overcame the Medes and Perſtuns, Babylon, Egypt, and all the Coun- b tries round, far and near, as if he had bur travell'd over them ; h+ 2 came, ſaw, and overcame them, 0 This was Alexander the Great, the Yeftern Emperor, Creatures that have one Horn are therefore trons C as the Monoceros or Unicorn, Numb. 23. 22. Between his Eyes, notin, I. his Power and Policy, alio his wite Council, Captains and Cendys _ as Parmenio, Clitus, Philotes, &C. , £0 6s And he came to the ram that had two horns j = which I had ſeen ſtanding before the river, and ran untg = him in the fury of his power. apy Þ 7.e, The King of Media and Perfia, and joined Battel preſently het and furiouſly, Fehu like. by CY 7 And I ſaw him come cloſe unto the ram, and he MW ©: was moved with choler againſt him, and ſmote the = ram, and brake his two horns q, and there was ng us power in the ram to ſtand before him, but he caſt hin | down to the ground ,, and ſtamped npon himr : ang thr there was none that could deliver the ram out of his | + hand. þ & q viz. Artaxerxes Mnemon, who aided Cyrus againſt Alexander, an | fot! alſo Darius Codomannus ; theſe are the two Horns, or rather the Mee | her and Perſians, r He overthrew him utterly, that he could never rip = init again, This was at Granicum, Jſum, and Arbela. * 1Th 8 Therefore the he-goat waxed very great 5s, an! WW tt: when he was ſtrong, the great horn was broken t : and : oo for it came up four - notable ones, * towards the four ti wm. winds of heaven #. o firſt s By conquering all the Eaſtern Empire and Power even to Jv, "RE in all t This was the mighty Power of the Lord of Hoſts, who is higher thaz "MIT up an the higheſt, and ſtronger than the ſtrongeſt, though they ſeem invinc = thers ble ; Verily every Man at his beſt Eſtate is altogether Vanity, Selah. When # cured Alexander the Great was greateſt, in his Youth, not 33 Years old; = teucid when he called himſelf the Son of Fupiter 5 when he was ſwoln with 2 Year Victories and Succeſſes ; then was he broken, and that to pieces, fr when he, his Mother, Son, Brother, and all his Kindred, were deftroze!, WF * 148, So weak are the greateſt to bear Proſperity long { for this Wond:: « WF 7 Days. | Men, by Pride, Luxury and Paſſhon, prepared himſelf for Ruine: h WF 7 Hoch that wept becauſe he had not another World to conquer, and war:i MW & Years breathing room in this, how ſoon was he tymbled into a Grave of it WW & *7, 45: Foot ? u 1. Antipater got Greece. 2. Aſia was poſſeſſed by Antigmu, BW © 14> * 3- Prolomy got Egypt. 4+ Seleucus had Babylon and Syria. All this WWF 42" the were variouſly ſituated, to the Eaſt, Babylon and Syria ; to the South, ae fr 4 Ezypt; to the North, 4fia the leſs; to the Weſt, Greece, ; RY 9 And out of one of them + came forth a litk' Cod p horn x, which waxed exceeding great , toward th:"MME.... -..- ſouth y, and toward the eaſt z, and toward the ple Mes, + ſant land a. £4 x This little Horn was Antiochus Epiphanes, he aroſe out of the 5:1 had ſe ci4@ of Syria; called a little Horn, 1. Becauſe he was much leſs than behold Alexander, called a notable Horn, v. 5. 2. Little, becauſe he was the Bn youngeſt of his Brethren, 3. He was held a Priſoner and Pledg at ag Rome, Wh21.ce he eſcaped. 4, Little, becauſe he had nothing at fil — Sp ma of Greatnels and Heroick Noblenels in him,alſo of low Fortune. 1. A cu :
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