change frō the names of Greeke Princes to bee named oxen of Lucania Bookes are no otherwise for in auntient time when bookes were yet rare they were fellowes and companions with Kings Princes in courts it so seemed by Alexander the great who could not sleepe before he laid Homer with his dagger vnder his pillow and by Scypio Affrican who would not frō Rome to Carthage without either Panetius or Polybius in his company and now bookes being common are so little regarded rather bought for their golden tytles which the Printer giueth them for his sale then for the matter therein by the Author written for the Revder much like to Mithridates sword whose scabbard was farre more precious and richer without then the blade within Of such bookes Plato speaketh Qui subitò vno die nati celerimè pereunt therfore seldome seene in sight are most in request The Ebaine tree which Pompey the great brought in his triumph into Rome was more wondred gazed vpon then all the braue shewes of the triumph besides So fewe wise words out of a wise mans mouth are more esteemed then heapes of wordes out of an vnwise mouth like the Abderites Embassadors more desirous to heare fewe words out of Zeno the Philosophers mouth then of all the Athenians besides and therfore Pau. Aemilius after he had subdued the king and kingdome of Macedonia wrote no more to the Senators but Victus est Perseus Caesar after he had conquered king Pharnaces wrote no more words but Veni vidi vici Like the Lacedemonians whose writings and speeches were so short and briefe that they would answer either Embassadors friends or foes by writing or by mouth in two or three words And so with the like fewe words I referre my selfe to the gentle disposition of the reader rather to excuse my trauell in curtesie then to accuse my goodwill wrongfully Lodowick Lloid The first Booke of the Stratagems of Ierusalem CAAP. I. Of diuers Battels and Combats Of seuerall markes of diuers nations vpon the good and bad Of the calling of Abraham and of his praise and trauell THe whole BIBLE is a Booke of the Battels of the Lord and the whole life of a man a militarie marching to these Battells betweene the seede of the womā the Serpent which Battel was first fought in heauē betweene Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his angels at what time Satan was ouerthrowne and cast out of heauen with all his angels with him The second Battell was in Paradise fought betweene the seede of the woman and the seede of the Serpent where likewise Sathan was ouerthrowne for then it was promised that the seede of the woman should tread downe the Serpents head thereby perpetuall warre was publikely proclaimed in Paradise to continue betweene the seed of the woman and Sathan and therefore are the battels of the Lord innumerable in respect of number for that euery liuing man must fight in this battell in his owne person for his owne life and inuincible in respect of power and force for all battels and victories are of the Lord yea euen amongst Infidels and Pagans Which if the Hebrewes had so acknowledged it and had marched truly and faithfully in the Lords battels they should haue acknowledged this to haue bin their true Oracle that all victories come from the Lord and not from the arme of man Thē the Hebrewes might haue known that Egipt where they had bene bondmen and slaues 430. yeares was giuen to them for a pray frō the Lord by the hands of Moises and Aron and after Egipt the Canaanites Edomites Moabites Ammonites Philistines and diuers other nations were also giuen into their hands they might haue acknowledged that the ouerthrow of 39. Kings was no small bootie to such simple men as were no souldiers by education but brought vp as shepheards from Abrahams time to Moises But they forgot the great armies and legions of Frogges Flies Grashoppers and such armies which the Lord prouided to fight for them while yet they were bondmen in Egipt where they had ten victories and ten tryumphs some in the midst of the land of Egipt some in the midst of the Court of Pharao and some in the midst of the red sea to the wonder and terrour of the whole world The Hebrues might likewise haue knowne that the Chaldeans were giuē to the hands of the Assyrians the Assyrians to the Persians the Persians to the Macedonians the Macedonians to the Romanes Yet all these miraculous victories which the Lorde gaue the Hebrewes ouer so many Kings and Countries could not make them to acknowledge the author thereof but what victories soeuer the good kings of Iudah got by seruing of the Lord that the euil wicked Kings both of Iuda Israel lost by their Idolatry and contempt of the Lord vntill they themselues were rooted out of their Countrey slain and ouerthrowne and their Kings taken carried captiues the one by Salmanasser to the Assirians the other by Nabuchodonozer into Babilon of whom you shall reade more of them and of their warres hereafter And now I thinke it most conuenient to speake somewhat of diuers seuerall combats which is the strongest and onely battaile for in this battaile euery man must first ouercome himselfe and after be ready armed to fight with Sathan and his souldiers the onely enemie of man against whom all men are bounde by the vow of Cherim to fight the battels of the Lord. We are commanded to be as subtill as Serpents to preuent the subtill stratagems of Sathan with spirituall weapons who from the beginning against the Lord in heauen and against man in Paradise practised his policies this is the old Dragon which Michael threw downe out of heauen this is the serpent which the seed of the woman subdued in Paradise this is that ghostly enemy which practised his stratagem by his seruant Pharo in Egypt not onely by making a lawe and decree first to kill the Hebrewes children and after by a second decree to drowne them in Nilus least he should be deceiued in the first but also with a like stratagem by his seruant Herod to kill to the number of 14000. yong Infants in Bethelem and in Iuda among the which he sought Christ therefore we are commanded to be strong and valiant as the Lord commanded not only Ioshua Dauid and others of his owne seruants but also Nabuchodonozer and Cyrus In these kinde of battels or combats euery man must be armed with such spirituall weapons as is by Paul the Apostle appointed to resist the violence of so great an enemy who doth not only assault vs abroad but in our chambers yea in our beds we must therefore wrestle with this enemy as Iacob wrestled with the Angell for the which he was named Israel as Iob wrestled with Sathan for the which the Lord called him his seruant Iob Or as Dauid did with the Gyant Goliah for the which he was annointed King
as in Egipt their horses asses oxen camels and sheepe and all their beasts were slaine with a mightie great morraine so the Romane generals their collonels captaines and all kind of souldiers were slain as wel in Rome and Italy as euery where throughout the Romane Empire as well with wars as with diuers sicknesses diseases yet not ceasing to persecute the Christians according to their custome but the martyrs of the Lord the souldiers of God increased still in number in euery country Such euer was the prouidence of the Lord that Septimius the like were either murdered slaine in their country or else banished died out of their country as this Septimius did or as the great Antiochus Epiphanis did being the only enemies of Gods people tyrannizing against Iudah forcing them with sword fire to forsake God their religion lawes strangling men hanging some womē with their childrē about their necks other women they cast downe headlong ouer the walls with their babes hanging at their breasts making search for the bookes of Moses and burning all that he could finde written of the law of Moses prophaned the temple sacrificed swines flesh against the law of the Iews compelled the Iews to eate swines flesh to forsake circumcisiō and to adore his gods his tyrannie was such that the Samaritans sent vnto him messengers for very feare denying themselues to be Iewes but a people comming out of the Meades and Persians therin they said the truth for they were not true Iewes requesting Antiochus that the Temple which they builded in Mount Garisim should be named the Temple of Iupiter and that they would bee gouerned by Appolonius and Nichanor his Lieftenants and become Antiochus seruants Yet the Lord raised those in Iudah that esteemed not his threatnings waighed not his commaundements feared not his tortures for so the Lord said to Elias that he reserued 7000. that neuer bowed nor bended knee to Baall which kept the lawes of the Lord as Mattathias and his fiue sonnes in Modin and diuers other in Iudah not weighing Antiochus nor his Lieftenants When this cursed and cruell Antiochus sawe how little the Iewes weighed his threatnings and how they stil increased in number and how forward they were in their religion he thereby fell sicke and confessed that the euill that he did to the Temple of Ierusalem and to the inhabitants of Iudah was the cause that he must die in a straunge land for before Antiochus had proudly promised to make Ierusalē a graue for al the Iewes burial we leaue Antiochus dead out of his Countrey in Persia and turne to Moses in Egipt This was euer the commaundement of the Lord to Moses rise and stand vp before Pharao and say thy wonted message thus saith the Lord let my people goe Yet nothing moued Pharao but as a sworne enemy against the Lord stiffe necked and hard hatred refused al graces and mercies offred and therfore Moses was commanded to take the ashes out of the furnace to sprinkle it vp into the aire before Pharaos face strait out of the same ashes there brake out sores with blaines botches swellings both in man beast so that Iamnes and Iambres all the Sorcerers of Egipt could not stand before Moses forthey thēselues were plagued with botches biles which Manetho an Egiptiā historiographer falsly fained a fable that these blaines and botches which the Egiptians had to be a leprousie on the Hebrues naming Moses Osarphis a Priest a law-giuer ouer the Hebrues Yet Cheremon named him Tisithes one contrary to another and both cōtrary to the truth and as Iosephus saith both Manetho and Cheremon affirmed that what Moses had done concerning the myracles in Egipt to be done by Magicke So Pliny held the like opinion that Moses was a great Magitian and did all those myracles before Pharao in Egipt by Magicke Pliny had no cause so to say for Nero the Emperour which was instructed with the best Magicians of all the East kingdomes which Tiridates king of Armenia brought with him to Rome yet it helped not Nero at his need neither the Emperor Iulianus Apostata being well learned and throughly instructed in Magick It could do him no good no more then Iamnes and Iambres to Pharao And therefore I will set downe the true History of Moses written by Iosephus a graue a learned Iew and a gouernour of all the countrey of Galiley farre to be preferred before Appian an Egiptian Schoolmaister in Alexandria Who after their fabulous lies most impudently blasphemed their Temple affirming an Asse head all of gold by the Iewes most religiously worshipped and honoured in their temple which was found in the time of Antiochus Epiphanis when he sacked Ierusalem spoyled the temple We wil passe ouer these false Egiptiās writers come to Moses This sixt plague is likened to the sixt persecution vnder Maximinus a most cruell Emperor being puffed vp with pride insolency and wearied with vulgar persecutions proceeded forward to persecute Bishops Doctors and other learned Christians that professed the name of Christ as Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna Ignatius and such he spared no degrees within the Romain prouinces but as the Egiptians were plagued with soares botches blaines and biles so hee vexed the Christians with sword fire and extreame tortures And as nothing could moue Pharao in Egipt to acknowledge the Lorde to be God so nothing could moue this tyger Maximinus to acknowledge Christ to be the Lord but without mercy and compassion persecuted afflicted the Christians Thus not only the Emperors of Rome tyrannized against Christians but also the kings of Syria little inferiour to the Romans in tyrannie against whom the Lord did not only stirre men but women children to contemne their threatnings and to despise their crueltie as Antiochus king of Syria commanded caudrons brazen pots to be heated straitly charging that he that spake but a word with Moses law should haue his tongue cut out this could not terrifie a woman with her seuen sonnes who one after another denied the eating sacrificing of swines flesh the defiling of their temple with Images refusing to forsake the lawes of Moses and in this to liue and die The king straight commanded that the tongue of the eldest brother should be cut out to pull the skin ouer his head to pare off the edges of his hands feete and after these tortures while yet there was any life in him to be fried in the hote caudron and that in the sight of his mother and his other sixe brethren assuring them that they should suffer the like torments one after another vnlesse they would forsake the religion lawes of the Iewes eat swines flesh and offer sacrifice of swines flesh vnto Iupiter vpon the altars at Ierusalem Samaria but they esteemed the least iot of their lawe more then the greatest tortures that
another company of beasts deuided in troups on horse after thē followed a mightie monstrous man of a terrible stature riding vpō a terrible horse which appeared 3. houres ouer the citie Comū vanished away a litle before night Strange apparitions meteors haue bin in many battel 's seen in the aire eclipses of sun moone earthquakes such besides many visiōs seen many voices yelded Pub. Vatinius a Roman Praetor late walking out of Rome there met him Castor and Pollux vnknowne to Vatinius like two goodly yong gentlemen on white horses who told him that the Consul Aemilius had taken Persius K. of Macedonia ouerthrown his whole force the selfesame day Vatinius reciting the same to the Senate was presētly cōmitted to prisō vntil letters came frō Pau. Aemil. vnto Rome frō Macedonia certifying the Senators of their victories taking of Persius the same day the Vatinius told thē In the wars that the Lucaniās had against the Romans the likenes to a mā of exceeding great stature appeared to the Romans spake these words Gradus victoriae factus after these words passed through the midst of the enemies vanished away at that time the Romans got the victory slew 20. thousand tooke 23. ensignes Camillus in his warres against the Vients after the people were destroyed the towne takē the general Camillus commanded the souldiers to carry the Image of Iuno from Veients to Rome and being demanded of one of the souldiers in a ieast whether she willingly would remoue from Vients and come to Rome the Image suddenly answered I wil which words so amazed the Romans that they with all honor brought her to Rome and builded a temple to Iuno in mount Auentine where she was honored as one of their chiefe gods among the Romanes Thus the Romanes imagined that all their victories were had by means of their gods therfore brought as many gods as they could to Rome and yet when Pilate wrote from Ierusalem to Rome to his Lord and maister Tiberius the Emperor to haue Christ allowed to be one of the Romane gods Pilate was flatly denied though the Emperour himselfe perswaded the Senators of many myracles that Iesus had done in Ierusalem but the Senate would not allow Iesus to come to Rome among their gods Iosephus writes that at the destruction of Ierusalem there were many signes seene in the ayre and voyces heard in the earth before the Citie was destroyed and the Temple burned signifying the calamitie which was at hand The first signe was a Comet like a sword hanging in the ayre ouer the Cittie of Ierusalem which continued a whole tweluemoneth contrarie to the nature of a Comet which was not seene to continue past six moneths The second signe was a lightning that shined in the night time about the Temple and about the Aultar as light as day this light continued the space of halfe an houre of the which some iudged well some otherwise The third straunge sight was that an oxe beeing brought vp on the feast day to bee sacrificed brought forth a lambe which terrified the people made them much amazed The fourth myracle was that the great brazen gate on the East side of the Temple being lockt and strongly barred opened of it selfe which could scarce bee shut with the force of twentie men The fift signe was that after the feast dayes a little before Sunne setting were seene Iron Charriots and an host of armed men houering round about the citie in the cloudes The sixt vpon the feast of Penticost when the Priests went according to their maners into the temple to celebrate diuine seruice they heard as it were some noise or stirring and after they heard a voyce that said Migremus hinc Let vs remoue from this place The seuenth and last and the straungest signe of all one Iesus a simple man seuen yeares before Ierusalē was destroied cried out Vox ab oriente a voyce from the east a voyce from the west a voyce from the foure windes a voyce against Ierusalem and against the Temple and a voyce against all this people Thus went hee still through all the streetes of Ierusalē with these words in his mouth Vae Ierosolymis though hee was whipt and scourged and brought before the Romane President Albinus yet hee vsed all one words woe to the Cittie woe to the Temple and woe to the people thus hee cryed out for seuen yeares and fiue moneths and at the last words which he spake Vaeautem mihi a stone came from the wall and killed him This is written of Iosephus who was a Tetrarch in Galiley and fought many battels with his countrey against the Romanes vntill he was taken by Titus and brought with him to Rome where he wrote of the antiquitie of the Iewes twentie bookes in Greeke wrote seuen bookes of the Iewish warres and was as much esteemed in Rome as Berosus the Chaldean was in Athens but the Iewes little esteemed Nabuchodonozer in the last destruction by Ieremy and Ezechiel before prophesied they following the counsell of such false Prophets that both prophesied and promised victorie to Achab when he was slaine and his army ouerthrowne so they said that the Babilonians should not come within Ierusalem and they were beleeued and Ieremy imprisoned so now for all these signes seene and for all that Christ prophesied the destruction of Ierusalem wept vpon mount Olyuet for the same yet the Iewes beleeued no prophesie weighed not the Romanes no more then they weighed before the Babilonians The like prophesie was found in Cataldus booke Bishop of Tarentum being long time before dead who appeared in a vision to a Priest in Naples and willed the Priest to dig in such a secret place and to bring a booke written by Cataldus being so found in a table of lead nailed and to shewe it to the king where he found the calamities and eminent destruction of Neapolis In the twelfth yeare of Nero the Emperour Vespasian was sēt with an army to subdue the Iewes which could not be quiet but rebelled euer against the Romanes whom the Iewes mortally hated though the Romanes had so many Presidents vnder them to gouerne the Iewes as Pilate Petronius Festus Albinus and last of all Florus Yet they would not be brought to subiectiō And after Vespasiā had cōquered all Galiley where Fla. Iosephus was appointed Tetrarch who was taken in this warre and all the whole Country beyond Iorden as Gadara Macherunta Hiericho and other cities Ierusalem hee gaue to his sonne Titus to lay siege to it and Vespasian went to Alexandria and from thence to Rome leauing Titus to subdue the Iewes at Ierusalem For vpon the very day that Christ dyed vpon the Crosse in mount Golgotha on the same very day eight and thirtie yeares after was Ierusalem taken and destroyed quite to the ground by Titus the Temple burnt eleuen hundred thousand slain with the sword
who after he had subdued the most part of the cities of Greece he laid siege to Athens tooke it about midnight with such a noise number of hornes and sound of trumpets in order of battell with their swords drawne making such an vncredible slaughter that the greatnesse of that murther and the number of the persons that were slaine could not be knowne the noblest men of the citie were in such dispaire that they made account to liue no longer because they sawe such tirannie and crueltie in Sylla that an infinite number slew themselues before they should come to Syllas hand at which time the learned libraries at Athens were destroyed quite and burned The most famous library at Pergamus gathered together of all the vniuersities of the world by the great diligence and industry of Attalus and Eumenes kings of Asia of the which library one Euporion had the charge by the appointment of Antiochus the great which was also burnt and destroyed in the warres of Asia between Antiochus the great and the Romanes which Antiochus by the perswasiō of Hanibal would take warres in hand against the Romanes supposing by his two Elephants whom he named Aiax and Patroclus to terrifie the Romanes with these beasts Hanibal might haue tolde him he had foure score Elephants in his warres against Scypio Affrican and after Hanibal was ouerthrowne and his Elephants brought to Rome Metellus at his victorie at Panormus sent to Rome a hundred foure and twentie Elephants and fiftie yeares before Metellus Pirrhus was glad to leaue foure Elephants to beautifie the triumphes of Curius Dentatus and to forsake the Romanes and to flye to his countrie Antiòchus the great might haue knowne this well eyther by himselfe or by Hanibal but being ouerthrowne of the Romanes the library also of Pergamum was destroyed Againe the most noble library at Rome began by Asinius Pollio and finished by Mar. Varro was such that both these great learned men had their Images and statues set vp in the market place at Rome while yet they liued If the Romanes had bene as desirous of bookes and learning as they were of bloud and spoile Caesar might as wel haue brought the library frō Alexandria to Rome as he brought the pictures of Cato Petronius and others from Affrike to Rome or as Augustus brought the picture of Cleopatra Lu. Scypio might as well haue brought vnto Rome the library of Pergamus from Asia as to bring in long tables painted the forme and likenesse of 130. cities townes which he subdued and conquered in Asia And so Lu. Sylla might haue brought the library of Athens to Rome as well as he did bring all the cities of Greece set out and painted brauely in tables banners and ensignes to aduance his triumph but the Romanes esteemed nothing but victories they weighed not for bookes but for battels they banished Mathematicians and Philosophers out of Rome and out of all Italy for the Romans professed onely armes and yet many of them were learned for Cato though learned himselfe yet hee would haue no Philosophy read in Rome hee much disliked that Carneades the Academick Philosopher who came as Embassador from Athens to Rome should tarrie long there least the Romain youthes that were desirous of learning and eloquence would giue ouer the honor and glorie of Armes and yet many of the best Romaine captaines were well learned It was but the opinion of Cato for Philopomen the Greeke by talking of warres with Captaines and by reading of Cincius and Euangelus bookes became an excellent captaine Lucullus in like sort himselfe being learned as it seemed for Lu. Sylla dedicated his commentarie of 22. bookes vnto Lucullus who was as noble a Captaine as any was among the Romanes Alexander the great would neuer sleepe in his bed without the Iliads of Homer vnder his pillow So Caesars Cōmentaries at this time is no lesse esteemed with the Turkes then Homers Iliads with the Greekes It seemed in those dayes that it was not hard to find famous and learned libraries when so many learned and profound schollers wrote so much as Callimachus wrote eight hundred bookes Crisippus a stoik Philosopher wrote more then others could read so many Greekes and many Romanes wrote all the dayes of their liues but as you heard the end of warre sword and fire consumes all especially of ciuill warres Some bookes are also mentioned of the Prophets and of the Apostles in their writings which are not extant as the booke of the battels of the Lord the booke of the Iust called Iasher and the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah often mentioned in the booke of kings In the new Testament of the prophesie of Enoch and the storie of the body of Moses mentioned in the Epistle of Iude but now not extant These things are also declared in the writing of Nehemias how he made a library and how he gathered the Acts of the Kings and of the Prophets the Acts of Dauid and the Epistles of the kings CHAP. XII Of the breach of the lawe of Armes of the trechery and murther that came thereby THe Castle of Thaebes called Cadmea was taken by Phaebidas a Spartan captaine before the Thaebans mistrusted any thing for there was a league betweene the Thaebans and the Lacedemonians howbeit the Lacedemonians against the lawe of armes tooke the castle and the captaine that then kept the castle named Ismenias and sent him to Sparta as a prisoner Pelopidas and others saued themselues by flight and for that the Spartans brake their league with the Thaebans hereby grew great warres betweene the Lacedemonians and the Thaebans to the vtter confusion of the Lacedemonians and the last ouerthrowe of Sparta at the battell of Leuctres where Epaminondas Pelopidas were victors This ouerthrow fell iustly to the Lacedemonians for that they brake their league and conditions of peace with the Thaebans for the which it is lawfull among all nations to commence warre so is it great wisedome for all nations to auoyd the great harme that may fall by entreatie of peace For vnder colour of peace many haue practised means to warre so Metellus deceiued Iugurth with faire words tending to peace Philip king of Macedonia hauing a vaine hope to haue peace with the Romains thinking therby to repaire his force being before foiled by the Romanes was the second time vanquished by the Romanes thrise he rebelled and thrise he was vanquished This was not that Philip father to Alexander the great who neuer kept conditions of peace but false and trecherous in all his promises he could be as rebellious as the last Philip but not so soone subdued Cotys King of Thracia vnder colour of a league was with faire words allured to a banquet where he was slaine It was the counsel of Archidamus Agesilaus sonne to talke of peace to the Lacedemonians to prouide for warre and therefore the Romanes
3. cap. 37. Polycarpus The persecution of the seueÌ„ bretheren 2. Machab. cap. 7. The seuenth plague Liui. 35. Q. Curtius lib. 4. The seuenth persecution Great plagues and sicknesses vpon the Romanes The eight plague Hypocrisie of Pharao Pericles made a decree in Athens against strangers Strangers not long entertained in Carthage The eight persecution vnder valerianus Valerianus the Emperor of Rome vsed as a blocke by Sapor king of Persia. The ninth plague The dissimulatioÌ„ of Pharao The ninth persecution Christ denied among the Romanes A goldeÌ„ target sent by the Senators The euill end of cruel Emperours The tenth plague The Lord useth all things by meanes The tenth persecution When persecutioÌ„ ended heresie begaÌ„ Arrius the first of his sect Euseb. in many of his bookes especially in the fourth at large writes of these masters Saturninus The 4. generall councels Hicsos The marching of Pharao after the Hebrewes A stratagem of the Lord. The drowning of Pharao in the red sea Appins impudent lies against Moses Appolonius Thianeus This storie is reported otherwise in the life of Apollonius The education of Moses in Egipt Moses chosen captaine for Pharao Ioseph lib. 2. cap. 5. de antiq Iudaic. Moses death sought by the Priests of Egipt The victories of Moses in Aethiopia The marriage of Moses to Tharbis Ioseph lib. 2. cap. 5. Appians lies Hicsos Philo. Exod. 12. The lawe of armes The 2. lawe of armes The 3. lawe of armes Front lib. 1. cap. 11. The strata gems of Archidamus Epaminandas and Pericles Ioshua c. Castor and Pollux Cic de diuin lib. 2. Ioseph lib. 4. cap. 8. The lawe of Armes The Priests Faecials in Rome The Priests Mantes in Athens Magi in Persia. The remouing of the Arke 1. Number The nuÌ„bring and mustring of the Hebrew Army by Moses The Hebrews were left in the midst of their enemies to practise Armes 42. MansioÌ„s Stratagems of Marius and Cyrus Front lib. 1. cap. 2. 70. Gouernors chosen vnder Moses Exod. 18. The Leuites tents about the tabernacle The foure standarts of the Hebrewes The tent of Iudah on the East The standart of Ruben on the south side The standart of Ephraim on the West side The standart of Dan on the North side The marching of the Hebrew câ—…po The state of the Hebrew campe Xerxes great Army Alexander The Tabernacle placed in the midst of the camp The Tabernacle 30. cubits long and 12. broad Exod. 26. A cubit of the Greekes two foote of the Romanes a foote and a halfe Chiefe and strong forts of the Gentiles Tygranes Iugurth Mithridates The standarts of Egipt The Hebrewes named of the Egiptians Hicsos The standarts of Persia. Viget lib. 2. cap. 6. The standarts of the Romanes Athenians Thabans The old Germaines Anubis Caesar. The setting vp of the tabernacle The dedication of the altar The multitude of altars in Athens Straunge altars in Delos Diod. fic li. 3. cap. 7. The lawes of Numa Hypaethra Open Temples aboue in the toppe Temples builded of the Gentiles Cynosarges Superstitioâ—… fondnes of the Gentiles Mount Oliuet The victories of Moses ouer diuers kings The battell of Riphidim The battell at Horma The ouerthrow of the Canaanites and Arad their king by the Hebrues Psal. 56. The vowes of the Persians The vowes of the Egiptians Appian de bello punico Caesar. lib. 〈◊〉 de bello gallâ—… Plut. in Coriliano Liui lib. 1. The vowes of the Grecians The vowes of the Ro manes The feast Bendidia The first Consualio Ancyllia Tabilustria The feast Metoichia The feasts of the Greekes in memory of their captaines The feast called Agonolia Timoleon Espialls sent by Ioshua to Canaan Caleb Fearefull reports in wars are daÌ„gerous The Stratagem of Tullius Front lib. 1. cap. 12. Varro The battel of Antemna Milciades Themistocles The Romans stratagem Front lib. 3. cap. 15. Clearchus Front lib. 3 cap. 5. Reba Eui Reken Zur Hur. DisobedieÌ„ce punished Archidamus The vnthank fulnesse of the Hebrews Nomb. 11. ca. Nom. 12. Martiall punishment Nomb. ca. 16 Six hundred thousand died for disobedience in the wildernesse Gene. 6. 3. Reg. 9. Iere. 35. Obedience of the Rechabites 1. Machab. 2. Great obedience of creatures to God Psal. 148. 3. Reg. 17. Cyrus Lib. 1. Esdr. 1. cap. 3. Reg. 13. Ionas 2. The offence of Moses Aaron at the water of Meribah The martiall lawe of Egipt The martiall lawes of Persta The martiall lawe of the Romanes The martiall lawe of Lacedemonians The charge of a new armie giuen to Ioshuah Commendaâ—…n of Generalls Pirrhus forsooke Italy Elephants first seene in Rome Hannibal Front lib. 3. cap. 14. Amiraculous ouerthrow of Iericho Ioshua cap. 6. Esâ—… 10. The destruction of Ai. Signes giuen of victories The victories of Ioshuah others in the Lords battels 1. Reg. 7. cap. Mar. Aurelius Euseb. 1. Legio fulminea In. Machab. Deut. 7. The simplicitie of souldiers in olde time Homer Illiad The strange fashions of diuers natioÌ„s in their wars Veget. lib. 3. cap. 24. Pirrhus brought Elephants to Lucania in Italy Plyni lib. 8. cap. 2. 6. Veget. lib. 1. cap. 20. Plut. in Mario The account of the Hebrews for their souldiers The custome of the PersiaÌ„s for their souldiers going to wars The maner of the Romanes for their souldiers Cyrus could name all the souldiers in his armie Mithridates could speake 22. languages to his souldiers The battel of Iahaz Deut. 28. 3. The battel of Edrei Ephron destroyed Fiue kings ioined against Ioshua The victory of Ioshua at Gibeon Sapor Oros. lib. 7. cap. 22. Tamberlaâ—…nus Monarches Cratippus saying to Pompey The last battell and victorie of Ioshua ouer the Canaanites The sunne staied ouer Gibeon The Moone ouer Ailon Front lib. 3. cap. 13. Stratagems The souldiers of Asia The souldiers of the Persians The stoutnes of the Romanes The Lacedemonians Amphictions The temple of Ianus Consilium Panaetolium Panaegyris Xantippus sent from Sparta to Carthage Pirrhus Pericles Aratus Pelopidas Philopomen Agesilaus and Epaminondas Timocheres Phillips speech Byzantium now called Constantinople Conons stratagem Front lib. 4. cap. 4. Epaminondas Front lib. 3. cap. 2. The old custome of the Romrnes and the Persians in choosing their kings Alex. Neopol lib. 4. ca. 23. Saul Xerxes Agesilaus â—…ame Darius long handed Caesars baldnesse Moses tall and slender Phryg in vita Moses Ioseph Gen. 39. Elias rough and hairie 4. Reg. 2. ca. Iudah the third captain ouer Israel The battell at Beseck The tyrannie of Adonizebech Lu. Flor. li. 2. cap. 6. 5. Oros. ca. 4. A cruell act of Fabius the Romane The figne of Periander sent to Thasibulus Dyonis lib 7. cap. 4. The stratagem of Ehud Iudge and generall of Israell Iudges 3. ca. Eglon king of Moab slaine The victory of Debora ouer Cisera at Meroz What kinde of men were generals and Iudges amoÌ„g the Hebrues Gedeon choseÌ„ Iudge in Israell Gedeons stratagem Iosua 8. Iud. 20. Pericles stratagem 〈◊〉 lib. 3. cap. 9. Antiochus stratagem Front lib. 2 cap. 3.