'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎263] (286/448)

Chofroes baptised,butapojlath^ih.
But how fubtil foever he was, his Qaeen Gef knew him to be a diflembler • She
(good Lady) therefore to efpoufe Chnft, fled to Ccnflammojk, and there received Ba
ptifm, Cofrhoes following her with 60000 Menbut when he faw Ihe was not to be reco
vered by force or without he wonld become a he alfo was Baptized, and by
his example fuch as fohowed him, to the admiration of the Perftam and amazement of
the ApmckyNoM^FDuwonns in his 4. lib. in FiHor alfo, and in Abbot
of extant in thefe words, In his ergotemforihtis
vettrmf* hxrefa veneno, pacemfm reflitmt Ecclefa,
pens, & {Mem cum Imper. Mmritio firmms, &c. Neverthelefs if I fliould here relate hie
apoftafie, his cruelty againft the ChrtflUm, arid thofe other barbarifms which he foon
after perpetrated, it would require a volume. In brief, fo foon as he heard of the
malfacre of Maurmus with his Wife and Children by a Captain ofhis Armv • and
the arrogance of Boniface the Romifo Bifhop who about that time aflumed the Title of
Vmverfal Btjhop ; he makes this the pretended ground of his new war.
Accordingly firil he rejeds Lilim xhzKomm AmbaiTadour, and then denies Chrift i
but vowing to facrifice himfelf in Mauritius his quarrel^ and thenceforward re-afliim'cL
his Pagan Titles ofCofrhes King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Ruler of Princes, Salvation of
Men, &c. by fuch his blafphemy giving the Perfian Idolaters what afTurance he could
that he was returned to his former Heathenifm^ and, which was worfe, enforcing fuoh
as would continue Chriftiamto fuck in the Herefie of Neftorius who held That mChrifi
were two Perfons as well as two Natures, ^ apeftiferous errour that has well-nigh in-
feded all the Orient. °
. This clone, Anno Dom> 6oi. with an Army of aniooooo Men he entred Syria', there,
mPalefttna and Phoenicia doing all the mifchief imaginable. The lelfer Ana parched
^ W1 J t ^ 1S / Ury ^ the P 00 / he chafed as far as Chalcedon', after that took Ca-
fetfazndEdyjfa, and to his fatisfadion An. Dom. 612. there hears of the untimely deaths
ot Narjes KidPhocas his enemies who were beheaded by Heraclius the Emperour. That
year alio he fackt Apameaj Cafaria, Cappadocia, &c. At Antioch alio was over-joy'd with
a Vidory he obtained againft the Chnflians: which encouraged him to over-run Pale
fine, and in hoftile manner to enter Jerufalem', where he derided Zacharias the ve
nerable Patriarch, the more to vex the poor Chriftians inhabiting that once holy City *
then he raviflied the Crofs from thence, and brought it unto Shyraz., where for fome
years it was forcibly detained. After that he fubjeded uEgypt and part of Libya ; yea,
made the black-fac'd Ethiopians admire his frenzie.
The Roman Empire not without caufe were troubled, when they felt his wrath in Ana
tolia, chiefly in Ancyra the Galatian Metropolis. 'Tis reported how that in this frantick
out-breaking he maflacred not lefs than three hundred thoufand Chriftians ^ partly oc-
cafioned by the Jews who followed the Camp and paid ready money for many, whom
(as ftory fays) without mercy they flaughtered, Heraclim having his hands full elfe-
where, fent feventy Roman Gentlemen to treat of peace: Saes the Perfian General -
puft up with fuccefs, accounting them no better than Spies, in favage fort made them
return again, which Heraclms relented as fo high an indignity that with a choice number
of Men he fought with Saes and had the Vidory: Saes for his ill fuccefs was by Cofrhoes
command flayed alive, and Sarharas made General in his place. Heraclius in the interim
wintered in the Pontique Regions, whilft Sarbaras with a great Army of Horfe pafles
through Cilicia and one Moon-ihine night aflailed the Romans whom he thought to have
found unprepared in their Quartersbut by that hafte loft 50000 of his Men, which
gave as it were new life to the drooping Chriftians.
Cofrhoe not content with this, next Year fent Sarnabajfa againft the Roman Army, but
the Romans having other work nearer home, Heraclim defired a Ceilation : Cofrhoe not
confidering that War is the effed of God's offended Providence^ but rather fuffering his
Reafon to be inflaved by a revengeful paffion vows never to give himfelf reft until he
had exercifed the utmoft of his power'to exterminate the Chriftians, notwithftanding he
had many that lived inoffenfively under his Empire and Government: to that end he fends
Sathyn into Trepizjnd, but at Azotus Heraolim fought with him, and gained a feafonable
Vidory. At Gazacot Cofrhoe dares the Roman Emperour again with an Army of 50000
Perftam, moil of which were Horfe: never was Battle better fought, nor more doubtfully ^
hut at length the Perfians flee, and Cofrhoe himfelf upon a fwift Arabian Courier difdained
flot to poll; to Theobatman, hoping there if any where to find fafety. But fuch was the
general hate he had plunged himfelf into, he durft not truft that Sanduary. Heraclim
therefore refolving to ferret him purfues the Tyrant^, but Cofrhoe hearing of his approach^
thinks it more fafe to flee into Media than look for help from that helplefs Deity. He-
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