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Show Lhe fourth Booke ofthe fark part Cusr2igy Lib cult. valiant amanas him({elfe;difdainedtoaske him cither life or remiffion of historments And what had he to countenancethis his tytannie,but the imitation of his Anceftor x chilles who. did the like to Heder? It is true,that cruelty hath alwayes fomwhatto couer herdeformity. From Gaza (faith Jo/epbus:) he led his Ariytowards lerufalem, a Citie,fortheanti- r tainly true,wasy T hacthe night before thebattaileat Nouarasall the Doggeswhich fol- dlowedthe French Army,xanne fromthémto the Switzers, leaping aad fawning vpon fupply thither, whichzéddeathe high Prieft; being fubiect and fivorne to Dariw bad refuled bim.The Jewes therefore fearing ‘his teuenge, and vnableto refift committed the care of théireftates and:fafetie to faddus ,who,being taught by God if ple,cmbroidered with gold,withhis Miter,and the‘pla jthem,asifthey had beene bred and fed by themall thdir liuesyandin the morning folowing, Triea/zi and Tremouille, Generals for Lervis the twelfth, were by thefe Imperis all Switzers vtterly broken andput toi rine. , The placeofthis Idoll ofsapiter Hammon is ill defcribed by. Curtize, for heboundsit vpper garment of‘pu 10 10 by the Arabian Trogloditesion the South,between whom & the Territory ofHammon, the Region Thebais,or the fuperiour Egypt, with the Mountains ofLybia; & the Rings efNilus,arelinteriacerit;and on the North he ioynesit toa Nation,called Naffamones, who bordering the Sea-thore,liue({aith heyvpon thefpoylesof thipwracke: wheras the te ofgold wherein the name of Godwas written,the Priefts andLeuites in their rich orname nts, 8 the peoplein white garments, iaa manner fo vnufuall,ftately and Brauc,a s phus reports it,that he fell to the ground beforethe highAlexander greatly admired it Jofof God,and that Parmenioreprehended him for it:Howf Prieft, as reuerencing the name oeureit: was, I am ofopinion that he becamefo confident in his enterprife,and foaffur phefie of Daniel hadbeen read vato-him, wherein he faw ed ofthe fuccefleafterthe proPerfia fo directly pointed at,as nothing thence-ferth couldhimfelfe, and the conquelt of difcourage him orfeare him. He confeffed to Parmenio({aith lofehpus ) that in Dio a City of Adacedox, whenhismind laboured the conqueft of Afia, he fawin his fleepe fiucha perfonas saddw, and fo appa- 20 relled,profefling one and the fame God;by whom he was incouragedto purfuethe purpofehe had inhand,with affurance of vidorie. This apparition,formerly apprehended onely by the light ofhis fantafie,he now beheld with his bodily eyes wherewith he was fo exceedingly pleafed and imboldened, i ice. chs temple of grouof this Idoll hathno Scaneereit bytwo hundred miles and more,being found on the South part of Lybia thefe Naffamones being:due, Welt from it,in the rotaf: T2b.3. South part ofMarmarica: Whenidlexender cameneere the place , he fentfome ofhis Parafites beforehimta piatile the Priefts attending the Oracle,That theinanfiver mightbe giueniinall things, agreeable to hismadde ambition; who affected thetirle ofsmpiters fon. And fo he was faluted, Sonne ofJupiter, by the Deuils Pro phet,whether prepared'beforeto flatter him; 20 or rather (as fomethinke)defectiuein the Greeketongue ; For: whereas he meantto fay Opsidion,he {aid O pai dios,that is; Ofonue ofIupiter,in ftead of, @ dearefonne:for which Grammaticall errour he wasrichly rewarded, andarumour prefently fpred, that the prcat Jupiter had acknowledged Alexander for his owne. Hehad heard thar Per/es and Hercales had formerly ‘confulted withthis Oracle, The one, when he was imployedagainft Gorgon, The. other againft Awteus and Bufiris sand feeing thefe men had deriued them{elues from the gods, why might nothe? Bythis it {eemes, that he hoped to makehis followers and the world fooles, though indeed he Jade himnfelfe one , by thinking to couer from the worlds knowledgehis vanities and ; : §. ViI I. Alexander winses Egyet : nd makes atourni 30 e tothe Temple ofH Rom lerufalem Alexander turned agaihe towards Egypt, andammon. entred it, where Darivs Vices sand thebetter to.confirme his followers inthe beliefe of his Deityjhe had practic gofedthe Prieftsto giue anfwerto fuch as confulted with the Oracle thatiit {hould. bee his Lieutenant, Aftaces, receined*hitt and' ‘deliuered into hishand the Citic of.Memphis,with eight hundred talents oftreafire, ‘and all otherthe, Kings riches, By this wefee that the king of Perfia,who had more of affe@ion than of indge- Pleafing to Jupiter to honour Alexanderas his Son. hothis Ammon was,and how reprefented, either by a Bofle carried ina Boat, or by aRam,or aRains-head, I {ee that many wife men‘haue troubled themfelues toifind out; NaS Arrianuefpeaks ofDiony(ins, ox Liber Pater (wholined, faith St. Auguftine, in A4o ment, gaueto the valianteft man hehad but the command ofone Citie; and toithe veticli coward the gouernment of all Egypt. When he beganto trauaile after God-head, towards /wpiterhe had: fet things in order in Fg'; made him, He wasto paffe ouerthe dangerousandHammons {6 foolifh had profpenitie drie fands,where, when the wate? esUmey Ea-que de dysveteres fabulis fuis conferipfere , n0"fuk nirsinm curios' peruestis tents j His tanft not ouer-curionflyfearch into thefables, which the Ancients baue written of seirgods, which he brought.on his Camels backe was {pent; he could not but halve perithed, had 48 nota maruellous fhowre ofraine fallen vpon him, when his Armie wasinextreame delpairc.Allmen that know Exypts and haue written thereofy affirtne, ‘That it neuer raines there: but the purpofes ofthe Almighty Godare fecretzand hebringeth to: paffe whatit Plaleh him for itisalfo faid, Thatwhen hehad Joft his way in thofevalt defarts, that : ight ofCrowes flew before Butthis iscertaine and notable, that afterthe Gofpell beganneto be preachedinthe World, the Deuill in this and all other Idols became {peechleffe.For,that this Hammon 40 Wasneglected in the time ofTiberius Cefar,and in the timeofTraian altogetherforgot teh,Strabo and Plutarch witnefie. Theteis found neere his Temple a Fountaine called Fonsfolis Heredotus, Pliny, Acla,Solinus, Arrianus, Curtius,and others and indeede our Bathes in Se i Sats g England are much warmerin the night,than in theday. f "Ee PE odigious,are fained by thofe that haue written the Storie ofAlexander,as, That 59 agle lay houering dire&tly aa "earwafens,fore-thewing thetreafon of,Lropus,pracifed by Darias to tiaue Haine um 5, ‘That from the yron barres ofwhich the Tyriens madetheir defentiue engin' when Alexander befieged them, his thoulder,when he lay bet bloud ¥and that the like Ate s"That trdintothe aire. ‘TheSpenierds in the conqueft ofthe Weft: sedies lane manypo ak (though Prolemy in his third African Table {ets it farther offythat at mid-night is as hotas boyling water,andat Soneas cold asany yce : to which I cannot but giuecredit , becaufe I haue heard of Smeother Wells oflike nature, and becaufe it is reported by S. taguitine,by Diodore, the armie who making fafter wing when they were folowed,a fluttering flowly when the Armie was caft backe; guided them ouer thole pathleffend fands to ‘upiters Temple. an Arrianas from the report of Prelomies the fonne of Lagus, e Dragons;borh Which reports may bea-like trie. But faies, That he was led by many of thofe wendersal his head atthe battell of vfs', Swallow flew al ourhis head whén he fleptanouet d could norbe feared from h im,tilliThatia c had wakened him - a iprety tales telling how they haue bin affifted in:battaile,by the prefence of our Lady; & by, Angels riding onwhite horfes,withthe likeRomith mitacles,which I think them: felues dohardly beleeue.. The ftrangeft thing thar T hae readiofin this kind being cer- quitie and great famethereof, well: knowrie vato him while he lay before Tyre: He had {ent for fome ed out.ofthe Citie couered with his Pontifical] Robes,to wit,an ld. - of the Hiftory of theWor Cuar.2.§. 8, ' ° -VIEI. How Alexander marching againf} ae wasoppofed very unskilfally by the Enemy. Romthe Tem ple ofHammon hee returned to Memphis, where among many other learned men, he heardthe Philofopher' ‘P/ammanes, who, bélike vnderftan- dingthathee affected thetitle of Iupiters Sonne, told him that God-swas the Fa- iaeKing ofall men in generall ; and tefining the pride ofthis haughty King, brought for higarhat God was the Fatherofall moreallmen;butthatheacknowledgednone Children fue good meng, ‘Raa tit Aaaa He Cratlib.gs |