet in it the yeere 1 124.by Guaremonde, Trac, Patriarkeof H;serufalem, Vicegerent 10 Baldwing [47 thefecond, with the affiftance of the Venetians, and their fleete of Galli es,it was againe recotiered, andfubie&ed ro the Kings of Hierufalem,and foit remained 1 65 .yeeres. Finally, in the yeere 1189. Saled ine haning firft raken Hierufalem, remouedhis whole flecte of thippes and Gallies from C& \exanaria intothePort, his City as then onely remaining in the Chrif tian power! 3°. The Citizens findingthemfelues reduced into great famine, and many orher'' miferies, they at once with certaine Armyand fate downe before Tyre: drawi nghis rafters of timber, fiered, burnt, and brake the Satacens ficete,and fallyed our refoluedly vpon his Army, flewfo gtcat numbers of them, 2nd followed their victory with fuch fury, as that the Saracens forfaking their Trenches and Tents, remoued in prear difor der and difhonour. Two yeere s after' which viGory the Ody of that famous Fredericke Barha roffa the Chriftans enemies oucr 4 Riucr vafoo(who by the lamentable aécident of following rdable,perithed by the weight of hisarmou r the Cathedral Chur therein was broughrandinterredin ch of Tyre,neere vnto that glorious Sepulchre of Origengarnifhe d and erauen with gaile pillars of Marb le,9 4 0.yeeres before |