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Show 2 Lhe third Bookeofthe frit part -_-eree--- Cuari2.§.3, doth)neuer'inforce Yet feeing thatthis mannerof argument ab authoritate negatine, Cuar2§.4. ofthe Hiftorie of the World, withQanding) to affirme,that either Afiyages himfelfe muft haue beene Darius ofthe Medes,which cannot agree withhisplace in the courfe oftime;Onelfeto give himfome other Succeffoutjaccording to Lofephus and Xenephon,the fame whom Daniel calleth De- were alfofcattered by ‘cyrus, whofollowing his aduantage, pofleft himfelfe ofa great part ofthe leffer Afia ; at which timeit was, as Itake ‘it, that Crafus himfelfe'was alfe made prifoner. Theattempt of Babylon following foon after;the Artny lying before it being paidby DariuswhomXenophon calleth Cyaxares,and led by Cyrus his-fittersfon,preuailed againit thanthe Lieutenant of his Army, and fubiect to his authority ; The ftrength of both Nations,to wit,the Medes and Perfians,withotherthe Vaflals of Darivs, being ioyned fand foot-men, of which athoufand were armed Gentleincnh; ‘the reft of the common fort were Archersjor fuchias vfed the Dart or Sling? So far Xewophion. Ofwhom.in this confent ; we may be the bolder (all this great lift of noble Writers by him alleaged not. ZonLrt.t9. Fofan.l,10.013- ris. Forit is manifeft,and withoutdifpute, thatthe King of the Medes commandedin Kents.Ped chiefe, and was abfolute Lord ofthat Conquetft, Cyrms during his life , being noother o mpoundit. Balthafar,as in due time‘fhall be fet downe: ThofePetfians which followed Cyras,and by hitn leniéd): aréiumbred thirty thou> | =re Aan that the honour of that great victory ouer Babylon was wholly argument,as it is true,that he defcribedin Cyrws the pattern ofa moft Horoical | Prince; grofle of towith much Poeticall addition : fo itcannot be deniedsbutthacthe bulkeand his Narration was founded 'vpon mieere Hiftoricall truth, iuento Cyrus,who wasthe inftrument preordained and forenamed by God himfelfe Neither can it indeed be athirmed of any thelike Writers, thatin euety {peech & cite cumftance he hath precifely tyed himfelfe to the phrafe ofthe {peaker, ornature ofthé Brthis aGtion, but forthe deliuery of his Church ;a greater workenot only in the cies of God,thanthe fubuerfion of any State or Monarchy,how powerfull focuer, | And it may well be thought,that the Souldiers imployed in that feruice. did rather afcribe the glory to him that was the beft man of Warre,than tothe Median, who was greateft in riches and power-All whichalfofalling vpon Cyrus by fucceffion,and continuingin his pofteritydid much augmentthe fame ofhis vertue ; which amongprofane Hiftorians ouergrewaltogether the honour due to Cyaxares,both becaufe he was old, & did nothingin perfon; as alfobecaufe he foonafter quitted the world,and left all to Cy-2° ras,who was pofleft ofwhatfocuer belonged toDariws,before the fameofanyfuch King or Conqueror wascarried farre off. occafion,but borrowed in each out ofhis own inuefition, approptiating the fame to the times and perfons ofwhom he treated.Putting therefore apart the Moralland Politick difcourfe,and éxamining but the Hiftory ofthingsdone,ic wilbeafily appear, that Xenophenhath handled his vnder-taken fubiectinfurch fort,that by beautifyingthe face theroonhe hath notin any fort corrupted thebody. : BL Mie The estate ofthe Medes and Perfians in timesfore-going thisgreat Warre. And forthe Greek Hiftorians,they took all things from therelation of the Perfians, Orit is commonly agreed vpon, that C4chamenes the fonneofPerfes being Go- who gaue to Cyrasallthe praife ofa moft excellent Prince,making nonehis equal.Only Daniel in the firft,fift,andfixt Chapters of his prophecie, makesitplaine, that himfelte not onely liued agreat Officer vader King Daréws,but that he continuedin hat cftateto Precccs of Perfia, did affociate himfelfe with -arbaces » whécommanded in Me; dia in that rebellion againft Sardamapalas , andthat each of them aftersthe viGo- tieobtained,held for himifelfe the Dominion ofthofe Gountriess#hich he had former- the firft of Cyrus;which being the year of Danzels death,could not haue bia diftinguifhed from thereigne of Dariws,if they had beguntogether and reigned ioyntly ; Neither can it be imagined that Daréas held the Kingdomeby cyrus permiffion,confidering that Cyras began after him. 30 ly ruled forthe Affyrians;as alfo that they conueyed ouer the famehonour épower to their pofterity;which in Media was not abfolutely Regall,but with fome reftraint limi#Pted,yntill fuch time as Deioces tooke vpon himthe fulkauthority. and maiefty ofa King, From the death of Sardanapalws to the reigne of Desoces,are vitually accounted about an ---- §. ITT. Xenophonsrelation of the warre withthe Medes and Perfiaws, made with ioyntforces Ype™ the Affyrians,and others. Hefe Teftimonies of the Scriptures, which neede no other confirmation, y¢t : made more open to our vnderftanding,by that which Xenophonhathwritten0 thefe wars : The caufe whereof,accordingto his report,was this. . Whenthe Affyrian had enlarged his Empire withvictories, &was become Lord o! p all Syria,& many other Countries,he beganto hopethatifthe Medes could be brou vnderhis fubiection , there fhould not then be left any Nation adioyningable to mas* head againft him:Forthe King ofthe Medes wasable to bring into the ficld threclco hundred andforty yeares,in the laft fixty wherofthere reigned in Aflyria mighty PrinCes,namely,, Se/manajfar and his Succeffours; whofegreat, atchievements in Syria and clfewhere,witneffe,that the Medesand Perfians found it not for their aduantage to vn cttakeany offen{iue warre againft thofe victorious Kings, it being alfo probable-that theleagué continued as yet between thefe the fucceffours ofBelochas, and. Aréaces, who had formerly fhared the Empire. OWirom the beginning of Deiocesto the firft of Asfyages, there paft aboue nines on' Yeates, inwhichif Herodotus haue written trucly, that Phrsortes conquered Per12, and how he.andother Kings of Media by many victories greatly enlarged their Das nions.and commanded many parts of A fia, ic hadibeene but-an ynaduifedentetprife thoufandfoot, and ten thoufand horfe,to which the forces of Perfia being ioinec,mae' an exceeding ftrong Army. a es the Affytians & Babylonians, to hauewafted them{clues again the Sytians andEs The Aflyrian confidering the ftrength of fucha Neighbour, inuited Crefus Ring Sie of Sufiana in Nabuchodonofors time, it is manifett.in Daniel, iwho sie Ouernour forthe Babylonian in Sufa or, Sufan, the, chiefe City) thereof! eIt Cyaxéres. or Afyages, on both, -had quar> relltuewitindeede,that the Medians, either. 2 , vnderaren Lydia, a Prince very mighty both in men andtreafure, and with himother Lo Afiache leffe,tohis aififtance,alleaging, that thofe Eafterne Nations were very bid full, and fo firmely conioyned by leagueand many alliances, that it would not be fie, no not poffible for any one Nation to refit them.-With thefe incitements, ftrengthened with great prefents,he drewto him{elffo many adherents,as he com? ded an Army oftwohundred thoufand foot,and threefcorethoufandhorfe; of wh tenne thoufand horfe, and forty thoufand, foot were ledde by Crafus,who ha money out of Afia the lefle, Egypt,.and ¢lfewhere, Which new gatherea 1 me ~ 7 : : + ee thatthe toughneffe ofthe mountainous Countrey which they: thenpofict; with ame : Forj ftheir Kings, being the pofterity of Achemenes, haddone any memorable # ; Si with Halyattes the father of Gre/us , which-after fome fixe: yeares difpute: was compounded, a theaffaires of Perfia tood in fo many ages; L.do notfinde' any memory- Itfeex 408. the teatnef{e| which they afterward obtained wouldinot hanefuffered-any for meee &cthulne ftate of eestor Butas wefindeall Xenephons reports, bothof thefe Watres and = King beingalfo flaine, fo many ofthe Aflyrians reuolted,as Babylonit £ longerbe affured without the fuccours of Mercenaries > Waged with gre = OnE: Rothing vponthe, South parts:of Perfia sand. that the:Perfians themfehiés "contederacy which they continued with the Medes, gaue-them more fecurity than caufe of enmity with the Medes, in regard of the Warre made by- them ag Father Abjattes ; But this great Army..was by Cyaxares King ofthe Mede S52 cyrus Generall of the Perfian forces, vrterly broken 3-Vpon which defeat the pyPuans, leauing {o ableandviGorious a Nation on their baekes.; Burthatthe Medes < 200d J os to be very confonant oe - = -- 3 48 from Father se eeteothet the race of Ae hemenes held the pipe pality or many defcents. 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