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Show iy: fa i j Ebejtiond Bookwofthesinstpart tT Cuarsio.§.6° The likeand much dhotébarbatousetecutiontd wat, without lawns) Icherenedid vp: onhis byethten; Sovporfundry.dbhis.grtatet mensassalloteafhidid (0 put to death ze cherish the fon of dehebsda), -wihd badymade: himokiirg , «mes inthe cdars of the honfeaf the Lordchnd Manallesaidybed ianbeent- blend sexceaiing nowolry Bil bee psplenilbed Jeng: akingaxis. falem frondcorntrtocornansbndathiswas)im puted:tolihin»as;qnether, fault sbefides his allthexefhofithegods.confpired agdinit him, is very;fitly. expoundedby. Sir Baconsas fignifying that Mondrches netdnotto feareany, curbing of.th by: mightyditbicdts, as long as by.wifedome they keepthe hearts oft the willbeduneito-¢ome in on theirfide..,cT hough indeedthé, Storic mightycry borne thefameintérpretation, as.it is rehearled by Homer, whotells. ys, that Fallgs.yy oncofthe confpiraciesand that Thetésalone,did marre all their, practice, byloofeni 2 Chyra.24-2+ fine', sihereith beumade luda tosinne. Cohtrariw ifesamong the kings. of Iftaelsve finde ‘nomonumentoffucharbitdary ‘prateeding; valeffe|perhaps ithewrerds of Jehoram the fonne 2.King,6.3t- ofbab (which were but words) may beraken fotan infiaace) shen he {aid, Ged doefa toimecesand more alfo, ifthe heedofElifhadhe forne of Shaphat.fhall ffand.on him, this asy : wherebyit ishotplaine whether heseanv tokbliim without more adoe jror to Ie hauehinncondemned asa falfe Prophet, tharhadmade them-hold out againft the Ara. mites,tillthey were faine to cate theirowne children ; which.he thought afufficient ar guimcntto proue,thatit was not Gods:putpofe to.deliuer them... The death of Na thewethrather the liberty-whichthe Ifraelites enioyed,than, any. peremptoryexec on of the kings will. For:Asboth didnot feare to ftand, vpon his,owne right,thong bab were euenficke for angen; neither-was he far thar-canfe putite.death, as vpon, commandement, but madeaway-by confpiracicthe marter being handledaftera, indiciall forme,which might glue fatistactionto the people ignorant.ofthe denice, thonghto God itcould not. Themurther of che Prophetis:¢ontinually afcrihedto Meabelan impudent woman, 2° 2K JAg.19.105 and not vato the king her husbands Neither is it certaine; thatther@iwas no Law made wherebytheirliues weretaken from thenry but cettaine ivissthae thie people beingido. facers,were bothpleafed with their death, & laboured in the execution. .So thatthe doings of thekings ofIida(fuch asare regiftred)proue.them.tovfe # mere abfoluteman er of commatid,than the kings oftheten Tribes. Neither doe their fufferings witneflethe contrary. For of thofe whichreigned ouer Iudajfromthe diuifiono fthe kingdome, to the captiuity Briarcis, Fora good forme.of goucrninent fufficcth byit {elfcto retaine the people, onely without afiiftance of alaboxious WwW. ity but.cuen.againtt all deuiges ofthe gt soanddhrewdeft Politicians: euery Sheriffeand Gonftab] esbeingfoonerable to.armethe multitude,inthe Kings bchalfe,than any,oucr-weening,Kebellhow mighty, foeuer, can : ; uniid loidd againfthiti. }Phis:declaration ofthe. peoples louesbeing feldome found in luda,makes it verylike. ly, that the ruleit felfe ofgouernment there was fuch, as neither gaue occafionof cop. tentmentivato the fubiedts, rior. ofconfidence,in their,cood affectiontathe Kings, Wp on whichreafonsit niay feennthat the multitude was kept viually difarmed. For other. wife it would:hatiebeene almoft impoffible,that 4rhe/iathefitter of Ahab,a {tiangerto, the tdyall bloudof Iuda,;! {iould by the ongly authority,of,a Queene-mother haue.deftroyed all theféed'ofDasidyand viurped.the Kingdome: yery ncere 7» yeeres, without $0 finding ahy:refiftances Yea when Jeheiads the. high Prieft hadagreed wath the Captains andprincipall:mén of théiLand to ‘fet vp Joab cheir lawfull King,whereuntothe, whole hation weregénerally well affected ; hee:wasfaine to. giue tothefe Captaines and their men,thefpeares andenebicldsthat were King Danids,ad were in the houfe ofthe LordBut Weneed notentérinto fich particulars; Queftionleffe, the Tribes which thought obe, dience to their Princes tobe a patt oftheirduty toward,God,would endure much more with patienceythan tliey-which had Kings of their awne.choice., or admiffion, holding: theCrowne bya morewncertaine tenure; 3 And this,in my,opinion,was the reafon,why theten Tribes did neuer{eck to returne totheir antient Lords + bytafter the deftruGtion.oftheirfixe firft Kings, which died in ofthe ten T ribes,threé were flaine by-the peo Ple;atiditwo weredenieda burial! amongft their anceftors. ¥¢a,the deathof Aheesa'and his brethren, flaine by /¢ Auwith the deftru@ion of all that Royall {eed ofAthalia.did not (for ought that wean , read) ftirse vp in the people any fuchthirft ofreuenge;as might by the fuddennefle and' vniformity teftifie the affection to be generall »-and siontoling roma louing. remembrance of their Princes vnleffe:wedhould thinke that the death.of 4rhalia,, after feucn Sethe reigne of 4/4admitted,afenenth,of a new family ; ratherthan they would confubs iett themfblues,with thofe of Judaand Beniamin, vnder a more hononrable, but moze heaui¢ yoke. yecres reigne,were occafionedrathet by the memory ofiherill purchafing; thanbythe prefent fenfe ofher tyrannicall-abiving the gouernment,whereon the had feifedOnthe otherfide, fuchof the 2.King-10.4. kings ofIftaclas perillied by-treafon (which were feuenof the twenty) were all {laine by confpiracie ofthe gréat then, who afpired by treafonto the Crowne: the people being fo far from embruine their harids'in the bloudof their Soieraignes , that (after Nadab) they did neuer fotbeare to:reuenge the death oftheir kings, whenit lay in their Powct;.1orapprouethe good fucceffe of treafon, yolelle ge fearecompelled them. So thatthe death oftwo kings,b eingthroughly reuenged vp other twosnamelythedeath ofElgand Zachariaypon Zimei and Shallum, who traiteroutly gotand vfurped, foralittle whilesitheir places ~onely:three ofthe feuen ren whofe ends how the people tooke;it may be faid of the flaughter, committed on.Ahabs doubtful. ‘I loughindeedeit is precly chil dren by Iehy,, that the people durftoot fight with him that. didir > becaufe:they were exceedingly affraid :and the fame t¢ mighr be in themat the'death of Peka;w hofe hiftery (as others of that time) is cure' ly paffed ouer. Thelike maybe pronou: nced,andmore abfolutely,ofthe kings ot vty tand,that never any ofthemperifhedb y fury ofthe peopte,but by.treafonof fuch as Of fucceed ¢ them;neith nis er was there any Motive vrging fo forcibly thedeath of king F4"# and king Richard when they*were;in prifon, -asfeare their quarrell.: And certainely (howfoeuer all that the left the people fhould ftirre #° Law. cals treafon, bee interpre ted, as tending the val finally to the kingsideftruGtion) in thofe treafonable infurrection r5 which haue here moft Preuailed , the fury ofthe multitude hath qué ed it felfe with the bloud of fome great -Officers ; no fuchrebellions, hov uer wicked and barbarous otherwife:, thirfting after ‘the ruine oftheit nate Ueraigne, butrather farbearing the aduantages gotten vpon his Royall perfor _; Sty man impute vntogroffe ignorance , another may more charitably, ¢ Ahunke, more trucly, afcribe toa reuerent affection, Wherefore thatfable of 37470 who rofthe HifloryoftheWorld, Cusragssi7. , who,being loofened by pal/ws,did.withhis-handred hands Sine afliftancetoz, ; So 4/ahauing feenthe death of qikings of Ifrael, died himfelfe. after one and fortie yeeres reigne,leaning Yebofapbat his fonne to deale with. Ahab the fonnc: of Umri, who wasthe eighth King ouer the ten Tribes: §. VIT. 49 Oflehofaphat and bis contemporaries: /aphas, who fucceeded 4fz, wasa Prince religious and happy. ; hee deftroyed lithe Groues, Altars,and high places dedicated to idolatry, and fent teachers all places and people wanting inftruction; he recoueredthe tribute due ynto him 1¢ Arabiansand Philiftims : from the one he had filuer, fromthe otherfheepe and rh ni tL 1¢ numberoff ifteene thoufandand foure hnndred. The numbers of men of morethan admirable; for it is written that 4dxzsh had the command of three houland, /ehohaxam ottwo hundred and foure{core thoufand, and Amafia of and; alfo that he Had, befides thefe, in Beniamiin of thofe that ba all Targetiersand of Archers ynder Eliade, two hundred thoufand, the commandement of Iehozabada hundredand fourefCore thonfand: which red together; makeelenen hundred and fixty thonfand, all which are {ai dto haue ed vpo King befideshis garifons: ; ~CBVON.I 7s B jamin,territory not much exceeding the Countie of Kent, fhould uiter clenen hundred and fixtie thoufand fighting men,it is v eryftrange,and th 14aN it; was found vponany other view. Joabin Dawids 7 ~ k (Ah Kehaceam found but an-hundred and fourefc ( o: Abiz dred and eight thoufand: 4/4 fiue hundred andfourefcoreth : Amaziah that could beare armes, &th y amounted fothree hundred thoufand.Surely |