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Heroical, and Dioin in the Distribution ofWhicli, Antiquit observ'd his Order. FOUNDERS of States Legislators Tyrannicides, ather of thei Country, and other Persens os reat erit in Civit fissairs, were distingui 'd by the ille of Heroes on-ly, o De my-God such a Theseus, Minor stomulus, and the rest in the other fide, the
nietices, and Accessions inere Ver consecra
ted among the Greater Gotisthenaseives, Whichhappen'd to Ceres, Bacchus, Mercur', Apollo, and thers. Whicli, oubiles s was done just-ly, and pondound Judgment. For the Merit of the former, are commoni confinedwith in the Circle of ne Age, or Nation ;and a re not unlihe ea nable and Duo u rabie Sho Ners, hicii though the be profit ablean desi rabie, et serve ut so thatraeason, Wherei they nil, an for that Latitude of
fit of the lalter, lihe the Blelungs of the uia, and of the eavent Bodies, are o Time, rersetua , o Place, universiit. Again, hos e
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are usuali accompanted illi Strise, and Perturbation , ut These have the true Character of the Divine Presen ce, and come in agentis Gale, ithout Tumuit, or Nuisse.
tain'd: ut is hos are silent, or that Seditions and Tumulis distur them illi their Clamour, ait Thing di sibive, and relapse into Anarch and Confusilon.
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BUT his appears more manifestin
Princes, and GoVernours of State, there have
been eve themappiest Times. For horus ver ing thenaseives may have thei Errorsan Imperfeὰions bella liable o Passions, and deprave Customs, lihe thermem; et is the have the Illumination o Learn in certain anticipate Notions of Religion, oli-cy, and Morality, hold them bach and refrain them froni ali ruinous aud incurable Excess,
lit of their ito disin tangi an rescue thenaseives in the ver Instant of Periis.
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WHICH Felicit of Times unde Lear ned Prinees to kee stili heia os Brevi ty, by using only the mos select an most eminent Examples' dotii est appea in that Age, whicli passed frona the Death o Domitian the Emperor, unti the Reigia os Commodus, Comprehending a Successioni si Princes, Learn-ed thenaseives, or at east singula Favourerso Learning and of at Ages is, regarii Iempora Happinesse the mos flourishmg, that Rome theta the Epitomes of the worid, ever saru : A alter reveale and prefiguredio Domitian in a ream, the Night before hewas lain For e thought he a a Golden Head rowρι ut of the Nape of his Nech Whicli Divination inas indeed ulnil'd in those Golden Times hicli succeeded of hicli Princes, initi mahe so me Commemoration , wherein although the alter illi vulgar, and may be thought litter for a Declamation, than agreeable to a Treatis in folded a this 3 et ecauserit is pertinent to the oint in hand neque semper arcum tendit Apollo Pand
THE fir si a Nerva, the XCellent Temper os, hos Go verninent is, by a Glance in Cornelius Tacitus, tota che to the Lis Caster Nerva ad unite imo ebore incompatibi Things, Empire an Liberi , An Lintoken
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tor an dirofessor are recordexto have been
in the ighest equest. O the ther side,
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sionate an fervent Prayers, for the Deliveryo his oui ut o Heli , an to have obtainexit illi a Caveat that he mould maheno more Petitions. In his Prince' Time also the Persecutions against the Christians received Intermisiton, po the Certiscat os Plinius Secundiιs, a Manis excellent Learn-ing, and by r an advanced. ADRIAN. hi successor, Was the osscurious Maia that lived, and the mos universa Enquire insomuch scit a noted se an Error in his Mind that he desirexto comprehen ali Things, and o to reservehimself so the orthiest Things, fallin in-
to the like Humour that was longaesore note in Philip o Macedon, ho hen e
the Curiosit of this Emperor, Mancinduce-men to the eace of his Church in thos Days havin Christ in Veneration, notas a God or avio ur, ut S a Wonder orNovelty, and avin his Picture in his Gal-lery, alched initii Apollonius, inith ohom in his ain Imagination, he thought he hadssem Conformity yet it serve the turn to allanthe bitte Hatred of those imus against the
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the Christia Name the Church ad Peace durin his Time. An for his Go- verninent Civit, although e id not attain to that o Trajans, in Glor of Arms, or
Perfectionis Iusticeri et in deseruing of the weal of the Subject he id exceed hi m.
kin Bridges an Passages, an sor Policingo Cities an Common alties, illi ne in Ordinances an Constitutions ' an grantingne Franchises and Incorporations So thathis hole Time a a perfect Refloration fati the Lapses and Decays o forme TlmeS. ANTONINUS i ιι ιwho succcededaim, Was a Prince excellent lyraearnes , and ad the patient and subtile it os a School-m an insomuch as in common peech, rubicli
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Seed, hicli is one of the least Seeds: Sucha Patienceae had, and setite Spirit, to enter into the least and most exact Differences of Causes ruit no do ubi, of the exceeding Tranquillit an Serenit of his Miny, whichaeing o Ways charged or incumbredeithe withaears, Remorses, o Scruples, buthavin been note sor man of the purest Goodnes vii thout ali Fictionis Affectation, that at reigne or lived made his MindContinuali present an entire: Heritheruisse approached a Degre nearer uni Christiani-ty, aridaeca me, as Agrippa aid uni St. Pard, has a Chri an holding their Religion and La in good opinion, and not ni ceasing Persecution, but giving Way to the Advance- mentis Christians.
Fratres, the two adoptive rethren, Lucius Comnio iis Verris, Son to Essius Verris, inhodelighted much in the oster hind of Learning, and was Won to cal the Poet Martia his Virgil and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, here- of the Lalter, ho obscure his Collegue, and urvived hi in long was named the Philosopher inlio as he excellu at the est in Learn in g, si he excell' them likewis in Persection o ali Roya Viriues; in s much as Julia the Eniperor initiis Book intilled, Caesares, hich Was a Lindis Satyr, to deride ali his redecessers, eigne that they
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were ali invitexto a Banque of the Gods, and Silentis the Iester sate at the nether Endo the able, and bestowed a Scossi pon every oneras the came in , ut hen Marcus Philosophiis came in Silenus a gravelled, and utio Countenance, havin noth in toobject, or car at excepi his Patience to-Ward the Humours of his iis And the Virtve of this Prince continued illi that of his Predecessor, ad the a me of Antoni-1rris o sacre in the orld that though it ruere extremel distronoured in Commodus, Caracalla, and Heliogabalus, who ali ore thema me) et hen Alexander Seberus re-'fused the Name, ecausea was a Strangerto the Fami ly the Senate, With ne Acclamation a id Quomodo Augustus sic o Antonimis. In suci Reno in and Veneration, Wasthema me of these No Princes in thos e Days, that the would have ad ii as a perpetuat Addition in ali the Emperors Style. In his Emperor' Time also the Church for themos part was in Peace as in his Series of si Princes, e se the bl essed Effect o Learn in in overei gnty, patia ted
forti in the Great able of the Worid. BUT D a Table o Picture os maller
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sin forte a Parallel among omen This Lad was endued with Learn in g, in her Sex
singular, and Grace even amon Masculine Princes , hethe we spea o Learn in os Langu ages, or of Science, Modern O Antient, Divini ty o Humani ty. An to the very ast Iear of herii se, he was accusto- me to appotnt et Hours for Reading, carce-l any oun Student in an University, moredaily, o more duly. A for her overn-ment, I assure in self, Ι halliso exceed, i I assirin, that this par of the Isian neve had 3 ears of iter Times; andye no through the Cainanes of the eason, but through the is dona of her Regiment. For i there e considere o the one side, the Truth of Religion e stablista ex the constant Peace and Securityn the good Administration os Iustice, the temperate se of
the Prerogative o sackened, o muchstrained , theolourishin State of Learn ing, sui ting illi se excellent a PatronesSA the convenient state os ealth and Means both o Crorun an Subjectri, the Habit of Obedience, and the Moderationos Discontenis And therei considere onthe ther de the Differences of Religion, the Troubles of Neigh bour Countries, the Ambitionis Spain, and Oppositi ion o Rome, an then that he was solitary, and of herself L. These Things, I say, consider' d, a I