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Show ~43e Liefecond Booke of thefirpart Cuar.tg.§,, OO firktit haddoneto bring inthis vileIdolatrie oftheten Tribes.V er thisground Att ANSToa Sia the Prieft of Bethel, counfailed the Prophet4mes,not tobi - te at Bethel $ For (faith hee) it isthe Kings Courts Vpon this ground. euen' se oe ha nati the aKigt0t Priefts of Baal, in zeale for the Lord, yet would notin any = " e par , ae that poli Gag. 20, tique Jeroboamthefonne of Nebatwhich madeIfrael to inne. Te was reafonof 2iKing-10.20, fk afine that of perfwaded the lat famous French King Henry the fourth to change hisReligi. i yet "4Proteftants whom heforfooke, obeyed him, fome of - ee whom hefollowed, murdered him. Softrongly doth the painted v oe DF vile Pt oceeding deludecuen thofe thatknowthe foule face of impietie lurking vndet it: and behold the wretched ends that hane cur followed it ; whereof Zebu and all the Kings of Iftael had10 and were them{elues very great examples. ret te Of Rehoboam his impictie ; for which he was punifbed by Selac : of his endand Contemporaries. Guap.i9.§33. ofthe Hiftory ofthe World, Afterthis ouerthrow and-dithonour; Rehoboam reigned twelue yeerés, and his loffes Leroboandé alt his life timewA feer his death Jeraboam gouerned Iraelfoure veers) 0 spRehoboars lined 58.yeeres,and reigned 17. his ftorywas written' atlarge by Shemeiah receined bySefac, notwithitanding, he continued thewatte apaintt and Hiddon the Prophets,but the fame perifhed with that ofWathan,andthe feft: With Rehoboam, Archippus, and Terfippus, the third and fourth Archoxtes 0} Gouetnors forlife after Codrs,zouernedin Athens. Abdaflrartus,or Abstrart is,in Tyte. Dori- Balb choe fhusthe fiftof the Heraclide in Sparta, accordi ng to Enfebius (others make himthe fixt)and Primsinas the fourth in Corinth:Ouet thé Latines reigned Syluins Alba, Syluius 10 Atjs,the fourthand fifth of the Syluii. Aboutthe 120fReheboam, Abdaftyarti3 king of Tyre was ‘miutthered by His'Nurfes fons,orfofter-brethren;the elder ofwhich viurped the kinedome tweliie yeeres, ‘Eowards his latter times Periciades,ox Pyrithiad es, began to gouerne Aifyria; thé 34. king thereof:and not long'after w4/lartas,the fon of Baleaflartas § recouer ed the king! dome ofTyrefromthe Viurpérs. Hileseroboam was occupied in fetting vp his new Religion, Rehoboaron theo2 Chro, 1a; therfide,hauing nowlittle hope to recover the Prouincesloft, ftrengthened the principall places remaining withall endeauour: for he fortified and vise fifteene Cities of Iudah and Beniamin: notthat hee feared Teroboatm alone, but the E-? gyptians, to whomJereboam had notonlyfaftned himfelfe, but withall inuited them to inuade Iudxa.:-laying perchance before them the incountable riches of Dawidand Sa fomon, which might nowbeeafily had, feeing ten of the twelue Tribes were revolted, and become enemies to the Iudgans. So as bythofe two waies(oflate yeeres often troden) to wit, change of Religion, and inuitation of forraigneforce, Jeroboam ho- pedto fettle himfelfe in the feate of Irael, whomyet the powerfull Godforhis Idolatry in a fewyeeres aftet rooted out,withall his. Reboboam alfo,hauing,as he thought, « King,14.13. by fortifying diners places, affured his eftate, forfookethe Law of the lining God,and made high Places, and Images,and Groues onevery high Hill; and vadereucry ee Tree. % Andthereforeinthe fifthycere ofhis reigne, Séfac or Shifbac before fpoken ofbeing 2 chro.123 nowKing of Eeypt,and with whomaswell 4ded of Idumaa,as eroboamwere fatili Tomi ar, and his inftrnments 3 cated Judea with twelue thoufand Chariots, and threefcore thoufand Horfe, befides foot-men,which Jofeyhus numbers at foure hundred thoufand. This Armie was compoundedoffoure Nations : Egyptians, Lubzans, Succwans,and Cufites. The Lubzans wereLybzans,the next bordering Regionto Egypt,on theW at fide. The Cufites were of Petrea,and'of the defart Arabia, whichafterward followed Zerahagainit A/a King ofIuda.The Succxans,according to Junius his opinion,were ot Succoth,which fignifieth Tents: he doth fuppofe that they werethe Troglodira,me tioned often in P/iwie,Ptolomie,and other Authors. The Troglodites inhabitednot iarte pages fromthe bankes of thered.Sca,in 22 -degrees fronrthe line Northward,aboutfixe cet dred Englith miles from the beftand Maritimate part of Egypt: and therefore! donot thinkethat the Succims, or Succwzi were thofe Troglodite , but rather thofe td Cepanvt3s which Ptolomie cals Arabes Agyptii, or, Ichthyopbagi, which poffeffe that part Ara of Egypt between the mountainescalled A/aba/triniand the red Sea,far neerér Egy pt,and readitt to be leuied than thofe remoued Sauages ofthe Froglodite . Withthis great and powerfull Army, Se/acinuaded Iudea, arid (befides manyothet; ftrong Cities) wanIerufalemit felfe, ofwhich,and ofthe Temple,and Kings houlk took the fpoyle,carrying away (befides other treafures) the golden fhields which 5 mon had made,in imitation ofthofe which Dayid recouered from Adadezer,in the 5) war: thele Rehoboam fupplied with Targets of braffe, which werefit en oughtog King ofhis quality : whom Syracides calleth, The foolithneffe of the people. Fromthis time forward the Kings of Egypt claimed the foueraigntie of Luc ‘ held the Iewes. as their Tributaries : Sefac, as it{eemes, rendring vpto Rebo ~D places on that condition....$0 much maybee gathered out of the Wordof Set Whete premifing the deliuerance of Iuda after their humiliation, he doth notwith™ ding leaue themvaderthe yoke of Egypt, in thefe words : Nenerthele(fé, they COW the Iudzans) hallbe hisferuants,that i8;the-Leruants of Sefac: Afer §. III. Of the great battaile hetweene leroboamand Abia; of Gods indgemeuts. with a CoroHarie of the examples t WG Byahthe fonne ofReboboam,inherited his Fathe ts kingd ome,andhis vitessHeé @raifedan Armie of foure hundied thouf and, with which he innadél seroh¢. 4m, who encountredhim witha double numbe r of eight hundred thoufand ? Both Armies ioynedneereto the Mount Ephra im, where Jereboam was vite? ly ouerthrow ne; andthe ftrength of Lfachbroken : for there fell of 'that fide fie hundred thoufand; the greateft ouerthrowthat' ener was gitien or receitied of tho{€ Nations: dbjah being now matter ofthe field, recouered Bethel, Tefha nahjand Ephron: Soon af: ter which difcomfiture, Jeroboam died :-who reigned in allaziyéeres. Abiabithe better toftrengthen himfelfe,éntred into league with Hefion , the third ofthe Adads ofSyria 304 may be gathered out ofthe fecond ofChr oniclesshie reigned but thrée yeeres? &then: sic FO 18,2 died : the particular's ofhis aéts were writt en by Iddo the Propliet, as fome part ofhis "atheérs were, . Here wee fee howit pleafed God to'punifh the finnes of se/oinan inhis fon Rehoboam: firftby an Idolator and ‘Traitor:and thenbythe fucceffor ofthat E /ptian , whofe daughterSalomon had married,therby thebetter to affure his eftate, which while hefers ued God,was by Godaffared again{tallan d the createft neighbouring kings ; & when beforfooke him, it was torne afunderbyh is meaneft Vaffals: Not that the Father wanted ftrengthto defend him from the Egypt ian Sefa¢; Fort the fon CAbijaeh was able leuie foure hundred thoufand men; & to withthe fame number hee ouerthrewe ight hun4° cred thoufand Iraelites > and flew ofthemfiue hundred thoufand ; God gining {pirit, courage, and inuention; when, and where it pleafeth him. And‘as in thofe times the les Were expreft, why it pleafed Gédit o punifh both Kings and their Peopl fame being both before, and e: the at the inftant - a oo gouerneth all things delinered by Prophets ; fo the fame iuft for euer, doth in thefe our times giue victo: _ cope At a SCourage,tailc, andthrow ForutKings, Estate s, Ciries,and Nations, ar the lame offences Which were committed ofold,and are commi tted in the prefent? for fuch reafon.in thefeand other the afflictions of Ifracl, alwayes the caufes are fer 101 that they might beas Precedents to fucceeding ages. They were punifhed with mamas jaa os ; ethree yeeres , For Saul and his bloudy honfe, oe. And Daisid z.samit.t, oo ~ macs eatreddall forts of afflictions, and forrowes ineffet, for Yriab . w ef Des of twelue tornefrom his fon' forhi s Idolatric. Reboboam was !poyled of his riches and honour by Sefac of Egypt, becaufe the people of Iuda make nee high places, and groues, &c. ard becau fe they fuffered Sodomites a - leroboams was punifhed in himfelfe atid his pott ity, for the golden b rile iehcbencin: cae had alt ne eee the Philiftims > an 1 ins ey, fae ‘ > the bloud of = sie falle accufing and killing of the one, the body of the other eaten with dogges, waboth.Soalls Hath God punif hed the fame and Sf the and lechewenn heLesa hierhsBethea.a |