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Show & Har. 12.63 ThejJecondBooke of thefirpart CHa riu2§.4. ; ButtheChriftian Religion flourifhing in Palaftina, it was inhabited at length, by all evi antof Then againc was the Temple and Citie fpoyled by Bago/es, or Vagefes, the Licuten deftroyed,nor Apollonius his Licurenant. By Pampey it was takén long after, but not It was afterwardinthe 636. yeare after Chrift; raken by the Reyptian Sara¢ens, who oxphrin cue held it 400.and oddeyeares. , with' an excee- en y 34The firlt of artaxerxes after by * Ptolomens the firft 3 thenby Antiochus Epiphanes : = againeb the Fein",- tooke as much as hee could ofthat cae biaees robbed, though Craffus in his Parthian expedition sit! yfpareds saby Prespe don,who dil =alae salesied Syamagen which it faftained by the violence of facrilegious Tyrants, were vpto, Kiera egininonly recompenced by the iftduftrie or bountie, of good Princes, the voluntarie ers.-Before the captivity, the tomwaj0f"i Gontribution of thepeople; andthe liberalitic of ftrang made manyan mene Kings, godly of ation he exhort oright Id. ant.1¢ pedpleiof:thelandthr ra.ant ens Lagi to the rings torepairethe Temple of Salomon. Thewrtong done by PtolomPhiladelphus. The ans Ptolom fonne his of e bounti the by ed requit was e, cond Templ bythe mifchiefe wrought by datiochus Epiphanes and his followers, was amended ypartly the lof. gxtatoffetings witich were {enttotzerufalem out of other Nations. Finall all forgotten in the fes; which either the Gitieor Femple had endured, might well feeme taighie of Hered tliat vfurping atid wicked, but magnificeng King, who amplified the Cithem,that tie new builrthe Temple,and with many fumptuous workes did fo adorne heeléfe them faire-more ftately and. glorious:than they had, beene in the dayes of4 Salomon. 11K Inthe'yearetogg. itwas regained by Godfrey of Buillon, by: affailr thereof, refuding flaughter of theSaracens; which Godfrey, when he was eleGed King fouglit, was e-rir! hee fedtobecrowned witha Crowne of gold, becaufe Chrift, for whomrthe fucceflors of 1#49:0% therein crowned with thorrles. Aftet this recouery, itremainedvnde Godfrey fourefcoreandeight yeares: till in the yeare 4197. it was regained by Saladine 10 of Egypt: andlaftly, in the yearer517. inthe time of Slim; the Turkes caltout the Egyptians, who nowholdir, and call it: Cazumbarecy or the Holy Citic. Neither was it lerufalem alonethat hath-fo-oftentimes beenc beaten downe and made defolate, but allthe great Cities of the World haue with theit Inhabitants, in feuerall times andages, fuffered the {ame fhipwracke, ‘And it hath beene Godsinft will, to the end others might take warning , if. chey would; not onely: to punifh the impiety of men, by famine, by the. fwords, by fire,-and by. flauerie ; but hee hath reuenged'himfelfe of the very placesthey pofleft ; of the walls and buildings, yea; of the foyle and the beafts that fedde thereon... For, euenthatland, fometime called holy, hath in effeé loft all herfertilitie,and fruit20 fulnefle ; witneflethemany. hundreds of thoufands whichit fed in the dayes of the Kings domites ; butthe very foileir felfe ath felt, and dothfeele the hand of Godtothis day. BN this flonrifhing eftateyitiwas.atthe comming of our Saviour Chrift lefus: aid aftet hisdeath and 4{cenfion,it fo continued about 40. year¢s. But chen did TH Sv) tusthe Roma, being ftirred vp by God}to be the reuenget of Chri/t-his death, andktompddifhthedewesfin full ingratitude,incompafie it with a: Roman armic,and became Lor dthereofi He beganthefiege.at fuchtimeas the Zewes, fiiomall parts, were conte VP 0 hundreas tithe celebratiomofithic Pa/feoders fo.as the Citiewas then filled with many God would nor {pare the beaftsthar belongedto Amalek, nonot any {mall number of themto be {acrificed to himlelfe ::rieither-wasit enotigh that Achaz himfelfe was ftoned; but that his moueables werealfo confumed and brought to afhes. §. IDIT. Of the vaine and malicious reports ofHeathen writers, touching the of tlioufands oft all forts; andinomanner of provifion or {tore for any fuch multitudes. Anextreame famine, with the ciniltdiffenfionyoppreft them within the walls j a for biéenehnieaflailedthemwithour,The /dumeans alfo;wholay in waite for the deft «rset contdfirht.svtewesKingdome,thriththemfeluesirito the Citie, of purpofe to betray ** whol focbirnttheiLemple, when Wabuchodonofor tooke it. Andto bee fhort, there pe *tithedofralhGrrsyfirom thefirk befieging tothe confummationof the victory, iS Ff.x.04.v.45. hundredthoufandfoules: andthe City was fo bearen downe and demolithed,, as tholt whielicameafterwvard to fee the defolation theteof; could hardly beleeue that there ha Beebe anyfliclupla¢eonhabitations Onely théthree Heredian towers(workes moft mag ‘ nificent, and oucr-topping thetéfty: were fparedjas well for lodgings for the Roma4 ganifohs; astharthcheby their vidtotiemightbee the more notorious and famous * * _ by: thofe, buildings Of ftrength/and State; remaining, after-ages might indge Wiss hs theirciwere; ‘andcheir honovi:beethegteaterand:more fhining, that therecouet ¥*we ssod ey tis fainewictoriouse 2uchiteeh this »fuch vemas werefcattered here andthere in Judea, and other Prowse'"s beganugaine coithabice fomeiparrofthe Citie,and by degreeste rebuildit, and wn themitasthey could;being then at peace,andifibutaries to the Roman State: but after a yeares , when they\againe offered to revolts andtebelly ~B/ius-Adrianas the er flanghtered mariy thoudsof theinjand onertirned thafe shree Herodian Towels nd st alichetvetmakingi-gooilwhichhifi himfelfelnad forctaldsThat rherefboalde JOS ‘dae fansvpomanorhtrsof thatnngrarefull Cinies Afterward,whenhis furie was ae fedsandith¢ Rrophacie acconiplithed, heteake one partwithoutrhe wall, where! oft. 08 Adaaah Calvarie,dd the Sepulohye'ofGhrifancdextluding ofthe reft the greateft yon 4% owne names his Marble, it the after and fet itbee andcalied cutin Sow to gidancapacitic, DitigofBethel, heecaufed.a gatoroivard stone miadcit9 mr pitomaiilnthe cae front thereof, whichhee didin defpight of the ewes Nation:making an Edithat " * vit hon ltbuald porromthenec2foreh eueyenterintothe City, rieithex should they dese fom Bavatchold infin any orhes hig place oucrtoppingits.!; Tif r. Bel, Sal Nations, and efpecially by Chriftians ;and fo itcontinued 5 00.yeetes. of Iuda and Iftael; ir being at this time all ouer,in effet, exceeding ftony and barraine. Tralfo pleafed God, not onely to confumewithfire from heauen; thé Cities of the So= Ofthe defiruction of lerufalém by the Romans. PY 349 without walls or other defen difitulticenough!: ahdthe Citie meanely inhabited, and x eres rebuilt them, ces, for fome 60. and odde yeatesyll Nehemia bythe fauour OfArta H.T.C. pra Scylla of the Hiftorie ofthe World, > But ancient Iewes. F the originall of the lewes, prophane writers haue conceiued diuerfly and inQC iurioufly. Quintilian (peakes infamoufly of them,and of their Leader; who (faith he ) gathered togethera pernicious Nation. Diedereand strato makethem Egyptians. Ochers affirme that while /fs gouerned Egypt, the people were fo. increaq fed, as Zerofolymusand Judas led thence agreat multicude of that Nation, with whom they planted the neighbour Regions: which might bemeant by, Mofes. and iéron : for the nameof 440/és was accidentall, becaufe he was taken vp and {aued out of the waters. 40 But /u/flive of all other mioft malicious, doth deriue the lewes from the Syrian Kings; of iwBin.l.38; whom, Dama/cus,{aith he,was the firlbiard to him fiiéééeded dbrabam, AMofes, and //rael. He againe fuppoferh( fomewhatcontrary to himfelfe ) that //rac/ had ten fonnes, among whomhee divided the land ofIuda; fo calledof Judashis eldeft; who had thegreateft portion. The youngeft of the fonnes of//racthecalleth Jofep+: who being brought vp in Egypt, became learned in magical! Arts, and in the interpretations of Dreames, and fignes prodigious; and this /o/eph ( faith he') was fatherto ‘A4ofes Who with the reft, by reafon of their foule difeafes, and leftthey fhouldinfect others, were banifhed Egypt. Further; he teeth how rhefe men thus banifhed; when in the'Defarts they fuffered-ex= treame thit{tand famine, and therein found reliefe the feuenth' day; for this caufe euer soaftcr obfertied he feuenth day, and kept it Holy ;' making it a‘Law among themfelucs, which afterward became aibranchof ‘their Religion.\Hee addeth alfo, that they might; fonmarricoutof their owne Tribes lett difcoucring their vaciéatiencfle,they nught alfo be expelled by other Natiofs,asthey were by the Egyptians. 'Theféand the like fables hath Ju/line. ; Cornelius Tacitus dotti as grofly beliethem, in affirming, that in the inmoft Oratorig' of their Temple, they had the golden head ofan Affe,which they adored.But herein Ta" citia forgetcech himfelfe, hauingin the fift booke of his owneHiftoric truely confefled' of the lewes,thac they worfhipped onc only God-andthoughtit moft prophanété repréLI fent |