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A09382	A short vievv of the Persian monarchie, and of Daniels weekes beeing a peece of Beroaldus workes: with a censure in some points.; Chronicon Sacrae Scripturae auctoritate constitutum. English. Selections	Beroald, Matthieu, d. 1576.; Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1590 (1590)	STC 1968; ESTC S101679	28,476	50

ouer to the sixtie and two seuens which follow which we will handle shortly least we be tedious The sixtie two seuens which succeede the seuen before spoken of begin from the twentie and one yeare of Artaxerxes Pius which is the fourth yeare of the ninetie two Olympiade from whence beginneth the eight of Daniels seuens But this time is ended and compassed in the beginning of the seuētieth seuen which falleth into the second yeare of the hundred one Olympiade when Quintus Tiberius Nero reigned in Rome after Octauius Augustus the yeare from the Citie built seuen hundred seauentie eight Now what was the state of the church in these seuentie two seuens is opened and taught by the visions of Daniel as before we haue said Therefore in the seuenth chapter of Daniel foure Monarchies are propounded vnder foure terrible beasts vnder whom the people of GOD was diuerslie afflicted Whom although earthlie and sen suall men desired to destroy consume yet they could neuer remooue the people of God from their constancie and faith God miraculouslie preseruing and defending his Church But the Iewes Commonwealth liued prosperouslie enough vnder Artaxerxes Pius when that Persian King vnto whom the rest of Asia and Syria obeyed cared for it and the people of God For hee after the death of Zorobabel compounded and established the Church causes as may be vnderstood by the Commentaries of Esdras and Nehemias After this Artaxerxes Pius wee haue taught the Empire of the East or the Persian Empire to succeed to Xerxes the terror of Graecia but from this Xerxes immediately to Alexander the great doth the Angel passe passing ouer the other Kings of Persia because they were inferiour in renowme to Xerxes neither greatlie regarded the causes of the Church but suffering them to passe according to the time being ouer seriouslie busied exacting and gathering vp of tributes and the yearely reuenue By the going downe of Alexander into Syria it might be thought that the Church of God should sustaine great dammage by reason of his warre against Tyrus and against Egypt for the going downe out of Phoenicia into Egypt is through Iudea and Alexander the great was verie angrie with the Iewes because they had denied him aid and prouision and because they tooke the Persians part whome they then obeyed Besides religion and true godlinesse dissenting from others who were idolaters prouoked wicked men and contemners of God against the people of God But God in whose hand are not onely the hearts of Kings but of all men reconciled Alexander to his people and brought the insolencie of a foolish and proud yong man intollerable through successe of his victories to a moderation and caused him to performe great signes and arguments of fauour to those with whom hee seemed to be most displeased Therefore in this Historie we may obserue the same which we vnderstand to haue fallen out in the first times of the Church of Israel betweene Laban and Iaacob Gen. 31. 24. For Laban with an exasperate minde and with a great band pursued Iaacob who fled from him in hope to finde Iaacob vnprouided to ouerthrow his substāce Yet this boldnesse of Laban God in a wonderfull manner kept vnder forbidding him not onely not to deale rashlie with Iaacob but not so much as to speake rashlie to him so God repressed this furious man and compelled him to seeke his friendship whom he went about to destroy In the same manner God made Alexander the great an insolent and proud king displeased with his people that is the Iewes whom in hope he had now deuoured and destroyed so quiet as a sheepe and brought him to wonder at thē and to preserue them whom he went to destroy But the Successors of Alexander some of whom ruled Asia some Egypt afflicted the Iewes afterwards with diuers miseries because when the one lay in waite for the others life wealth and Kingdome and destroyed thēselues through mutuall warres both of them aimed at Iudea as a reward of victoire These Histories which Daniel hath set downe in few words prophane Writers haue at large layde downe in their Writings from which wee vnderstand the word of God to be most true and all things to be gouerned by diuine decree and prouidence Neither doo we acknowledge the Church of God to bee subiect vnto the iniuries of tyrants without his certaine appointment And there are extant learned interpretations vpon Daniel not onely of auncient Diuines but also of later and of our time by the which his Visions and the Histories theretoo pertaining are expounded There are also added to Daniels writings certaine mens Cronicles by the which manie histories of Scripture are opened and explaned wherefore we neede not in this place be anie longer in the expounding of the Greeke and Romane Monarchies which are handled shortly in Daniels writings yet to those Monarchies Iudea became subiect euen as to the Persian Monarchy these sixtie and two seuens But we will onely by the way note this in this argument that the Greekish Monarchie is called that power of Alexander the great and his Successours which was afterwards ouerthrowen by the Romans as afterwards also the Romans which obscured all others was ouerthrowen by the Gothes But it is therefore callec the Greekish Monarchie because in the 8. of Daniel the 21. vers the Goate bucke which is Alexander the great is said to bee the King of the Graecians For by a common consent of all Graecia at a Councell helde at Corinth Alexander the great was declared Emperour of Graecia to pursue the Persians by warre Whereby it came to passe that the Macedonian Empire of Alexāder is named in Scripture the Graecian long before that Alexander was borne But Philip the Father of Alexander the great hauing ouercome the Graecians at Chaeronea commaunded himselfe to be called not the King but the Duke of Graecia as Iustine in his ninth booke declareth whose example Alexander the great following summoning the Cities of Graecia to appeare at Corynth after he had setled the state of the Kingdome hee caused himselfe to bee chosen Duke of Graecia in his fathers place as Iustine declareth in his eleuenth Therefore being chosen the Reuenger of Graecia so oftentimes inuaded by the Persians inuaded Asia which he subdued with that speede as the holie Oracles before opened to Daniel and had declared and denounced that those who meruaile at the felicitie of Alexander and as it is commonly called the fortune are to be sent to the diuine decrees ouer Kingdomes and to be admonished of the diuine will prouidence on which the condition state of all men dependeth Therefore what the Kingdome of Alexander the great was like to be how to bee diuided vnto maine it is easie to bee found out of Daniel In the which it is to be marked that by reason of the scituation of Iudea the Kings of the North are said to be the Kings of Asia and