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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57329	An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. A premonition to princes.	1698 (1698)	Wing R151A; ESTC R32268	273,979	474

Motives to such as he will imploy though they intend it not Some confound the two Invasions of Hazael's but they are different the first was a compleat Army which frighted Ioash and had Hazael's presence the second was small and was encounter'd by the Iudeans when the King of Aram was at Damascus Some hold the Invasion was in Iehojada's days but it seemeth otherwise seeing the Service of the Temple flourished all his Days God sometimes prevents Men's Sins by affliction before Men see cause because it reforms them As for the Wicked usually their Sins get the start of their Punishment which can do no good upon them through hardness of heart by custom of Sin as it was by this unhappy Man whose villanous Pattern few Tyrants can endure to imitate § 4. Zecharias the Son of Iehojada after other Prophets is moved by the Spirit of God to admonish them of their Wickedness whom though many personal Reasons might move Ioash to respect beside the Reason of Reasons that he was a Reverend Prophet of God yet at Ioash's Commandment they murdered him Not unlike the Husbandmen who killed the Heir in whom all the hope to win any thing at their hands did rest For it might well be expected that this Man might be bolder and prevail more than all the rest yet of all the rest he succeeded least It seems Ioash thought himself no free Prince as long as any might be thought to have such interest in him as to dare to deal plainly with him § 5. Ioash having committed this odious Murder as the unthankful Snake upon the Man in whose Bosom he had been fostered as a wretched Tyrant became hateful to his own Times and his Memory detestable Neither did the deserved Curse of the Martyr stay long for within the Year when the Tyrant thought he was now absolute King without Controul the Aramites broke into his Country rather for Pillage than to perform any great Action being so few The King of Iudah many ways discovered his Cowardise as by drawing blood of Friends basely buying Peace with Enemies when he was able to draw into the Field 300000 Men as his Son did after and now in levying a great Army against a few Foreigners or Bands of Rovers Against these his Wisdom thought fit to advance among his Princes to shew his Valour when he presumed through incomparable odds to be free from danger But God that laugheth at the Folly of Wise Men and casteth contempt upon vain-glorious Princes intending to do more by the few Aramites than themselves merit whether by Folly of Leaders amazement of Souldiers c. this great Army fell before them and they had the slaughtering of those Princes which had drawn their King to Rebel against the King of Kings and the beating and ranzoming of Ioash himself who thereupon was forced to take his Bed in which two of his own Servants slew him for the blood of Iehojada's Children § 6. Contemporaries with Ioash were Mezades and Diognetus in Athens Eudemus and Aristodemus in Corinth Agrippa Sylvius and Syvius Alladius in Italy Cephrenes the 4th from Sesac succeeded Cheops in Egypt the 16th of Ioash and Ruled Fifty Years Ocrazapes or Anacynderaxes succeeded Ophratanes in Assyria Forty two years Ioas 18th Pigmalion King of Tyrus in whose Seven years Dido built Carthage from the Building Solomon's Temple 143 Years as Iosephus found in the Tyrian Annals which was 143 years before the Birth of Romulus and 289 years after the destruction of Troy Thus all Virgil's Tale of Dido and Aeneas is Confuted as Ausonius noteth in his Epigram upon her Statue The History of Carthage is referred to the Punick Wars § 7. Amaziah Son of Ioash succeeded being Twenty five Years old who having learned the Art of Dissimulation of his Father finding the Princes dead which favoured Idolatry and seeing the Peoples dislike of his Father's Courses by their Countenancing his Murder he framed himself to the necessity of the Times forbore the Traytors indured his Father's disgrace in his Burial and Conformed to Religion But after the Peoples out-cry against his Father had tyred it self and that he saw the Conspirators had neither Might Partakers nor Abettors he put them to Death but spared their Children which gave Content to the People as a point of Justice thus by long Peace and Conformation to Religion and Justice he grew strong Ioash also King of Israel grew in Power following the War against the Aramites and prospered tho' following the Idolatry of the Calves which had almost consumed the Ten Tribes by Hazael and Benhadad Yet at the Prayer of this Idolater God had Compassion in giving him success that he recover'd his Fathers temporal Losses but God's Favour more worth than all he neither sought nor got This Man entred in the 37th year of Ioash King of Iudah and in the Fifteenth of Iehoahaz his Father who lived two or three after He receiving his Father's poor Stock of ten Chariots Fifty Horsemen and One Thousand Foot his thriving with this Stock he ascribed to the Prayers of the Holy Prophet Elisha 2 Kings 13.14 This Prophet dyed about the Third or Fourth year of Ioash and for a Legacy bestowed three Victories upon him whereby he set Israel in a good way to recover all their Losses § 8. Amaziah inflamed with desire to undertake some Expedition by Example of Ioash King of Israel tho' he could furnish 300000 yet knowing they had lived without Exercise a long time except that with the Aramites which rather discouraged them he therefore thought good to hire 100000 Experienced Men out of Israel with which he would recover Edom which revolted under Iehoram But upon a Prophet's Warning he dismissed the Israelites not beloved of God and went in confidence of God's Assistance and prospered while his discontented hired Israelites ravag'd in their return yet he recover'd not Edom. He took some of Edom's Idols which might have been led in Triumph but the wretched King which took them was besotted by them and made them his Gods neither would endure the Prophet's reproof from the true God If the costly Stuff or the Workman-ship ravished his Fancy he might have disposed them to Profit or Ornament if the Edomites Devotion to them it should rather have moved laughter at them and their Gods who had failed their Old Clients I therefore think a proud Discontentment carried him from God whom having Obeyed in sending back his Mercenary Israelites he looked that the Lord would have subdued Edom unto him as well as give him a Victory forgetting that God had promised that Esau should break off the Yoke of Iacob at length and therefore should have limited his desire and been contented with an honourable Victory But as Men careful before the Battle to pray to God acknowledging him the giver of Victory and when the Field is won vaunt of their own Exploits as if God used their Fore-sight and Courage therein so Amaziah finding God did nothing extraordinary arrogated