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A33329	The lives & deaths of most of those eminent persons who by their virtue and valour obtained the sirnames of Magni,or the Great whereof divers of them give much light to the understanding of the prophecies in Esay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, concerning the three first monarchies : and to other Scriptures concerning the captivity, and restauration of the Jews / by Samuel Clark ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4537; ESTC R36025	412,180	308

greatly rejoyced that there was one left to revenge his death The Parthians though they missed of the Women which they most of all desired yet having setled all things at Jerusalem with Antigonus when they departed took Hyrcanus along with them Prisoner into Parthia Herod not hearing of his Brother Phasaelius his death went to Malchus the King of the Arabians Nabathaeans who were obliged to him by many favours he had done them purposing so soon as possibly he could to redeem his Brother for three hundred Talents from the enemy For which cause he carried along with him young Phasaelus his Brothers Son about seven years old to leave him for a pledg with the Arabians But there met him some that were sent from Malchus to command him to depart from the bounds of his Kingdom for so the Parthians had required Yet he pretended that he did it by the request of his Noble men purposing to cozen him of that great treasure which his father Antipater had committed to his trust Herod taking this very heavily turned aside into a certain Temple where he had left many of his followers but the next day when he came to Rhinocorura he heard of his Brothers death Malchus upon second thoughts repenting of his ingratitude sent in all hast after to Herod but the Messengers could not overtake him for he was gon far on his journey towards Pelusium where the Marriners that were sailing to Alexandria refused to take him in There by the Magistrates of the City he was honourably intertained and brought to Cleopatra the Queen who could not prevail with him to stay at that time because he was hastening to Rome though the Sea was very tempestuous and as then the affairs in Italy were in no very good condition As he sailed from Alexandria towards Pamphilia he met with a very great storm which made him cast overboard much of his substance and scarcely got he to Rhodes At Rhodes two of his greatest Friends met him Sappinas and Ptolomaeus and finding that the City had suffered much in the War against Cassius he could not be restrained no not by his present poverty but that he would do something for it even beyond his ability After which he caused a Frigot to be built and embarking himself with his Friends in it he arrived at Brundusium in Italy and fom thence went to Rome declaring unto M. Anthony those things that had happened to himself and his Family and that thorough many tempests and dangers he had retired unto him as his only refuge in whom all his hope lay This Narration moved compassion in Anthony remembring also his Fathers friendship towards him but that which prevailed most was the promise of a great sum of mony if he would help him to the Kingdom Anthony also hated Antigonus as a man of a turbulent Spirit and an enemy to the Romans Caesar also partly for that Antipater Herods Father had been fellow Souldier with his Father in Aegypt and for other curtesies which he had shewed him and partly to gratifie Anthony whom he saw to be well affected to Herod was willing to promote his designs whereupon the Senate being assembled Messala and Atpatinus brought in Herod and after they had praised him reckoning up the love and services that both he and his Father had done for the Romans and accusing Antigonus both for former crimes and for that newly he had received the Kingdom of the Jews from the Parthians in contempt of the Romans and when Anthony also had declared to the Senate how much conducing it was to the Parthian War then in hand that Herod should be made King Antigonus was declared an enemy and the Kingly Title was devolved upon Herod by their general suffrage Whilest these things were transacting at Rome Ventidius the Roman General easily recovered Palestine Antigonus the King thereof being much afraid of him and he exacted great sums of money from all men but especially from Antigonus who in Herods absence had besieged his Family in Massada which place though it abounded with all other kinds of provision yet it wanted water so that Joseph Herods Brother who commanded in chief there with two hundred of his Friends intented to flie to the Arabians for that he heard that Malchus now repented him of his former ingratitude towards Herod But the very Night a great shore of Rain falling filled their Cisterns which made him change his purpose and the next morning making a gallant salley forth they killed many of Antigonus his men Ventidius encamped near to Jerusalem and drew from Antigonus a sufficient sum of money and to the intent that his fraudulent dealing should not be discovered he left one Silo there with part of his Forces under a pretence of helping Joseph who also was to be seed by Antigonus lest he should raise him some new troubles which Antigonus submitted to hoping that the Parthians would shortly come to his aid After the Senate was dismissed Anthony and Caesar went out leading Herod between them who also accompanied with the Consuls and other Magistrates and so they went all together up into the Capitol to sacrifice to the Gods and to place there the Decree of the Senate and the New King the first day of his Reign was Feasted by Anthony and within seven days after he was by Anthony dismissed out of Italy honoured with this unexpected felicity Shortly after Anthony being to go to the Parthian War had all his Acts as well past as to come confirmed by the Senate whereupon he sent to some Kings by his own authority to pay certain Tributes to him and he made Herod King both of the Idumaeans and Samaritans Herod being returned out of Italy to Ptolemais quickly gathered store of Souldiers both of such as he hired as also of his own Countrymen passing through Galile against Antigonus being aided by Silo and Ventidius who were commanded by Anthony to conduct him into his Kingdom and as he went on his Forces daily increased and all Galile except a few sided with him As Herod was marching towards Massada where he was necessarily to relieve his Kindred Joppa would not let him pass wherefore he was to reduce it lest he should leave so strong a place behind him in his passage to Jerusalem which occasion Silo taking hold on for he was not yet come to Herod dislodged his Army from about Jerusalem whom the Jews pursued but Herod meeting him with a small party saved Silo who fought very cowardly After he had taken Joppa he hasted to Massada to raise the Siege and his Army encreased daily many of the Country people joyning with him and having relieved his Friends in Massada he hasted towards Jerusalem and though Antigonus had laid ambushments for him in divers places yet he drew near to the City Silo following and the Jews being terrified with his power When he had encamped on

time Pope of Rome against whom there was strange Sedition raised by Sylvester and Campul men of great credit in the Court of Rome These men with their adherents upon a solemn day of Procession seized upon Leo before St. Lawrence Church whom they stripped of his Pontifical Robes cast him unto the ground trod him under their feet and bruised his face with their fists and having dragged him ignominiously through the dirt they cast him into Prison where yet he stayed not long being freed by a Groom of his chamber called Albin and so having recovered St. Peters Church he sent to Vingise Duke of Spoleto intreating him to deliver him from this miserable Captivity Vingise failed him not but came to Rome and carried the Pope along with him to Spoleto where yet he stayed not long but from thence went to Charlemagne into France whom he found full of troubles He complained that many of the Romans sought to usurp his Power into their hands and advised the King to exact an Oath of Fidelity of them Paschalis was there soon after him and accused the Pope of Adultery and other gross crimes Charlemagne dismissed them both and promised to be at Rome within a few months and accordingly prepared for his Journey In December Anno Christi 800. Charlemagne was received in Rome with all shews of Honour and within eight dayes he went into St. Peters Church and in the presence of all the People and Clergy he asked who had any thing to say against Pope Leo Paschalis or Paschasires and Campalus had published the Popes crimes by Writ but knowing how Charlemagne stood affected towards both parties they appeared not so none prosecuting these crimes against him the Pope was absolved upon his Oath wherein he swore by God and the four Evangelists that all these things were false which they layed to his charge Whereupon the King declared him innocent and condemned his accusers and within few dayes three hundred of them were beheaded in the Lateran Field for their presumption and affectation of liberty on the eighteenth of December and shortly after Charles was chosen Emperour But before I speak of that I must represent you with a brief view of the present estate and condition of the Emperour of Constantinople The seat of the Roman Empire since the time of Constantine the great remained at Constantinople a City of Thrace situated in a convenient place for the Guard of the Eastern Provinces After which all the West being full of new Guests who had expelled the Romans the name authority and power of the Empire remained in the East where now the State was in a strange confusion the Mother being banded against her Son and the People amongst themselves Constantine the Son of Leo the Fourth was Emperour at this time who from his Infancy was governed together with the Empire by his Mother Irene But being now come to the age of twenty years he assumed the Government into his own hands There was then a great division in the East which had been continued from Father to Son for fourscore years together about bringing Images into the Churches The Bishops would needs bring them in But the Emperours together with the greatest part of the People opposed themselves against them This contention had its beginning under Philip Bardanes was continued under Leo Isaurus and from him was derived to his Son Constantine sirnamed Copronimus and to Leo the Fourth Son to the said Constantine This filled all the East with infinite scandals The same fire of contention continued in the minority of our Constantine who was yet governed by his Mother a Woman of a violent spirit who had undertaken the protection of Images and held a Counsel of many Bishops for the defence thereof But the people growing into a mutiny by force expelled them from Constantinople where there Assemhly was held But Irene being resolved to carry on her design assembled another Councel at Nicea City of Bithinia honoured for having entertained the first general Councel under Constantine the Great the first of that name where it was Decreed that Images should be placed in Churches for devotion But Charlemagne did not allow of this Decree and either himself or some other by his Command did write a small Treatise against this Councel the which bears this Title A Treatise of Charlemagne touching Images against the Greek Synode This crafty Woman made choise of the City of Nicea that the name of the ancient first Council held there might honour this new invention with the pretext of Antiquity For there are some that confound the first Council of Nicea with the second and Constantine the fourth with the first Constantine continued in the hereditary hatred of his Father and Grandfather against Images so as being of age and in absolute possession of his Empire he disannulled all these new decrees and caused the Images to be beaten down in all places Yet did he make all shews of respect to his Mother yielding unto her a good part of his authority and command which respect was the cause of an horrible Tragedy For this Woman being transported for two causes both by reason of her new opinion and for despight that she had not the whole Government in her own power grew so unnatural that she resolved to dispossess her Son of the Empire and to seize upon it herself And indeed the authority which her Son had left her and the free access which she had unto his Person gave her opportunity for the execution of her design For having corrupted such as had the chief Forces of the Empire at their command and won them to her with her Sons Treasure she seized on his Person put out his eyes and sent him into Exile where shortly after he died of grief and took possession of the Empire These unnatural and Tragick furies were practised in the East whiles that Charlemagne by his great Valour built an Empire in the West Irene in her Son Constantines life time would have married him with the eldest Daughter of Charlemagne but this accident crossed that design After the Death of Constantine Irene sent to Charlemagne to excuse her self of the murther disavowing it and laying the blame upon such as had done it as she pretended without her command And to win the good liking of Charlemagne she caused him to be dealt withall about marriage for at that time Festrude was dead with promise to consent that he should be declared Emperour of the West and that she also would resign unto him the Empire of the East But Charlemagne would not accept of her profers The Nobility and People of the Greek Empire did so hate Irene as having suffered her the space of three years in the end they resolved to dispossess her This Woman the unnatural murtheress of her own Child being thus publickly hated and detested Nicephorus a great and Noble man of Greece assisted by the