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enemy_n	david_n	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68396	The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 16627; ESTC S1335	51,274	90

saying that hee had killed Pirrhus The like policy practised Iugurth saying to his Numidian soldiers that hee had slayne Caius Marius with his owne hand It is the onely marke that euery trecherous soldier in the field and euery seditious subiect in the country shoot at I meane the head for if the head be off the body must needs fall These be the very home-Vipers and secret Serpents that deuoure their natiue soyle These practising Vipers are often troubled with the like monstrous Image which Hanibal saw was astonished in his dreame asking what he was the Image Cic. de diuinat 1. said Vastitas Italiae These Vipers see nothing waking nor sleeping but the image of Hanibal vastitatem patria the spoyle of their countrey Sectio 8. THeophrastus the Philosopher and the successour of Aristotle his master in Athens faith that the playing vpon a Harp Lute or any other instrument doth heale the biting of some Vipers Alex. lib. 2. cap. 17. which Asclepiades the Phisician doth confirme that frantike people that are not well settled in their wittes can by no meanes better recouer their health quàm symphonia vocum consensu then by the consent of harmony and the voyce of a man for Ismenias the Theban healed many Boetians his country mē that were troubled with phrensie and madnesse with symphony and harmony of musike It is to bee beleeued that Ismenias with his Flute could ease the Boetians and Asclepiades with his phisike heale the frantike Such practises were necessary to be in many places to preuent lunatike policies Dauid with his Harpe did often mitigate the fury of king Saul asswaged oftentimes the phrenetical spirit 4. Reg. ca. 3. of Saul Againe Elizeus whē both Iehosaphat K. of Iuda and Ieboram king of Israel would know the euent of the warres betweene them and Mesa king of Moab Elizeus called for a Minstrel whē the Minstrel plaid the hand of the Lord came vpon Elizeus and then he told the kings of the victory they should haue ouer Moab Harmony saith Cicero doth incitare languentes et languefacere Cic. de leg 2. excitates nothing quickneth mans mind more the such musike I doubt such frantik men be likewise in many places abroad ready like Saul with their speares in their hands that neyther Dauid with his Harpe nor Elizeus with his Minstreles can heale these men of their frenzy These be the Vipers that sting their friendes worse in England then Hanibals Vipers stinged the Romans their enemies in Italy These Vipers are so ful of poysō that if they might kill with their sight like the Cockatrice or if they might infect with their breath as the Viper of Affricke doth and as they say of some kind of wolues which if they come within their breath they would kill some men both with sight and breath And therefore we haue a Caueat to take heed of such infected wolues that haue daungerous and stinking breath and be in sheepes clothing which liue as wolues dye as swine they liue in all common-wealths they dwel together in cities in towns and in houses we must be as subtill as Serpents against Serpents Yet the Egiptians think themselues most happy and fortunate and in great fauour with their gods when The superstition of Egypt they are bitten with Serpents Vipers and Crocadiles because they worship those kind of Serpents as their gods and truly fit gods for such a superstitious nation for that they worshipped no other gods but Serpents and beasts wherein they were reprehended of the superstitious Grecians for you shall not read that Crocadiles Cic. lib. 1. de Natur. Cats and Dogs and for that Wolues are like Dogs and such other like were slayn or kild in Egypt for they haue such beasts in reuerence and worship them as gods So superstitious were they in Egypt that it was coūted an abomination among them to eate with the Hebrewes Can. 43. for the nature of superstition is to condemne all other men in respect of themselues So Ioseph vsed the Hebrewes his brethren by themselues So did the Samaritans hate the Iewes that they might not eate or conuerse with the lewes for so did the woman of Samaria take vp Christ at Iacobs Well Ioh. 4. hee being a Iewe to aske water at a Samaritans hand but wee haue Iewes and Samaritans Hebrues and Egyptians so mingled that wee know not one another What will not blinde superstition cause to doo It made Nabuchadnezar and all Babel to say and confesse Great art thou God Bel. Dar. 14. It made the Ephesians say Great art thou Diana among the Ephesians Acts. 19. It made Charles the se uenth the French king with the consent of all his Counsell to beleeue the superstitious speech of Ioanna Lotharinga a woman that shee was sent from God to driue the Englishmen Ioseph lib. 18. cap. 4 out of Fraunce in the great Warres betweene England and Fraunce It is thus historied Arma gerebat viris preibat But shee was taken by Englishmen and burned at Rhotomagium It made Pallina the onely fayrest and chaste Gentlewoman of Rome to refuse two hundred thousand Drachmes of Decius Mundus a yong Romane knight for one nights lodging and yet shee came most ioyfully with the consent of all her friendes and of her husband Saturninus to lye with God Anubis in the Temple of Isis for nothing by the meanes of Isis Priests But this practize being found out by Pallina she cōplayned to her husband Saturninus and her husband to the Emperour Tiberius who first caused the priests of Isis to be slaine with the sword the Idoll of Isis to be drownd in Tyber the great God Anubis to be burned with fire and Decius Mundus the yong knight for euer to bee banished from Rome Nabuchadnezar destroyed the priests of Baal in Babylon as Tiberius destroyed the priests of Isis in Rome And so God stirred vp Iehu to destroy the house of Achab in Israel All dangerous and rebellious seditions grow of Idolatrous superstition therefore the Lord reprehended Ochosia because he maried the daughter of Achab. So Iehosaphat was reprehended of the Prophet Elizeus in danger of his life for that he ioyned in friendship 4. Reg. 1. with the same Idolatrous Achab. Salomon by growing in friendship with Pharaoes daughter lost his kingdome and Sampson by marying 3. Reg. 11 with Dalila a Philistine lost his life Sara complayned vnto Abraham that Ismael should not be in one house with Isaac her sonne which words though they were grieuous vnto Abraham yet God commaunded him to doe what Sara sayd for in Isaac Gen. 21. shall thy seed be blessed We must not only auoyd euill mens company but also depart from the place where they bee and where they dwell For God commaunded Abraham to depart from Vt his owne countrey being an Idolatrous Gen. 12. place So God commaunded Iacob to shun Mesopotamia