Miracles followe to back his Sermons Of which some have pitcht upon 34. others have reckoned 57. Simon de Cassia Salmeron A Lapide Io. 2. Math. 15. Math. 7. all may be disposed according to the places in which they were performed As 1. In Galilee The turning of water into Wine dispossessing the Woman of Canaans daughter The curing of one Deafe that had an impediment in his speech by puting his fingers into his eares and touching his tongue with his spittle 2. In Capernaum The curing of a Noble mans sonne Io. 4. Mar. 2. Math. 9. at a great distance Of the Paralitique that was brought in a bed and let downe through the roofe of the house before him Of the raising of Iairus daughter c. 3. Beyond Iordane the dispossession of a Legion of Divells Mar. 5. and sending them into the heard of Swine 4. On the Sea in commanding the wind and waters walking on the waters assembling the Fishes at his pleasure to be taken whereof one brought mony in his mouth to pay tribute 5. Math. 57. Io. 6. Math. 14. 15. Luk. 7. In the Wildernesse by feeding 5000 with five Barlie loaves and two fishes and 4000 at another time in the like miraculous manner 6. In Iudea The raising of the Widowes sonne of Naim and of Lazarus when he stunke in his grave are Wonders never elsewhere heard of 7. And lastly in Ierusalem Jo. 11. Io. 5. Io. 9. The quiting of the impotent man at Bethesda of his eight and thirty years languishing The opening of the eyes of him that was borne blind with like which to these places may be referred 9. These were intermixed with his Conferences Conferences distinguishable by the parties conferred with So we have his discourse with 1. Nicodemus of Regeneration and Salvation by his lifting up from the biting of the old Serpent Jo. 2. as the Israelites were cured by Moses Serpent in the Wildernesse 2. With the Woman of Samaria at Iacobs well Ib. 4. concerning the comming of Messias and Gods spirituall Worship 3. With the Pharisees of Traditions Sabboth math 15. and the Author of his Doctrine and Miracles 4. Ib. c. 22 Luke 10. With the Sadduces concerning the Resurrection 5. With the Lawyers about the First and Greatest Commandement and who may be tearmed our Neighbour 6. With the People Jo. 6. touching the Bread of Life and spirituall Manna and their senselesnesse in not acknowledging the Messias 7. With his Disciples and followers Math. 20. Mar. 10. affecting supremacy and being disheartned at his low condition and foretelling them of greater sufferings that should fall upon him 10. Sufferings Math. 26. Mar. 14. Luk. 22. v. 52. These sufferings he endured 1. In Gethsemane when he was in his greatest Agony exceeding sorrowfull very Heavy to the death prayed and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood 2. In his apprehending by the Chiefe Priests Captaines of the Temple Iudas and the rascall multitude Luk. 23. 3. In the Ecclesiastique Consistories of Annas and Caiphas 4. In Herods Court by Jeerings and Mockings and returning him to Pilate in a robe of Scorne 5. Vnder Pilates hands where he was tumultuously voted to be crucified against the Iudges acquitting of him and a seditious Murtherer accepted before him Io. 19. 6. In his Crowning with thornes spitting upon scourging and burthened with his own crosse by the executioners after his condemnation 7. In his torments on the Crosse by mockings revylings relieving only with Gall and Vineger piercing his side after he was dead When the Heavens put on their blacks the earth staggered the Rocks rent the graves opened the Temples vayle was torne from the top to the bottome at such transcendent Impieties for continuall remembrance of which we have the Sacrament Instituted solemnly by himselfe at his last Supper 11. Triumphs Colloss 2.15 And upon this Consummatum est or Finishing succeeded his Triumphs 1. Over Principalities and Powers of darknesse by spoyling them and shewing them openly 2. Over the Grave and Death by his Resurrection 3. Over all oppositions and Impediments Act 1. by his forty daies conversing with his Apostles in tenne infallible apparitions instructing them in those things that pertaine to the Kingdome of God Io. 20. Math. 28. 4. In giving them full Commission to teach and list all Nations by Baptisme In the name of the most Sacred Trinity Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and to remit and retaine sinnes by virtue of the Holy Ghost which he breathed upon them 5. In trampling the World under foot by his Glorious Ascension 6. Ruling in the midst of his Psal 110. and his Churches enemies by the rod of his strength as he sits at the right hand of the Father 7. And last of all by sending of the Holy Ghost to furnish his Apostles and their Successors for the propagating of the Gospell to the utter dissolving of all the depths of Saetan and his incessant Machinations The ridiculous paralell of Apollonius Tyaneus with our Saviour by Hierocles and the malitious exceptions of R. Nizachon against his doings and Miracles are fully answered by Eusebius and Munster in Math. Hebraice 12. About this fulnesse of Time Gal. 4. in our Saviours being upon earth appeared 1. The great Witts for Poetry Virgil Ovid Horace c. for Oratory Cicero for History Salust Livy Trogus Pompeius Strabo the Geographer 2. Triumphant Warriors Pompey Julius Caesar Augustus 3. Notorious Impostors Simon Magus who proclaimed himselfe to appeare as God the Father to the Samaritanes Ireneus l. 2. God the Sonne to the Jewes and God the Holy Ghost to the Gentiles Theudas a Magitian that missed a multitude to passe over Iordan which he bore them in hand should divide it selfe but himselfe and those with him were all slaine or scattered Act. 5.36 Judas of Galilee who would not indure to pay Tribute or acknowledge any Lord which some make the reason that our Saviour and his Apostles were so punctuall against this madnes least they should be thought such Galileans Euseb E. H. l. 4. c. 6. Dion Cassius in Hadriano as favoured Rebellion such a one was Barcochebas afterward a fatall Comet who with his new light was the destruction of 50000 of his followers 4. Silencing of Oracles as that of Delphos where Augustus Caesar urging the Divell for an answere was told that an Hebrew child had stop'd his mouth and sent him with a Mittimus to Hell and therefore he might spare labour or cost Peucer de Oraculis to consult with him any more The like was the Lamentation for the death of the great God Pan in Plutarch 5. The discovery of the Abomination of the Idoll Priests in Rome upon the abusing of the noble Matrone Paulina by Decius Mundus whom he could not bring to his Lure by mony but had his will of under the maske of Anubis to which Doggs head she was
Broughton Tremelius The Name of the Lord began to be Prophaâ—ed 2. Hence some gather the beginning of Idolatry which other deferre till after the flood A separation is apparent in this mans daies betweene the prophane Caynites and those Godly Setheans And likely it is that then began the Assemblies perchance on the Seventh day blessed and hallowed of God for publique Worship De Monach C. 5. Gen. 5.10 3. Bellarmine will needs fetch from hence the Originall of Monkery but this Enosh was married gat Sonnes and Daughters and amongst them to succeed him 4. CAINAN of whom we finde nothing Registred but how long he lived and that he begat 5. MAHALALEEL as he did 6. IARED and he 7. ENOCH whose Prophesies we have mentioned in the Epistle of S. Jude Vers 14. Origen and the Author of the Testament of the twelve Patriarkes cite divers passages out of them As 1. of the number and names of Starres 2. Of the wooing of Mortall Beauties by the wanton descending Angells 3. Of the Gyants from that brood 4. Of the death of Christ by the Jewes and their ruine by it 5. Of the Drowning and Burning of the World and more to that purpose 2. These were not only in the hands of Origen and Tertullian but of S. Hierom Augustin Bede and others notwithstanding S. Augustin brands them for counterfeit and none warrant them 3. This Enoch the seventh from Adam died not as other men but after he had spent so many yeares upon earth as there be daies in a yeare he was transsated hence by God A. M. 987. The most part of them For herein they cannot agree with whom he had walked though he lived in the state of Marriage 4. The Papists say he is reserved alive in Paradice whence Adam was expelled with his companion Elias who shall both come in person to oppose Antichrist and then be slaine of him then revive and so at length be taken up into Heaven This is to quit the Pope Bellarm. de Pontif. Rom. L. 3. Aetat 5. from suspicion of being Antichrist seeing Enoch and Elias have not yet come in person to testifie against him Gobeline Parson relates that such a man was found by Alexander the Great in the East-Indies lying in a Golden bed in the Mountaine of the Sunne who well might be thought to be this Henoch but let them feed on their fancies The shortnesse of this mans time upon earth was recompensed by the age of his Sonne 8. METHUSALAH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the longest liver we read of for Adam and He take up all the space betweene the Creation and the Flood 2. His age was 969 yeares of which he might spend 346 with Adam to informe himselfe and almost 100 with Sem to teach Posterity But his longest life had a period before the Flood and a Successour his Sonne 9. LAMECH different from that Lamech of Caines race who being a blind Archer slew his Grandsire Caine. and the Boy that led him for directing him to do it if we beleive Torniellus who cites divers Fathers to justifie this groundlesse Fancy 2. Of this holy Lamech is registred the notable Propheticall speech at the birth of his Sonne Gen. 5.29 10. NOAH who was to be a Comforter to the world by Rest in the greatest extremities as the name importeh being derived either from Nacham to Comfort or Nuach to Rest the last of the ten Antediluvian Patriarches Out of whose names a great Hebritian hath left this observation Adam Earthy Cain Possession Abel Vanity sheweth that all Earthy Possession is Vanity Seth may be set in Abels place yet not so fixed but that reason will be for naming of his Sonne Enosh Sad. man or Sorrowfull He begets Cainan Lamentation from him succeeds Mahalalcel a praiser of God This holds not among all but Jared notes a descending Enoch that followes in the seventh place signifies one dedicated to God among so many wicked He of the shortest abode here upon earth of all his ranke leaves the longest liver Methusalah whose name speakes thus much He dying God sendeth whom Lamech what to do his name tells us to strike not to destroy all but as Noahs name Comforteth to preserve God's chosen in rest This Noah by the Heathens was termed in scorne Prometheus and fained to be chained to Caucasus with a Vulture feeding on his Intrals in regard of his foretelling the worlds destruction and providing an Arke to escape it neare the mountain Caucasus 120 yeares before it came Likewise he is called Ogyges for opening a gate for the preservation of Mankind Saturne as being the worlds Seed or Seminarie Hercules the publique Breeder Deucalion in whose time fell the great Inundation described by Ovid. Janus Bifrons that found Wine and look'd into both Worlds both before and after the Flood For to this Flood have reference all the Heathenish great Inundations To this purpose runnes the verse in Eusebius Sol Osyris idem Dionysius Oriu Apollo All those in truth were but the same And differ only in the name Which may be gathered from Plutarch who affirmes that Deucalion sent a Dove to try whether the waters were dryed This Flood lasted a whole yeare which confirmes that in the long-lived Fathers their yeares were Solar not Lunar or Months as some have imagined 2. COntemporary in this Intervall were the line of Cain amongst whom we have 1. the first City Enoch 2. Poligamie brought in by Lamech who being a blind Archer is said to have slaine his great Grandsire Cain Gen. 4. and the Lad that led him for misdirecting him 3. Jabal the Father of Tent-making and Hearding Catell 4. Jubal for instrumentall Musicke 5. Tubal-Cain the first forger of Brasse Iron Hartman Schedel 6. And some say his Sister Naamah began Carding and Spinning to cover nakednesse rather then with Figge leaves or with Beastes Skinnes 7. Likely it is that amongst the Poets the Garden of Adonis might have relation to this in Eden Nectar and Ambrosium to the Tree of Life Euridices wounding by a Serpent to the Serpent poysoning our Mother Eve Mercury Apollo and Vulcan to Jabal Jubal and Tubal-cain Venus to Naamah Their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or God-making to the translation of Enoch Their God-wenching Gen. 6.2 to the dissolute doings between the Sonnes of God and the Daughters of Men. Which things they might have by hear-say and worke on at their pleasure to be noted by the way not insisted upon Matters of Enquiry and Discourse 3. WHETHER 1. The World began in Spring or Autumne 2. The Seat of Paradice may be punctually assigned 3. Abel slew the same Serpent the Divell had abused to seduce his Mother 4. Enoch with Elias be reserved in Paradice to come against Anti-christ and to be slaine by him 5. The Book of his Prophecies extant among the Fathers might passe for authenticall 6. Cain were slain by Lamech his Grandchild a blind Archer 7.
Methusalah dyed before the Flood CAP. II. The Intervall of the Noachians 1. An. Mund. 1657. THE second Distance takes its rise from the end of the Flood to the calling of Abraham for the space of 367 yeares gathered out of Gen 11.26 2. In which succeed 1. SEM the middle Sonne of Noah Junius as some contend but preferd before the elder Japhet and the youngest Cham. 2. He is thought by the Jewes Gen. 14. Broughton to be Melchizedek that brought provision to Abraham and his company at their return from their victory against the four Eastern Kings which is strongly opposed by some latter writers Cuneus Mouliâ— 3. In the distribution of the world after the Flood Asia fell to his share and his Posterities from whence t is likely that they spread themselves East-ward and so rounded the earth that way to people America as on the West they left Palestina and those Coasts to Chams issue the Cananites whose proper portion was Africke as Iaphets was Europe and the Isles Sems Successour was 2. ARPHAXAD younger Brother as it should seem to Elam and Ashur from whom descended the Persians and Assyrians Abulensis out of Comestor and Methodius mentions one Ionithus or Ionichus begotten of Noah 100 yeares after the Flood who informed the Easterlings in Astronomy Prophesied of the four Monarchies and put Nimrod his forward Scholer first to take state upon him His picture you have in Chronica Chronicorum as also of Persla Cathastua and Funda Sem Ham and Iaphets Wives But these Monkish Figments have lesse show of truth then the foysting in here of Cainan by the Greeks to be Arphaxads Son whom all the Hebrews omitt and ranck in the next place 3. SALAH He is said to have built Salem by Comestor and by others upon the passage of his Father Arphaxad over the River Tygris to seat himselfe with his Family in Chaldea to have named his Sonne 4. HEBER From this man his posterity were entituled Hebrewes In his time fell out a double division first of Tongues then of Nations according to their severall tongues He sticks to the Originall Hebrew and upon foresight of these divisions amongst others nameth his Sonne 5. Gen. 10.15 PELEG in whose time these Divisions fell out He begets 6. REU of whom we read nothing else but that he begate 7. Luk. 3. SARUG whom St Luke termeth Saruch following therein the Septuagint His Successour was 8. C. 24.2 Judith 5.7 NAHOR tainted with Idolatrous Leaven as appeares by Josuah's confession and Achiors Declaration Leaves behind him at Vr of the Chaldeans 9. TERAH He had three Sonns Haran Nahor and Abram but upon Harams death in Vr of the Chaldeans whether burnt by the Fire which faithfull Abram escaped as the Jewsh tradition delivers it or caused by some other meanes he removes from Vr to Charran in Mesopotamia with all his Family it should seeme upon his Sonne Abrams motion Gen. 12.1 A.M. 2020. who had his call from God and dyes there His Family at his death stood thus disposed Haran that dyed before him left behind him one Sonne named Lot and two Daughters Milcah and Iscah Milcah was taken to Wife by her Vncle Nahor who setled in that place But Iscah who should seeme to be termed Sarai for her Beauty and Houswivery was marryed to the great Father 10. ABRAM of whose travels from Charran to Canaan and from thence to Aegypt and Gerar. 2. of his Victories against the foure Easterne Kings 3. his domestique troubles by meanes of the dissention between his Wife Sarah and her Maid Hagar 4. his Circumcision by Gods appointment 5. his entertaining of Angels 6. receiving a Sonne from his Sarah past teeming his readines to Sacrifice him when God commanded 7. his second marryage and issue by Keturah and other passages of note From Gen. 12. to the eight v. cap. 25. the Scripture sufficiently sets downe from whence other Authors have it He is thought to be the first instructer of the Aegyptians in good Learning who before were ignorant He ever relyed on this sure ground that there was one God the Creator of all things and that all happinesse came from his good pleasure not from any strength or worth of our owne A Booke called Ietzira is Fathered upon him but the imposture is manifest and the peece thought to be R. Akibah's The rest of his Children otherwise provided for his Sonne Isaac is left to continue the holy Line the foreman of the next Intervall 2. COntemporary with this Period are reckoned 1. the building of the Tower of Babel 2. the introducing of diverse Languages 3. the Peopling of the World by Noah's Posterity 4. the Foundation of the Assyrian Monarchy in Nimrod Ninus and Semiramis 5. the Overthrow of the foure Easterne Kings by Abram and his 318 Household Servants 6. the Destruction from Heaven of Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 18. 19. withother Cities of the Plain by Fire and Brimstone 7. the Incestuous Originall of the Moabites and Ammonites and Bastard-brood of the Ismaelites Also the Poets Ship Argos and Gigantomachia the Gyants Warre with their Gods may have reference to Noahs Arke and the Builders of Babel Discourse herevpon may be 3. WHETHER 1. The Flood drowned Paradice 2. The Arke could containe all sorts of Beasts and Fowle with sufficient provision for them for a yeare besides Noah and his Family 3. Sem were Noahs Eldest Sonne and the same with Melchizedec 4. His Posterity by an Easterne passage Peopled America 5. Hebrew were the only Tongue spoken before the Confusion at Babel 6. Abram were the first that had his name changed the first Victorious Leader in the Warres the first Professour of Liberall Sciences the first Circumcised and the first Purchaser of Land we read of 7. His Revelations mentioned by Epiphanius and his Assumption cited by Origen and the Booke Jetzirah put upon him be frivolous and fabulous CAP. III. Of the Israelites 1. THE third Distance is from Abram to the departing of Israel from Egypt and containeth the space of 430. years Gal. 3.17 2. In which succeed 1. ISAAC A. M. 2120. the promised seed given to Abraham and Sarah in their old Age. 2. He was forced by Famine to forsake Canaan and releive himselfe with King Abimelech in Gerar as his Father had formerly done where God gave increase of Seed 100 for one 3. Gen. 26 1â— By distrusting God's protection he denyed Rebecca to be his Wife as Abraham had formerly done Sarah But the plot was discovered by Abimelech and he reprooved for it and sent away safely 4. Notorious is his strange deliverance from being Sacrificed by his Father Gen. 22. and the birth of his twins Esau and Jacob of which 2. IACOB the yonger got the Birth right from Esau by purchase for a trifle and the Blessing by a stratagem Gen. 17. â—â— 2. Thereupon to avoyd his Brothers revenge he fled into Mesopotamia to
German Illyrian and warres with Pyrrhus in their own Territories In Asia the Syrian Parthian and strong opposition of Methridates and his adherents In Africa the three famous Punick Warres untill Carthage was razed by them And the stubborne resistance of Jugurtha at larg recorded in particular Histories as Insurrections amongst themselves of their discontented slaves of Catiline and Sertorius the bloudy ruptures between Marius and Scylla Pompey and Caesar Tantae molis erat so waighty a matter iâ— was to lay the foundation and erect the Trophies of the Fourth Monarchy of the Romanes 5. As for matters of the Church and progresse of Learning in this Period between Alexander and Caesar We find the Temple of Jerusalem surprised by Crassus and Pompey with their disasterous ends upon it and the Iewes brought under the yoake of Herod the Idumean But humane Learning never attained that splendor as then it did amongst the Graecian Philosophers especially severed by their distinct Schooles of Academicks Peripatetiques Stoicks Cynicks Epicures Pythagoreans and Sceptiques too numerous to be rehearsed INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Alexanders expedition against the Persian were rather of ambitious venturing then of just cause given 2. â—â—v Hist l. 9. c. 17. If he had turned his Forces Westward he had met with his match in Papyrius Cursor amongst the Romanes 3. His entitling himselfe Jupiter Hammons sonne distasted him more with his owne then advantaged him with strangers 4. His proceeding against his old valiant Generall Parmenio and his brave sonne Philotas had sufficient ground to exequte them for Traytors 5. Antiochus Epiphanes may passe for a fit type of Antichrist 6. The first Library of note were that of Ptolomeus Philadelphus in Aegypt 7. The change of Kings of diverse families in the Macedonian line were the chiefe cause of subduing them by the Romane Conquest FOVRTH MONARCHY of the Romanes PERIOD IIII. 1. THe Fourth Period from Iulius Caesar to Constantine the Great begins the Fourth Monarchy of the Romanes and takes up the space of about 355 years under forty Pagan Emperours whereof the first was 1. IULIUS CaeSAR A.M. 3902 His exploits are famous in the 1. Gallish 2. Germane 3. British 4. Civill warres against Pompey and his adherents 5. Alexandrian for setling Cleopatra with whom he was too intimate 6. African against Cato who slew himselfe at Vtica And 7. Spanish Warres against Sextus Pompeius In all which he is reckoned by some to have been victorious in fifty set Battles 2. Having gotten the perpetuall Dictatorship Plutarch He reformed the Calender as now we retaine it in the Iulian years account and left the Month Iulius for continuance of his name 3. To this valour he wanted not Learning or Language for the Registring his own Acts a touch whereof is extant in his seaven Bookes de Bello Gallico and three other de Bello Civili 4. Cicero cries him up also for a most pertinent and accomplished Orator 5. In Martiall affaires Plutarch so paralells him with Alexander that he carries the Bucklers from him though from spotts which are usually noted in Heroicall dispositions Alexander may be observed more Free 6. This honour he gained to leave the name of Caesar to all his successours whereof his Parallell came short His quick dispatch is noted in Veni Vidi Vici I came saw overcame the great forces that Pharnaces Mithridates sonne of Pontus had levied against him 7. His Motto was SEMEL QVAM SEMPER Ibid. Better it is once to dye then to live alwaies languishing It fell out with him accordingly For sitting in the Senate-house he was brutishly murthered with 23. wounds the most part given by them whose lives he had preserved which it should seem he intimated to Brutus in his last words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What and thou my sonne His successor was his sister Julias naturall and his adopted sonne 2. A.M. 3907 AUGUSTUS Caesar borne in Cicero's Consulship who exhorts his brother Quintus in his Government to immitate the prudence of Octavius who was Augustu's father 2. Before he could secure himselfe Anthony and Lepidus were wisely to be dealt with A Triumvirate was patched up between them for signing of which Lucius Caesar Augustus own Vnkle old Cicero his faithfull Advocate and Paulus the brother of the High Priest Lepidus must be proscribed to be executed so little reckoning is made of other obligations where the condition runnes for Soveraignty But this knot was quickly dissolved the three sonnes growing into one Lepidus dyes Anthony overthrown at Mutina and Actium made himselfe away 3. Augustus having vanquished all his opposites at home and Enemies abroad with incredible successe and Celerity except in that one shamefull defeat of Q. Varus against Arminius shuts up the Temple of Ianus in token of an universall peace Vid. Alsted Hist c. 21. 4. Then was the Prince of Peace our Saviour borne the 42. of this Emperours Raigne and in the year of the world as amongst 28 differences we pitch upon with Luther and Lucidus 3960. some think this variety of account especially between the Greeks and Latines happened by reason it was usuall amongst the Ancients by these figures 1.2.3.6 mystically to insinuate the Sacred Trinity in 1.2.3 and unity in 6. which mixed with the years of the World by those who knew not what it meant brought the account so much out of square that by subduction of that additament may be thus rectified Eusebius counts from the Creation to the Nativity 5199 years from which subduct 1236 the forementioned mysticall summe and the remainder will be 3963. but three years exceeding Luthers reckoning which we follow 5. But those matters were least thought on by those whom Gods providence made chiefe actors in it Psal 49. Man in honour may be compared to Beasts that Perish Augustus thus advanced in the eye of the world finds his discontents at home in his Children His daughter Iulia by his wife Scribonia and her issue had not the best report It is doubted whether Ovid were too familiar with hir somewhat there was more then his bookes de Arte Amandi that caused him to be banished He was wont to wish that he had never been Married or been a Father Sueton. and to terme his daughter the Impostumes of the World 6. Vomicas Carcinomatâ— Yet this rigid Father could take Livia Drusilla from her Husband Taberius Nero when she was great with child with Drusus and she humour'd him so pleasingly all his life though he had no issue by her that his last words were O Livia remember our marriage and Adieu so shee did Tociâ—m and 't is thought had a finger in setting him going 7. He affected Maecenas for his secrecy Agrippa for his patience and Virgill for his rare gift in sublime Poetry was wont to say that he received Rome of Bricke but had left it Marble His Motto was FESTINA LENTE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eucipid in Phaenissis SAT CITOSI SAT BENE
his sonne 16. A.C. 1576 RODOLPHUS the second succeeds him a Prince much addicted to Chimistry 2. He granted liberty of Religion to the Protestants obtained diverse victories against the Turke with whom afterward he made a Peace but according to the Turkish manner it was kept no otherwise then it might advantage them 3. But a closer advantage was taken upon him by his own brother Mathias who extorted from him Hungary and Austria with some other of his Dominions to bury him as it were alive and take his place before he had fairely left it 4. Arch-Duke Leopold shewed himselfe somewhat in the Emperours behalfe but to no purpose 5. His Symbole was OMNIA EX VOLVNTATE DEI All must be as God will have it And God would have his brother 17. A.C. 1612 MATHIAS to succeed with whom Gabriell Battery playing false and tyrannizing over the Pregeny of the Saxons in Transilvania was slaine of his own Souldiers before Verradine 2. The Protestants standing for their priviledges in Bohemia were withstood by some of the Emperours Councell of whom they threw Slabataâ— and Fabritius Smesantius with a Secretary out of a window at Prague 3. Bethlem Gabor is chosen Prince of Transilvania by the States The Iesuits expelled Bohemia Cleselius the Cardinall is violently taken from the Court Bucquoy and Tampier are sent to pacify the Bohemians Over whom the Emperour assignes his Cosen to be King 4. The Moravians banish the Iesuits consine the Cardinall Dithrighstâ—in and Zerotine The Earle of Thurne ènters Moravia and Bethlem Gaber Hungary to force those places from the Emperour 5. Whose Motto was CONCORDIA LVMINE MAIOR ConÌ„cord is more then light To set things right Which prevented by death he could not doe but leaves to be performed by his kinsman 18. FERDINAND the second A.C. 1619 made not long before King of Bohemia The Bohemians except against his election and chuse Frederick Count Palatine of Rhene King of Bohemia He accepts of it enters with the Lady Elizabeth his wife and is Crowned in Prague 2. Bucquoy the Emperours Generall enters Bohemia Bethlem Gabor stirres on the other side in Hungary to make a diversion The Protestants assemble at Nurinburg and the Papists at Wortzburg to make their parties good The Emperour sets out an Edict against the King of Bohemia and sends him monitory letters to desist to which he replies and stands to justify his right 3. Spinola is brought to invade the Palatinate and takes diverse Townes in it Sir Horatio Vere with the English would have encountred him but the Marquesse of Anspacke Generall of the Protestant Army stopps it 4. A.C. 1620 The King of Bohemia with his Queene for saken of the States of that Kingdome are forced to save themselves by flight He is proscribed and put out of his Electorship which is conferred upon the Duke of Bavaria Tampier and Bucquoy the Emperours eaders are both slaine 5. Duke Christian of Brunswick and Count Mansfield stirre for the King of Bohemia Heidelberg is taken by Tilly the Emperours Generall and Frankendale delivered to the Spaniard The King of Bohemia settles himselfe with his Queene and Children at the Hague Tilly drives Maurice Lantgrave of Hassia out of his Countrey The King of Denmarke makes head against him but to his great losse Mansfield having left his forces with the Duke of Saxonweymer dyes neere Venice who with the Husbandmen men of Austria A.C. 1626 otherwise makes head against the Imperialists but with no successe 6 Gustavus Adolphus King of Swedia like a Tempest falls on Germany Frees the oppressed Princes of Pomerania and Brandeburg restores the Dukes of Meckelburg Takes Wrutzburg Mentz and all that lies in his way Overthrowes Tilly in two great Battailes at Leippseike and Leick Overruns a great part of Bavaria In a third Battle at Lutzen puts Walsteene Duke of Freedland to the worst slew the valiant Pappenheim with diverse other of note of the Imperialists But was there slaine himselfe whether by the Enemy or Treason of his own it is controverted by many with whom we also end 7. This Emperours Motto is said to be LEGITIME CERT ANTIBVS It is the better for them that doe so and undertake no Warre but upon just grounds 2. MAtter 's of Consequence may be noted with this Period 1. The Contemporary Emperours of the East 1. Andronicus Paleologus sonne of Michael Paleologus mentioned in the former Period that recovered Constantinople this man would not stoop to the Lattaines Neither his Nephew 2. Andronicus Paleologus junior Him followes John Paleologus under the protectorship of John Catachucenus with whom Calo Johannes Catachnzenus sonne in Law for some tenne years pertakes in the government 4. Then two Calo Johannes 5th 6th 7ly Andronicus with a 8th Iunior Manuell follow in a confus'd and shufling manner A.C. 1454 untill 9. Constantine the 11. In whose time Constantinople the famous seat of the Easterne Emperours was made the Imperiall Citty of the Turkes by Mahomet the Great who thereupon was stiled their first Emperour so that as the Westerne Empire began in Augustus and ended in Augustulus so the Easterne had Constantine the Great that erected it and Constantine the unhappy that lost his life together with it and was buried in the Empites ruines 2ly Within this Period may be also observed seven Expeditions for the recovery of the Holy Land with infinite charge and losse and no answerable successe 3. The discoveries of the West Indies by Columbus and Americus Vespucius and the conquest in them by Corteâ—z and Pizarro 4. The sayling about the whole world by Sir Francis Drake Sir Thomas Candish and Oliver Van-North to whom Ferdinando Magellane had shewed the way but died before he came to his journeys end 5. Within this compasse besides fell the famous inventions of Gunpowder and Printing They of China boast they had Printing long before but their untowardly characters shew the vanity of that vaunt and what may be expected from them that never attained to the perfection of an Alphabet 6. Hereupon followes the Reformation of Religion by Luther Zuinglius and other pious and Learned Doctors beyond the Sea which was perfected here with us by our domestique Bishops Martyrs and Professorâ— to the admiration and envy of friends and opposers So that our Constantine hath been reckoned the first Christian Emperour our Lucius the first King Christened and our Henry the eight the first that broke the neck of the Popes usurped authority which are blessings never to be recounted without continuall thankes to God that hath so graced this Isle above so many famous Kingdomes round about us Tamberlane Zisâ—a Huniades Scanderbeg and Gustavus King of Sweden of this Period may be justly paralel'd with the most famous Leaders that we read of amongst the Ancients INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Iewish Iubilies may be turned into Christian Marts to make sale of Pardons and to get mony 2. To be Crown'd or approved by the Pope conferre any Title or Power to