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Woe be to thee (saith the Prophet Isaiah) which spoilest, for thou shalt be spoiled: And indeed, one tyrant plagueth another, & though tyrants be a plague to all nations & Kingdoms yet are they themselves in due time in like sort punished by other tyrants▪ In the person of Sennacherib the judgements of God are very lively set forth by the prophet Isaiah in the tenth Chapter of his prophecy: The Lord stirreth up the King of the Assyrians to punish the eastern people: Sennacherib was a wicked man, and he is a scourge to wicked people, yea he cruelly vexed the people of God, he spoileth almost all Palestine, he besiegeth Jerusalem the chief City of that country: And thus saith God of him by the Prophet in that place: O A shur the rod of my wrath and the staff in their hands is mine indignation: I will send him to a ⟨p. 39⟩dissembling nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take the spoil, and to take the pray, and to tread them underfoot like the mire in the street. But he thinketh not so, neither doth his heart esteem it so: and so forth. And a little after, thus saith God by the Prophet of him: But when the Lord hath accomplished all his work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the King of Ashur, and his glorious and proud looks, Because he said, by the power of mine own hand have I done it, and by my wisdom, because I am wise: And a little after this, thus saith the Prophet, Shall the axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith? If Pompey had looked on this example, thus laid forth by the Prophet, he might have been better occupied & instructed, than he was by his toying with Cratippus: and this would have taught him, that thought the Lord suffereth tyrants to be for a time a plague to any nation, yet in his appointed time he suffereth them to be punished ⟨p. 40⟩by other tyrants, and to have the same measure that they measured unto others: Now if we compare Sennacherib, and Pompey that gloried in this Little The great: which name Sulla gave him for his victories: we shall find many things a like in their histories. Both of them was an are in the hand of God to strike the people of the East: both of them destroyed Palestine, and afflicted the people of God:

Woe be to thee (saith the Prophet Isaiah) which spoilest, for thou shalt be spoiled: And indeed, one tyrāt plagueth another, & though tyrants be a plague to all nations & Kingdomes yet are they themselues in due time in like sort punished by other tyrants In the person of Sennacherib the iudgements of God are very liuely set forth by the prophet Isaiah in the tenth Chapter of his prophesie: The Lord stirreth vp the King of the Assirians to punish the eastern people: Sennacherib was a wicked man, and he is a scourge to wicked people, yea hee cruelly vexed the people of God, hee spoileth almost all Palestina, he beseigeth Ierusalem the cheife Citie of that country: And thus saith God of him by the Prophet in that place: O A shur the rod of my wrath and the staffe in their hands is mine indignation: I wil send him to a