moist dropping of stone walls against rainy weather Small resistance was made against him onely some seemed to fight against him in complement so that with ease he made himself master of Constantinople and not long after he caused Xena the Empresse to be choked the eyes of whose Favourite Protosebastus he had formerly bored out The next care of Andronicus was to cut off all those steps by which he had ascended to this height lest leaving those stairs still standing others also might climbe up the same way All those friends who had assisted him in this his designe he rewarded with death yea though at first his cruelty might seem to shoot at a mark in taking of some prime men for whose death some reason might be rendred his malice afterwards shot at rovers as if he had a quarrell at mankind killing all he came near When any party accused recriminated the accuser the sword of Andronicus cut on both sides the accuser and accused were sent the same way and what cup one began the other was made to pledge Those Sycophants which ingratiated themselves with him escaped no better then others it being equally dangerous to please and displease him Men met every where with his cruelty but no where with the reasons thereof But who can expect other reasons of Tyrants actions but that they are Tyrants actions But his dealing with young Alexius the Emperour whose death was methodically contrived with some politick pauses deserves observation At first entrance into the city Andronicus observed his awfull distance towards the Emperour teaching others that the minority of Princes ought not to lessen their Subjects reverence unto them Afterwards he emboldned himself to make his nearer approches chalenging in young Alexius that interest which carefull tutours claim in those whose protection they tender Hence he proceeded to set a guard about him not to defend but watch him and to guard him from his friends who though allowed to follow his sports in hunting was indeed made sport of himself and the hunter kept in a net Then Andronicus was forced by his friends importunity whom he himself had secretly importun'd to be elected joynt-Emperour with Alexius and with much unwillingnesse this great dissembler who could have taught Tiberius craft and Nero cruelty was driven up the Emperiall throne Next day in all publick Edicts the name of Andronicus was set before Alexius it seeming preposterous that a child should be preferred before so sage and grave a man Hitherto the life of Alexius was profitable to Andronicus but now his death would be more behooffull Wherefore Andronicus counting it cumbersome now any longer to wear a cloke in the sunshine and heat of his happinesse abandoned all uselesse dissembling and appear'd like himself The next news we heare of Alexius is that his neck is broken with a bowstring by command from Andronicus his body was spurn'd and abus'd a hole bored in his ear with a spit his head cut off and shamefully dealt with his body cast into the sea with many more cruell outrages as much against policie as piety and not onely needlesse but scandalous to Andronicus Thus Tyrants having once given the rains to their cruelty are not able to stop themselves But this innocent bloud cryed to God for revenge and obtained it Next yeare Isaacius Angelus was chosen Emperour by the people and Andronicus chased out of the city and pursued after Andronicus got into a ship and had conveyed himself away had not the winds and the waves as if knowing him though disguis'd refused to be accessary to his escape and beaten him back again till he was taken by his pursuers Being carried into the presence of Isaacius the new Emperour he there was beaten spurn'd kick'd on and had an arm cut off and an eye bored out But all this was mercy in respect of what he next day suffered by the rascall multitude being carried on a scabb'd Camell thorow Constantinople happy he that could do most unhappinesse unto him all sorts of people sought to mischief him throwing that upon him in comparison whereof that which runneth in the channell may be counted rosewater Thus orphanes thought to revenge the death of their fathers widows of their husbands one ran him thorow with a spit another threw scalding water in his face At last he could hardly die being hang'd up by the feet betwixt two pillars after a thousand abuses offer'd unto him It may seem miraculous how his body could make room for all their blows or that he so old a man could find so many lives for their cruelty were it not that passing with some speed thorow the city few had their full blows at him and they were somewhat mannerly in their revenge in that they would not take all to themselves but leave some to others And indeed after long throwing of dirt upon him their darts became his shield being so covered over with the filth that the mire kept him from the mire All which time he brake not out into any impatience but still cryed Lord have mercy upon me and Why break you a bruised reed and bore all with an invincible quietnesse of mind Surely God measured unto him a time of repentance by a large houreglasse and haply it were tyranny to think otherwise of the worst Tyrant the tempest of the peoples fury might drive his soul to the best shelter the mercy of the God of heaven It is a good signe when one hath his hell in this world and true repentance is never too late As for those that hold repentance on the death-bed unprofitable by this their tenet they would make heaven very empty and yet never a whit the more room therein for the maintainers of so uncharitable an opinion Andronicus reigned two years having a beautifull aspect and majestick stature almost ten foot high of a strong constitution advantaged by the temperatenesse of his diet In all his life time he took but one antidote and never purged but once and then the Physick found no obnoxious humour to work upon so healthfull was his temper His death happened Anno Dom. 1183. FERDINAND Alvarez de Toledo Duke of Alva Viceroy of the Netherlands under Philip the 2d. He dyed in Portugall Anno Dni 1582. in the â—75 yeare of his Age. W.M. sculp CHAP. 19. The life of Duke D'ALVA FErdinand Alvarez de Toledo Duke of Alva one bred abroad in the world in severall warres whom Charles the fifth more employed then affected using his churlish nature to hew knotty service was by Philip the second King of Spain appointed Governour of the Netherlands At his first arrivall there the loyalty of the Netherlanders to the King of Spain was rather out of joint then broken off as not being weary of his government but their own grievances The wound was rather painfull then deadly onely the skirts of their lungs were tainted sending out discontented not rebellious breath much regretting that their Priviledges Civil and Ecclesiasticall
of children she would be made a mother by a proxie He was not jealous of her though a grand beauty in what company soever he came Indeed he feared the Egyptians because the Egyptians feared not God suspecting rather them of force then her of falsenesse and beleeving that sooner they might kill him then corrupt her Yet as well as he loved her he expected she should do work fit for her calling Make ready quickly three measures of meal and knead it Well may Sarah be cook where Abraham was caterer yea where God was guest The print of her fingers still remain in the meal and of crumbling dow she hath made a lasting monument of her good houswifry Being falsely indited by his wife he never travers'd the bill but compounded with her on her own terms The case this Hagar being with child by Abraham her pride sweld with her belly and despiseth her mistresse Sarah laying her action wrong sues Abraham for her maids fault and appeals to God I see the Plaintiff hath not alwayes the best cause nor are they most guilty which are most blamed However Abraham passes by her peevishnesse and remits his maid to stand or fall to her own mistresse Though he had a great part in Hagar he would have none in Hagars reâ—bellion Masters which protect their faulty servants hinder the proceeding of justice in a family He did denie himself to grant his wives will in a matter of great consequence Sarah desired Cast out this bondwoman and her sonne Oh hard word She might as well have said Cast out of thy self nature and naturall affection See how Abraham struggles with Abraham the Father in him striving with the Husband in him till God moderated with his casting-voyce and Abraham was contented to hearken to the counsel of his wife Being to sacrifice Isaac we find not that he made Sarah privie to his project To tell her had been to torture her fearing her affections might be too strong for her faith Some secrets are to be kept from the weaker sex not alwayes out of a distrust lest they hurt the counsel by telling it but lest the counsel hurt them by keeping it The dearest Husband cannot bail his wife when death arrests her Sarah dies and Abraham weeps Tears are a tribute due to the dead 'T is fitting that the body when it 's sown in corruption should be watered by those that plant it in the earth The Hittites make him a fair offer In the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead But he thinks the best of them too bad for his Sarah Her chast ashes did love to lie alone he provides her a virgin tombe in the cave of Machpelah where her corps sweetly sleep till he himself came to bed to her and was buried in the same grave CHAP. 5. The good Parent HE beginneth his care for his children not at their birth but conception giving them to God to be if not as Hannah did his Chaplains at least his Servants This care he continueth till the day of his death in their Infancy Youth and Mans estate In all which He sheweth them in his own practice what to follow and imitate and in others what to shun and avoid For though The words of the wiâ—e be as nayles fastened by the masters of the Assemblies yet sure their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold A father that whipt his sonne for swearing and swore himself whilest he whipt him did more harm by his example then good by his correction He doth not welcome and imbrace the first essayes of sinne in his children Weeds are counted herbs in the beginning of the spring nettles are put in pottage and sallads are made of eldern-buds Thus fond fathers like the oathes and wanton talk of their little children and please themselves to heare them displease God But our wise Parent both instructs his children in Piety and with correction blasts the first buds of profanenesse in them He that will not use the rod on his child his child shall be used as a rod on him He observeth Gavel-kind in dividing his affections though not his estate He loves them though leaves them not all alike Indeed his main land he settles on the eldest for where man takes away the birth-right God commonly takes away the blessing from a family But as for his love therein like a well-drawn picture he eyes all his children alike if there be a parity of deserts not parching one to drown another Did not that mother shew little wit in her great partiality to whom when her neglected sonne complained that his brother her darling had hit and hurt him with a stone whipt him onely for standing in the way where the stone went which his brother cast This partiality is tyrannie when Parents despise those that are deformed enough to break them whom God had bowed before He allows his children maintenance according to their quality Otherwise it will make them base acquaint them with bad company and sharking tricks and it makes them surfet the sooner when they come to their estates It is observed of camels that having travelled long without water through sandy deserts Implentur cum bibendi est occasio in praeteritum in futurum and so these thirsty heirs soak it when they come to their means who whilest their fathers were living might not touch the top of his money and think they shall never feel the bottom of it when they are dead In choosing a profession he is directed by his childs disposition whose inclination is the strongest indenture to bind him to a trade But when they set Abel to till the ground and send Cain to keep sheep Jacob to hunt and Esau to live in tents drive some to school and others from it they commit a rape on nature and it will thrive accordingly Yet he humours not his child when he makes an unworthy choice beneath himself or rather for ease then use pleasure then profit If his sonne prove wild he doth not cast him off so farre but he marks the place where he lights With the mother of Moses he doth not suffer his sonne so to sink or swim but he leaves one to stand afarre off to watch what will become of him He is carefull whilest he quencheth his luxury not withall to put out his life The rather because their souls who have broken and run out in their youth have proved the more healthfull for it afterwards He moves him to marriage rather by arguments drawn from his good then his own authority It is a style too Princely for a Parent herein To will and command but sure he may will and desire Affections like the conscience are rather to be led then drawn and 't is to be feared They that marry where they do not love will love where they do not marry He doth not give away his loaf to his children and
seeing Grace doth not cut of the affections of nature but ripen them the rather because Christianity is not naild to Christs crosse and mount Calvary nor Piety fastned as we may say to the freehold of the land of Palestine But if any Papist make her a pattern for pilgrimages let them remember that she went from Rome and was it not an unnaturall motion in her to move from that centre of Sanctitie She with her daughter Eustochium began her journie and taking Cyprus in her way where she visited Epiphanius she came at last to Judea She measured that countrey with her travelling and drew the truest mappe thereof with her own feet so accurately that she left out no particular place of importance At last she was fixed at Bethlehem where she built one monasterie for men and three for women It will be worth our pains to take notice of some principall of the orders she made in those feminine Academies because Paula's practice herein was a leading case though those that came after her went beyond her For in the rules of monasticall life Paula stood at the head game and the Papists in after ages desirous to better her hand drew themselves quite out Each monasterie had a chief matrone whilst Paula was Principall over all These societies were severd at their meat and work but met together at their prayers they were carefully kept apart from men not like those Epicoene monasteries not long since invented by Joan Queen of Sweden wherein men and women lived under one roof not to speak of worse libertines Well were Nunnes called Recluses which according to the true meaning of the word signifie those which are set wide open or left at libertie though that Barbarous age mistook the sense of the word for such as were shut up and might not stirre out of their Cloyster They used to sing Halelujah which serv'd them both for a psalm and a bell to call them all together In the morning at nine a clock at noon at three a clock in the afternoon and at night they had prayers and sang the psalmes in order This I believe gave originall to canonicall houres The Apostles precept is the plain song Pray continually and thus mens inventions ran their descants upon it and confin'd it to certain houres A practice in it self not so bad for those who have leisure to observe it save that when devotion is thus artificially plaited into houres it may take up mens minds in formalities to neglect the substance They rose also at midnight to sing psalmes A custome begun before in the time of persecution when the Christians were forced to be Antipodes to other men so that when it was night with others it was day with them and they then began their devotions These night-prayers begun in necessitie were continued in Paula's time in gratefull remembrance and since corrupted with superstition the best is their rising at midnight breaks none of our sleep These virgins did every day learn some part of the holy Scriptures whereas those Nunnes which pretend to succeed them learn onely with post-horses to run over the stage of their beads so many Ave Maries and Pater nosters and are ignorant in all the Scripture besides Such as were faultie she caused to take their meat apart from others at the entrance of the dining-room with which mild severitie she reclaimed many shame in ingenuous natures making a deeper impression then pain Mean time I find amongst them no vow of virginitie no tyrannicall Penance no whipping themselves as if not content to interre their sinnes in Christs grave they had rather bury them in furrows digg'd in their own backs They wrought hard to get their living and on the Lords day alone went out of their monasterie to hear Gods word Yet was she more rigid and severe towards her self then to any of them macerating her body with fasting and refusing to drink any wine when advised thereto by Physicians for her health So that as an holy man complained of himself whilest he went about to subdue an enemie he kild a subject she overturned the state of her bodie and whilest she thought to snuff the candle put it quite out Yea S. Hierome himself what his Eloquence herein doth commend in her his Charity doth excuse and his Judgement doth condemne But we must Charitably believe that these her fastings proceeded out of true humiliation and sorrow for her sinnes otherwise where opinion of merit is annexed to them they are good onely to fill the body with wind and the soul with pride Certainly prodigious Popish self-penance is will-worship and the purest Epicurisme wherein pain is pleasant for as long as people impose it on themselves they do not deny their own will but fulfill it and whilst they beat down the body they may puff up the flesh Nor can her immoderate bounty be excused who gave all and more then all away taking up money at interest to give to the poore and leaving Eustochium her daughter deep in debt a great charge and nothing to maintain it Sure none need be more bountifull in giving then the Sunne is in shining which though freely bestowing his beams on the world keeps notwithstanding the body of light to himself Yea it is necessary that Liberality should as well have banks as a stream She was an excellent text-woman yea could say the holy Scriptures by heart and attained to understand and speak the Hebrew tongue a language which Hierome himself got with great difficultie and kept with constant use skill in Hebrew will quickly go out and burn no longer then 't is blown yet she in her old age did speedily learn it She diligently heard Hierome expounding the old and new Testament asking him many doubts and Quaeres in difficult places such constant scouring makes our knowledge brighter and would not suffer his judgement to stand neuter in hard points but made him expresse the probable opinion Most naturally flie from death Gods Saints stand still till death comes to them Paula went out to meet it not to say call'd death unto her by consuming her self in fasting she died in the fiftie sixth yeare of her age and was solemnly buried in Bethlehem People of all countreys flockt to her funerall Bishops carried her corps to the grave others carried torches and lamps before it which though some may condemne to be but burning of day was no more then needed she being buried in a cave or grot as an eyewitnesse doth testifie Psalmes were sung at her buriall in the Hebrew Greek Latine and Syriack tongue it being fit there should be a key for every lock and languages to be understood by all the miscelany company there present Eustochium her daughter had little comfort to be Executrix or Administratrix unto her leaving her not a pennie of monie great debts and many brothers and sisters to provide for quos sustentare arduum abjicere impium I like not
save that this one action of his is so great and strong it cannot be kept in silence but will be recorded In the cruel battel at Ravenna betwixt the Emperour and the French he not onely bravely fetch'd off the dead bodies of Benedictus and Titus his father and brother but also with his own hands rescued the Eagle the standard Imperiall which was taken by the enemies For which his prowesse Maximilian knighted him and with his own hands put on him the golden spurres and chain the badges of knight-hood Amidst these his Martiall employments he made many a clandestine match with the Muses and whilest he expected the tides and returns of businesse he fill'd up the empty places of leisure with his studies Well did the Poets feigne Pallas Patronesse of arts and armes there being ever good intelligence betwixt the two Professions and as it were but a narrow cut to ferry over out of one into the other At last Scaliger sounded a retreat to himself from the warres and wholly applyed himself to his book especially after his wandring life was fixed by marriage unto the beautifull Andietta Lobeiaca with whom he lived at Agin near Montpeliar in France His Latine was twice refined and most criticall as appears by his own writings and notes on other Authours He was an accurate Grecian yet began to study it when well nigh fourty years old when a mans tongue is too stiff to bow to words What a torture was it to him who flowed with streams of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop But nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden wit in an iron body Let his book of Subtilties witnesse his profound skill in Logick and Naturall Philosophy His skill in Physick was as great as his practice therein was happy in so much that he did many strange and admirable cures Heare how a noble and learned pen doth commend him Non hunc fefellit ulla vis recondita Salubris herbae saltibus si quam aviis Celat nivosus Caucasus seu quam procul Riphaea duro contigit rupes gelu Hic jamque spectantes ad orcum non semel Animas repressit victor membris suis Haerere succis compulit felicibus Nigrique avaras Ditis elusit manus On snowy Caucasus there grew no root Of secret power but he was privy to 't On cold Riphean hills no simple grew But he the force thereof and virtue knew Wherewith apply'd by his successefull art Such sullen souls as would this world depart He forc'd still in their bodies to remain And from deaths doore fetch'd others back again As for his skill in Physiognomy it was wonderfull I know some will say that cannot be read in mens faces which was never wrote there and that he that seeks to find the disposition of mens souls in the figures of their bodies looks for letters on the backside of the book Yet is it credibly averred that he never look'd on his infant-sonne Audectus but with grief as sorrow-struck with some sad signe of ill successe he saw in his face which child at last was found stifled in bed with the embraces of his nurce being fast asleep In Mathematicks he was no Archimedes though he shewed his skill therein with the best advantage and stood therein on his tiptoes that his learning might seem the taller But in Poetry his over-measure of skill might make up this defect as is attested by his book de Arte Poetica Yet his own Poems are harsh and unsmooth as if he rather snorted then slept on Parnassus and they sound better to the brain then the eare Indeed his censure in Poetry was incomparable but he was more happy in repairing of Poems then in building them from the ground which speaks his judgement to be better then his invention What shall I speak of his skill in History whose own actions were a sufficient History He was excellently vers'd in the passages of the world both modern and ancient Many modern languages which departed from Babel in a confusion met in his mouth in a method being skilfull in the Sclavonick tongue the Hungarian Dutch Italian Spanish and French But these his excellent parts were attended with prodigious pride and he had much of the humour of the Ottomans in him to kill all his brethren and cry down all his equalls which were corrivalls with him in the honour of arts which was his principall quarrell with Cardan Great was his spight at Erasmus the morning-starre of learning and one by whom Julius himself had profited though afterwards he sought to put out that candle whereat he had lighted his own In the bickering betwixt them Erasmus pluckt Scaliger by the long locks of his immoderate boasting and touched him to the quick a proud man lies pat for a jeering mans hand to hit yea Erasmus was a badger in his jeeres where he did bite he would make his teeth meet Nor came Scaliger behind him in railing However afterward Scaliger repented of his bitternesse and before his death was reconciled unto him Thus his learning being in the circuit of arts spread so wide no wonder if it lay thinne in some places His parts were nimble that starting so late he overtook yea overran his equalls so that we may safely conclude that making abatement for his military avocations and late applying himself to study scarce any one is to be preferred before him for generality of humane learning He died Anno 1558. in the 75. yeare of his age CHAP. 9. The faithfull Minister VVE suppose him not brought up by hand onely in his own countrey studies but that he hath suckt of his Mother University and throughly learnt the arts Not as S. Rumball who is said to have spoken as soon as he was born doth he preach as soon as he is Matriculated Conceive him now a Graduate in arts and entred into orders according to the solemn form of the Church of England and presented by some Patrone to a pastorall charge or place equivalent and then let us see how well he dischargeth his office He endeavours to get the generall love and good will of his parish This he doth not so much to make a benefit of them as a benefit for them that his ministry may be more effectuall otherwise he may preach his own heart out before he preacheth any thing into theirs The good conceit of the Physician is half a cure and his practice will scarce be happy where his person is hated yet he humours them not in his Doctrine to get their love for such a spanniel is worse then a dumbe dog He shall sooner get their good will by walking uprightly then by crouching and creeping If pious living and painfull labouring in his calling will not win their affections he counts it gain to lose them As for those which causelessely hate him he pities and prayes for them and such there will be I should suspect his preaching
in Winchester castle counterfeited herself to be dead and so was carried out in a coffin whereby she escaped Another time being besieged at Oxford in a cold winter with wearing white apparell she got away in the snow undiscovered Thus some Hypocrites by dissembling mortification that they are dead to the world and by professing a snow-like purity in their conversations escape all their life time undiscerned by mortall eyes By long dissembling piety he deceives himself at last Yea he may grow so infatuated as to conceive himself no dissembler but a sincere Saint A scholar was so possessed with his lively personating of King Richard the third in a Colledge-Comedy that ever after he was transported with a royall humour in his large expences which brought him to beggery though he had great preferment Thus the Hypocrite by long acting the part of piety at last believes himself really to be such an one whom at first he did but counterfeit God here knows and hereafter will make Hypocrites known to the whole world Ottocar King of Bohemia refused to do homage to Rodulphus the first Emperour till at last chastised with warre he was content to do him homage privately in a tent which tent was so contrived by the Emperours servants that by drawing one cord it was all taken away and so Ottocar presented on his knees doing his homage to the view of three Armies in presence Thus God at last shall uncase the closest dissembler to the sight of men angels and devils having removed all veils and pretences of piety no goat in a sheepskin shall steal on his right hand at the last day of judgement CHAP. 9. The life of Iehu IEhu the sonne of Jehosaphat the sonne of Nimshi was one of an active spirit and therefore employed to confound the house of Ahab for God when he means to shave clear chooses a razour with a sharp edge and never sendeth a slug on a message that requireth haste A sonne of the Prophets sent by Elisha privately anointed him King at Ramoth Gilead whereupon he was proclaimed King by the consent of the army Surely God sent also an invisible messenger to the souls of his fellow-captains and anointed their hearts with the oyl of Subjection as he did Jehu's head with the oyl of Sovereignty Secrecie and celerity are the two wheels of great actions Jehu had both he marched to Jezreel faster then Fame could flie whose wings he had clipt by stopping all intelligence that so at once he might be seen and felt of his enemies In the way meeting with Jehoram and Ahaziah he conjoyned them in their deaths who consorted together in idolatrie The corps of Jehoram he orders to be cast into Nabaoths vineyard a garden of herbs royally dung'd and watered with bloud Next he revengeth Gods Prophets on cruell Jezabell whose wicked carcase was devoured by dogs to a small reversion as if a head that plotted hands that practis'd so much mischief feet so swift to shed bloud were not meat good enough for dogs to eat Then by a letter he commands the heads of Ahabs seventy sonnes their Guardians turning their executioners whose heads being laid on two heaps at the gate of Jezreel served for two soft pillows for Jehu to sleep sweetly upon having all those corrivalls to the Crown taken away The Priests of Baal follow after With a prettywile he fetches them all into the temple of their Idole where having ended their sacrifice they themselves were sacrificed However I dare not acquit Jehu herein In Holy Fraud I like the Christian but not the sirname thereof and wonder how any can marry these two together in the same action seeing surely the parties were never agreed This I dare say Be it unjust in Jehu it was just with God that the worshippers of a false God should be deceived with a feigned worship Hitherto I like Jehu as well as Josiah his zeal blazed as much But having now got the Crown he discovers himself a dissembling Hypocrite It was an ill signe when he said to Jonadab the sonne of Rechab Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. Bad inviting guests to feed their eyes on our goodnesse But Hypocrites rather then they will lose a drop of praise will lick it up with their own tongue Before he had dissembled with Baal now he counterfeits with God He took no heed to walk in the way of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart formerly his sword had two edges one cut for Gods glory the other for his own preferment He that before drove so furiously whilest his private ends whipt on his horses now will not go a footpace in Gods commandments He departed not from the golden calves in Dan and Bethel I know what Flesh will object that this State-sinne Jehu must commit to maintain his kingdome for the lions of gold did support the throne of Solomon but the calves of gold the throne of Jeroboam and his Successours Should he suffer his Subjects to go up to Jerusalem thrice a yeare as the Law of Moses commanded this would un-King him in effect as leaving him no able Subjects to command And as one in the heathen Poet complains Tres sumus imbelles numero sine viribus uxor Laertesque senex Telemachusque puer Three weaklings we a wife for warre too mild Laertes old Telemachus a child So thrice a yeare should Jehu onely be King over such an impotent company of old men women and children Besides it was to be feared that the ten Tribes going to Jerusalem to worship where they fetch'd their God would also have their King But Faith will answer that God that built Jehu's throne without hands could support it without buttresses or being beholden to idolatry And therefore herein Jehu who would needs piece out Gods providence with his own carnall policie was like a foolish greedy gamester who having all the game in his own hand steals a needlesse card to assure himself of winning the stake and thereby loses all For this deep diver was drown'd in his own policie and Hazael King of Syria was raised up by God to trouble and molest them Yet God rewarded him with a lease of the Kingdome of foure successive lives who had he been sincere would have assured him of a Crown here and hereafter Chap. 10. The Heretick IT is very difficult accurately to define him Amongst the Heathen Atheist was and amongst Christians Heretick is the disgracefull word of course alwayes cast upon those who dissent from the predominant current of the time Thus those who in matters of opinion varied from the Popes copie the least hair-stroke are condemned for Hereticks Yea Virgilius Bishop of Saltzburg was branded with that censure for maintaining that there were Antipodes opposite to the then known world It may be as Alexander hearing the Philosophers dispute of more worlds wept that he had conquered no part of them so it grieved