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Show The fecond Bookeof the fir part Cra r.i7.Gi6. of the Hilorie ofthe World, ' frdmme&ned,and fourth King of Alba; whereofI will not ftand to difpatey Ts thieated ofan errand ‘roencounter the great ftrength of Goliah; vntill Dawid ( fent by his father thewictoric, Ww ithout othet armés.offe. théicampey accepted the cotabat, andobtained nw or defentiuectharadlimg, wherewith heouerthrew that haughtie Gyant, and after withhis owne tword trooke offhis heads Heteuponthe Philiftims, who fhould hate heruledthar Empirefortieyeeres. In this age of Samuel the Dores obtained BYboone fuszendat once with the Heraclide, who then ted and commanded thé Nation potter. yeeldcd themiehies as:fubiedts to the Gonquerour, according to the couenant ontheir a great part thereof 328.yeeres before the firft Olympiad, ac cording to Dio ris wendEras owne fide propounded, fled without ftay;and were purfued and flau rhtered.cuen totheit either anyof their awwne gates. By this victoriethe Phiiiflims were not io broken, that townes were loft, or their people difcouragedfrom infefting the T uenthiof Samuel,Dercilas {ate inthe Throne of A//jria, being the one and thirtieth K ines tofihenes. Foriall Greece was anciently poflefled by three'Pribes or Kiridveds oie, the ries of Iffacl fi f-]] th rieuous indigna. But Dasid, by whom God had wroughtthis. victoric, f tion of his Mafter Sau/, through the honourpurchafed by his well-defe Forafl ter fuchtime asthe {piri of God departed‘from San/and came vpon Dawid, hee then rSam.16.13. -becamea ctuell-Tyrant, fairhlefle, andirreligious: sBecaufethe high Pricf fedde Dasid ih his nécefsitie with hallowed bread, and armed him Jowians, DoriansandieAolians ‘iat length it was called Hellas; and the people Helene st Hellen; the fone of Deacalion, Lord of the Countrie of "Pthiveres in Thefalie. But be beforethe time! ofthis Helex;ycaand long after; Greece had noiname com {i yoinhabitants, neither were the people called Hellenes, till fuch timc all patts ofthe Land,partly by theplantation of manyColopiesand fun i riesobtained,the iflues of Helle had reduéed much of' the € melech dience, calling themfelues generally byone mame, and yet' eu h a fwordofhis tet fomeone ofthe pofteritie of Helen, who had raizned ouer is thefurtheft antiquitie ofGreece, it will not be amifle to xécount the Pedicree of 5 rf firtt planters. owne conquefttaken from Goliah ; Sand not onely by his wicked Edomite Doeo murthe. redithis Abimelechand 85: Pricks of Nob; but alfo hee deftroyed the Citi¢e, andfame rsamars, "with the edgeof the ford both man and woman, both childe and fackling, beth Oxe, and dapetus( as the Poets fable ) was.the fonne of Heauen and Earth, fo accourited. either CAfe; and SheepeAnd hee tharhad compafsion on Agagthe Amalekite, who was anenemi¢to Godandihis people, andalfo pared and preferued the beft of his Cattell; con: | trarieto the Coitimandement and Ordinance of ‘God; both by Adefes and Samuel; bad | nofnowany metcie in{tore, for the innocent, for the Lords feruants the Priefts ofI 1.54m-24.23,9 Mdtael. Yea hee would haue flaine his owne fonne Joxathan, for pitty ing. andpleading Dasids innocenciezas alfo once before fortafting the honie,when his faintingfor hunger made him forget hisfathers vireafonable commination. The companions ofcrueltie are breachof faith towards men, ‘and inipietietowards God. The former hefhewed in denying David his: datighter,whom he had promifed him:and againein taking her away front him, to whomhe had giuenher;/alfo in that when.as Dawed had twice {pared his life;in the Territorie of Ziphjand Sau/ twice fworne to do him no hurt,andconfelled his értouts, yet hee fought ftill to deftroy him, byall the meanes he could. His impiety towards God he fhewed,in'that he fought counfell of thé Witch of Endor,which wasthe becaufe the namesofhis Parents, had in the Greeke. tongue! {uch fignification + of per: 20° aie i haps for his knowledge in -4/frewomie and Philofophie. -.Japetus begat Promerhens, and Ephimethens : ofwhomall metyhaue readthat hare wife Ppry be Poets. Prometheus begat Deucalion :and Epimetheus, Pyrrha;Deucalion & reignedin The//alie,which wasthen called Pyrrba(as Cretenfis Rhianus afGrmeth) ofPipa rha.the Queene. In Deucalionstime was that great floud,ofwhich we hane:fpoken¢ (ies where. Deacalion begat Hellen : whofe fonnes were Xathus, Doras, and Aialas.:'of Does and «40lus,the Deres and olians had name. The e£oles inhabited Beatia, ‘The Dawes had binalwaiesvictorious: from the Oracle ofthe Diuell this fucceffe followed,thatbott hauing firft inhabited fundry parts ofThefalie,did afterward feate themfelues about Pay: naffussand finally became Lords of the Countries about Lacedemon : Xathus the eldeft fonne ofHellen, being banifhed by:his brcthren,for hauisg diuerted from: them tohis owne vie fome part oftheir Fathers goods; came tove4hens i where marrying the goDaughter ofKing Erittheus, hee begat on her twofonnes, Acheus and Jon. OFtheta two; deheus, for aflaughter by-him committed, fledde' into Pelopoxné/us: and fer himfelfe,and his three fons,with his nééreft & faithful feruants, wereall flaughtered by the Philiftims?his bodie with the bodies of ‘his fons (asa {pectacle of fhameand difhonour) were hung*ouer the walls of Bethfan: and there had remainedtill they had found he afterwards departed; and lenyingan Armie, recouered the Kingdome of‘his Grand fatherin Theffalie. Ke ox laft preparatitie for his deftruction. For whereas when he fought counfell from Godhe?! butiallin the'bowels of ranenous birds, bad not the gratefull Gileadites of Iabes ftolae their carcafés'thende,and interred them.This was the end of Sau/,after he had goucined @fGis 12.21. en with Samuel,4o.yeeres, & byhimfelfeafter Samuel 20. yeeres aur eaae Theovbl.3-p. 304s tonus,Theophilus,and lefephus, But yetit feemethi to me,that after the death one -7¥el,Saul did notrule very long: Forin the beginnirig of the 25 .chapter,it is written tht Inephise, Santuel died:and inthe reft of the fame chapter the paflages are written of Danid, Na" | bal, and Abin ail, after which the death of Saul quickly enfued. es Anexceeding valiant man heswas, and gauea faire entranceto all thofe victories whicn Dawid afterward obtained , for hee had beaten the Ammonites with their neighbou'ing Natiohs;cruthe the: Syriansjaiid their adhetents;broken theftrength ofthe Amalekites s and greatly wafted the powerand pride‘of the Philiftims. ‘toss, REUO siuogeyeee! { §. VI. offuch > lieed-with Samueland Saul ; ofHellen. and Hercules, and of their ifies 4m el ed of' the Doxes; with theHeraclide, entring Peloponnefus about this time. "| f@ Nthefecond yeere ofSamuelaccording to.Eufehivs, was Dania borne: afterCh ‘ domad later,andintheninth yeere: after Bunting inthetenth. For Dawié,it!| he, was,thirtie yeares old when hee began.to reigne : whenceit followeth,m be was horngin the, renthyof the fortie yeares , Which are giuen to Samueland Sai eis & aU the cleuenth yearcof: Samuel, Aeneas Siluins the fone of Pofthuraus begam .aa ouer, she Hearings 0 Alba, Who gouerned that State one and thirtie yeares. | here reWho place-beforehin Latinns Sylnins. as brother to Pofthunmus , calling him He c5r ting himfelfe in Lecowia, gaue tame to thatregion: from whence (as fomew; +e ) Ion being General] forthe Usthenians,when Eumolpus the Thracian inuaded Attice,did obtaine a great victorie, and thereby fuch loue and honourofthe people,that they Fae mitted the ordering oftheir State into his hands. He diuidedtheCitizen Tribes; appointing euery one-to fome: occupation, or good courfeoflife. When the people 40 multi plied, hee planted Colonies in! sycionia, then :called e£etalosor e£vialia: Tn ‘whi ch Countrie Solizus then reigning, thoughtit fafer to giue his Daughter Helicé in Marrias é to Jon, and make him his Heire, than to contend with him. So Jon married: Felice and builta Townecalled by his Wiues name in Agialia, where he andhis pofterity reigned long, and (though not vbliterating the old name)ganeto that Land denomination. But in after-times the Dores afsifting the Nephewes.of Hercules, inuaded Peloponnefas, and ouer-comming the 4cheans, poflefled Laconia, and all thofe parts! which ‘the Achal had formerly occupied-Hereuponthe Achaidriuen to feckea new feate,came vnto the Zones defiring to inhabit: e4gialia with them,andalleadging in vaine, that Joxand Acheus h ad beene brethren. Whenthis requeft could not be obtained, they fought by force to asi a4 menes, ; e ¢h the fonneee of% pell the Zonians, which they performed ; but theyloft their King 50Ore/fes in that Warre. i 2 Thus were the Zones driuen out of Pelopornefus; and compelled to remooue into Aftica, from whence ' aftera while theyfailed |into Afa, and peopled thee Wefterne } vy eiterne coaft coalt thereof ; on whichthey builttwelue Cities,inhabited by them, cuento this day. atthe leaft without any vniuerfall or memorable tranfmigration. This expedition of the Zanes into fia hath beene mentioned ofall which haue; written of that Age, and is commonly placed 140. yeeres after the warre of Trey, and Go. yeeres after the defcent of the Heraclide into Peloponnefas. Thele Heraclide were they of whomthe Kings of parta iffued ; which race held that: Kingdome about joo. yeeres, OFtheir Father Pps Heréules |