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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

was contrary to an express Law But when he perceived that many of the Senators being Caesars Friends favoured his request he cunningly sought all he could to prevent them whereupon Caesar resolved rather to give over his suit for the Triumph than to lose the Consulship So he came into the City and outwitted all but Cato His device was this Pompey and Crassus were the two greatest Persons in Rome and at jar between themselves Caesar affecting to make himself greater than either of them sought to make them Friends and thereby to get the power of them both For indeed they both affected his Friendship that by his help they might supplant one another And in the end by his endeavours a peace was concluded betwixt them yet being still jealous one of another and fearing to lose Caesar they both sought to gratifie him and by this means he made himself equal to either of them and that power which they two had formerly usurped was now divided between three and in the end Caesar hereby got the sole command This league being made betwixt them Caesar demanded the Consulship being brought into the Assembly for the Election betwixt these two Noble Persons and was there chosen Consul together with Calphurnius Bibulus without the contradiction of any And when he was entered into his Office he began to put forth Laws meeter for a sedicious Tribune than for a Consul because by them he preferred the division of Lands and distributing Corn to every Citizen Gratis and all to please the People And vvhen the Senators opposed it he took the advantage Protesting that the Senate by their austerity drave him against his will to cleave to the People and thereupon he asked Crassus and Pompey in the open Assembly if they gave their consents to his Laws They answered yea Then he prayed them to stand by him against those that threatned to oppose him with the Sword Crassus said he would and Pompey did the like adding that he would come with his Sword and Target both against such which gave great offence to the Senate but the common People much rejoyced Caesar to oblige Pompey more to him gave him his Daughter Julia in Marriage who was made sure before to Servilius Caepio promising him in her stead Pompeys Daughter who also was made sure unto Faustus the Son of Sylla And shortly after Caesar himself Married Calphurnia the Daughter of Piso whom he caused to succeed him in the Consulship Cato then cryed out and called the Gods to witness that it was a shameful thing that they should make such havock in the Commonwealth by such horribly Bawdy matches hereby dividing amongst themselves the Government of Provinces and great Armies And Bibulus perceiving that he did but contend in vain Caesar being too potent for him and that his Life was in danger for opposing these Laws he kept his House all the rest of his Consulship Pompey having married Julia he filled the Market-place with Souldiers and by open force authorised the Laws which Caesar had made in favour of the People He procured also that Caesar had both the Gauls and all Illyria with four Legions granted him for five years and when Cato stood up to speak against it Caesar bad his Officers to lay hold on him and carry him to Prison thinking that he would have appealed to the Tribunes but Cato said no more but went his way And Caesar seeing that not only the Nobility but the Commons also were offended at it out of respect to Cato's virtues he secretly prayed one of the Tribunes that he would take Cato from his Officers which was done accordingy Many of the Senators refused to be present in the Senate under him but left the City because they could not endure his doings whereupon one Considius an old man told him that the Senators durst not meet because of his Souldiers Why then said Caesar dost not thou also keep home out of the same fear Because said he My age takes away my fear from me for having so short a time to live I care not to prolong it further Caesar preferred Clodius a base fellow to be Tribune who sought the Office for no other end but to destroy Cicero who had discovered his Villanies and Caesar would not go to his Province till he had set them two together by the ears and driven Cicero out of Italy Yet did he deserve the name of as brave a General as any that went before him if we consider the hard Countries which he adjoyned to the Empire of Rome The multitude and power of the Enemies whom he overcame The rudeness and Valour of the men with whom he had to do whose manners yet he molli●ied and civilized His courtesie and clemency to those whom he overcame His great bounty and liberallity to those that served under him As also if we consider the number of Battels that he fought and the multitude of Enemies that were slain by him For in less then ten years he took by assault above eight hundred Towns He conquered three hundred Nations and having at several times above thirty hundred thousand Souldiers against him he slew a Million of them and took as many more Prisoners He was so intirely loved of his Souldiers that to do him service and to advance his honour they were invincible As appears by the example of Acilius who in a Sea-fight before the City of Marseiles boarding one of the Enemies Ships had his right hand cut off and yet he ran upon his Enemies thrusting them in their faces with his Target on his left hand and so prevailed that he took their Ship One Cassius Scaeva also in a fight before the City of Dyrrhacium having an eye put out with an Arrow his shoulder stricken through with a Dart and his thigh with another having received thirty Arrows upon his Shield called to his Enemies as if he would yield to them but when two of them came running to him he cut off one of their armes by the shoulder and wounded the other in the face and made them give back till he was fetched off by some of his fellows In Brittain also when some of his Captains were driven into a bog full of mire and dirt the Enemies fiercely assaulting them there Caesar viewing the Battel he saw a private Souldier thrust in amongst the Captains where he fought so valiantly that at length he forced the Barbarous People to fly and thereby saved the Captains who otherwise had perished there And then this Souldier being the hindmost of all the Captains marched through the bog sometimes swimming and sometimes on foot till he gat to the farther side only he lost his Target Caesar wondring at his valour ran and imbraced him But the poor Souldier hanging down his head with tears in his eyes fell at Caesars feet begging pardon for leaving his Target behind him In Africk also Scipio having taken one of Caesars Ships slew all

Lacedemonians Then did the Lacedemonians send King Cleombrotus with an Army towards Thebes who being come near to Chaeronea with ten thousand Foot and a thousand Horse he pitched his Camp there staying for his Allies The Thebans being informed of the approach of the enemy chose Epaminondas to be their Captain General giving him the charge of this War with six other Counsellers to be assisting to him Now there came Oracles to Thebes from all parts some promising Victory and others threatning their overthrow and Epaminondas commanded them to set those on the right hand of the chair for Orations that promised Victory and the other on the left hand which being so disposed of he gat up into the chair and said to his Citizens If you will be obedient to your Captains and valiant against your enemies these Oracles on the right hand belong to you But if through faintness of heart ye refuse dangers those on the left hand shall be your Portion Then did he list the Names of all the Thebans which were able to bear Arms and chose out of some parts of Boeotia such as he thought fittest for the Wars His Presence exceedingly cheered up his Army and all the the time that he was Captain the Thebans never saw in their Camp any of those which they call sudden fears He used to say that there was no Death more honest and desirable than to die in the Wars and that the body of a Souldier should be hardened to endure any labour or pains He could not abide fat men and therefore cashired a whole Company of them as unprofitable burdens in his Army He had in all but six thousand fighting men and as they marched forwards they met with some unlucky signs as many esteemed them but he valued them not thinking that a resolution to fight in a good cause ought to be much stronger and of more force to raise in him good Hope than these evil signs that appeared to make him fear the worst As he was marching towards the Lacedemonians they heard it Thunder and they that were neer him asked him what that meant He answered that it betokened that the Enemies brains were troubled and beclouded who having places of advantage hard by them yet encamped in the plaines Indeed the Lacedemonians waited there for their Allies who yet failed them For all of them having at leasure considered of the speech of Epaminondas at Sparta began to distast the ambition of the Lacedemonians Epaminondas seeing his advantage caused his Army to march with speed and wan the straights by the City of Coronea and encamped there Cleombrotus under● standing that the Thebans had possessed themselves of that pass despairing to recover it he made his Army to march a great compass about the Country of Phocide going along the Sea Coast through a dangerous and troublesome way and so at the last he entered into the Country of Boeotia and as he went he took in some little Towns and certain Gallies that lay upon the Coast and at the last arrived at Leuctres and there sat down to refresh his men who were overwearied with their tedious march Then did Epaminondas presently advance that way to meet them and having passed over some little Mountains he discovered them in the plain of Leuctres where his men were much amazed to see so great an Army of their Enemies The six Counsellers came together to consider whether they should go forward and fight few against many or else retreat waiting for some better advantage In this Councel their opinions fell out to be equal Three judged it best to retreat the other whereof Epaminondas was one thought it best to fight and with these three Pelopidas who was Captain of the Sacred Band joyned whereupon they all agreed to give them Battel Epaminondas seeing his Souldiers somewhat affrighted at the former ill signs to put courage into them he suborned some that were newly come from Thebes to scatter a report that no man could tell at Thebes what was become of the Arms that hung up in the Temple of Hercules but it was commonly said that the Demigods their Ancestors had taken them away to aid their posterity at this present time He caused another also who was newly come from Trophonius hole to report that the God which gives his Oracles therein commanded him to tell the Boeotians that when they had overcome their enemies in the plain of Leuctres they should celebrate yearly Plays to the honour of Jupiter and to gain the more credit to these devices Leandridas a Spartan that was banished out of his own Country and now was assisting the Boeotians being brought before the Souldiers he encouraged them to fight valiantly that Day for he swore unto them that the Lacedemonians had many Oracles bidding them to beware of Leuctres Epaminondas also assembling his Army encouraged them with strong and lively reasons to shew their valour so that at last the Souldiers being freed from their superstitious fears longed for nothing more than to come to blows Epaminondas ever concluded his Orations to them with these Words O worthy men embrace sacred Death Advance your selves to a most honorable and famous Fight for your Country for the Tombs of your Ancestors and for your Holy things Just at this very time there came to the Thebans an aid of five hundred Horse and fifteen hundred Foot all Thessalians conducted by Jason This Jason endeavored to have made peace with both parties but could not prevail Also as Cleombrotus retired with his Army out of Boeotia he met a great supply of Lacedemonians and their Allies brought to him by Archidamus the Son of Agesilaus These he sent before thinking to daunt the courage of the Thebans with the sight of them and himself with the rest of his Army suddenly returned into the plain of Leuctres being fully resolved to fight and the Boeotians for their part shrunk not an inch back and so on both sides they set their men in Battel array Epaminondas ordered his Battel after a new fashion never practised by any Captain For having chosen out of his Army the best and most valiant Souldiers he placed them together in one of the Points of his Battel where himself meant to fight in Person seconded by Pelopidas and his three hundred chosen men called the Holy Band In the other Point he placed his weaker men commanding them expresly not to abide the charge of their enemies that should assail them in Front but fair and softly retire when they saw them come near them and it fell out as he wished and he hoped to determine the Battel by the Virtue and prowess of those where he had placed all the flower and choice of his Army Now the sign of Battel being given the Lacedemonians advanced with the two Horns of their Battel ordered in the form of a Crescent On the contrary one of the wings of the Battel of the Boeotians began to give

as formerly he used to do His Friends also and Favourites began to report that in the Books of the Sybils which in Rome were had in great Veneration it was written that the Parthians could never be overcome but by a man that should have the Title of a King and therefore he laboured that Caesar should take upon him that Title before his Parthian War and though he seemed to be displeased at it yet they suspected the contrary and their suspition was encreased for that whereas the Tribunes of the People had caused a man to be imprisoned who had set a Crown upon the Head of one of Caesars Statues he was so incensed against the Tribunes that did it that he deposed them from their Office And not long after when Mark Anthony who was his great favourite and that year his fellow Consul being at some publick Games came to Caesar and put a Crown upon his Head though he threw it down yet they all imagined that Mark Anthony would not have presumed to have done it without his good liking and that he did it but to prove the People how they would like it these and such like passages gave them occasion to desire and design his Death They were also father encouraged hereunto for that in sundry publick places certain writings were set up which did intice and animate them to conspire against him as upon the Statue of Brutus who in ancient times did chase the Kings out of Rome were written these words Would to God thou wert now living Brutus And upon the Image of Marcus Brutus who then was Praetor and descended from the former Brutus were these words Thou sleepest long Brutus Truly thou art not Brutus And again Thou art dead Brutus Would to God thou wert living Thou art unworthy of the succession from the Brute Surely thou art not descended from the good Brutus and such like other writings were set upon these Statues So as for these and such like reasons there were seventy of the most eminent men in Rome that conspired to murther Caesar of which the principal were Decius Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius Gaius Casca Attilius Cimber Servius Galba Quintus Ligarius Marcus Spurius c. who after divers consultations concluded to kill him upon the Ides of March which was the fifteenth day of that moneth in the Temple where the Senators were to sit that day Yet Brutus was held to be Caesars Son and had received great honours and many favours from him This conspiracy was kept so secret notwithstanding the great number of them that there was not any one found that discovered the same But there were so many signes and Prodigies and to himself there happened so many fore-warnings that without knowing any cause all men were of opinion that Caesars Death was near at hand Spurina also who was his Southsayer forewarned him to look to himself till the Ides of March were past for that his Life was in great danger And Caesars own Wife intreated him upon her knees that he would not that day go to the Senate For she had dreamed that he lay dead in her lap These and such like warnings prevailed so far with him that he was about to send to Mark Anthony to make his excuse and to put off the Senate to another day But what God hath determined must come to pass and therefore Brutus being present advised him by no means to discover any such fear and so he resolved to go Caesar made small account of Death and said That as for himself he had won power and fame and glory enough and that at no time he could die with greater honour And some discoursing the night before he was slain what Death was best Even that quoth he which is sudden and least prepensed The fifteenth of March being come he went from his house in a Litter towards the Senate and as he passed along the street there was a Petition delivered to him wherein was set down in Writing all that was concluded in this conspiracy and he which gave it prayed him to read it presently which he began to do but there came so many to speak to him that he could make no farther progress and this Paper was found in his hand when he was dead As he passed on he met with Spurina the Southsayer and pleasantly jesting he said to him Dost thou not know Spurina that the Ides of March are come Yea answered Spurina and I know that they are not yet past When he came to the Temple where the Senators met he alighted from his Litter and went in and having first done Sacrifice according to the custome which all that saw presaged to be fatal and infortunate He sat him down in his Chair and Brutus Albinus entertaining Mark Anthony at the door with discourse one of the Conspirators whose name was Celer came to Caesar under a pretence to intrcat him to release a Brother of his from Banishment and presently all the rest of the Conspirators drew near to his Chair which when Caesar saw thinking that they had all come for the same purpose he said unto them What force is this And at that instant one of them whose name was Casca beginning they all drew their poyniards and Swords which they had privately under their Gowns and began to wound him The first blow he received Casca gave him in the throat at which Caesar said aloud What dost thou Traitor Casca and wresting the Poyniard out of his hand he arose and stabbed Casca through the Arm and being about to strike him again he was prevented by the many wounds which the others gave him whilst with great force and courage he leaped from one side to the other to defend himself But when he saw Marcus Brutus with his drawn Sword in his hand wherewith he had already wounded him in the Thigh he was much amazed and said in the Greek Tongue Why how now Son Brutus And thou also And having so said seeing so many weapons bent against him and that no body came to his rescue he remembred to keep the honour of his Person with his right hand he covered his Head with part of his Robe and with his left hand girt himself and settled his clothes about him and being so covered he fell down to the ground having received three and twenty Wounds and it happened that his fall was at the foot of the seat on which Pompeys Statue stood So in this manner died one of the most Mighty Worthy Valiant Wise and most successful Princes and Captains that ever was in the World For his Excellencies Abilities Invincible Mind Incomparable Courage the Battels which he fought and Victories which he obtained the Provinces Kings and Nations which he subdued His Counsels Policies and Stratagems and bold attempts His Magnanimity Clemency and Bounty both to the Conquered and Conquerors the great Designs which he proposed to himself a little before he was slain being all weighed

now for three and twenty years exhorted them to Repentance But because they had stopped their ears against him and the rest of the Prophets he now foretold that their Captivity was at hand and that they should bear the Yoak of Bondage for seventy years The same Calamity he threatned to all the Neighbouring Nations to the Egyptians Moabites Ammonites Idumaeans and the rest foretelling that they should all drink out of the Babylonian Cup the Wine of his fury whom they had forsaken and that after the seventy years should be expired the Babylonians themselves should taste of the same Cup and be utterly subverted by the Medes and Persians by which means the Jews should be permitted to return into their own Country and Cities The first Imprisonment of the Prophet Jeremy seems to have been in the fourth year of this Jehoiakim at which time Baruch the Scribe wrote all his Prophecies from his Mouth whom he sent to Read them unto the people and afterwards to the Princes who presented them to the King But fearing the Kings fury they had first set Jeremy at liberty and advised him and Baruch to hide themselves Jeremy 36. 19 c. Jehoiakim having heard part of it read to him and perceiving the ill News contained therein he made no more ado but cut the Book in pieces and cast it into the fire All which Jeremy caused to be new written with this Addition That the dead Body of Jehoiakim should be cast out being exposed in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost and that there should be none of his Seed to sit upon the Throne of David Time thus running on Jehoiakim thought himself secure from all danger as being Tributary to the Babylonian and yet withal well thought on by the Egyptian About which time the mighty City of Tyre opposed it self against Nebuchadnezzar And upon just confidence of her own strength despised all preparations that could be made against her Now for as much as the term of seventy years was prescribed for the Desolation as well of Tyre as of Jerusalem and other places and Countries ' its apparent that they that refer the winning of this City to the ninteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar have good ground and warrant for it For the Siege thereof began in the seventh year of his Reign and lasted thirteen years Here it will not be amiss to insert a brief Note concerning the beginning of this great Princes Rule The third year of Jehoiakim was the last of Nabulasser who being freed from other cares and businesses took notice of such as had revolted from him to Pharaoh Necho and sent this Noble Prince his Son with an Army into Syria to reclaim them In this Expedition was 〈◊〉 carried to Babylon who therefore makes mention of it Dan. 1. 1. The year next following being the fourth of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar which Jeremy affirmeth in express words Jer. 25. 1. And from this we must reckon all his time and actions which follow to be spoken of In his three and twentieth year he conquered Egypt and then began his great Empire there being none left that durst offend or oppose him The second from this year it was wherein Daniel saw that Vision of the Image consisting of sundry Mettals which prefigured the succession of great Kingdoms that should Rule the World before the coming of Christ. But to return to the Siege of Tyre which began in the seventh year of his Reign The stately City of Tyre covered all the ground of an Island that was divided from the Continent by a deep and broad Channel of the Sea The Chaldaeans had no Fleet of Ships neither were they Seamen The Tyrians excelled all other Nations in multitude of goodly Ships and skill to use them And every Wind from one part or other brought in all needful provisions to the City Wherefore neither force nor Famine could greatly hurt the place whereof nevertheless the Judgments of God denounced against it by Isay Jeremy and Ezekiel had threatned the destruction and the obstinate resolution of Nebuchadnezzar had fully determined to accomplish it This hauty King impatient of resistance undertook a vast piece of Work which was to fill up that part of the Sea which divided the Island from the continent The City of old Tyre that stood opposite to the New upon the firm Land and the Mountain of Libanus near adjoyning that was loaden with stately Cedars and abundance of other Trees furnished him with materials to effect it Thirteen years were spent in this difficult and hopeless undertaking which need not seem strange if we consider that Alexander working upon that Foundation which was remaining of Nebuchadnezzars Peer and being withal assisted with a strong Fleet was yet seven months e're he could make way into the City Wherefore if the raging of the Sea was able to carry away that wherewith Alexander laboured to cover a Shelve with much more violence could it overturn and as it were consume the work of Nebuchadnezzar who laid his Foundation in the bottom of the deep Striving as it were to fill the empty Belly of this greedy Cormorant whereas the Macedonian did only stop the throat of it All may know that God could easily have accomplished his own threatnings against this place though it had not pleased him to use either a Miracle or such of his more immediate Engins as are Earthquakes c. by making at least the Seas calm and adding the favourable concurrence of all second helps But so it pleaseth him oft-times in chastising the Pride of man to use the hand of man even the hand of man striving as it may seem against all resistance of nature and providence So that by this excessive labour of the Chaldeans that Scripture was fulfilled that every Head should be made bald and every Shoulder should be made bare Ezek. 29. 18. Yet would not Nebuchadnezzar give over till he was Master of the Town When he was entred upon his desperate undertaking whether it were by some losses received or some Mutiny in his Army or some glorious rumour of the Egyptians strenth his evil willers took courage to rebel against him and amongst them Jehoiakim renounced his subjection and began to hope for the contrary which soon after fell out For Nebuchadnezzar gave him no leasure to do much hurt But with part of his Army he marched strait into Judaea where the amazed King made so little resistance the Egyptians having left him as it were in a dream that Nebuchadnezzar entred Jerusalem laid hands on Jehoiakim whom at first he bound intending to send him to Babylon but his mind changing he caused him to be slain in that place and gave him the Burial of an Ass to be devoured by Beasts and ravinous Birds according to the former Prophesie Leaving in his place his Son Jehoiakim or Jeconias whom yet after three