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CHAP. XXXIII. Examples of Brethrens love each to other.
THey ought to love one another, Prov. 17. 17. 1 Pet. 3. 8. Rom. 12. 10. Heb. 13. 1.
It's an excellent thing, Psal 133. 1.
Scriptural examples: Jobs children, Job 1. 13. Laza∣rus, Martha, and Mary. John 11. 19, &c. Joseph, Gen. 43. 29, &c. & 45. 14. Joab, and Abishai, 2 Sam. 3. 27, 30. Judah, Gen. 37. 26.
In the beginning of the reigne of Darius King of Per∣sia, [ 1] one of his Nobles called Intaphernes conspired a∣gainst him, which being discovered to Darius, he cau∣sed him, and all his kindred to be cast into prison: But Intaphernes wife exceedingly weeping, and houling, Darius gave her leave to choose any one of the prison∣ers whose life she would have spared: whereupon a∣mongst them all she chose her brother, and Darius asking her why she •…•…se her brother rather then her husband, or son? she answered: Because if God please I may have another husband, and children; but my Pa∣rents being dead, I cannot have another brother. This so pleased Darius, that he granted her the life; not on∣ly of her brother, but of her son too Herod.
Darius King of Persia being dead, left two sons, [ 2] Ariamenes, or as some call him Artabazanes, and Xerx∣es: these both claimed the Kingdome, but brotherly love so prevailed with them, that they were content∣ed to stand to the judgement of the Persian Nobles; yet in the interim, Xerxes being in Persia, performed all the offices of a King; and Ariaments coming out of