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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91893	The birth of a day: being a treatise theologicall, morall and historicall, representing (as in a scene) the vicissitudes of all humane things, with their severall causes and sacred uses. Compos'd for the establishing mans soul unchangeable in the faith, amidst the various changes of the world. / By J. Robinson Mr of Arts and preacher of Gods Word.	Robinson, John, Preacher at East-Thorpe.	1654 (1654)	Wing R1698; Thomason E1493_4; ESTC R203378	52,211	117

world from the beginning of the Creation to this day and present this lively to your eyes which I am fain to do now only to your minds and understandings that so I might be able to say with the prophet David Psal 46. 8. Come and behold the works of the Lord what desolations so what changes and alterations he hath wrought in the world For one generation says the Preacher is passing away and another comes Ecclesiast 1. 4. neither is there any thing here so fix'd that it can say of it self as the false Prophets did Erit sicut Isa 56. last Sic vulg Latin hodie sic cras Tomorrow shall be with me as this day Since no man knows what a day may bring forth Now this I shall hold out unto you in a threefold respect that ye may be the more affected with it First in relation to Politick Estates and Governments Secondly to continued Families or Races of men that are lineally successive for Name and Greatnesse Thirdly to particular Persons In all which if I be more historicall then otherwise I would it must be imputed to the present Subject which is of that nature and requires it of me First then I shall consider it in relation to Politick Estates and Governments whether we consider them either as drawn out in length in Monarchies or else as drawn up short in Cities which are nothing else but Empires epitomized or Republicks bound up in a lesser volume First then I shall demonstrate this unto you in Monarchies which Bodine tells us are more dudurable Lib. 4. de cep c. 1. then Popular States because lesse subject to be divided Unity being the great Preserver of all things and yet have these had Dies hora momentum evertendis dominationibus sufficit quae adamantinis credebantur radicibus esse fundatae Sir Walt. Rawl preface out of Casaub as the Moon not only their increase and full light but also their wain and changes and this sometimes in a moment That as in Musick you shall hear sometimes a string tun'd up to its ultimum potentiae as high as it will bear and presently depressed again to the lowest Key and another elevated yet both of them breathing but light aires and of short continuance So may you see a Monarchy now wound up to the highest pitch of Happiness and by and by let down again into the lowest Regnorum initia increme●eum occasus à De● pendent Phil. de Commines lib. 7. depths of misery This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes And here I shall begin with those Empires and Monarchies that were most famous among the rest For how soon was the Assyrian or Babylonian Monarchy swallow'd up by the Persian the Persian by the Greek or Macedonian Empire and the Greek by the Roman which the Prophet Daniel presents unto us by the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron whereof Nebuchadnezzars Image consisted Dan. 2. 32. The dissolution of one as in naturall things so here being still the generation of another and again the erection of the later being the destruction of the former And as for the Romane Monarchy their own Historian can tell 1. Flor. in aditu ad hist us of that how it had both its Infancy Youth Manhood and Imperiorum nunc floret fortuna nunc se●●scit nunc interit Pater● hist lib. 2. Old age as it were by turnes As its Infancy under Kings its Youth under Consuls its Manhood from the first Punick warre unto the time of Augustus Caesar and from that time its Old age under the succeeding Emperours untill at length that solid Body was torn asunder by the struglings of her own Children into the Eastern and Western Empires whereof the former was soon eaten out by the Turks and Saracens and the later also fell away much after a little revolution of time by the falling off of divers Nations from her each of which after they had pluck'd off their own feathers from the Roman Eagle left her almost naked As the Franks and Burgundians in France the Goths in Spain the Normans and Lombards in Italy together with the English and Scots in Britain untill at the last cast the Roman Monarchy began a little to recall her self into Germany where she hath held up since little more then the bare name of the Empire So that Vicissitude you see is the great Empresse of the world unto whose unstay'd dominion all earthly Powers and Principalities must be subject even those that are of the first Magnitude much more others that move in a lower Orbe And of these I shall single out only three which I conceive most eminent to be instanced in for this point The first is Judea whose government was Monarchically settled by God himself yet how See 1 Sam. cap. 10. oft did she change her Lords and Masters yielding her self as it were successively first to the Babylonian and after that to the Roman Persian Saracen Christian Aegyptian and now to the Turkish power That as the * Ovid. Poet spake of Troy fuit Ilium so may we of Jerusalem her Metropolis fuit Hierosolyma that Jerusalem was She was great among the Nations or Lam. 1. 1● Domina Gentium the Lady of the Nations as the Vulgar Latin reads it But now Non sic ut olim It hath not been with her for these many generations past as in former days to use Job's words in his twenty ninth chapter second and third verses when God preserv'd her when his Candle shined upon her head and when by that light she walk'd through darknesse but Servants Lam. 5. 8. have ruled over her and there was none to deliver her out of their hands Which is a good lecture of Mutability to other Kingdomes and their Mother-cities For Jerusalem was once a holy and happy city and had been happy still had she but continued holy but that failing How Lam. 4. 1. is her Gold become dimme how is her fine Gold chang'd into Drosse as she complains her self The second Example I produce here is Naples As Pertinax the Emperour was call'd Pila Fortunae Nam quod Ethnici Fortunam nos Christiani providentiam appellamus Aurel. Vict. Epitom which we may well call the Ball of Providence And indeed so it was being bandyed from one Lord to another ten severall times before it came to lie as now it doth at the foot of Spain For being a countrey at first diversly peopled it was upon the division allotted to the Eastern Emperours but from them forc'd by the Almains and so to the Greeks and Saracens and then successively hurried about to the Normans Germans French Hungarians Arragonoys and from them to the French again till in the end the Spaniard seised upon it and whether it will continue long with him or no is very uncertain especially if we remember how of late years a poor Fisherman Massionello by See Howels relation of it