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Show s a » acleatt{ome part of the vefpedd thar was due to fiicha perfonzOn the other fide;the fin eulaflafiestion which heandhis father liad borne vnto the King,and the y nrecountable were fuchy as'fho id benefitswhich they had done yatohim, trom hisifirft |infancie) haue placed Zxchariein the moft hearty and aflured loue of Joas,yea though he: had bi Thetruth 7 th ; otherwifeaman of very finall marke;and not very good condition, reverence howfix i themeflage of'a Pyophet {ent from God, thould be heard with % focuer he appearesthat brings it. But this King Joas, hauing already foomned the aden le nitions and proteftations of fucly Prophets as firft were fent,didnowdea with Zathe ria, like'as the wicked hisbandmenintliat:parablé of our' Sauiour, dealt with thehei ofthe Vineyard who thid ) This isthe heyre, come lee-vs killbimsthat the inheritance a 0 anabfolute Commander ftp i be ar Bykilling Zatharia hethought to become trut chin ‘ B belike that he waSinofiée Princejaslongas onedurft tell him the plain d ie ms com: Gods ; commandem did fo,odyeathough ing were, that ent requifoeuer that mansdeferu ns : a at Joe this holy Prophetjand ftonedhim to deathat cal redit:Sothey con{pired againft sie appointment s but whether by any formeiof open Law, as was'practifed vponcanconi 2 either-reade , nor any clofetréachery;Idoen fiprifing him by or wiierher canconienor her-reade rei 1oe ce Quite STisbdignirieldtisep erfird,:cOnkidevedtog together with theit treacherous:-con{pira- COI 5 durft 6 they not ca ‘i hiWoiaes pitbliqne ad. ; ee that ee pagler of . ‘ ¢& being fluch as Law,inthe mannerof: his death, byby order of Law: that and ys) and was Commonly.) as was 3a eo 2 ed lebaQor ‘ ; sd ae , makes ita)probable, cic Moftlikely licjit is argue the contrary. that the kings?" liGted vpon malefactors ; 5 ‘mayyeas kély p sik is, > which , took ntrary.. M he exerci e by which hee fuffered; ytookeplac ent. hie Law commandem fteadof e-in waw:: whichexetcil ad e b a G es Se Zs kingsof alder the ymongft er ftrange mroshatibs opniieicor (ashath been already noted) was nothing re power Stetina - tas ay 6 ree RayVia §... J a rant hatefi It Amorites,andofhis death ee ? 30 memory deteftedin ning a dines hisMartyr.to de- i it cheiyw" accompaallages;fo curte of 1the bleffed compa LY aa € ey leffed Martyr,toac aa oftGod, 53 1 eteit ynto -therhrone & eS nie aoe fr to,call for vengeance in geance from thence;3 whichfell dowae oa fwiftly,& vngratefi his yeere ot ofcehis auily vponthe head ofthat was thelat c heaui montteriIt the laft yeere exatefull ‘ 1onfteriIt was State! d 2 i t a end of his ie reien:the aE h ypon-him,w ngS then pon-him,when he thought himfelf beginning time'commi is S885 oO ae ta Hine¢ hoyhelifted wiithout-controulment. When t J Aramites the Aramutes expired,: the was‘expired, yeet was that tha yeet nen «When : catt s cameaintothe Countrie: llage to.getpi feem her'asihay anygreat performe Ort to than : pillage; ; get : °, forth ere « 2ichtonss.24, action : eFasket, ey catue witha, (mall compan mote 5 . bythem,tha nthey. sa Ne caeof mea: but God-had. intendedto.doe for, thope att aera Meee eS e o d zt : agai malice bloudy aturally was.a coward,shis : y though otherwile his ceagainft, his beft friend,is,i.m indgement, proofe fufficients Hazaclwhen4? hemaiahs kane ieanied, Gs nieton 5re enite nisbafe compofition with chothree hundred thoufandodehe well eae,Hy,dicenaber) {cn men for. the warresdoth es = ry > i : needsbe wouldwhen he was; now Yet histemper. ae hewn know. hee people makehis King heis. valiant,and out of difpofition.t cD ce j oF Hf ne Will, But his timorous-heart was mn ter witha few bands.of Rouers, heetookea ver was Notwellcloaked.For tocncoll hat wife men mys K well perceiue,that he knew whathe did = sdfceo Armie,fo,t if he would fight for bis Cont: trie,and expofe himfelfe to danger tree 10S lhewas oftentation forth £ when as indeed all was meere and no perill to be feared: hee ee mies.-Thus might wife men thinke.ar tth to ftrongly appointed, againft fo1 fecret . confid he made aboutthat eA chi uinke,and laugh at himin (as they fay)a thing of noting: lonwas apparantrea banal) te ewhon But God,befor foolithneffe, hsp ofthis worldistheir at this vaitie-glorious King King fecure, by reatoivor the multisude that he dkew ‘a ue ar them that thought . new along with:him, a j ; Wihemehe'Aramitesé& Kine 1 rit wereby fonie folly of rheLeades; orbyfomeatiiazementhappeni a met,whethefouldiers;or plow feansit rattinenor mean! rs5,0r byawhatfoeu eementhappentog among the pret tt} ee fed G; id to ivork{ eecr ouet-tni™ ‘ eer ea danotable hator Army great vorx,10 1vWwas,thatt udareceiue ofAk : wet mmy at g allthe Prittces and peers : Ind Princedof the ces Werte deftroyed had bece Mid becoinba Rebel tothe King-ofkine 4m _ Sof Tada, at whofe perfwatron ts one expound ngotkings, As forifezshimfelfe (as Abalenfis and \)rO. "fila Bites ij Wile Welds or ory ofthe aa ° ci ee they and hurt by them,Being cuniamreeteoey ihe was forely beaten ata they thinke ) taken exceffiue ofhimvan out wring to atdfnamefully tormented, 465 this scales And arely-all circumftances doe greatly ftrerigthen d ure: For the Text (in the old tranflation)faith,they exercifed vpon Jos ignominio aa nts;and that de: us1udgeme All laneuor. great himin fmiffed Panis from him,they'di had rs intheir hands,and handled him iliFadouvedly Now cae qoucs; that they - reigned ouerIfrael,and Bembaded the fon of iealbooo ah Toas the fonne of is cus;the one a'valiant'vader-taking Princesraifed vp by G ts aieee ismiferable Country ; the other inferiout euery wai is his fi Bes EU keepe it The difere et, of whofepurchafes mowing part, forwant of skillto other event th (ella in condition found no promifing Princes, Sener thefetwo follow. PBA haue=giuen to the king of Iuda good cafe to bevel as afterward ed, ; might ; not mee his {pi- a. Hazaclhad beaten downe , if God‘had so ie Dn vpon any apprehenfion sfCane oi lb heart being: likely to quaketerrifying anger, was abletd wi him that by patthe Syrian king in hope, Waire at his of thew fome with ro ng y him make to éafie . were am doores y it i iti craue any tolerable . Gent vnex: tn ne fucceffe hereof, already eho & the eda of ae fuecefie ill expected) apes bid theirfollowéng in their thew% ki of Ifrdel Aramites found in whichthe gainft the kine i Warres' againft'the : tl el, iheweth plainely S hty refifti : y the weakeneffe ofall earth! power of of thé Almichty. i¢ power zs refifting the " both the ki rthly might, entys: 20 For orby byhihis; Ordinance, of Iuda, , aft after more than fort > both the kingdome ; e f «andth of gatheri teces was es to driue out a fmall companie BHEAEGis indaee and the 3 3 dd fo been t rodden €i,hauing ee th onely fifty Hork downe by Hazel, > Hazael,that HorteY ees : men, tenne Chariot: s,andtenne thoufand F Footmeny were left: prenailed againft oufand his 2 from the vidtori 3 preuailed 2 and ' Sonne, all yonne, and recouered B Aramites. victorious hereof es. 3 Butexamples ale L hereof are euePies rie-where ‘ e ffound, and therefore I ihould reports easewe frequente Se long and giact us tooeheare ren thiskeie h be Godschild thaiiof not, ifwe Fathers honour, heauenly ofour F b performed aéts noble the of than » V;: med by ourfore-fathers P o nthe Ara: : fo few:3 notable,being that they were they ee Z any poffeltion a<ountry f gatotake eparted the nes they i departed; out-of Tuda Joad with fpoyle. > aden { whichthey hemfel ey fentto Damafcus,t i whe Wher itcae cus,themfelueés belike falling YP. th eten 1s ine ypon to beth 4 Tbes, ro Tribes, € thought that that th ill cafe,Was kilthey {ped not halfe fo wel. . The The k king of Indaa being b l i in led on hisought th is bed when he came ec homesby j the fons ofan. Ammoniteffe,, & Of of a Moabiretfe. home;by whom {ome (becaufe ; onel think 4 sbeingg ft ftrangers, names,bein Mothers xptefied) thinke : their eonely Senta aré expreffed) b beene I haute to Whether ne bondmen. * fort itth were contempt ofhis Whether feate, left (as or fea rtune,; ‘ Tyrant o + ants v{e) he fhoul them, imputing it to their fale or whatfoeuerelfe it aa his ‘difafter vpon' tels y at animated them to mutdér their king : the Scripture plainly th cpture tels vs eA thi Y,that,For the bloudofthe children Teboiada pears r Saciieap gy sete cee rel BitteSieufact to haue beene vfed as th whenit was *""**# 4odone. For Amazie s fa, pretence oftheir confpiracy,in excufe of the king his til] , ro puniththem durft offeas, t vad not i t dome >was chtablithed: fare _ ai in orchy ofburial! was iudgedvnw e his body: that ofthe= kin kingscrm Sepulchres the ‘ ofZacharia death' the irappeares; : whereby treafon.wro canted thie i Wrought againft the king, to find > th find moreapprobation,than was requifite, among ig, afterward though ne people, Sonne, vpon the Traytors with well-deferued death tds it was recompenied: by his\ : 4 ot "7 How loas was[hamefully beaten by the l fnal His odious murther ; committed by an. vnthankeful mania vponthe nthankefull u tomakethe fier it {aficed alonefaake whofe hofome he had beenfoltcred,as of ir (elf tue cea toma. tie At de aa wretched. TE Saceamlyd Cuar.ang Fhevfecond Bookeoftheyirstpart W. § . VI . ‘ 5 f Ofthe Princes lining in the ti bak ea) ERNE PIATER ee isi Me Zoas, with d Arifiome= B Here liued \4es in Corinth : ab »Mesades Sx Diggwetes in. Athens :Ewdemnsan him Sylnine AllaBUD See wereLinns ee Which time Agrippa Spluins, and after Seaearae : dius,were kings ofthe Albans in Italy.0 Pe) Kee epercommonly galed Anatyndaraxes,the thirty feuentl line talreCtres = began Opbratanes, 5 his reigne cuenth king fucceeding ynto ar § ouer the Affyri th eighteenth t the yrians,abou i fcforty two yeeres. yeere ofIoas,wh fted s whichla In > yi 5 ed th ¢ fixxteenth ofIoas,Cepb r, Cheops in the king »Cepurenesthe fourth from Sefacfucceeded vnto. domeof F, ri Inthi gyptandheldit fifty yeeres ; i Tyre, and the foundation Pizmalion in reigne ofofPizmadion Athistime of Joes, waslikewife theexeigne fey |