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A94392	The holy history. Written in French by Nicolas Talon. S.I. and translated into English by the Marquess of Winchester.; Histoire sainte. English	Talon, Nicolas, 1605-1691.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1653 (1653)	Wing T132; Thomason E212_1; ESTC R9096	367,834	440

huc atque illuc nullum adesse vid●ss●t percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabalo Exod. 2. v. 12. and doubtless such a one was that of Moses as he sufficiently manifested when seeing an Egyptian who tormented his Brethren and was a publick enemy to his Nation he resolved to take a just revenge on this Persecutor It was God who put Arms into his hands and this brave Courage feared no danger in undertaking a quarrell in which God Nature and Reason ingaged him This Zeal was neither rash furious nor interessed but prudent and grounded upon reason and the publick good It was an Act of Justice by which he began to exercise the honourable office of a Judge and Regent over the people of Israel This generous and Magnanimous enterprise must not then authorise the liberty of certain Sword-men Zeal of Ranters who speak only of cutting off arms and legs These commonly are a sort of people as I conceive who have courage and boldness enough to kill a man who hath a Scarf over his eyes and his hands bound behind him But I am afraid that in the scuffle and in the midst of the Combat upon a fair occasion they will be seen with pale looks and making more use of their feet than their hands The courage of Moses was never of this temper and these vaporing and boasting people draw no more advantage from it Indiscreet Zeal than those who desire to pass for Zelots and who think under pretence of Zeal that every thing is lawfull for them These are indeed insupportable Tyrants and very often all these flaming devotions and these ardent Zeals are but veils of indiscretion pride presumption self-love and a malignant humour which seeks to subject the whole world to their will and to compleat this they make use of all sorts of weapons This is not to be Zealous but to shew ignorance in the nature of that Divine zeal wherewith Moses was inflam'd to make its Frenzies Furies and most infamous Passions pass under so fair pretences and such specious Bills Zeal alwayes goes on four Wheeles that is to say True Zeal Justice Fortitude Knowledge and Charity and it is the Spirit of God which moves those Wheels and is the Conductor of this Chariot But you will ask me perchance Timuit Moises ait quomodo palam factum est verbum istud Exod. 2. v. 14. Cumque circumspexit but atque illuc nullum adisse vidisset percussum Aegyptium abscondit sabulo Exod 2. v. 52. why then doth Moses fear if God puts the Sword into his hand Why doth he fly after so just and holy an exploit and why doth he bury under the Earth a Trophy which he ought to present unto the eyes of Pharaoh and his whole Court His fear is not servile nor his flight unmanly and indiscreet but he that had given the Courage to expose himself unto danger bestowed on him counsell and means to avoid it and besides as St. Paul hath noted Fide reliquit Aegyptum non verilus animositatem Regis ad Heb. c. 1● it was Faith and not the fear of Pharaoh's indignation which oblig'd Moses to leave Egypt It was a Stratagem of the holy Providence of God who would leave us this example for an Image of Courtly and worldly favours which have their fluxes and refluxes like the Sea and where such an one is adopted to day to hold the Scepter who shall be to morrow dis-inherited and chased away with dishonour So that Moses who after he had been treated as the Son of a Queen is constrained to depart out of Egypt and to leave the Court of Pharaoh having no other Companions in his voyage but Miseries Poverties Contempts and even Ingratitudes from those whom he had obliged Behold this Favourite of the King behold this person who after his adoption could expect nothing but a Scepter and Crown abandoned and unknown in a forrein Countrie behold him a Fugitive in the Land of Madian Alas what will he doe can it possible happen that after his escape amidst the waves of Nilus he should perish on the Earth and on the brink of a Well Is there not still some young Princess who will take pitty on him and if such an one were found in Egypt who was pleased to be his Mother hath not Madian some one who will be his wife and spouse Moses tyred with travelling Moratus est in terra Madian et sedit juxta puteum Exod. 2. v. 15 Erant autem sacerdoti Madian septem filiae quae venerunt ad hauriendam aqueuam impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui Exod. 2. v. 16. Supervenere pastores ejecerunt eas surrexitque Moises defensis puellis adaquavit oves earum Exod. 2 v. 17. Quae cum revertissent ad Raguel patrem suum c. Exod. 2. v. 18. Responderunt vir Aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum c. Exod. 2. v. 19. At ille ubiest inquit vocate eum ut comedat panem Exod. 2. v. 20. Juravit ergo Moises quod habitaret cum co accepitque Sephoram filiam ejus Exod. 2. v. 21. Quae peperit ei filium quem vocavit Gersan alterum vero peperit quem vocavit Eliezer c. Exod. 2. v. 22. Post multum verò temporis mortuus est Rex Aegypti c. Exod. 2. v. 23. Et audivit gemitum corum ac recordatus est faederis quod pepigit cum Abraham Isaac Jacob. Exod. 2. v. 24. and weary with his journey knows not whither to goe he is constrained to repose himself neer a well and expects like a flower scorch'd by the Sun some breath of wind and some drop of dew from the bosome and hand of him who nourisheth all creatures and replenisheth all Hearts with benedictions As he was in this expectation he perceived seaven daughters of Raguel Prince of Madian coming to water their flocks But when these illustrious Shepheardesses had drawn Water for this end some Shepheards who followed them were so bold as to attempt the taking some of it to Water their own Then Moses not being able to endure so great an indignity took upon himself the just quarell of these Maids and having chased away these presumptuous persons he himself drew water out of this well and gave it unto their Sheep which was the occasion Raguel who was presently advertised of what had passed sent for him to espouse unto him one of his daughters named Sephora by whom Moses had two Sons whose names served to leave a Monument of their fathers fortune unto posterity For the first was called Gerza which signified the aboad of Moses in forein Countries the other called Eleazar in remembrance of the favours God had shewed him taking him out of the hands and fury of Pharaoh from whom in fine a long time after death who spares no man forced the Crown and scepter of Egypt which gave liberty unto the people of Israel to

how he conjures them to spend at lest one Night in his House In fine after some refusals and Complements he inforceth them by his Charitable importunities to shelter themselves in his Lodging they enter into it and nothing but Feasts and congratulations are seen in this House But they were no sooner risen from the Table and preparing to take some repose when immediatly Sodomites came from all parts like inraged Wolves howling and trembling as if they had already felt the Agony of Death and the Flames which were ready to devour them O God Prius autem quam irent cubitum viri civitatis vallaverunt domum c. Gen. 19. v. 5. Nolite quaeso sratres mes noli●e malum hoc sacere Gen. 19. v. 7. what frenzies and what furies of a brutish appetite when it is once let loose Disastrous passions blind will inchanted desires shamefull brutalities Tyrannicall Love Alas is it not true that your Eyes are veiled with a fatall Scarf Blind Sodomites are you not yet satisfied to have exceeded all the bounds of humane Nature Sacrilegious Effeminats Diabolicall Men must Angels be constrained to satiate the ardors of your beastialities Mean while Lot is very much afflicted Habeo duas filias quae necdum cognoverunt virum educaem eas ad vos abutemini eis sicut vo●●s p●acuerit dummodo viris istis nihil faciatis c. Gen. 19. v. 8. At illt direrunt recedo illuc rursus ingressus es inquiunt ut a. vma c. Gen. 19. v. 9. for these Cyclops of Hell are come out of a Furnace of obscurities with Hammers and Iron Bars in their Hands to break his Gate in a thousand pieces to destroy Fathers and Children Masters and Servants Briefly even from the highest to the lowest all the Inhabitants of Sodom have befieged this chast retreat and desire to make it the Den of their Impurities In vain doth Lot intreat and declare unto them that the honour of his Guests is more precious to him than that of his Daughters Et ecce miserunt manam viri introduxerunt ad se Loth clauseruntque ostium Gen. 19. v. 11. For after all this these inraged Beasts made him no Answer but with Blasphemies and reproaches and they were already as it were Masters of this fortunate Sanctuary when the tutelary Guards of this House carryed him away as a Lamb in the midst of these Wolves and a while after the Gate being shut these Angels of I ight cast forth so many glorious and resplendent Rayes as at last these desperate Sodomites were blinded with them After this blindness Lot began to open his Eyes to discern yet more clearly the force and Vertue of these blessed Guardians of his House Et eos qui foris crant percusserunt caecitate à minimo usque ad maximum c. Gen. 19. v. 11. Dixerunt autem ad Loth habes ●i● quēpiam tuorum generu● aut filios aut filias omnes qui tui sunt educ de urbe hat Gen. 19. v. 12. ●gressus itaque Ioth locutus est ad generos suos qui acc●pturi erant filias ejus surgi e egredimini de loro isto quia delebit Dominus civitatom hanc Gen. 19. v. 14. They also perceiving the hour which God had chosen to Execute the Decrees of his Justice and having made an inquiry concerning the number and quality of those persons who were with Lot they advertized him presently to depart out of this reprobate City which was even ready to serve as a Theater for the most rigorous vengeance of an irritated God Instantly Lot informed all his kindred of this strange news to the end they might remove their Wives and Daughters out of this danger But what they that had no Eyes to discern God had no Ears to hear their Father or at least they made but a sport at his most serious Remonstrances Mean while the Night slips away Cun que ess●● marè cogehant cum An●●li di●entes surge telle uxo em tuam duas filias quas h●bes c. Gen. 19 v. 15. Eduxeruntque cu● posuerunt extra civitatem th que loc●● sunt ad cum dicentes salva animan tuam c. Gen. 1● v. 17. and from the break of Day as if the Sun should have served to inkindle the Pyle of Sodom the Angels delegated for the preservation of Lot taking him by the Hand with his Wife and two Daughters constrained them to depart together out of the City advertizing them that to preserve their lives and to enjoy the benefit they had received they must seek out a refuge upon some high Mountain without turning their Heads or Eyes towards the unhappy Sodom lest some Whirlwind of Flames should chance to surprise and devour them Behold then Lot much astonished Nevertheless he conjures these amiable Spirits to afford him a Retreat in a little Town not far from thence Dixitque Loth adeos quaeso Domine mi Gen. 19. v. 18. Quia invenit servus tuus gratiam coram te ne forte deprehendat me malum moriar Gen. 19. v. 19. Est civitas haec juxta ad quam possum fugere parva salvabor in ea Nunquid noa modica est vivet anima mea Gen. 19. v. 20. Dixitque ad cum ecce etiam in hoc suscepi preces tuas ut non subvertam urbem pro qua locutus es Gen. 19. v. 21. Festina salvare ibi quia non pole●o facere quidquam doaec ingrediaris illuc Gen. 19. v. 22. Respiciensque uxor ejus post se versa est in statuam salis Gen. 19. v. 23. Igitur Dominus pluit super Sodomam Gomorrham Sulphur ignem à Domine de Caelo Gen. 19. v. 24. Et subvertit civitates has omnem cirda regionem univosos babicatores urbium cuncta terrae vireatia Gen. 19. v. 25. the Angels granted all he desired and the Village assign'd him for a Sanctuary was also freed from the flames for his sake But as there is nothing weaker and more wavering than a Womans Mind Lot had not power enough to hinder her Head which was filled only with Wind from moving at the sight of the first Lightnings which preceded this Storm so in testimony of her inconstancy she was transformed into a Piller of Salt as if God intended by this exemplar punishment to leave unto over light Souls a Tragick monument of Inconstancy and a dreadfull effect of Temerity Mean while the Heavens are no longer but a lively Source of Flames and Fires The Sun Moon and Stars are so many Chanels through which God powres down upon Sodom and Gomorrha all the Thunderbolts of his wrath The Clouds are the Torrents of Thunder which makes a hideous Noise which tears the Skyes and carries away all without pitty Nothing is seen in the Air but flaming obscurities and ardent shadows heaped upon one another which form a Hears-cloath to cover the shamefull Reliques of

unto Moses after the destruction of Amaleck Let what passed at this time be written in Annales Dixit autem Dominus ad Moisen scribe hoc ob monimentum in libro trade auribus Josue delebo erim memoriam Amalec sub caelo Exod. 17. v. 14. and let it be engraven upon all Marbles Amaleck is vanquished and men never shall more speak of him but to remember his loss and misfortune After which Moses erected an Altar for an eternall monument Edificavitque Moises altare vocavit nomen ejus Dominus exaltatio mea dicens Exod. 17. v. 15. Quia manus solii Domini bellum Domini erit contra Amalec à generatione generationem Exod. 17. v. 16. which he consecrated unto God as unto him who had been a Standard in this War and a Trophy after his Combats Amongst which he had cast down the Throne of Amaleck and effaced his name and memory for all eternity After this let any one be so rash and senseless as to attaque God and his servants to suffer themselves to be transported at the first sight and at the first assault of an impudent Love of a Carnall affection of a violent pleasure of a deceiptfull beauty of a charm'd imagination of a contagious desire of a brutish satisfaction of a mortall envy and of so many passions which use to pursue those who forsake the World and Egypt and which like Amaleck and the Amalekites are destroyed by the least shafts of courage and virtue but chiefly of piety and confidence in God The which may be easily acquired and preserved with that Saint who hath made and doth make every Day so many Saints by this cogitation Here on Earth there are momentary pleasures Sanctus Franciscus Modica hic voluptas sed postea poena aeterna modicus hic labor sed postea gloria aeterna multorum vocatio paucorum electio omnium retributio aeternitatem cogita and afterward eternall torments There are afflictions and difficulties in the World which end almost assoon as they begin and in Heaven there is a repose and glory which shall be immortall Many are called but few chosen and yet all shall be rewarded according to their deserts Think then on Eternity CHAP. XXIII Moses is visited in the Desart where he Creates Judges and Magistrates SCarce are there any Creatures in this World which are not fastned by some tyes But amongst others men are there as it were in a Dungeon or Gally where nevertheless some have Irons and Chains about their Necks Feet and Hands Captivity of Creatures others have but Bonds of Silk and very often of bloud which detain them like so many Andromedes upon a Rock or like ravenous Birds upon a heap of Carrion from which they cannot rise to elevate themselves into the Ayr. Amongst this number are those who swear not but by their country and by those little Gods the Antients plac'd neer the Chimny Corners or at the Beds Feet as their domestick Tutelaries and the Genius of a Closet or House I place also in this road all those who have servile amities and blind passions for trifling things unworthy to be regarded by a generous and couragious Spirit who nevertheless you shall very often see amusing themselves in the chase of Flyes handling a Spindle or carrying a Distaff like Sardanapalus amongst a few disdainfull Dames which inslave him by a thousand Childish ●oyes There are other Chains which though lawfull are yet often more dangerous not to be broken but with violences which cannot be practised upon our selves without a most particular grace Now such are all the tyes which nature hath woven in our Hearts and in our Veins and which so powerfully fasten a Father and Mother unto their Children an only Brother to his Sister a Servant to his Master and two faithfull friends to each other that nature were almost obliged unto a miracle to require of her this separation Nevertheless it is a necessity which can almost admit of no delay and from which a man cannot be exempted when he resolves to serve God and obey his most holy will He is not yet so rigorous as not to permit the exercise of those duties which every condition requireth provided it be done with order and according to the rule of prudence and piety For in such a case he being the Author of nature as he is he is so far from destroying her as on the contrary he will preserve her but above all he will be first serv'd And this is what Moses did when he was commanded to obey God and to go from Madian into Egypt to sollicite his affairs and to negotiate for his people with Pharaoh For he left his Wife and Children and what he had most dear in the world to go with his brother Aaron Cumque audisset Jethro sacerdos Madian cognatus Moysi omnia quae secerat ei D●us c. Exod. 18. v. 1. Tulit Sephoram uxorem Moysi quam remiserat Exod. 18. v. 2. Et duos filios esus Exod. 18 v. 3. Cumque intrasset tabernaculum Exod. 18. v. 7. Narravit Moyses cognato suo cuncta quae fecerat Dominus Pharaoni c. Exod. 18. v. 8. Laetatusque est Jethro super omnibus bonis quae fecerat Dominus Israëli Exod. 18. v. 9. Obtulit ergo Jethro cognatus Morsi holocausta hostias Deo veneruntque Aaron omnes seniores Israël ut comederent panem cum eo coram Deo Exod 18. v. 12. Altera autem die sedit Moyses ut judicaret populum qui assistebat Moysi â mane usque ad vesperam Exod 18 v. 13. Quod cum vidisset cognatus ejus omnia scilicet quae agebat in popul● ait quid est hoc a ●od facis in plebe c. Exod. 18. v. 14. but when his Orders were executed and when Pharaoh and Egypt Amaleck and the Amalekites were exterminated and the Israelites conducted even unto Mount Sina after so many Miracles wrought for their sake behold Jethro the Priest of Madian appearing who brought back Moses Wife and two Sons whom he had left behind when he took his Journey into Egypt He received him with very great affection and having brought him unto his Tent he related to him all the particulars of what had passed and the Prodigies God had wrought by his hand Jethro then manifested an unspeakable joy and immediatly rendred thanks unto God who had freed them all from the tyranny of Egypt and the power of Pharaoh freely confessing that the God of Israel was the God of Gods whose goodness power Justice and Majesty had made themselves to be seen and felt by his enemies In testimony whereof he took from the hand of Moses a Victim and Sacrifice which he offered with a most perfect faith and a most holy piety Then the Banquet followed at which all the Antients of the people were present with an intention to celebrate this Feast in honour of their God The next