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Show REN T byecond Booke ofthéfirst part Caari226.6 "okGarthage by-Didesthe building of which Cityis, by diuers:Authors, placedin diuets ages,(omereport iNgeAktO beg Say ceres.yonger than Rome, others aboue 400, yeers cls Cuar.2%§.7. of the Hiftory ofthe World, Fromthetime of Didoynto thefirft Punick warre.that Carth we srey der,fewernoncofthemgining any,weafomof their aflertions, butleauingvs vncertaine whom.to:tollow..: lofephus, who hadacad the Annals of Tyre, counting one hundred forty.and three yceres and eight moneths from the bu ilding Of Salomons Templenthe in wealthand conquefts,we finde in many Hiftories: but in particular dé li the Carthaginian affaires before that war, exc epting thofe fewthings that are record nvelfth yeer of Hyfam king of Tyre,tothe founding of Carthage by Dido,in the feuenth concerning that mighty'Citie, vatill fuch timeas theyfhall encounter with the State Q EFicmalion. The particulars ofthis accompt. (which is notratein Lofephns are very Rome,by whichit was finally deftroyed ; and profecute in the mean while the Hiftory perplexed,and {crue notyery wellto.make cleert he totall fumme. But whether.it were fothat Jo/ephas-did omitorelfe that, he did mif-w rite fome number of the yeérs,which hereckoneth.in Fractions,as they, were diuided among the Kings of Tyre; from'Hyram to, Pigenalionswe may welbenoughbeleeue,that the Tyrian writers, out of whofe books hee giues vs the whole fumme,had.goodimeanes toknowthetruth » andcould rightly reckonthe difference oftime,bctweene two works no longer following one theother than the memory ofthreeor foure.generations might eafily reach... This hundrédforty and foure yeeres curgent,after the building of Salomions Temple, being the \elewenthy yeere ofJezs,wasa hundred fortyand three yeeres beforethe birth of Rome, andafter the deftrudction ofTroy,two hundred eighty and nines.a time folong afterthe death of eALneas, that wee, might truely-concludeall to be'fabulous which Virgil hath writtenof Didogs Asfonivenctethwho dothhonouther Statua with this E pigram: Anfon,¢p.tt7. pis ego[um-Dido velba quam confpicss bo/pes, " Afsimiylata modis palohr ag, mirsficis. _.Talts erare,Jedzon Maro quam mibi fiaxiterat mens, Vita mec inccftis Leta cupidiathus, (Namg, neo Encas vidit me Troius unguane svn N66 Leybians aduenit, cla/sibus Hiacts, Sedfarias fugiens, atg. 47044 prOcacis Tarbe, Seruaut, fateor, morte pudicitiam ; PeGonetransfixo,caflos quadpertulit exfes) Now furor, ant lef cradus amore dolor. Sie cecidiffe tunat : vixi fine wulnere fame, Vilta wirwuts pofitis menihees Oppetij. > layide cer in me, [limulafti Mufa Maronem, Fingertt vt nore damnua Pugicitie? Vos magts Hitoricis lectores credite deme Livan qui furta Deum feacubitasy cannes. Falfidsci vates «temepaut qi tarinine verum, Hupmarilg, deos a[simulant WPTase fo Whichin effet is this? { I AmthatDi#e whichthowhetedo'ft fee; Cunningly framed intbeauteous Imag'rie. Like this 1 was,buchadnorfucha foule L Als Adarfained;inceftdols and foule: , e£neas neuer with his Troien hoaft Beheld my face,or landed onthis coaft . Butflying ptoud lerbas villanie, Not mou'd by furious louéoricdloufie; Vdid with weapon chaftetts fare my Make wayfordeath votimely,¢réit' fame, This Wasthy ends bachet Thuile dame. Towne, , Reueng'a'by hasbatids death liv'waith Why did' thounitre Vp Piigil, chtio vehowre: hs Mute: Falfely ry titiie anid hanourte e Readers baledic Hitatianis ;netabuf Which tolthelwentd olen theres thofe and vice expofe? __ Poets arelyers,and for verfes "OWallitiitke thé gods ofthinnatifake e chime ts s partake? oftheir attempts of the Ifle of Sicil. Wewill thercfore deferrethe rel: tion of matters that is now in hand. - §. VIL The beginning of Amazia bisreigue. Ofloas King ofUrael, and Blifha Prophet. RG@ Mazia, thefon ofLoafh, being twentyfiue eeres old when is Father died (2 took pofleffion of the Kingdome of Tuda, wherin helaboured fo to ¢ ON@ himfelf,as his new beginning reign might be leaft offenfiue.Th #9 fes he profefled to obferue; which howfocuerit had beene fecret ly defpifed fincethetimeof zeboram,by manygreat perfons ofthe Land,yet hadit by p good. Princes,yea & of bad ones(in their beft times)imitating the goo any by the care of holy Priefts, taken fich deeperoote in the peo} arts, ts, thatnoKing 4 might hopeto be very plaufible,who did not conform himfelfe'y toit.And at tha that previded pie 7° font time,theflaughter,which the Aramites had made of all the Princ drawne the late king fromthe feruice of God, being feconded by the he king himfelfe,euen whileft that execrable murther, committedbythekir 1 Zecharia, was yet frefhin memory, did ferueas anotable example of Gods iuftice a nft Idola. ters, both to animatethe betterfort of the people in holding the Religion of theirfathers,and to difcourage Amazéa from following the way,which ledto fuch an euil! end, Hetherefore, hauing learned ofhis father theart of diffimulatiou, did not onelyforbeareto punifh the Traytors that had flain king Joes , but gaue way tothe time, and fuffered the dead bodytobeinterred;as thatof Ieberam formerly had been, in the City 6 OfDawidyet not amongthe Sepulchres of the kings of luda, Neuerthelefle, after this; when(belike)the noyfe ofthe people hauing weariedit felfe into filence, it was found that the Confpirators(howfoeuertheir deed done,was applauded asthe handie Worke ofGod) had neither any mighty partakers in their fa@, nor {trong maintainers of their perfons, but refted fecure,as hauing done well, feeing it was not ill taken : the king,wha perceiuedhis gouernment well eftablithed,called them into queftion, at fuch time, as the heateof mens affe@ions being well allayed, it was eafieto diftinguith between their treafons and Gods iudgements, which, by their treafons,had taken plaulible effec. So they were put to death without anytumult,and their children (as the Lawdid: werefufteredtoline: which could not but giue contentmenttothepeople i qothcirking did the office ofa iuft Prince , rather than ofa reuenging fonne.. This being done, andhis ownelife better fecured » byfuch examplaryinftice, againft thelike atlempts ; Amazia carried himfelfe outwardlyas a Prince well affectedto Religion, & fo continued in reft, about twelue orthirteen yeeres, As Ammazia gatheredftreneth in Iuda by thecommodity of along peace, fo leas the irg as faft in power,by following the warre hotly againft the Aramites. Hee tand fortunate Prince,yetan Idolater; as his Predeceffors hadbeenc, wor > Calues ofZeroboam.-Forthis finne had Godfo plagued the houfe of shu, ibes wantedlittle of being ytterly confumed, by Hazaeland Benhadad, time ofJehw andhis fonne iehoahaz, Butas Gods benefits to Ichw, fufficed notto drawhimfiom this politique Idolatry; fo werethe miferies, rewz rding tl t imPletie,vnableto reclaime /ehoahaz from the fame impiouscourfe:yet the mercyof God beholdiug thetrouble of Ifracl, did condefcend vnto the prayers ofthis vngodly Prince, euen then when hee andhis miferable fubiects, were obftinate in following their owne abominable Waies.. Therefore in-temporall matters the ten Tribes re- coueredapace; but the fauour of God » which had beene infinitely more wroth, I 10t finde, nor beleeue that they fought : that they hadit not, I finde inthe words €Prophet, faying plainely to Amazia,The Lordis not with ifrael, neither with all the , chvon2s.7 of Ephraim, Whether |