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Show TherhirdBockeoftbefifipart Cuaragi husband; whichatguesthisto haue bee the famewomian, As for Leba/fardach the in of Wigliffarif atthe end of nine moneths reigne he wereforhis lewd conditions {laine bythe Nobilitie, as the fame Bero/w reporteth,it feemes that God prepared herebythe way for Nebuchadve=zarsreftitution (whofe terme ofpunifhment was then expired) by raifing {uchtrouble, as fhould make himthemoredefired, bothiofthe Princes andthe people. I will not herevfe many wordsto confute that: which Berofws hath further fee down of ‘Enilmeredach, telling vs thathe was flaine by-his fifters husband:for the plain cai formerly been dependants on the Medes, and were of as little power athomesas of fame abroacin the World. Ofthe Family of the Achawmenesjand Line ofthe Perfian Kings} wefhall heteafter find occafion in'dug place'to intreat, The Nation ofthe Medes deftendedfrom amadaithe thitd forine of Zapher; that they had Kings foone aftér the Floud, Lattantins and Diodorus haue found record ; For LaGantinsvemembreth an ancient King of the Medes éalled Hydafpes, and Diadore {peaketh of Pharaus with his {eaten fonnes; {laine bythe Allyrian inthe beginning. of words ofthe Scripture, named the yeare wherin he gaueliberty.to /ecowia, doe plainly theirEmpire. But ofthefe who fucceeded Arbaces the firtt, that freed his Nation from the Affyri 19 ais,[take theliftand numberfrom Enfebiws,addine Darius Medusiof whom Vhaue fpokenin their properplaces heretofore ; and theyarethere: Lord he had gelded, becaufe a Gentlewoman cémendinghis beauty,faid it werea hap- Diocles. Phraortes. amifchieuous nature ; hauingin his Fathers time flaine a Noble yong manthat fhould haue married his fifter, only for {pight and enuy to fee him kill two wilde beaftsin hunting, at which himfelfe hauing thrownhis Iaueline hadmiffedthem. Anothergreat ) T¥GALES. yeares. scuy Gates. CGH4XATES. Afyages. vnto theenemieas fooneas hee was King. Neitherdoe L finde that hee performed any 5 ALCS. f-¥Earess YGatess y Cares. Oe Cardiceas. pie womanthat fhould be his wife. Such barbarous villanies caufed many whichhad louedhis Father(as a good and gracious, thoughvnfortuniate Prince)to reuolt from him 36 ti "6 WW RA permitted tobe ina King forthe rine of the people. Hee was fromhis youngyeares of cArbaces. Sofarmus. Medidus. 9 & teftifie that he out-liued the three or foure and fortieth yeare ofhis Fathers reign,which was the laft of his life. : This mayfutfice to fhew,thatthey.who are faidto haue fucceeded Euilmerodach inthe Kingdome, might indeed haue fo done, thoughnot whenhee held itin his owne right, Of Balthafar, who was his Sonand Heire,we finde,that he had {uch conditions,as God of theFiftoryofthe World, Cuari2.§.2. rwho reigned:5.9 j ust Darius Medus.) L } And though the\Greeks ‘afcribe the conquélt of Babylon to' Cyres alone} yebthe thing worthy ofrecord, butas acoward anda foole heeloft all 3 fitting ftill, andnot oncedaring to giue batrell to them that daily tooke fomewhat from him. Yetcarelefly feafting when danger had hemmedhinvin on euery fide) and-when deatharrefted hitn bythe hands of thofe whom heehadwronged in his Fatherslife. So the endofhim Sctiptures teach vsjthat Davieewas'not onlyking of Media; 8 hadthe Perfiaris his'followers,biit tharthe Army vi@torious otter BalrhaxaY was hislastlie Affytian & Babylo- nian Empire alfo was during his owne life. Forwefinde ii Daniel, that' Darivs of the was bafe and miferable; for he died as a foole taken in vnexcufable fecurity, yet had not that happineffe, {uch as it is, ofadeathfree from apprehenfion of feare, butwasterti- Medestook the Kinigdome being thrcefcote 8ctwoyears old: Andfurther, what Of cersit pleated himto'fet ouer the Kingdome-And fo'wasit propheciedbyMaylong before:'Bebolarwillflirre up the Medes agaiast them,ere. Ania by Teremy sThe'Lordbath(2.13. fied witha dreadful vifion.; which had fhewed his ruine notin many houres before, euen whileft he was drinking in that vvine, whichthe {words ofhis infulting enemies drew. out of him, togethef ivith his lateft bloud. Jtis therefore in this place enough 1036 fay of him, That aftera difhonourable reigtie of fenchteene yeares|, he perifhedlikea 30 railed upthe Spirit ofthe King of the Medes :for bis purpofé és 4gainft Babel to destreyit sand intheeight & twentieth Verfe, Prepare.against her the Nations,with the King ofthe Medes, the Dukes thereof, the Princes thereof, and all the Landof his Dowiaiow. Thefe Scriptures Julia Africanus doth well open,whotaking authority from, Diedore,Caftor, Thallus,& 0- beaft , and wasflaineas hee deferned. ‘The reft that concernethvhim in queftion ofhis time, hath been {pokenheretofore; in matter ofhis affaires, fhallbe handled among the atts of Cyrws,towhofe ftory that of Balthafar is butan appendix, thers, deliuereth that Babylonwaste With Strabo,where he faith, That as the Me oreCyras beganto reign: which alfo agreeth re{ubiigated by thé Perfians, fobe- 1b 16. forethat,both the Babylonians &‘Affyrians were mattered by the Medes. And theffore thereports of Juitine'and Herodotns are not to be received, who attribtite the takifie of Cuap, II, Babylon to Cyrus alone. Ofthe originalandfirftgreatneffe ofthe Perfians. = §.1. That the Medes were chicfe aétors in theSubuerfion ofthe Babylonian Empire. HE Line of Belochus being nowextitiguifhed in' Balthafar, HE Empireof Babylon, andof Aifyria, ‘was ioynedfirft rothat Outthan Cyris his Grand-child by Matedané.Wheras crefis on the edntraryfide ak- ps ter whom Cyrus became Lord and Monarch; both ofAffyriaane , i OF the race of PhalBelochus there weretenne Kings be himfelfe, and of Arbaces as many'are found by <aseraither Ibenctviof Suane Thefe two Prouinciall Gouernours. hauing cut downethe" 7 Ninus in'Sardam apalus, ‘divided betweene them the Eafterne-Empi Cyaxares (vvhHom: the Scripture s call Darius Medm) the lat ofthe race of 7 dying about two yeeres after that the lineofgelochus vvas ended in Baltha/ar theD& munions alwell of the Conqueraut,as ofthe conquered, fellto athird Famil a to cyri# of the houfe of Achemenes, the Princes of which bloud reigningin Perfia §.oDL By what meanes the Empire wastranylatedfrom the Medes tothe Renfiias. Ow the Kingdome ofthe Medes felliato the hinds ofCyru3ieis'a donbttot fufficiently cleared by Hiftorians,but rather their different relatiogs'of his besinnings hatte bred the former opinion of thofewho giuethe conqueft of Babeltoth fothe Perfianonly. For foie thereare who denythae Afpyages hadany other-Sue- + Media, which then was gouerned by Cyaxares or DarinsMedia of Media it felfe * we " meth,that Cyras'was no way defcended from Afyages(whont he ealleth Astigas or -APania) but only thaPhauing Vanquithed him ifi battaile Confined hinito Badtias*He 50es tis Daughter Amyeis BueT find the relations of Ctefies often cited-and feldome eisent aneieespeesaeCer - low ed,and himfelfe fometimes veryinfty reprouedof wilfilll ‘vnertith, ; OatheThales more he eet: ioletecae bob f Ariftot ‘Tatrabes ahd befo Cllr ana Pileson tiie o od aca se a h Si s Leff . Neithet doe BeOpbilys Antio 4 é or esSeckaebeeain ty ie, them Zanis. a foe oa : ; obama Eufebins 5 ow ‘ eens, Luling Affritanus;Clemens A ¢ Kandr inns. Tull tne Mar f rae , , 39 -terome, Or S. Augustine makereport out of any faithfull Author by them read, thar hath ginefother Sonof Succefloutto Afjases than Cyrus; Kkk Yet |