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feveiuy Cities, and as Hieronjmm faith well, that 
he was rather famous for his viftories than hij 
war, thus we read in the Prophet D<»wV/,who fpCak- 
ing of the Leopard y chap. 7. v. 6 . faith, thm 
dominion was gwen to It I for when he cametojf- 
rufalem ^nd met the High-Priefi tlrefe, he fell on 
his knees and worfliipped him, being asked the 
reafon why he would fo debafe himfelf, he anfwer- 
ed, that he did not Worfhip the man, but God ; 
for the night befo^j: God did appear to him in the 
fhapcof a High-Prieft, and promifedhim feveral 
Viftories. 
3. As the Leopard hunteth all living Creatures,’ 
a»d' naaketh a prey of them, fo the Dominion of 
Alexander large, as the Prophet £>««/>/ 
faith, that he had dominion over the whole Earth f 
thus 1 MachaUesy it isfaid that he went even to 
the ends of the Earth, for he had overcome the 
greateft part of Enrope, All A fta y Macedonia , 
Armenia y Ilerica^ Alleamay Cappadociay Syria y 
Egypty MoHHt EauritSy CancafttSy Media, Perjia, 
India, and indeed, all the Eaftern Countries in 
general j feveral Kings being fubje^ to him; and 
he had gone further, had not his Army mutynyed;( 
as the learned have obferved out of Q* Curtins ; 
coming from the Eaft to BahyloKy he found there 
thp Ambalfadors from feveral Nations, not only 
from thofe which he had conquered, but from thofe 
which he had not conquered; as out of Africa , 
Spain, France , Itdij, and alfo from the Romans 
tnemfehres, and he had conquered the whole Me- 
diterramaity jHidthe^eft, had he lived a little lon- 
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