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Show ThethirdBooke ofthefir(part oe Patn4-3% 3.4, . . Seats 7 - Cuar.1.8. 7 oa but his underfanding. Seven yeares expired, it pleated God to reftore Nabachodonofer, bothito his vnderftanding,andhis eftate, for which he acknowledged andpraifed God all the reft of hisife, confefling his power, and cuerlafting being ; that he was the Lord of heaven and earth,and wrought without refiftance whathe pleafed in both; that hig workes'were alltruth, and his waies righteous. Which gaueargumentto manyofthe Fathers,and others,not to doubtofhis faluation ; namely, S. Augu/line, Theodoret,Lyra, Carthafianas,and others.Andfor that place of Efay the fourteenth,out ofwhichhis perdition may be gathered, the aforenamed Authors apply the fameto Balthafar, becaufe Jay, both inthe thirteenth and foureteenth Chapter, {peaketh of the king, andthe deftruction of Babylonioyntly. 10 §.X1I. Of Euilmerodach. Auing already {poken what I could of the ficceffion and yeares of NebuchadHe pofterity ; the moft that may be faid of him, is {aid of Ewilmeradach, whichI will not here againe rehearfe. Heloft fomepart of that which his fatherhadgotten ; andleft his kingdomeburning ina warre that confumeditto afhes.. Heeloft Egypt by rebellion ofthe people, inthe nineteenth yeareof his xeign,whichwasfortie yeares after his Father had conqueredit. .. But this agrees neither with the accomptof Herodotus,who allowes to Amafis foureand forty yeares of reigne; nor with that of Disdorus, who giues himfiue and fifty, faying, that he died in the third yeare ofthe three{coreand third Olympiad,when Camby/és did conquer Egypt. .Therewere indeed but feuen andthirty yeares, which paffed between the fecondyeare of the foureandfiftieth Olympiad, (which was the nineteenth of Esilmerodach, and the firft of Amafis)and the fitt of Camby/es his reigne, wherein he wan Egypt; ofwhich feuen and thirty yeares itis credibly held,that P/amennitus, the fon of Amafis, reigned three: fothat amafis could bee no longer king than foureand thirtic yeares.. But feeing thatthefetwo Greek Hiftorians haue bin abufed by EgyptianPrielts, in the fubftancé of that which. was {poken.of amajis, itis no maruell though they Were a9 alfo deceiued in the length ofhis reigne.. This is the plaine anfwertothis obietion. For to fay cither thatthe nombers were mif-written, & foure & forty fet down.in ftead of foureand thistie, or that- dpafis did temporizea while with the Affyrians, andnot beare him(elfeas abfoluteking ofEgypt,vatill the nineteenth ofEnilmeredach(at which time, and not before, ithath been proued out of Ezekiel, that Egypt became againe kingdome) I hold ita fuperfluous excufe. Whether-thefeEpyptian troubles did animate the king of the Medesto dealewith Euilmerodach,as witha Prince greater in fameand teputation,gotten by the decayed valourof his people,than in prefent forces , or whether(as ] ratherthinke) fomefoylett- Xenoph. cyres ped.ti ceiued/by the Affyrian inuading Media,emboldned the Egyptians to rebel againft him! 4 Twill neither yndertake, nor feck to define, Xenophon tels,that the firft feruice of yong Cyrasin Wwarre, was vader d/fyages king of the Medes, his Grand-father, in a prolpetous fight againft the Aflyrian Prince, who did fet vpon-him ; ‘at which time cyrus Was heaiH amteeatts elt . i therefore Cyrus lined threefcore and three yeatesiat Xemoph. Cyro~ ped.ls, no fhort life,then was this tcken inyeares) which isheldto be the ordinary san bythe fame seclhing icf inte in the third yeareof Ewilmeroduch his reigne: ae Nations, foras muchas me allow, thatthe warre began more early becwernket Santen limi ie.mannee of theit fight informer times, with other circ 2 in{inuating.as much, are foundin the fame place of Xexophon,.. Andit mayW :fe d a sheceagh8eatin of Nabuchodonofor gaie courage vato thofe chat ad Rennie e neig our, to ftand vpon proudertearmes-with the Aflyriam', find . us Hourishing eftate they durft haue vfed. Howfoener the quarrel beganne, Cuara.§23. ofthe Fiiftorie ofthe World. This happenedafter thedeath of 4/fyages w holef the worldin theninetcenth yeare ofEnilmerodach at which time Ammafis took poffeffion of thereby tohaue giuen the better meanes vnto the Egyptians, of new erecting their king atrowes 8 darts; Were haue buried the MedesandPerfiansvndertheir thicke fhowres of encountred with an atmy offtouvand wel-trained men,weightily armed for clofe fight, by whom they were beaten in open battell,w herein Builenteedaah was flaine. So that great frame of Empire which Wabachodonofor hadrailed and vp-hel dsbeing fhaken and etievouflyicrackt.vaderihis vn fortunate Son; was left to bee foftainedby his ynworthy Nephew aman more likely to hane ouerthrown it, when itwas greateft and ftrongeft; thantorepaire ir, whenit was in wayof falling. § XITT- Berolins; conperning the Succeffors of Euilmncrodach, without: wrong tothe Truth. The qualiti¢) anadeath ofBalthafar. (Mough I Haue alveady (as it feemesto me) fifficiently proued that Baltha/ar was the Son, andimmediate Succeflour'to Bailmerodachy yer conlideringearneftly the coniedtutesofthofe: Writers, which following Beno/ws, infert Wigli/ar, ov Nirighffiroor,and his {ou Labafjurdach berweene' thems: as*alfo that vvhich I finde in: HeredotusiofNitorrés;.a famous Queene of Babylon, vvhogreaoly adoried and fortified hat City + Thauethought ir nor fiiperfuous herein this p ceto thew; by vvhat means vas pofablethat foie eyrour might hauecrept intothetiforie of thofe'times; and thereby liane brought vs to ancediefl¢ trouble of {eanching out the truth, asit vvere by. eandle-lishr, in the-vricéttaine fragments of loft-Authors; which we might haue found tharthe by day-light,had we adhered only torhe Scriprures.: Fitftthereforel obferuc; time which Berofas dinides betwixt Euilmerodach; and thetwonext Kings, agrces Vv ith the yeares invwhich Nebuchadnezzar lined vvilde amongbrute beafts in the open field Secondly, hat the fuddenneffe ofthis accident, vvhich.came in one houte, could not but Vvork| muchperturbationinthat ‘ Hace was highlyregarded, his c rr on and Heire did occupic! he royall Thron "er, when God fhould enable himtorepof to lupply the vtter want of vaderftan Lyobng, bitheafonable Kings, migl into ieeines off C. This honur of fo noble a i ~ . h condition to reftore it vntohis Fa- . Inthis his rule Enilmerodach beeing Protectors do the vnripenes perod.tiz: Les ety{mall abilitie of go- Uerament, i appeares.by-tiis ill maintaining the Empire, when hee held it in his owne Phat his iter azeocrs Gif, Nitocris were his fitter) wasa woman of an high fpirit, ifhee was more cunning. tes by that which Herodotxs reports ofher; faying that L 2emmiraiis, as appeared inher rbagnificent and viefullavorkes about theRives of a Phtates,and her fortification. of Babylonagaintt the Medes, who had gotten many herbroe} =f5 mifsoueriimen Stothers itz . ‘ . yyherindoubtleffe the pitied rtd his reftitution hoped; the prediiich p ymifed his recoueri¢ie,as being veOn Of Daziel finding reputation in th: fon indge, 0 reafon tied in that whichhad bin mote intredibles {owif wedoe in common ones of the Kingdome, ford ling the got courfe was like to be taken by the great weefhalli ndeitmoft likely, that his ent, whileft the King was thu ae ceetios ceeFt his, partie the Lydians,and all the people ofthe re \e eee : ay 20 LAprinsteteniccinre of the Authors feruing temakegoodt hafe things, whichare cited out of Townesfrom the Afiviians.and ; SHabletothinke, that fueh2 seine taae. fa, tong,\per{wafions.., -hoping fo. to ouer-whelme his encm)*" Ware tong ingafion, vvhom.in.vaine hee ‘had fought to wearie out. witha lings find occafion to rebell in after dome,whielrby long diftanceofplace didfundrytimes ; ages, and fet'vp a King withinit felfe,againftthe far more mightyI erfian. The iffue ofthefe great preparations iniade by Ewilmerodach againftthe Medes, was {uchas opened the'way:vnto the fulfilling of thofe prophecies, which were many years ! vids gels by before vetered againift Babel;by E/ayand Iercamie. io For, the Affyrians andtheir Confederates, who,trufting in their numbers thoughtto 4 t baricoded not before the laft ruine ofthe Affyrian Monarchie.For the E bie li A, Deing C00 proudtodigefttheloffes which he receitied by the Medes andtheit A gypt:So thatthe Affyrian ha- affect him; feemes ning his hands alreddy full of bufineffe, which more earneftly did xemNinene. Wherefore itwere not vnreathe Empi'ewent to decay through oman, 1{ tseand a at me ands;and 3 -d practic sto getthe rule into her ow ne banc anes "tWatds, as a mothen;ro leaneit vntother vngracions fon. Othertimethan this, whers seein have xcisned, weedoc notfinde, but we findein Bere/us<a Could \Niteerss chat Nigliffar, who gotthe Kingdome from Esilmeroaach - fit th cited him) |