The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight.

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Date:: [1652]

Credit: The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 J^.17.4. Mattb.6.26. Luke 12.5,7. t Pet. 5-7* Pfal.%6.6. Jer. 23.24. Efay 42-3. commanded the Ravens to feed thee there.Behold,the Fowles of the Ay re,they fow not,nor reap, and yet your heavenly Father feedeth them : Again,rfre two Sparr owes]oldfor a farthing? and one ofthemjhall not fall on the ground without your Father : yea all the hayres of your head are numbred: And S.Peter, Cafe all your care on him, for he caret h for yon : And his judgments are Written, faith David. God therefore,who is every where prefent ,who filleth the Heavens and the Earth,whoje eyes are upon the Righteous,and his countenance againft them that do evil!, was therefore by Orpheus called oculus infinities, an infinit eye,beholding all things 3 and cannot therefore be efteemed as an idle looker on, as if he had transferred his power to any other: for it is contrary to his own word : Gloriam meant altcri non dabo: I will not give my glory to 1Q another.No man commandeth in the Kings prefence, but by the Kings dire&ioh $ but God is every-where prefent,and King of kings. The example of Gods uni verfall Pro¬ vidence is feen in his Creatures.The Father provideth for his children: beafts and birds and all livings for their young ones. If Providence be found in fecond Fathers, much more in the firft and Univerfall: and if there be a naturall loving care in men 3 and beafts,much more in God, who hath formed this nature3 and whofe Divine love was the beginning3and is the bond ofthe Univerfall: Amor divinus rerum omnium ejlprin* cipium,& vinculum univtrfi (faith Plato') Amor Dei efl nodus perpetuus, mundi copula, par- thmfo ejus immobile fujlentaculum,ac univerfe machine fundamentum 5 7 he love of God is the perpetuall knot gind linkL or chain of the world , and the immoveable pillar of every part 20 thereofandthe Rafis and foundation of the univerfall. God therefore who could onely be the caufe of all,can onely provide for all3and fuftain all} fo as to abfolute power 5 to job. ep.x. c.4. every-where prefence $ to perfed goodnefs, to pure and divine love^ this attribute Goins love, tranlcendent liability of Providence is onely proper and belonging. ' -Mi - §. XIV. Of Predeftination. NOw for Predeflination, we can difference it no otherwife, from Providence and Prefcience^than in this, that Prefcience onely fore-feetProvidencefore-feeth 2Q and careth for 3 and hath refped to all creatures 3 even from the brighteft Angels of ^ Hem. 8. & 9. Heaven,to the unworthieft Worms of the Earth: and Predeflination ( as it is ufed fpecially by Divines ) is onely of men 3 and yet not of all to men belonging 3 but of their falvation properly, in the common ufe of Divines, or perdition, as feme have Lmb. /.i. difi. ufed it.Yet Peter Lombard,7homas,Bernenfls iheologus, and others,take the word Prede- n’om art i ^nat^on more ftridly,and for a preparation to felicity : divers of the Fathers take it diftl'l*' * more largely fometimes: among whom Saint Angufiine (peaking of two Cities,and two Ban. de Probl. SocietieS,u!feth thefe words3 guarum eft nna, qutfprzedeftinbta iji in sternum regnare cunt Au'd‘t 15 f!. Deo,alter a aternum fuppliemm fubire cum Diabolo 3 Whereofoneis it, which is predeftinated decivit Dei. to reignfor ever with Godftut the other is to undergo everlafting torment with the Devill: for Cai.in cap.9. ad according to Nonius Jltarcellus, dejlinare, eft prxpararej and of the fame opinion are ma- ^ Be^’in magn. nf Proteftant Wr i ter£,as Calvin,Beza,Buchanus,Dan£us, and fuch like:: and as for the amor, in cap.9. manifold queftions hereof arifing,! leave them to the Divines 5 and why it hath plea- v<wms[ 13 de ^ to creatG fome veffels of honour, and fome ofdifhonour, I will anfwer with Sallt. ’ Gregory,who faith ,£>ui in faftisDei rationem non videt,infirmitatem fmnt tmftderam, cur Greg. Magn. n0n uideatgrationem videt $ He thatfeeth no reafon in the aft ions of God, by cOnfideration of Aug^ad Polin. infirmity, perceivefh the reafon of his blindnefs. And again witlr& Auguftine, Or-* ep. 5 9. enha effe vaufa poteftfinjr/fta ejfe non poteft 5 Hidden the caufe of his Predeftmation may begun* jdfUtcuntiotlbe. >. 9 it)hi ; . y.v.vV'A Qfrorij sri f m 50 §. X V. jL i 11 * d i 3 OfFortune .• and of the reafon of fome things thatfeem to be by fortune, and againft Reafon rj andProvidcnce. . ' * . . ■ ~ ■ m • - ■ ^ J 1 J Sj A.i. , x .* - ' ^ 1 . LAftly,feeingDeftiny orNeceffity isfubfequentto Gods Providence, and feeing that the Stars have no other dominion, than is before fpofceti, and that Nature is nothing, but as Plato calleth it, Dei artem , vel artificiofnm Dei ergannm $ The art, -or artifiviall Organ of God■>* and Cufanus , THvfni precepts inftrumenttim 5 The 1

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