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A35239	The history of the nine worthies of the world three whereof were Gentiles, I. Hector, son of Priamus, King of Troy, II. Alexander the Great ..., III. Julius Cæsar ..., : three Jews, IV. Joshua ..., V. David ..., VI. Judas Maccabeus ..., : three Christians, VII. Arthur, King of Brittain, VIII. Charles the Great, Emp. of Germany, IX. Godfrey of Bulloign, King of Jerusalem : being an account of their glorious lives, worthy actions, renowned victories and deaths : illustrated with poems and the picture of each worthy / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1687 (1687)	Wing C7337; ESTC R27845	111,812	196

instead of continuing in all ill opinion of us we desire that for the future you would never suspect us conscious of such a crime whereof none of Abrahams Posterity can he guilty without deserving to lose his life Having heard this modest reply and praised their Constancy Phinehas returned and gave Joshua an Account thereof in the presence of the People who rejoicing that there was no cause of Bloudshed Offered Sacrifices of Thansgiving to God and dissolving the Assembly each man returned nome A ●r twenty years Joshiea being extream old called to him the Princes Magistrates and Elders to whom he uttered his dying words to this Effect That they should call to remembrance the many benefits God had bestowed upon them whereby from a very mean and afflicted condition they had attained to great Riches and Glory He then earnestly exhorted them Religiously to observe Gods Commandments that so he might continue his merciful hand over them since he assured them that they could obtain his favour by no other way but Obedience Which he thought himself obliged to admonish them of before his departure out of this Life That he was certain was now just at hand As he ended these words he gave up the Ghost and died in the hundred and tenth year of his Age whereof he spent forty as Minister under Moses their Chief Magistrate and after his death he Governed the Common-wealth twenty five years A man of incomparable Prudence and Eloquence Wise and Diligent in matters of Government and equally capable of the most important Affairs in Peace and War in a word the Most Excellent Captain General of his time whose only presence was worth hundreds or others whose Souldiers thought nothing impossible under him and by whom his Enemies esteemed themselves vanquished as soon as seen But let us remember while we speak of Joshua that God hath covered him with the Rays of Glory so that we are constrained to cover his brave Acts in silence He died in the year from the Creation of the World 2560 and about 1500 years before the Birth of Jesus Christ The History of David King of Israel The Fifth Worthy of the World. DAvid a Man was after Gods own heart Who wondrous blessings did to him impart By whose assistance in his youth he kill'd The Great Goliah and so won the Field But though he made this mighty Monster fall A greater rose The jealousy of Saul Yet Saul at length in battle overthrown David obtains the Kingdom and the Crown A Worthies name he justly doth deserve Whom many Worthies did obey and serve He reigned forty lived seventy years And then Death put an end to all his Cars THE Life of David is a mixture of Good and Evil of Joy and Grief of Contempts and Glories of Vices and Virtues of Actions and Passions of unthought of Successes and of strange Accidents and Marvels We will consider him in a twofold state of a Servant and of a Master and will observe with what Wisdom he preserved himself in the one and with what Majesty he behaved himself in the other He comes first to Court under the quality of a Musician there he makes himself known for a good Souldier admired as a Commander of an Army and crowned as a Conqueror Saul was tormented with an Evil Spirit which was maintained by his melancholy humor and nourished by his passion They seek out for him a fair Young man who withal was skilful in playing on the Harp to make him merry one of his Servants said That David the Son of Jesse was fit for that Imployment He is sent for in the Kings name he comes he pleaseth while he played on his Instruments but Saul is displeased when he handleth his Weapons whose envy caused his Valour to be reputed a fault This young Shepherd who in his Apprenticeship had learned to fight with Lions and Bears would go to the War as well as his Brethren who blame his Curiosity and despise his Person There must be usually some famous Exploit to put a man at first in great credit at Court and the Combate of Goliah was that which Heaven had prepared to raise David One man alone who affrighted the whole Army nine foot high and armed with five hundred pound weight of Iron continues for forty days his proud Bravado's challenging the stoutest of the Israelites to combate All their hearts were frozen at the sound of his terrible voice and none dares come forth against him The King propounds great Riches and his Daughter in marriage to him who would take away this blemish from the People of God printed on the whole face of the Army by this Philistine David hereupon presents himself and gets forth to fight with him not with the guilded Arms of Saul but only with a Sling The Giant scoffs at him and finding him sufficiently armed to defend himself from Dogs but not fit to set upon Men he designs Davids little body as a fit prey for some Bird of rapine But this Champion of the Lord of Hosts reads first a Lesson to him of Religion before he shews his skill in fighting Thou comest to me saith he with a Spear a Sword and a Buckler but I come to thee in the Name of the God of Armies of the God of the Hosts of Israel at which thou this day hast scoffed with so great insolence It is written in Heaven that this great God will deliver thee into mine hands and that I shall take away thine head from off thy shoulders and that I shall make a great Feast for all the Beasts of prey with the flesh of this thy monstrous Body whereby thou shalt know there is a God in Israel He saith it he doth it he strikes his Adversary with a blow of the Sling in the midst of his Forehead makes this mighty Tower of flesh to fall in a moment cutting off the head of this terrible Giant with his own Sword which put the whole Army of the Philistims to confusion and raised up the glory of the chosen People to an incomparable height Yet this is the fountain of all the great Evils that David after suffered the Great ones admire him the People applaud him he is the Subject of the Songs of the Daughters of Jerusalem which set him above Saul It is this Musick that enraged Sauls evil Spirit and would not give him any rest David must be destroyed because he saved the Nation He must be put to death because he restored the people to life He must be dishonoured for having recovered the honour of the King He is sufficiently faulty because he is too virtuous Saul resolved to be rid of David yet thought it dangerous to attempt his life openly who was so high in the peoples esteem and therefore under pretence of honour bestows on him a chief place in the Army believing his Courage would carry him into danger and so his death would be imputed to chance or destiny But when he saw

happened between them and the Saxons thereabout but Winter ●oming on they gave up themselves to drinking banuetring and other voluptuous pleasures so that when they harcht into the Field next Summer they were unable to ●ndure the labours and Fatigues of War and for several ears performed very little Service At length Arthur concluded a League with Loth King of ●icts whereby it was agreed That Arthur during his life ●ould be King of Brittain and after his discease the King●on should descend to Mordred the eldest son of Loth and his ●eirs That the Picts should at all times assist the Brittains against the Saxons and should freely possess all such Lands as ●bey recovered from them beyond the River Humber ●hat they should duly observe the League which was ma●● between them and the Scots That Mordred should marry the Daughter of Gawolan a Noble Brittain and next to Arthur himself That the Children of this marriage should be brought up by their Grand-father in Brittain till they came to years of discretion That Gawan the Brother of Mordred should serve King Arthur in his Wars for which he should receive large possessions and rewards Arthur having concluded this League and being desirous to purge this Island of the Heathenish Saxons he sent to the Kings of Scotland and Pictland requiring them That for the advancement of Christs Religion which they professed and owned they should forthwith assembl● their Forces and meet him at Tynmouth at a day appointed that so they might join together and march against their commo● Enemies the Saxons These two Kings presently consented to this so reasonable request and in a few days meeting with the Brittains they presently marcht altogether against the Saxons whom they understood were already in the Feild under Occa their General ready to receive them Both Armies approaching each other Colgern Duke 〈◊〉 Northumberland rid up to the very Front of the Picts Army where he severely reproached Loth and his Nobility 〈◊〉 their breach of Friendship with the Saxons and told the● he did not doubt but suddenly to see some just judgmen● fall upon them for their Treachery and Falshood 〈◊〉 thus joining with their former Enemies against the● most trusty Friends and constant Allies The Pictish King being mayed hereat commande● his Standards to advance neither were the Saxons id●● so that the Skirmish began which Arthur perceiving commanded the Brittans to ingage so that there immediately followed a terrible slaughter The Scots in th● right wing killing Childrick an eminent Saxon Captain quickly discomfited them on that side Colgern earnesly desiring to be revenged of King Loth rushed in up him with such violence that at the first encounter threw him to the ground but instantly two Pictish Heremen coming on one side of Colgern ran him quite throu●● the body Loth soon recovered himself but Colgern be● dead his men were so disheartned that they presen● ran away Arthur perceiving the main battel of 〈◊〉 Saxons was now left naked pressed ●n so violently up Ocea that having received a desperate wound 〈◊〉 escaped out of the battle but being at length brought to the Sea side he got into a Ship and escaped into Germany This Victory being thus obtained the Saxons were forc'd to submit themselves to King Arthur who offered them pardon as to life and goods if they would turn Christians and never hereafter ingage against their Neighbours the Brittains Scots and Picts which if they would not consent to he commanded them that leaving their Arms and goods behind they should upon pain of death depart the Kingdom within fourteen days Hereupon many Saxons went over to Germany others pretending to be Christians still remained hoping for better fortune Several who continued after the time appointed and refused to be baptized were put to death according to the proclamation so that very few were thought to profess he Christian Faith sincerely All things thus quieted in Northumberland Arthur repaired several Churches in York and other places which had been ruined and defaced by the barbarous Infidels Next year he had notice that the Saxons who inhabited the Isle of Wight joining with those in Kent had fallen upon the Brittains on that side the Thames killing and destroying a great number of them whereat being much moved he hasted toward Lonaon with his Forces resolving utterly to root out the East and South Saxons since his Subjects could never be secure so long as that wicked generation remained amongst them In pursuance of the League he had Twenty Thousand Picts and Scots in this expedition Eugenius Nephew to King Congal and Mordred Son of King Loth being their General Then marching forward he incamped in the Field near the Thames and himself with some of his Nobility going to London caused prayers to be made to Almighty God three days together for their good success against the Saxons on the fourth day Divine Service being celebrated by the Bishop of London and a Sermon preached in the Market place he committed himself and his whole Army to the tuition and protection of Jesus Christ and then issuing out of the City he exhorted his Souldiers to be of good courage since they were to fight in a just quarrel against Pagans and the implacable enemies of the Christian Faith. Morderd and Gawolan his Father in Law marched in the front with five thousand Horse and being come within five miles of the Saxons Camp there came Ambassadors to King Arthur desiring him not to proceed any further since if he pleased they were willing to depart the Land with their goods and substance without further molesting the Brittains ever hereafter But Arthur would not consent hereto neither would so much as allow them a Truce for three days which they earnestly desired only he told them that he would not march above two miles that day so that if they came again next morning he would in the mean time consult with his Nobility and Captains what answer to give to their request Whilst the Brittains were busied about the news these Ambassadors brought the Saxons suddenly marching out of their Camp fell with much violence upon the Forces of Mordred and Gawolan of whom they killed a great number in that surprize though by their exhortations their men made the utmost resistance so small a company could against the multitude of their Enemies by whom being at length opprest they were forced to fly not resting till they came to the rest of the Army Mordred and Gawolan by the help of fresh Horses made their escape without hurt though many of their followers were killed in the Fight and Chase The Saxon Ambassadors being not yet gone out of the Camp were hereupon secured till next morning and then sent back with this answer That the Brittains were resolved for the future never to treat with any Messengers free the Saxons about Peace since it is apparent they designed nothing but treachery and falshood having contrary to the Laws of Ar●● unworthily fallen upon the

surmise With causeless grief bedew Calphurnias Eyes Yet though he seemed to slight these Prodigies they had such influence upon him that he had once some thoughts of staying at home that day But D. Brutus coming and perswading him not to disappoint the Senate now it was full and had long attended him he went about Eleven a Clock By the way he was presented by a Person he met with a Paper discovering the whole Conspiracy but he put it among his Papers in his left hand as if he would read it anon Having then Sacrificed to the Gods and succeeding in none in defiance of all these ill Omens he entred the Senate laughing at Spurinna for a false Prophet seeing the Ides Ides of March were come without any disaster to which he replied They are come indeed but not past As soon as he was set the Conspirators placed themselves about him pretending to do him honour and immediately Cimber Tullius who had ingaged to begin addrest himself to him as if to demand something but Casar seeming to put him off to another time Cimber catcht hold of his Gown by both Shoulders and Caesar crying on t that This was violence one of the Cassii came and stab'd him under the Throat Caesar laying hold of his Arm struck it through with his Dagger and endeavouring to rise was stopt by another wound when Brutus assaulted him he cryed out And art thou amongst them too my Son Brutus but seeing several Swords presented to his Breast he covered his head with his Gown and in this manner received twenty three wounds and died without speaking a word or fetching so much as a sigh Which the Poet thus expresses Hopeless he hides his Face and fixed stands T' indure the fury of revenging hands Suppressing groans or words as loth to shame His former life or dying stain the Fame Of those great deeds throughout the World exprest These silent thoughts revolving in his Breast Yet has not Fortune changed nor given the power Of Coesars head to any Conqueror By no Superiors proud command I dye But by subjected Romes Conspiracy Who to the World confesses by her fears My Power and Strength to be too great for hers And from Earths highest Throne sends me to be By after Ages made a Deity Being dead all the Conspirators fled and he was carried home in a Litter They once resolved to have drawn his Body into Tyber to have confiscated his Estate and make void all his Acts but were afraid of M. Antonius the Consul He was afterward buried with very great Magnificence and Pomp and instead of a Funeral Oration M. Antonius the Consul published an Act of the Senate by which they decreed him all Honour both Humane and Divine and likewise caused an Oath to be read whereby they obliged themselves in the defence of a single Person The Funerals being over the people ran in multitudes with Firebrands in their hands to set the Houses of Brutus and Cassius on Fire Some thought that his sickness made him desire to live no longer all agree he died according to his own desire for reading how Cyrus being under the extremity of a Disease gave directions for his Funeral abhorring so tedious a death he wisht when he died it might be of a sudden and the day before his death being at Supper with Lepidus a question arising which was the best death he declared In his Judgment a sudden and unexpected He died in the 56 year of his Age and was Cannoniz'd among the Gods not only by those who made the Decree but by the perswasion of the People Of his Murtherers scarce any out-lived him three years or died a natural death All stood Condemned and fell by divers Accidents some drowned at Sea others killed in Fight and some flew themselves with the same Dagger wherewith they had Murdered Caesar He lived in the year of the World 3901. and before the Birth of Christ 47 years The Hist of Joshua Capt. General and Leader of Israel into Canaan The Fourth Worthy of the World. Joshua's much Wo●th●● than the Three before They False Gods he the True God did adore By whose Great Pow'r and over-ruling hand The Sun and Moon he caused still to stand And made a longer day than e're was known Whereby Gods Enemies might be overthrown He thirty Kings subdu'd in Canaan And setled Israel in their Conquer'd Land At length be●●●● full of Years and Victories He leaves to Israel this last advice That they should serve the Lord and him obey And then God from the Earth takes him away WHO can see the Sun and not remember Joshua and the great Commerce that this valorous Captain had with the King of Stars All the world lift up their Eyes to it but none but he hath lifted up his voice so far as it to make himself be heard and obeyed The Stars knew Joshua or Jesus because he bore the name of him that formed them It is he that gave us the foretasts of the name of Jesus at which the Heaven the Earth and Hell do bend the knee Moses knowing that by Gods appointment he was to die and not enter into the Land of Canaan When they came upon the Borders he called the Israelites together and spake to them to this purpose Seeing saith he I go to my Ancestors and God hath prefixed this day for my departure it is very just that while I am alive and stand in your presence I should give him thanks for the care and providence he hath hitherto had of your Affairs not only in delivering you from so many evils but also in largely imparting his blessings to you and because he hath also assisted me with his savour whilst with my utmost I endenvoured to make you as happy as possible for it is he only who hath begun and accomplisht all those great things that have been done for you and who hath made me his Minister and Servant in all the good which you have received For all which blessings I have thought it requisite in departing from you to praise the goodness of that God who in time to come shall have the care and charge over you and to acquit my self of that debt I leave you this remembrance That you ought to serve and honour the Lord and reverence the Ordinances which he hath given you whereby he may continue his favour toward you and may give you grace to preserve and keep his Excellent Commands Surely a Law-giver that were no more than a man would be much displeased with those who should violate his Ordinances and set them at nought Do not you therefore tempt God who is provoked to anger when those Laws which he himself hath established and given you shall be contemned and neglected Whilst Moses pronounced these his last words and foretold to the Tribes their several Destinies and wished them all manner of blessings the whole multitude brake out into Tears and the Women beating their breasts shewed their sorrow

for his Death The Children likewise lamented because in their tender years they had understood the virtue and samous Acts of Moses Who beholding their affection could not restrain himself from Tears Afterward he walked toward the place where he was to die and they all followed him weeping when beckoning to them to stand still and not afflict him any longer with their griefs having appointed Joshua to be his Successor to head the Armies against the Canaanites according to the Command of God and laid his hands on him he went accompanied only with him and Eleazer the High Priest up to the Mount Abarim which is very high and from whence he could discover the greatest part of the Land of Canaan where taking his last leave of Joshua and Eleazer with many endearing imbraces on a sudden a Cloud incompassed him and he was carried into a certain Valley where he died and was buried The whole time of his Life was a hundred and twenty years the third part whereof he spent in governing this great People In Counsel and Judgment he had no equal In Eloquence he was incomparable His skill in War made him renowned amongst the greatest Captains and no man had the gift of Prophecy in so great a degree for his words seemed as so many Oracles and as if inspired by God himself The People mourned for him thirty days with real grief and trouble In short he left behind him a great estimation among all who were acquainted with his Virtues and Graces After Moses was taken from among men and the time of mourning past Joshua a man in whom was the Spirit of wisdom commanded the People to prepare and march forward to battel Sending spies to Jericho to sound their minds and discover their Forces and then raising his Camp he proceeded toward the River Jordan And the Princes of the Tribes of Reuben and Gad and of the half Tribe of Manasses to whom the Countrey of the Amorites which was the Seventh part of Canaan was given for an habitation having furnished him with Fifty ●housand men he proceeded toward the Enemy At which time the Spies returning and having surveyed Jericho gave an Account thereof and likewise how narrowly they escaped having been hid by Rahab the Harlot under some packs of Linnen who being thus delivered from danger by her means she desired them to swear That when they should take Jericho and kill all the Inhabitants with the Sword as she knew that God had commanded they would save her life and the lives of her family as she had saved theirs Which they accordingly agreed to advising her that when she should perceive the City ready to be taken she should bring all that she would have spared into her own house and then hang a red Cloth over her door that the General observing the sign might forbid the Soldiers from plundring or destroying her or hers After this she let them down with a rope from the Wall whereby they escaped back again Joshua having this account seemed somewhat concerned how they should pass over the River Jordan because it was deep and without Bridges But God promised him they should have a safe passage over Joshua therefore waited with his Army two days and then passed over the River the Priests going first with the Ark who as soon as they had set their feet in the Water which was then very high it being in harvest the Waters from above rose up in an heap and the Priests stood on dry ground in the midst of Jordan till all the People passed quite over and then according to Gods command they took out of the middle of the River Twelve Stones wherewith to build an Altar for a Memorial to after-ages of this wonderful deliverance And all things being finisht the Priests came out of the River which instantly after flowed with as much violence as before Whilst the Israelites did all this the Canaanites never sallied out upon them but dismayed with fear kept themselves within the Walls of Jericho which Joshua resolved to besiege with all his Forces But God commanded him that on the first day of the feast the Priests leaving the Ark and guarded on every side with Troops of armed men should draw near Jericho sound-Seven Rams horns and at night to return to their Camp This they performed six days together but on the Seventh Joshua assembled the People early and caused them to incompass the City seven times that day and the Trumpets sounding with great force the Walls by the power of God without any violence used by the Hebrews fell down flat to the ground so that entring the City over the ruines they put all within it to the Sword the Enemy through the sudden astonishment that fell upon them being unable to resist and so great was the slaughter that they neither spared Women nor Children but filled the City with dead Carcases which at length being set on fire served for a funeral flame to consume them Only Rahab and her houshold were saved by the Spies and Joshua bestowed an Inheritance upon her and ever after held her in great honour Then Joshua denounced Curses on those who should endeavour to rebuild this City foretelling That he should lay the foundation thereof in the days of his Eldest Son and should lose his youngest ere it was finished There was much Spoil taken both of Gold Silver and Brass in this City and Joshua having before commanded that all the Gold and Silver should be brought to one place to offer to God as the first fruits for his assistance none of them but only one man kept any thing to himself all being delivered to the Priests to be laid up in the Treasury but Achan the Son of Zebedias of the Tribe of Judah having got the Kings Coat imbroidered with Gold and a Wedge of Gold of two hundred Shekels in weight and thinking it unjust that what he had got with the hazard of his Life should be taken from him he digged a Pit in his Tent and buried his Spoils therein designing to defraud God as well as his Companions At this time the Israelites Ten●s were pitched in Gilgal which signifies Liberty because being delivered from Egyptian bondage and the wants of the wilderness they now thought they had nothing more to fear A few days after the distruction of Jericho Joshua sent out three thousand armed men against Ai a City hard by who encountring with their adversarys the Israelites were put to flight and lost thirty six men The news of this disaster being brought to the Camp they were much astonished not only for the men they had lost but dispairing of future success since they perswaded themselves they were already Masters of the Feild and that their Army should be always Victorious according to the promise of God and that this advantage would much incourage their Enemies So that cloathing themselves in Sackcloth they spent three days in tears and lamentations without taking any meat