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Show The Jecond Booke of thefirst part | G HA P.7 .$343) a €ap.23, Cap.23- Efaycallethitthe Daughterof Zidon , which Trogus alfo confirmeth, t hough Bero/s by affinity of name makes Thiras the fonne of Japhet to be the Parent thereof : and thougly no doubtit was very ancient for fo muchthe Prophet £/ay alfo witnefleth, Zs wot. thi your glorious Cities whofe antiquity tsof ancient dayes ?) yet,that Thiras the fonne of,Laphet fet himfelfe in the bofomeofthe Canaanites who built Zidon,and peopled.all that Regi; on: {ee nothing to perfwade me. Curtl.4. Exuftb.in chro. Tofeph ants, cap.2. Cedren-pat7. | But that new: Tre in after-times fo tenowned, feemethto bee the worke of Agenoy: and ofthis opinion was Cartius: and lofephus,and Exfebius make this City elderthan se. lomons Temple 240.yeercs : Cedrenus 361. Whoalfoaddeth that Tyrusthe wife of det | zor gaueithername': but of Agenor 1 will {peake more at large in the ftory... of their Kings. ; Forftrengthand for the commodityof the harbour, andthe better to receiue Trade fromall places,ir was in this newereétion founded in an lland, 700°. paces from theconExck,28.2.27, tinent; and therefore Ezekiel placethirin the middeft ofthe S ca, as fome reade,orasoverfe 3. thers in the inner-moft part of the Sea, whence he calleth it fitwateat the entry ofthese, as alfo the fame Prophet calleth it the agart ofthe people for Eiai2 3.3 manytles:and Efayya Martof the Nations: and fo Proude,Wealthy, and Magnificen t was this City, as the Prophet 27.8. Efay calleththe Merchants thereof Princes, and their Chapmen the Nobles of the World. Ttexcelled both in learning,and in manu-fa@ur of Parple,and Scarlct-cloth : which;faith Zulizs e: efpecially in the m aking and dying? Pollux, was firft foun dout. by Hercules Dogge,who paffing along the Sea-coaft, andeating ofthe Fith Conchilis ox Purpura sthe haire of his lippes became of thatcolonr, It worfhipped the fame Idols that Ziden did: fhuing that Hercules became theirPfroin aftertimes. For Alexander Macedon, whet . the Tyrians prefented him with a Crowne ofgol djand other gifts,defiring toremaine his friends andallies, anfwered them, that he had vowed afacrificero Hercrilesthe Defendet of their City, andthe Ancefter ofthe Macedonians Kings: and muft therefore enterit, tthis auailed not: For Alexander We not fo fuperftitious,as ambitious; he defired to ente t the Towne,which bein g denied,he} as one whom no perill could fear e, norlabour Weaty, gathered toge as hecould,and broughtfrom ther as many {hips Zibanws mberofcedars,and fo many weig ftones; fromthe old'Cityof Tyre hty adio often watht away with the ftrength yning,as hotwithftanding that his materials were ofth e Seaand the Tydes,yet-he neuerref had madeafoote paflage fromthe ted, till hee tinent tothe Iand : and hanins their Walls, he ouer-topt them witCon once approached h Turrets ofwood,andoth ead 2 - 5 (hauingfilled the body offorc ns e with the Violent Mouing Tofeph ant.tya delrr.c.8, er frames : fromwhence fpiritof refo Lord thereof,putting all to the Sword that onyhe becam tted safter Whichshe caufluci ed'2 ooo.moret? ¢ hung vpina ranke all alongft the Sea-fhorrefi e; which exequution vponcold bloodhet performed ( asfome Authours affirme) vpontthe iffues ofthofe flaues which ly flaine all their Mafters, taking had former? their Wiues,Children;Riches,an menttothemfelues. ‘This victory power of GouerntofAlexander ouer the Tyrians dlofe phus remembreth and howSanaballat revolted ftom Daries,a who was the lat Satrapa or Prouinciall Gou nd cate to. Mlexamdér-with Sooo, Souldiers: ernout, which Darins feated in| samaria?the fame who hauing matricd his Daught to er Maaalfe; brotherto Yaddas the high oo Prieft of Hier obtained Of Aleseander that a Templemight be builron the Mou riatmafal oucem, t Sam ari nta &* ine vertae::that the forces ofthe Ie es beiing ng diyi the lew terholdtheminobedien diui h ler migight htt thebet ce. The honipurofwhiche e Priet e owed;on hishis fo thoe odea ‘ce beft i ie f es the es . oppug ned, forthathe had matried out of their Tbs Peti.te. AAC Swent ite Sac 413.64 calleth S2nab z uladi ed. while Alexander befigcd Gace; Senaballat, whom Gail. TH} b Tong before this defolation of Tyre by the ctuelrY Of Alexander, it was attemprred Y Salmmana/] rian Kine-wh, : hadvonquetedthe eaTvies wi Meche Folrors they e ea - affyreer : Snes rie f fieennious'o. cee and pow "f 7 that City, He befi "p eged itborhion the Land -fide,and "ippes - Wari ¢held the Port with threo", *to the endthar neither ahyvidtualsn Whip dethe meisetenter it: burt or any fupply © he Tyrtans Withtwelue faile {cattere gprs, Prifnéts of che Afpriansn orwichtandingthe Affrian conrinue dtha t fleerefo r,anluti d took e 5°"; dhis on~4 befos E Cuar:7.§.3.43.) e ofthe Eiiflory ofthe World, iat iw... thaWGinee aao before it by his Lieutena nts fiue yeeres, buteewi with ill fuccefle. And this fiége Menander En, : Phefi us,ci ted by 1ofephus,m ade by repor t ofin his Chron icles; as hee found the Stor : ; 7 Tyrius calleth Helifews, was then fixe and twenty yecres. Soone after this repul Of Salmanaffar,andggouerned the fame 4 about 200. yeeres 1 fe before the victory of dlexander, Nab uch with the Temple, came beforethis City :odonofor at fuchtimeas he deftroyed Hierufaleng who indeed gaucto Alexander the that defpairefull worke; of loynin git to rhe Continent. For Nabnchodo exam ple of merly doneit :though bythe dilige vofer had forTo fame cawfeyand paffage was agai nce of the Citizens,arid the ftretigth of the Sea, the ne broken downe, and demolithed, Againit Nabuchedonoforytor many yeeres, the Tyrians defended ther long did thofe Babylonians continue {elties : for fo der made baresfaith Ezekiel,whow before itias exery head yas made baldand cuery {houl. Exe-29.18, ich the Prophet E/ay had mani feltly foretold the deftry..!!-2 dion of this proude places Inth 3-&. e eid ans defpoiled of all theirhopes, and andafter thirteene yeeres fiege or more, the Tri tem emb rin g ouer-late the predi¢ti nings of Gods Prophets, having Prep ared aconuenient numbei of thip ons and threa: pes, abandoned their City, tranfporting with them {elues theableft ofall thar remained Wiues, children, and portable tiches,f : and With thei ayle d then ce inzo Cyprus, Carthage,and other Mati.r timate Citiesof their Triburdries,or Confederates: fo as the Babylonians findin gnothing zo therein, citherto fatisfiefo many labo themfelues for the lofle of fo man urs and peril $,0r any perfon vpon whom to auienge y bodiesin that Warre: It pleafed thereof(who ftrengthened this Godin recofipence refolution,as ina worke of his owné)to make Nebuchodonofor vitorious ouerthe Egyptians : and gaue himthat Kingdome and of, asit were in wagesforhis the {poile there. Ezek. 25. Army. ueth not the good deéds of the Heat Whereupon Saint Hierome noteth, that God Jeahen vare warded: who though they cannot any laudable worldly aéion,to hope b atraine vn pincfle referued forhis ser. wants and Saints : yet fuch isthe boundleffe goodneflt ofGod,as he often tepayeth them with many worldly gifts and temp orall Now ofthis cnterprife of Nebuchod bleffings, onsfors againft Tyre, prophane 30 vovbeene filent) For bothh Dioc Hiftorians haue Di les,and fecond Booke, the other in his Phe Phioftratus (as Toferhus citeth them ) the onein his 1ep-au, t10, nic ian itories, vememberit. C413. After thefétwo SteatYafations by the Kings ofBibylom and AdLa tedin i this {continued in great glory abour 3 City of oo,yeers; rufalem onc] y,who within his Owne Dioceffeand fhops and faffragans: namie!'Y¥ Caip aon ,Cefared Philippi, Berytus, foureteene great Cities, hajotherwife Porphiria, Aton, or byblus, Botrys,Trspolis, Orthofiz hyiftiar Faith riarke ofHie- withtheir Bi- Ptolomais,Sarepta, Zj- Gxil-Xyrbef , Archis, Aradus, Ant siradus( Tortofa)and. Maractea, Butih or! the yette64¥6.it was with the reft 40 £100 of Phaniciaand Paleftin of chat beautifull Rea ; fubieGed edr ot toth e cruclland faithlef burthen and yoke of whofe tyrannyit fhfféréd) with the oth le Savece2. Vnder the yeeres. er Palefine Cities, 488: In theyeere rr 43, it was atte mpted by Baldwine King of yetin the yeere 17 24.by Hieraufalem : but in‘ vaine's Guaremonde, Patriarke of Gut nrar, Hierufalem, Vicegerent to Bal the fecond, with the affi ftance of the Venetians, dwing ™?Sett7 and thei r flee te of Gallies, it was agai recotiered, andfubie@ed ro ne the Kings ofHierufalem,an Finally, in the yeere ry d foit remained 1 65 yeet cs. 89. Saladine haning firft take n Hier Army and fate downe before Tyre: drawing his flecte of thipufalem, remouedhis whole pes and Gal So. lexa 31hndriain" cothe Port this Ci ely remainingg inini the Chriftia lies fom Wa". n power!) : | into Sreat famine, and many othe r' mife« mber, fier ed, burnt, and brake the Sata cens Y vpon his Atmy,flew fo gtca t numbers of them,2nd folTenn uch fury, as that the Saracens forfaking their Trenches ed in great diforder and and . ats, remou ee difhonour. 7Two ee that famous Predericke Barha roffaewho yeeres after which vidory the by the lamentable accident oa c orificans enemies ouer offo! lo wing bercin)was broughrand intera River vnfoordable, Perithed by the weight of hisa rmour redin the Cathedral! Chur ch of Tyre,ncere vnto that 110u8 Sepulchre of Origen garni glothed and sraue n with guilt pillars of Marble, 940.Yeeres before |