A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

CHAP. LXV. Examples of Love to ones Countrey, and Countrey-men.

SCriptural Examples: David, 2 Sam. 24. 17. Mor∣decai, Esth. 4. 1. Esther, c. 4. 16. Nehemiah, c. 1. 4. &c. The Jewes, Psal. 137. 1, 5, 6. Paul, Rom. 9. 2, 3.

Camillus the Roman General having after ten [ 1] years siege taken the rich City of Veia, one came to him, and told him, that he was a happy man, where∣upon lifting up his hands towards heaven, he said; O mighty Jupiter, and ye O gods, which see, and judge mens works good and bad, you know right well that we have not begun this war, but justly to be revenged on a City that wronged us: But if to countervail this great prosperity, and victory, some bitter adversity be predesti∣nated for us, I then beseech you to spare the City of Rome, and this our Army, and let it wholly fall upon my person alone. Plut.

Whilest Codrus was K. of Athens, the Pelopone∣sians, [ 2] upon an old grudge came with a great Army against the Athenians, and sending to the Oracle to know the event of the War; They were answered, That they should have good successe if they did not kill the King of Athens: Whereupon they charged all their Souldiers to be sure not to hurt Codrus the King when they came to the battell: Codrus un∣derstanding all this, changed his apparel with a common Souldier, and with a Snapsack on his back he went to the Peloponesian Army, and there picking a quarrel with one of the Souldiers, wounded him,

whereupon the Souldier slew him, and after his death, being found to be Codrus, the Peloponesians returned back, expecting no good successe: and thus Codrus out of love to his Country, voluntarily dyed to deliver it from danger. Pez. Mel. Hist.

Agesilaus King of Sparta did so love and esteem [ 3] his Countrey, that for the profit of it he neither spared his pains, nor shunned dangers, nor favoured his old age; and though by his prudent and upright dealing he had gotten all the power into his own hands, yet he studied nothing more then to main∣tain the Lawes, and to shew himself subservient to them, and amongst those which raised up dissensi∣ons in the Common-Wealth he carried himself as a father to his children chiding those that erred, and honouring those that did well. Plut.

Sylla having overcome Marius in Battel, com∣manded [ 4] all the Citizens of Praeneste to be slain, ex∣cepting onely one that was his intimate friend: But he hearing the Bloody sentence against the rest, stepped forth, and said, That he scorned to live by his favour who was the destroyer of his Country, and so went amongst the rest who were to be slain. Ful∣gos.

Sertorius the more he prospered and prevailed in [ 5] his Wars in Spain, the more importunate he was with Metellus, and Pompey, the Captains of his ene∣mies, that laying down Armes they would give him leave to return into Italy again, professing that he had rather live a private life with the sweet enjoy∣ment of his Countrey, then to obtain the Govern∣ment of many Cities. Sabi. l. 8.

Nescio quâ natale solum dulcedine cunctos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.