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Show Hf iH! atl | i} i i a ee "Thefecond Booke ofthe fir(hpar t Cuar.27.§.5, were expelled bythe Lacedzmonians, and then followed their ancient Countrie-men intoItaly and Sicily; fome of them went into Aftica,wherethcy chofevnto themfehies a.feate. j : It is very,ftrange;that during two hundred & fourefcore yea rs, this banithed Natidn retainedtheir name,theirancient euftomes, language, hatred of Sparta, & Joueoftheir forfaken Country,witha defire to returne vito itsIh the third year of the hundred &{e. cond Olympiadthat greatEpaminondas,hauing tamed the pride of the] acedamonians, reuoked the Meflenians home,who came flocking out of all quarters. where theydwelt abroad,iato Peloponnedits. There did Epamminendas reftore vnto them theirold pofleftt. on,& help themin building faire City;which,bythe nameof the Pr uince, wascalled 46 Melffene,and.was held by them euerafter,in defpight of the Lacedamonians, of whom they. neuerfrom thenceforthftoodinfeare. Cuar.27.9.5. of the Ehiftory of the World, Tn fitting this booke of Judith to.acertaine time; thére hath much with ill {uccefle. The reignes OfCambyfessDarins Hyfhafbis Xerxes,and labour been {pent Ochys, haue beene fonght into ; bur afford no gregt matter of likelihood,: & now of late,the times:foreao. ing the deftruction of Jerufalem, haue becne thoughe vpon, and this age.thac we baueih hand, chofen by Bellarmine, as agreeing belt with the ftory ;though others hereinican- not(I {peak of {uchas faine would)agreewith him. Whilett Cay Wesxeigned;the Tenmple wasnot rebuilt,which in the ftory ofIndith, is found din and dedicated: The other two Perfian Kings, Darius and Xerxes aré acknowledged to hate ‘beene very, fa- uourableto the Tewes ; therefore neither of them.could| abuthodinafor; whole part xo they refufedto take,& who fent to deftroy them. Yet the time ofXerxes hath fo , ueniences,aptlyfitting this Hiftory;andabou (without whofe indgement theauthorityofthi this argumentinthe Perfi ; : glorious King. As for Oc §. V. Ofthe Kings that were in Lydia and Meddg, while Manaftes reigned, whether Deioces the Mede werethat Arphaxad which # mentioned in the Beoke of Wudith.. Of the hiiterie of Tudith. ' Rays King of Lydia, and Phraortes of the Medes, are fpokenof by Z reigning fhortly. after the Meflenian war..drays fucceeding yntohisf beganhis reigne ofnine and fortyyeares, inthe fecondof the fiucandtwenti éth Olympiad. Hefollowed the fteps of his father, who encroachit in Afia,had taken Colophonbyforce,and attempted Miletus & Sm vpon the Tonians Inlike maner Ardys wan Priene,& aflailed Miletus Went awaywithoutit,In his reigne,the Cimmerians,being expelled out oftheir own co by the Scythians,ouerrana greatpatt of Afia, which was not freed from them b childe,by whomtheywere driuen out. T. icy 1¢ time of Alyattes this mans Grandhad notonlybroken into Lydia,but wan the City of Sardes; though the Caftle or Citadelthereofwas defended againft them, and held ftill for King ardys ; whofe long reigne, was vnable, byreafonofthis great ftorme,to effeg much. 30 Phraertes was not King vntill the third yeare of the nine and twentieth Whichwas fix years after the Meffenian w nded;the fame being the laft Olympiad, yeare of. Adawaffes his reigne ouetInda. Déiocesthe fatherofthis Phraortes, was King of Media, threeandfiftyofthefe fue & fifty years in which Manafjes reigned. This Deiaces was the firft'that ruled the Medes inaftrict forme, commanding more abfolutely than his Predeceffours had done. For they , following the example of Arbaces, had-giuento the people fo muchlicence, 4 caufed euery. one to defire the wholefome {euerity. ofa. more-Lor dly King. Hetei4 Detocesanfwered their defires to the full, For he caufed themto build for hima ftately Palace; he tooke ynto hima Guard, for defenceof his perfon ; he feldome gaueprefence, . which-alfo when he did,it was with fuch aufterity ; thatno man durft prefume to fpit or cough in hisfight. By thefeand the like ceremonies he bredin the'peoplean awtull regard, and hichlyvpheld the Maiefty, which his predeceflo urs had almott ictren fall, through ncglect ofduecomportiments. In execution ofhis Royall Office, hedid vprightly and feucrelyadminifter tuftice, keeping. fecret {pies to informe him OF all that was done inthe Kingdome. He cared notto enlarge the bounds: of his Dominion , by cacroaching vpon others ; bur ftudied howto gouerne well his owntHerod. libs. The differencefoundbetweene this king.and fuch as. were before him, feemesto haue 50 bred that opinion whichWer adorus delivers, that Deseces was the frit whoreigned in Media, 5p This,was hethag built the great City ofEcbatane,. which therefore he fhould bethat king Arphaxad.mentioned in the nowis called Tauris ; ftory.of Zudith,asa Merodach, by thefame accompt,fhould be Nabuchodanofor the Affyrian, by whom phaxad was flaine, and Holofernes {ent toworke wonders vpon Phud and Lud; know not what other Countrics, For Ereckon the laft yeare of Deigres to haue bet nineteenth of Bez Aterodach ; though others place it otherwife,, ome earlierin tt of Merodac Baladay,{ome later, in the retone of Nabulajar,who is alfo called W aoaofor. : , 2 nifeft it isand grant tinity latelyfor 7 n cap1e Temple re i eft; & alongp ofthree {core and ten yeares thereabc : I thefe wereto be amongthe ewes. Likewife onthe otherfide,we mut >a King that reignedin Nineue, ei: zhteene yeares at theleaft sthat vanquifhed & flewaK g of the Medes; one whom: 5 refufed-to 20 alliftzone that fouche generally to be adored as God,and that therefore comman dedall temples, of fch as were accounted gods,to be deftroyed; one taine Generall knewnot the léwith Nation, but was fainetol whofe Vice-roy or Eapearne What. they were of the bordering people. OFallthefe circumftances ;the Priefthood of so are found concurring, with eitherthe time of Maza/ lem,or ofYerxes afterward: the rebuilding oful awhilebefore, a peage following, agree withthe reigne of Xer 1¢ reft. ofcircumfances requifite, areto be found all together,neither before,nox the Captinity of-che Lewes, &.defolation of the City. Whereforethe briefe decifion ofthis controuerfigis; Téat.the Book 30 Yludish is not Canonical, Yct hath Torniellas doncas much, infitting allo thetime of Kerxes,as was poffible in fo defperate a cafe. For he fuppofe th, thatynder Xerxes there Were other Kings,among which Arphaxad might be one (who perhaps reftored and reedified the City ofEcbatane, that had formerly been built by Desoces) anc Nabachodé= "for might be another. This granted; he addes,thar from thetwel fch yeareto the eighteenth OfNabuchodonofar,t! tis fiue orfixe yeares,the abfence and ill fortune of Xerxes in his Grecian expedition (which he fuppofeth to haue beenefo long) might gine occa» 1ON vate Arphaxad, of rebelling : and that 47 buchodonofer hauing vanquithed and re Arphaxad, might then fecke to make himfelfe Lord of all, by the Army which ; = fent forth vato Holoferies.So thou! the Iewes haue donetheir duty, inadhering to 4° Xerxes their Soueraigne Lord, and refifting one that rebelled againft him; as alfo.the ries dnatices rehearfed before, pe well applied to theargument. For in thefe thie fs Tees lury were agreeable to the Hiftory of 1uaeph and {uch a King: as Ror te af ienrelrsaiabt well enoyg be ignorant of the Lewes, $08 proud this Saat othinke him, Bucthe filencec fall Hiftorie s, takes away beliefe from aioat Sane ene fuppofition it felfe is veryhard, that a Rebell, whofe King was dae Bet tmy confit ag of fguepteniie hundred, thoufand men, {hould prefind Atchers? Ypontheftre gth oftwelue hundred thoufand foot, and twelue, thowied side Baewines as to thinkethat hemight doe whatheli ft, yeathat there $0 fiid aia f e theo himfelfe, Itis indeedeealie to finde enough that might be Raktnt as: aie Torziellus : yer if there were any neceflity of holding the ‘ aneHitoriee a Aaical lsl would ra r choofeto lay afide all regard of ‘pie nion ofany ch a . pas ‘omedefence vpon this ground;than,by following the Opin ofthe Dan Kare Ma ate,as they-all doe,the textit felf. That Judith Niued vader none Terai) hort eon Le (whofe w have not read, bur finclelinncsae vy "ellesTopniellachtc py Many arguments. shath proued very fubftanti: ¢through a wall.in {ayi the Templeforegoi > t fhe lined not in the R cigne of Mes ¢wing howthe Cardinall is driuen,as: xt was corrupted,whereit fpakeof rtime. That the Kings Arphaxadand NabuEFF 2 chodonofor, 933 ‘| |