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Show 420 hefecond Booke ofthefirStpart ore: Peregrinat, Hierofol.D.N. chKade, Epift. & Se Cuariz.§uto, ; SUSIE, Monuments of thofe Kings,as ( by relation of the Duke of/éka ) they remainedwith: in thefe thirty yeeres,and are liketo remaineftill, are able to make report credible of the coft beftowed vponthem. = --- Soe . tian! Cua paz.Grd. Vfid.t.9.19. Jof.t.ant17- 2.54.6, ofthe fonnes of Ai/raim,and was furnamedPhiliftims,as E/an was furnamed Edom, and Iscob I/rael,There were of them fiue Cities of pettie principalities, namely, Azotu, or Afded, Gaza or Aczaph, Afcalon,Geth or Gath, and Accaron. It{feemeth that Cafhim wasthe firft founderofthis nation, becaufe ofhis kindred on either hand, the Cana nites and the Egyptians. Thefirft King ofthefe Philistimswhich the Scriptures haue named, wasthat Abime. lech which loued Sara,dérahams wife. The fecond Abimelech lined at once with aac, towhomdase repaired in thetimeof famine,Abimelech then refiding at Gear in the border ofIdsmea, which Abiwelech fan- 39 Iad.16. x Sam.18-29. Sai, 24-11. x Ring.2. cied ifaachis wife : as his father had doneSara. After Abimelech the fecond,the Philiftims Kings are not remembredinthe Scriptures, till Danéds time: perhaps the gouernment was turned into. driffecraticall. For theyate afterwards named Princes oftthe Philijtims,howfoeuer Achis be named kingofGath,the {ameto whomDawid fled,and who againe gaue him Siklagto inhabit in Sawéstime. After him wereade of another chs who liuedwith Salomon,to whomShimei trauel- led to fetch backehis fugitiue feruant,whattime the feeking of his fernant wasthelofle ofhis life. Jeremie the Prophet fpeakethofthe Kings of Paleftix or Philiftim,:Amo nia- meth the King of Afcalon; Zacharias, a King of Gaza. The reftof the warres of the Pht "iftims are remembredin the Catalogueofthe Zadges,ofSaw/ and Dawid,and therefore 13, fhall not needto colleét theparticularsin this place. Thereliued at once with Dasid, the third ofthe Silug King of Alba,called, Latins Siluins,whois {aid to haue ruled that part ofItalie fiftieyeers. And abouthis fourteenth yeere Codrws the laft King ofthe Athenians died; to whom fucceededthe firft Prince of thofe,who being calledafter Medon,Medontide, without regall name gouerned Athens during theirlife. Thereafons which moued the Athenians to change their gouernment, wereft drawnfromany inconuenience found in the rule of foueraignty,but in honorofCear only . For when the Grecians of Doris,a region between Fhocis, & the mountain ofOss fought counfaile fromthe Oracle,forthetr in the warres againft the AshewisRyy is was an{wered,that then vndoubtedly theyfucceffe fhould preuaile and become Lords ofthat State,when they could obtaine any victoric againft the Nation,and yet preferue the é theniinKing liningCedrus by fome intelligence being informed ofthis anfwer, W!™ drew himfelfe fromhis owneforces, and putting.on the habit ofa common {ou or entred the Campe of the Dorians, and k illing the firft hee encountred, was himnfelte forthwith cutin pieces, { { Eup Eupales the 31.King of Affyriawhich others; account but the 30 began to aye that Empire,about the r 3-ycere of Dawi rumen dsand held ir 3 S.yeeres. Neere the fame time began 2xioa the fecond King ofthe Heraclide, the fonne ofEf. ry[thenes in Corinthand e4gis the fecond ofthe Hevaclide in Tucpdcot : in honout :i which:4¢#,his fucceffours were called Agide, for many. yeeres after. Hee reftored tH Lacontans totheir formerlibertic:hee onercame the Citizens ofHelos in Lacemits hadaa refufed to pay him tributezhe condemned themand theirs to perpetual flac 3 n ah ae Whereof it came, thatall the Meffewisns, whom at, length they brought into th ™ bondage, were afterca > ; i ur lled Helotes, a In like fort fromthe Stlavi came the word Slape,E tolyt or when that Nation iffuing oe poccuenow called Ru/sia,had {eizedy onthe country of/pria & madeit their on Die xre Xe ® ¥y. conquett,their vidory Pleafed them fo highly, a Ese thar therupon they called thems by an Z by.anew nameé, S/auos, whichis in their languageglorious. But in aftertimes (that warmer Climate hauing thawed their northerne hardin es,and not ripenedtheir wits)ywhen they.were troden:downe,and madeferuants with their: neighbours; the Italians which kept manyof themin bondage, beganto call all their bondmen Slanes, fing the word eo pake Ofthe Philiftims, whom Dauid abfolately maftered: and offandry other contemporaries with Dauid. Fthe Philiflims, whofe pride Dawid was the firft that abfoluely mattered,in this conclufion of Dasids time fomewhat heere maybe fpoken. ‘ : 10 They defcended ofCa/loim,who, according to Zidor and Iofephas, wasone of the Fiftorie of the World, as aname of reproach : in whichfenfeit is nowcurrant through many countries: Other Chronologers make this Agis, the third King ofSparta,and fomewhat later,about the23.yeere of Dawid, and fay,that Acheftratas was the fourthKing ofthis race, thefame whom Eafebsas calls Labotes, arid fets himin the thirteenth yeere ofSaloman, Eufeb.in chra Inthe tenth yeere of Acheffratus, Andreclas the third fonne of Codrus,affifted by the yo Tones, built Ephefiss in Caria, whoafterthe adioyning ofthe Ileof Samostohisterri. torie,wasflaine by the Carians,whofe countrie he vfurped. He was buried faith Fasfa-T #ias)in one of the gates of Ephefus called Magnetes, his armed Statuia being fet ouer zt" hint, Strabo reports that after4sdroclas had fubdued the Ionians(the next prouinceto yponthe riuer Ephefus on thefea coaft of Afiathe leffe) he inlarged his Dominions vponthe oles; "0m whichioynethtoIonia: and thathis pofteritie gouerned theCities ofEphefus and Erythrz by thenameof Bafilide in Strabo his own time, Ofthe expedition ofthe Tones = polic.6 how they camehitherout of Peloponnefus, I haue * {poken already vponoceafion OF see chin hig the return ofthe Heraclidz into Peloponneliss, wherinywith the Dotes, theyexpelled : the Achzi, and inhabited their places inthatland ; thoughthis ofthe Ionesfucéeeded ae 30 that of the Heraclide 100. yeeres. The Citie of Ephefus became exceeding famous: firft,forthe Temple ofDizza ther- in built , which had in length 425.foote,and 230.in breadth,{uftained with12 7-pillars . of marble,of70. foote high: whereof 27. were mott curioufly grauen,& all the reft of choyce marble polifht, the workebeing firtt fet out by Crefiphoz of Gnotfos.Second| it became renowned by being oneofthe firft that receiued theChriftian faith,ofw Y> hich Timothywas Bifhop;to whom,and to the Ephefians, Saint Paw/ wrotehis Epiftles fo intituled:The other Citie pofleft by Androclus in Aolis,wasalfo vniuerfall y {poken of by reafon ofSibylla,furnatned Erythrea:wholiued 740.yeeres before Chrift was borne. S*. Auguftine anoweth thara Romane Proconf{ul fhewed himin an ancient Greeke copie 39 Settaine verfes ofthis Propheteffe: which began(as Saint Angufline changed them into Latine) in thefe words Sauiour. : lefas Chriftus Deifilias, Saluator : Lefus Chrift Sonne of God, the Aboutthe timethat Joab befieged Rabbain Moab, Vaphres began to goucrn.in Egypt; the famethat was father in law to Salomon,wholeEpiftles to Salemoz,and his to Vaphres, are remembred by Ea/ebius out of Polemon. Inthe 21. of Dauid, was the Citie of Mag: nefia in Afia tbe leffe founded,the fame whichis feated vponthe riuerMoeander, where Scie gaue the great ouerthrowto Aatiochus. In this territorie arc the bet Horfes ofthe leffer Afia bred, whereof Lucan : . Et Magnetis equis, Minye gens cognitaremis, About the fame timeCumainCampania wasbuilt bythe inhabitant boea, according to Seruius, with whom Strabo ioyneth the Cumeans s ofChalcisinEy of Aolis, faying, oda: ‘ that to the one of thefe peoplethe gouernment was giuen, with conditié thatthe other 4 fhouldgiue nametothe city.Of thisCuma wasEphorus the famous {choller ofSocrates, Exfcbius and Ca/siodor finde the building of Carthage at this time, to wit, in the 314 yecreof Dauid, buemuch miftaken. Forthe father of Dido was Metinus the fon.of Zax dezor, brother to Jezabel, who married Achab King ofIfra el ; andbetweenthe déath of Dawid, andthefirft of Achab, there were wafted about 95. yceres. Inthis time alfo _4eaftus limed, thefecondofthe Athenian Princes after Codrusiof . . whichthere were thirteen in defent beforethe State changed intoa Magiftracie We hea eee Socers. Some writers make it probable, that theAolians,led by Graussthe grand nephew # om: @Strabe of Oreftes,poffeft the Citie and Iland of Thebes about this time. Inthe 32.yeere of Da- ae es wid,Hiram beganto reigne in Tyre, accordingto Jofephus, who faith that in his twelfth Ob Ap LY yeere Sa/omex began the worke of the Temple. But itisa familiar errourin lofephus,to mulreckon times, which in this point he doth fo ftrangely, as if he knew not howat all to. caft: any accompt. For it is manifeft, that Hiramfe nt meflengers irs ynto 4 48141001 ne after his taking of Ierufalem, which wasin the very besinni of Danids rise Ouer Ifracl, when as yet hee had reigned onely feayenyecres in Hebrop ouer the Houle of luda; ‘Wherefore it muft needes bee that Higam had reigned aboue 30. Rr yeeres 2540-5 |