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A06108	The theatre of Gods iudgements: or, a collection of histories out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and prophane authours concerning the admirable iudgements of God vpon the transgressours of his commandements. Translated out of French and augmented by more than three hundred examples, by Th. Beard.; Histoires memorables des grans et merveilleux jugemens et punitions de Dieu. English	Chassanion, Jean de, 1531-1598.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 1659; ESTC S101119	344,939	488

pertaineth to manie yea to the vvhole bodie of the people And admit that this reason vvas effectual yet the glose vpon the place saith very notably That the princes pleasure may be held for a law so far forth as that which pleaseth him be iust and honest giuing vs to know thus much therby that euerie vvill and pleasure of a Prince may not indifferentlie be allowed for a law if it be in an vniust and dishonest action contrarie to the rule of good maners Moreouer it appeareth by the customes of many ancient people and realmes that Princes had neuer this license giuen them to doe vvhat they listed for let them be neuer so mightie yea as mighty as Darius vnder vvhose raign the Persian monarchie was abolished yet he must bee content according to the law of the Medes and Persians not to bee able to infringe that law vvhich vvas by the aduise of his Peeres and priuie counsell enacted and by his owne consent and authoritie established no though for Daniels deliuerance sake vvhom he loued Dan. 6.8 he greatly desired and tooke paines either to disannull or at least to giue a fauourable interpretation of it Such in old time was the custome of the Kings of Aegypt not to follow their owne affections in any actions they vvent about Diod. lib. 2. cap. 2. but to be directed by the aduise of their laws for they had not so much authoritie as to iudge betwixt man and man or to leuie subsidies and such like by their owne powers neither to punish any man through choler or any ouerweening conceit but were alwaies tied to obserue iustice and equitie in all causes neither did it grieue them so to doe being persuaded that whilest they obeied their lawes nothing could better betide them but good Thucyd. lib 1. The Lacedemonian Kings were in such bondage to the lawes of their countrie that the Ephori which were set vp to none other end but to be a bridle to hold them backe from doing vvhat they listed had absolure authority to correct them vvhen they had committed any fault which subiection nothing displeased king Theopompus as it is apparent by the answere he made his wife that reproued him once in anger saying by his cowardlinesse he would leaue a lesse kingdome to his children then he had receiued of his ancestors nay saith he a greater for so much as more durable and parmanent Plutarch praising the vprightnesse of King Alcamenes who for feare to breake the law refused diuerse presents that were sent him bursteth into this speech O heart worthie of a King that hath preferred the authoritie of the law before his owne profite Where are those fellowes now that crie Kings pleasures ought to be obserued for lawes and that a Prince may make a law but is not subiect to it himselfe and this is that which Plutarch saith as concerning that matter who liued vnder Traian the Emperour Cornelius Tacitus discouering the beginning and originall of the Romane ciuill law Lib. 3. Annal. saith that Seruius the third King of Rome after Romulus and Numa was the only man that most established those lawes wherevnto kings themselues ought to yeeld and be obedient And admit that the Emperors swaied with great power and authoritie almost all the world yet for all their fiercenesse and haughtinesse of mind Pliny durst tell Traian verie roundlie In Paneger that an Emperour ought to vse to carrie himselfe with such good gouernment in his Empire as if he were sure to giue vp an account of all his actions thou must not saith he desire more libertie to follow thine owne lust then any one of vs doe a Prince is not set ouer the law but the law placed in authority aboue the Prince this was the admonition of that Heathen man Likewise Antonius and Seuerus two mighty Emperours although by reason of an opinion of their owne greatnesse and haultinesse wherwith they flattered themselues bragged that they were not subiect to anie law yet they added this clause withall That notwithstanding they would liue according to the direction of the law Lib. 4. tit 17. This saith Theodosius and Valentinian two no lesse mighty Emperours is a voice becomming the roial Maiestie and greatnesse of a king To confesse himselfe to liue vnder a law and in truth it is a thing of greater importance then the imperiall dignity it selfe Lib. 1 ●od to put soueraignty vnder the authority of law Amongst many other good lessons and exhortations which Lewis that good King gaue vnto his son on his death bed Nicol. Gil vol. 1. Chronicl franc this was one worthy the remembring how he commanded him to loue and feare God with all his strength and to take heed of doing any thing that should be contrarie to his law whatsoeuer should befall him and to prouide that the good lawes and statutes of his kingdome might bee obserued and the priuiledges of his subiects maintained to forbid iudges to fauour him more then others when any cause of his owne came in triall Thereby giuing vs thus much to vnderstand that euery good King ought to submit himselfe in obedience vnder the hand of God and vnder the rule of iustice and equitie Wherefore there is neither king nor Keisar that can or ought to exempt himselfe from the obseruance of sacred and vpright lawes which if they resist or disanull doubtlesse they are culpable of a most hainous crime and especially of rebellion against the king of kings CHAP. VII Of the punishment that seased vpon Pharoa king of Aegypt for resisting God and transgressing the sixt commandement of the law WE haue sufficiently declared in the premisses that the mightiest potentates of this world are bound to range themselues vnder the obedience of Gods law it remaineth now that wee produce examples of those punishments that haue fallen vpon the heads of the transgressors of the same according to the manner of their transgression of what sort soeuer which that wee may the better describe it behoueth vs to follow the order of the Commandements as the examples we bring may be fitly referred to any of them And first we are to vnderstand that when God said Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me he condemneth vnder these words the vanitie of men that haue forged to themselues a multitude of gods he forbiddeth all false religiō declareth that he wold be acknowledged to be the sole true God that we shold serue worship loue fear obey him in and aboue al things And whoseuer it bee that doth otherwise either by hindering his worship or afflicting those that worship him the same man prouoketh his heauie wrath to be throwne vpon him to his vtter ruine and destruction This is the indignation that lighted vpon Pharoa king of Aegypt as we read in the booke of God Exod. 3. who being one of the most puissant Kings of the earth in his age God chose him for an

obiect to shew his wonderfull power on by the meanes of horrible plagues and scourges which hee cast vpon him and by destroying him with all his armies at the length as his rebellion well deserued for he like a cruell tyrant continuing to oppresse the children of Israel without giuing them any release or breathing time from their miserie or libertie to serue God although by Moses in the name authoritie of God who made himselfe well enough knowne vnto him without the helpe of any written law he was many times instantly vrged and requested therunto so many iudgements and punishments assailed him one in the necke of the other in such sort that at length hee was ouertaken and ensnared therewith First of all the verie waters of Aegypt being conuerted into blood proclaimed warre against him then the frogges which couered the face of the earth climed vp euen to his chamber and bed and filling euery corner of his land sounded him an alarum next a muster of lice and gnats and such other troublesome and stincking creatures summoned him to combate an handfull of embers scattered in the aire by Moses vvere vnto him as the strokes of a stone or a shaft which did vvoonderfully disfigure their bodies vvith boiles and most noisome scabs afterward the grashoppers vvere put in battaile aray against him together with the pestilence hailestones horrible thunders and lightnings wasting and spoiling and running vp and downe greeuously though his whole land After al these bitter blows the tyrant being cut short and being so besieged on euery side with hideous and palpable darkenesse that he could not tell which waies to turne himselfe yet would he not be brought to any reason but continued obstinate hardned against God though all the elements with heauen and earth had taken armour together and conspired his destruction Therefore while hee remained in this wretched state Gods angell punished him in the person of his eldest son which died sodainly in one night together with all the first borne of Aegypt wherewithall both he and all his people being greatly moued and grieued at length gaue the Israelites not only leaue but also hasted thm to depart but anone as he saw them going like a man bestraught he ran after them again and pursued them with a mightie armie vntill God in the meane while opening a passage to his children ouerthwart the deepe red sea attended him in the midway where he surprised and ensnared him ouerthrew and violently ouerturned the wheeles of his chariots and put his whole armie to a hurliburly and that hee might vtterly destroy him caused the sea from each side to returne to his channell which drowned and deuoured him and all his armie And this is one of the notablest and fearefullest iudgements of God that can bee mentioned and therefore is very often recounted inmanie places of the scripture as a thing most memorable aboue others Neither ought we to meruaile if so notable an hystorie as this is not set down among the writings of prophane authors for besides that their histories doe not ordinarily stretch so farre as to record such ancient acts there is also no doubt but the successors of that Tyrant and all the Aegyptians sought all meanes possible to cancell and blot out the memorie of their so great and horrible ruine And if by chance any historiographer make mention of the departure of the Israelits out of Aegypt it is done in such sort that the truth is not only disguised but wholly peruerted by them and in place thereof nothing but lies and falshood foisted in CHAP. VIII Of the destruction of many other Kings for the like sinne LIke as Pharaoh by his vniust and outragious persecuting the children of God made him selfe so guiltie of Gods wrath that hee deserued to be vtterly destroied with the greatest part of his people so also after th●●r miraculous deliuerance whosoeuer laboured either to hurt hinder or resist them did no lesse incurre Gods displeasure and fierce wrath against them wherewith they were consumed Whereof the ouerthrow and discomsiture of Amalech is a plaine example who admit all the great wonders which God had done for the Israelites in Aegypt and in the red sea Exod. 17. whereof the bruite being blowen into all corners of the earth he could not be ignorant of yet was he so malitious and foolish hardy as to take vp armour against them and to meete them to bid them battaile but he and his wicked complices were by Ioshua and his poore people though vnwarlike and vnacquainted with such actions lately crept out of bondage wherein they had bene onely exercised to make mortar and bricke and not to handle weapons discomfited and ouerthrowen for the Lord of hosts who is the deuider of victories to whome he pleaseth at the feruent praiers of his seruant Moses fought for them to the confusion of Amalech and all his traine And therefore he commanded Moses to put this deed of his in writing as a thing worthy to be remembred who also erected an altar in the same place for a perpetuall monument of so noble a victory As Amalech and for the like sinne Num. 2.1 were Arad a king of the Canaanites Sehon king of Amorites and Og king of Basan with their people cities destroied and rased downe So the Madianites enterprising to withstand the foresaid Israelites by the wicked and pernicious counsell of Balaam were subdued put to the sword Num 31. euen fiue kings of them togither not one escaping saue the yong virgines which had neuer committed fornication with man CHAP. IX More Examples like vnto the former AFter that the children of Israel had continued a season peaceably in the land of Canaan which the Lord had bestowed vpon them Indg. 3. then did Eglon king of Moab rise vp subdued them by warre tyrannized ouer them eighteene yeres And although it was Gods will that they should be thus chastised because of their corruption iniquities neuertheles this Moabite his rod he caused in regard of his loue to his people to be slaine by Ahud an Israelite as he was taking his ease in his chamber In like maner was his wrath stirred vp against Iabin king of Asor who had oppressed Israel twenty yeres whose army though it was great and well appointed was notwithstanding by Baracs handfull of men vnder the conduct rule of Deborah the Prophetesse wonderously discomfited in such sort that of all the multitude there remained not one that felt not the edge of the sword except Sisera their captaine who escaping from the battell by taking him to his heeles turned in by chance into the house of a woman called Iahel who hating him as he slept with a hammer fastned a naile into his temples and thus escaping from those whom he feared he was murdered by her whome he trusted And so this valiant warriour as he was ouercome in battell by the conduct of a woman so was he