An
Houreglasse
.
The
Confirmation
of
the
Computation
.
THE
first
Article
,
from
the
Creation
to
Noah
,
is
proued
in
Gen
,
5.
where
the
ages
of
the
Fathers
are
recorded
.
From
Noah
to
the
beginning
of
the
Deluge
is
proued
,
Gen.
7.11.12
.
The
continuance
of
the
Deluge
to
the
end
,
Gen
,
8.14
.
This
yeare
of
the
Deluge
,
being
a
iust
solare
yeare
of
365.
dayes
(
as
I
noted
before
)
is
omitted
by
many
in
their
Computations
,
and
cleane
left
out
:
but
Io.
Funccius
setteth
it
a
yeare
latter
than
it
should
be
,
and
so
ouer-reckoneth
the
time
by
a
whole
yeare
.
For
although
in
his
first
edition
he
begin
the
Deluge
,
as
all
auncient
Chronologers
doo
,
at
the
7.
day
of
the
second
month
of
Noachs
600
yeare
:
yet
in
his
second
Edition
,
vpon
better
aduisement
(
as
hee
sayth
)
hee
beginneth
it
the
same
day
in
Noachs
601
yeare
,
wherein
other
notable
Chronologers
since
doo
follow
him
.
But
surely
their
reasons
are
lame
,
and
not
concludent
:
yea
plaine
flatt
against
Moses
,
who
sayth
the
beginning
was
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
In
the
sixe
hundreth
yeare
of
Noah
:
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
After
the
end
of
the
six
hundreth
yere
,
as
he
speaketh
,
Gen.
16.3
.
where
hee
intendeth
full
and
complete
yeares
.
For
questionles
ב
euer
importeth
the
day
,
month
,
or
yeare
current
,
not
complete
.
His
infallible
rule
(
as
hee
calleth
it
)
is
most
fallible
and
false
.
His
rule
is
,
that
whersoeuer
a
number
of
yeares
is
set
downe
,
and
months
,
and
daies
be
added
to
the
same
,
that
must
needs
be
vnderstood
of
yeares
complete
.
By
which
rule
it
must
be
vnderstood
,
Deut.
1.3
.
that
Moses
deliuered
Deuteronomie
in
the
11.
month
of
the
41.
yeare
after
the
departing
out
of
Egypt
:
whereas
Funccius
himselfe
maketh
Iosua
to
begin
presently
after
the
end
of
the
40.
yeares
:
yea
,
and
Aaron
too
,
must
be
vnderstood
,
Num.
33.38
.
to
die
in
the
first
day
of
the
5.
month
of
the
41.
yeare
of
the
Israelites
departing
out
of
Egypt
,
which
himselfe
doth
not
thinke
.
As
for
that
Gen.
7.6
.
And
Noah
was
six
hundred
yeare
old
,
when
the
floud
of
waters
was
vppon
the
earth
(
whereupon
they
stand
so
much
,
)
it
is
not
spoken
of
the
Beginning
,
but
of
the
Being
of
the
floud
vpon
the
earth
.
The
very
instant
of
the
beginning
thereof
is
euidently
and
purposely
expressed
.
v.
11.
The
second
Article
is
confirmed
.
Gen
,
11.
from
the
10.
verse
to
the
25.
where
the
age
of
the
Fathers
after
the
floud
vnto
Terah
are
recorded
.
But
about
the
natiuitie
of
Arphaxad
there
is
some
odding
.
For
some
account
from
the
end
of
the
Deluge
to
his
birth
,
but
one
yeare
,
and
other
scarse
that
,
whereas
we
account
two
yeres
.
For
in
the
1657
yeare
,
the
2
month
,
and
27
day
the
Deluge
ended
,
Gen.
8.13
.
The
same
day
and
month
of
the
yeare
,
1659
end
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
two
yeares
after
the
floud
,
Ge.
11.10
.
And
these
two
yeres
are
to
be
taken
for
complete
,
as
both
the
nature
of
the
Duall
number
importeth
,
and
also
the
vse
of
the
same
word
in
scripture
,
2.
Sam.
13.
&
14.
Ierem.
28.
For
when
the
holy
Ghost
meaneth
the
second
yeare
Current
,
hee
sayth
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
as
1.
Reg.
15.2
.
Reg.
1.
&
14.
&
15.
&
19.
And
if
it
had
beene
expressely
said
,
that
Arphaxad
was
borne
in
the
2.
yere
Current
,
yet
that
might
be
in
the
first
or
second
month
of
this
yeare
,
1659.
and
therefore
I
make
the
yeare
of
the
world
1659.
and
the
third
yeare
after
the
end
of
the
floud
,
to
be
the
first
yeare
of
his
age
▪
Eusebius
between
Adam
and
Terahs
71
yeare
(
which
he
maketh
Abrahams
first
)
ouerreckoneth
the
time
by
1236
yeares
.
For
from
Adam
to
the
ende
of
the
Deluge
he
sayth
there
are
2242
,
which
is
too
much
by
586.
For
himselfe
sayth
,
that
after
the
account
of
the
Hebrues
,
it
is
but
1656.
&
so
the
seuerall
yeres
of
the
fathers
which
himself
a
little
before
did
set
down
,
doe
amount
to
the
same
total
summe
of
1656.
though
he
misse
in
some
particulars
,
adding
to
Adam
20.
yeres
which
he
taketh
from
Iered
:
and
to
Seth
25.
which
he
taketh
from
Mahaleel
.
Yet
the
Lxx.
Greeke
Interpreters
are
wider
off
than
he
.
For
they
reckon
to
the
end
of
the
Deluge
,
2362.
which
is
more
than
Eusebius
by
120.
but
that
totall
of
2242.
which
Eusebius
hath
,
agreeth
with
the
Latine
Translation
of
the
lxx
.
Interpreters
,
which
giueth
Adam
100.
yeares
lesse
,
and
Mathushelah
20.
yeares
lesse
than
the
Greeke
doth
.
Againe
betweene
the
Deluge
and
Terahs
seuentie
one
yeare
;
(
which
he
after
the
common
opinion
,
supposeth
to
be
the
first
yeare
of
Abraham
)
he
saith
,
there
are
720.
yeares
:
which
summe
is
surely
corrupted
&
falsefied
.
For
in
the
body
of
his
Chronicle
,
he
maketh
Abrahams
first
to
be
the
yeare
of
the
world
3185.
&
vpon
that
ground
proceedeth
in
all
his
Chronicle
,
whereby
it
is
euident
that
he
maketh
betweene
the
Deluge
and
Abrahams
birth
942.
yet
the
seuerall
summes
of
the
fathers
ages
,
which
he
setteth
downe
before
,
amount
to
1082.
which
sum
the
lxx
.
make
betweene
the
Deluge
and
Terahs
seuentie
one
yeare
,
wanting
but
10.
yeres
,
which
Eusebius
putteth
to
Nahor
more
than
the
lxx
.
did
,
and
those
10.
yeares
he
stroke
out
in
the
sum
,
wherby
he
proceedeth
in
his
Chronicle
:
as
also
130.
which
both
he
and
they
giue
to
one
Cainan
:
because
in
the
Hebrue
there
is
no
such
man
as
Cainan
.
And
then
there
remaine
the
foresaide
942.
which
is
too
much
by
650.
as
himselfe
intimateth
in
the
51.
yeare
of
Abraham
,
affirming
that
vnto
that
yeare
the
Hebrues
account
but
2000
yeares
.
The
cause
of
this
Surplussage
is
in
the
lxx
.
Interpreters
whome
herein
hee
followeth
who
to
make
the
yeares
of
the
Fathers
after
the
Deluge
somewhat
proportionable
to
those
before
the
Deluge
,
giue
to
all
the
Fathers
betweene
Sem
and
Nahor
100.
yeares
a
peece
,
and
to
Nahor
50.
more
than
the
Hebrue
hath
,
and
so
likewise
before
the
Deluge
the
lxx
.
gaue
to
Adam
200.
to
Lemech
6.
&
to
al
the
rest
,
that
wer
not
in
their
hundredths
100.
a
peece
.
This
Computatiton
of
Eusebius
,
coupling
Abrahams
first
with
the
3185.
of
the
world
,
is
vsed
by
many
,
as
Origen
,
Epiphanius
,
Cedrenus
,
Nicephorus
&c.
and
by
the
Greeke
church
,
&
East
Empire
euen
at
the
counsell
of
Basill
.
The
time
of
Terahs
age
,
when
hee
begatte
Abraham
,
is
also
controuersed
.
For
the
Hebrues
say
,
that
Terah
begat
Abraham
,
when
hee
was
70.
yeare
old
,
and
so
begin
Abrahams
first
with
Terahs
71.
whom
all
Greekes
and
almost
Latines
follow
.
For
which
opinion
these
reasons
may
be
giuen
.
First
Moses
Gen.
11.26
.
expresseth
the
70.
yeare
of
Terah
,
and
ioyneth
next
to
it
the
name
of
Abraham
,
by
whom
the
Computation
was
to
be
continued
:
and
Terah
liued
70.
yeares
and
begat
Abraham
,
Nahor
and
Haran
.
Secondly
,
because
that
yeare
130.
(
at
which
age
by
this
account
Terah
should
beget
Abraham
)
is
no
where
expressed
by
Moses
:
So
that
whereas
all
the
Patriarkes
haue
their
ages
recorded
,
only
Abraham
,
the
father
of
all
the
faithfull
,
euen
the
Archpatriarke
,
hath
his
omitted
:
and
his
age
in
other
yeares
is
fiue
times
set
downe
:
which
were
all
great
absurdities
.
Thirdly
,
ab
Analogia
:
because
after
the
Deluge
most
of
the
Fathers
begat
about
the
age
of
30.
onely
Terah
at
130.
Fourthly
,
because
Abraham
himselfe
wondreth
that
he
should
haue
a
sonne
at
100
,
yeare
olde
:
which
were
no
wonder
if
hee
were
begotten
when
his
father
was
130.
yeare
old
.
All
this
is
counterpesed
by
the
onelie
authoritie
of
Saint
Stephen
,
Act.
7.4
.
who
plainelie
affirmeth
,
that
Abraham
abode
at
Haran
till
his
Father
Terah
was
dead
:
and
Moses
recordeth
Gen.
11.32
.
that
Terah
died
,
when
he
was
205.
yeare
old
,
&
that
Abraham
then
presently
departing
from
Haran
was
75.
yere
old
Gen.
12.1.4
.
which
beeing
subducted
out
of
205.
there
remaine
130.
which
was
Terahs
age
when
he
begat
Abram
.
And
this
is
plaine
by
the
very
text
of
Moses
,
if
by
the
deuiding
of
the
chapter
,
the
sence
and
matter
were
not
somewhat
broken
in
sight
and
disioynted
.
For
thus
it
hangeth
together
:
And
the
daies
of
Terah
were
205.
yeares
,
and
Terah
died
in
Haran
.
For
God
had
said
to
Abraham
:
Get
thee
out
of
thy
country
,
and
from
thy
natiue
soyle
,
and
from
thy
fathers
house
,
vnto
the
land
that
I
will
shew
thee
:
and
I
will
make
of
thee
a
great
Nation
,
and
will
blesse
thee
,
and
make
thy
name
great
:
and
thou
shalt
be
a
blessing
.
I
will
also
blesse
them
that
blesse
thee
,
and
curse
them
that
curse
thee
:
and
in
thee
shall
all
the
families
of
the
earth
bee
blessed
.
And
Abram
departed
,
euen
as
the
Lord
spake
vnto
him
;
and
Lot
went
with
him
,
and
Abram
was
75.
yeare
old
when
he
departed
out
of
Haran
.
What
can
bee
spoken
more
plainely
,
to
shew
that
Abram
was
75.
yeare
old
,
when
his
Father
was
205.
yeare
old
:
and
therefore
his
father
130.
yeares
elder
than
hee
?
Doth
not
Moses
say
expressely
;
that
Terah
died
when
he
was
205.
yeare
old
:
and
then
God
said
to
Abram
,
Goe
out
of
thy
Country
:
and
Abram
anon
as
God
had
spoken
,
departed
,
being
then
75.
yeare
old
;
and
this
is
the
very
first
time
that
Abrahams
age
is
spoken
of
by
Moses
,
seruing
onely
to
shewe
at
what
yeare
of
Terahs
age
he
was
borne
.
Of
the
obiections
alleaged
,
the
first
is
infringed
by
Genesis
5.33
.
And
Noah
was
fiue
hundred
yeares
old
,
and
Noah
begat
Sem
,
Cham
,
and
Iaphet
.
Where
in
the
very
same
sort
,
Noahs
500.
yeare
is
expressed
,
&
the
name
of
Sem
,
by
whom
the
Computation
was
to
be
continued
,
ioyned
next
with
it
:
and
yet
it
is
plaine
by
Gen.
11.10
.
that
Sem
was
begotten
two
yeares
after
,
as
Funccius
himselfe
proueth
.
And
also
by
1.
Paral.
1.
28.
where
it
is
said
,
The
sonnes
of
Abraham
were
Isaak
and
Ismael
,
and
yet
no
man
will
say
,
that
Isaak
was
the
elder
.
The
reason
of
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
those
places
may
be
the
excellencie
of
the
Persons
,
in
regard
that
the
Messias
should
descend
of
them
.
Secondly
the
absurdities
are
all
auoided
:
because
by
the
coupling
of
Terahs
205.
yeare
,
with
Abrams
75.
yeare
,
Abrahams
natiuitie
is
most
certaine
.
Thirdly
,
the
proportion
which
is
pretended
,
was
in
the
first-borne
.
For
doubtles
the
other
Fathers
had
their
last
children
at
a
farre
greater
age
;
and
perhaps
Haran
was
borne
,
when
Terah
was
70.
yeare
old
,
for
that
he
was
farre
elder
than
Nahor
,
appeareth
verse
29.
in
that
hee
had
a
daughter
mariageable
for
Nahor
;
and
also
elder
than
Abram
the
Iewes
doe
inferre
,
holding
that
his
daughter
Ischa
,
was
Sara
Abrams
wife
being
but
ten
yeare
yonger
than
Abram
as
Moses
sheweth
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
,
that
argument
is
of
no
force
:
for
there
was
a
greater
disproportion
and
oddes
between
Noach
and
the
other
Fathers
before
him
,
and
euery
man
seeth
that
the
mistaking
of
that
ground
caused
the
lxx
.
and
Eusebius
to
misse
their
footing
so
much
in
the
yeares
of
the
other
Fathers
.
Fourthly
the
cause
of
Abrahams
admiration
was
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
Rom.
4.19
.
that
is
,
that
himselfe
haueing
a
dead
body
,
and
Sara
his
wife
a
dead
wombe
,
beeing
both
by
nature
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
barren
and
vnfruitfull
,
Gen.
15.2.3
.
and
Moses
affirmeth
apparantly
for
Sara
,
Gen.
11.30
.
)
should
nowe
after
they
had
beene
married
aboue
40.
yeares
together
,
at
that
age
,
he
being
100.
The
third
Article
is
plainely
confirmed
Gen.
12.4
.
And
Abram
was
75.
yeare
old
,
when
he
departed
from
Haran
.
The
fourth
Article
is
cleare
.
Exo.
12.40
.
&
the
soiourning
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
which
soiourned
in
Egipt
,
was
430.
yeare
.
Yet
about
the
beginning
of
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Soiourning
or
Peregrination
there
is
some
controuersie
.
For
it
seemeth
,
it
ought
to
begin
at
the
descending
of
Iacob
into
Egypt
:
Because
Moses
calleth
it
the
soiorning
of
the
Israelites
and
to
bee
in
Egypt
:
which
reasons
are
verie
pregnant
,
were
it
not
euident
in
Scripture
to
be
otherwise
.
For
first
Cohath
beeing
one
of
the
Descenders
,
liued
but
133.
yeares
.
Exod.
6.17
.
Amram
his
son
liued
but
137.
yeares
verse
19.
&
Moses
his
sonne
,
when
they
came
out
,
was
but
80.
yeare
old
.
Exod.
7.9
.
all
which
added
together
come
short
of
430.
If
Cohath
descended
when
hee
was
but
a
yeare
old
,
and
Amram
and
Moses
were
borne
in
the
yere
that
their
fathers
died
in
.
But
indeed
,
from
Iacobs
&
the
Israelites
descending
into
Egipt
vnto
their
departing
thence
is
but
215
yeres
,
as
these
ancient
Writers
auouch
.
Ioseph
.
Antiqu.
lib.
2.
cap.
13.
Eusebius
out
of
Alexander
Polihister
praep.
Euang.
lib.
9.
cap.
4.
Cedrenus
,
Zoneras
,
&
Sulpitius
Seuerus
:
which
is
iust
halfe
the
time
of
the
Pilgrimage
or
soiourning
,
as
Epiphanius
noteth
in
Anccrato
.
Againe
saint
Paull
,
Gal.
3.17
.
euidently
sheweth
,
that
those
430.
yeares
are
the
space
betweene
the
promise
made
to
Abraham
,
and
the
law
giuen
to
Moses
.
And
therefore
in
Exod.
12.40
.
the
name
Israelite
must
be
taken
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
the
lxx
.
doe
cleare
,
adding
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
these
wordes
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
they
and
their
fathers
and
Egipt
is
taken
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
part
for
all
,
as
the
lxx
.
doe
likewise
expresse
it
,
adding
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
&
in
the
land
of
Canaan
,
and
Gen.
15.
it
is
not
said
they
shal
be
strangers
in
Egipt
,
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
a
land
that
is
not
their
owne
:
neyther
doe
the
wordes
Exod.
12.40
.
importe
that
they
were
so
long
in
Egipt
:
for
thus
they
sound
:
The
soiourning
of
the
children
of
Israell
which
soiourned
in
Egipt
,
was
430
yeares
.
So
that
the
wordes
,
which
soiourned
in
Egipt
,
serue
for
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
to
describe
the
persons
,
not
for
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
to
define
the
time
.
So
that
it
is
cleare
that
the
peregrination
began
in
Abrams
time
,
but
at
what
yeare
of
his
age
,
is
a
greater
question
:
for
many
great
Chronologers
begin
it
at
the
taking
of
Abrahams
iournie
from
Haran
,
when
he
was
75.
yere
old
:
but
I
am
of
the
opinion
,
that
it
began
at
the
taking
of
his
iournie
from
Vr
to
Haran
when
he
was
iust
70.
yeare
old
:
Whereunto
I
am
induced
by
foure
credible
and
sufficient
witnesses
.
1
Moses
,
or
rather
God
himselfe
in
Moses
,
Gen.
15.13
.
plainely
pronounceth
,
that
Abrams
seede
should
be
soiourners
and
subiects
or
seruants
in
a
forraine
Land
400.
yeares
.
The
seede
which
he
meant
,
was
Isaak
;
&
the
terme
which
he
mentioneth
,
began
at
Isaaks
birth
,
as
S.
Steuen
sheweth
euidently
,
Act.
7.8
.
And
so
Abraham
begat
Isaak
,
and
circumcised
him
,
hauing
relation
as
well
to
the
soiourning
,
as
to
the
circumcising
of
Isaak
.
Isaak
was
borne
,
when
Abraham
was
100.
yeare
old
,
Gen.
21.5
.
whereout
we
must
take
30.
&
there
remaine
70.
for
Abrahams
age
before
the
soiourning
,
and
then
he
tooke
his
iourney
from
Vr
,
to
goe
to
Canaan
,
Gen.
11
31.
and
soiourned
30.
yeares
without
seede
,
and
then
his
seede
soiourned
400.
which
make
vp
the
430.
recorded
,
Exod.
12.4
.
They
which
beginne
the
soiourning
at
Abrahams
iourney
from
Haran
,
are
forced
to
make
405.
yeares
betweene
Isaaks
birth
and
the
departing
out
of
Egypt
:
and
therefore
some
of
them
say
,
that
the
tearme
of
400
,
yeares
,
began
at
Ismaels
deriding
of
Isaak
,
when
he
was
(
as
they
imagine
)
5.
yeares
old
.
But
first
it
is
vncertaine
when
that
was
done
.
Secondly
God
saieth
that
his
seed
shall
not
onlie
be
afflicted
;
but
also
bee
both
Soiourners
and
Subiectes
too
.
Thirdly
that
hee
will
iudge
the
Nation
,
which
shall
afflict
them
:
which
was
neuer
verified
in
Ismael
,
or
the
Ismaelites
:
but
on
the
Nation
of
Egypt
.
Againe
other
of
them
say
,
that
God
spake
indefinitly
&
summa
solida
,
without
respect
of
the
smal
oddes
of
5.
which
is
an
indefinite
answere
,
and
will
serue
for
anie
thing
,
and
therefore
not
to
bee
admitted
,
but
where
the
true
and
definite
number
is
otherwise
manifest
.
As
Iud.
20.46
.
there
are
mentioned
but
only
20000
:
though
there
were
20100.
because
that
odde
hundred
was
euidently
set
downe
before
in
the
definite
number
,
verse
35.
2
,
Achior
in
the
booke
of
Iudith
,
(
who
protesteth
that
there
shall
not
a
lie
come
out
of
his
mouth
)
most
euidentlye
beginneth
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
Soiourning
of
the
Israelites
,
6.
This
people
came
of
the
stocke
of
the
Chaldaeans
,
7.
and
they
soiourned
before
in
Mesopotamia
,
because
they
would
not
follow
the
Gods
of
their
fathers
,
which
were
in
the
land
of
Chaldaea
,
8.
but
they
went
out
of
the
way
of
their
auncesters
,
&
worshipped
the
God
of
heauen
,
the
God
whom
they
knew
;
so
they
cast
them
out
from
the
face
of
their
Gods
,
and
they
fled
into
Mesopotamia
and
[
a
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a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
as
Moses
saith
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Gen.
11.31
.
Soiourned
there
many
dayes
.
9.
Then
their
God
commaunded
them
to
depart
from
their
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b
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Soiourning
and
to
go
into
the
land
of
Chanaan
,
and
they
dwelt
there
,
and
were
increased
with
gold
&
siluer
and
with
very
much
cattell
.
10.
But
when
a
famine
couered
all
the
land
of
Chanaan
,
they
went
into
Egypt
and
soiourned
there
,
vntill
they
returned
.
And
so
Moses
maketh
plainely
their
being
at
Haran
a
soiourning
Gen.
11.31
.
vsing
the
selfe
same
word
which
he
doth
Exod.
12.40
.
and
therefore
when
Moses
accounteth
from
eyther
of
the
latter
soiournings
,
he
doth
specifie
it
,
as
Gen.
16.3
.
Then
after
10
years
of
the
soiourning
of
Abraham
in
Chanaan
.
Not
of
the
whole
soiourning
,
but
of
that
particular
part
of
it
.
3.
Saint
Steuen
Act.
7.
peremptorily
affirmeth
,
that
that
famous
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
recorded
Gen.
12.1
.
Get
thee
out
of
thy
countrie
,
and
from
thy
kindred
,
into
the
land
that
I
will
shew
thee
&c.
was
spoken
to
Abraham
,
before
he
came
to
Haran
,
and
Moses
insinuateth
the
same
sufficientlie
Cha.
11
,
31.
affirming
that
Abraham
with
Terah
came
from
Vr
,
to
goe
into
Chanaan
.
Moreouer
saint
Steuen
auoucheth
,
that
Abraham
did
obey
,
follow
,
&
execute
or
put
in
practise
the
same
calling
,
when
he
came
from
Vr.
2
The
God
of
glorie
appeared
vnto
our
Father
Abraham
,
while
he
was
in
Mesopotamia
,
before
he
dwelt
in
Haran
.
3.
and
said
vnto
him
.
Come
out
of
thy
countrey
,
and
from
thy
kindred
,
and
come
into
the
land
that
I
will
shew
thee
.
4.
THEN
came
he
out
of
the
land
of
the
Chaldaeans
&
dwelt
at
Haran
:
and
thence
when
his
Father
was
dead
,
hee
made
him
flit
into
the
land
,
wherein
you
now
dwell
.
4
Saint
Paul
,
Gal.
3.8.14.17
.
ioyneth
with
S.
Steuen
and
maketh
all
plaine
,
auouching
that
the
law
was
giuen
430.
yeares
after
the
promise
.
What
promise
hee
vrgeth
,
appeareth
ver.
8.
&
14.
namely
this
:
and
in
thee
shall
all
the
Nations
of
the
earth
bee
blessed
.
Which
was
spoken
in
respect
of
Christ
,
as
Paul
prooueth
:
and
it
was
spoken
to
Abraham
,
when
hee
was
bidden
goe
out
of
his
countrey
&c.
as
Moses
sheweth
Gen.
12.3
.
&
that
was
before
Abraham
dwelt
at
Haran
:
as
saint
Steuen
sayeth
.
Ioyne
Paul
to
Steuen
,
and
them
both
to
Moses
:
and
take
old
Achior
to
them
;
&
I
thinke
the
proofe
of
this
Article
will
bee
clearer
than
the
sunne
in
his
morning
brightnes
,
and
stronger
than
the
authoritie
and
arguments
of
men
can
infringe
.
The
reasons
which
the
other
opinion
standeth
vppon
are
very
slender
,
as
1.
that
God
so
precisely
dateth
the
departing
of
Abraham
from
Haran
,
namely
when
he
was
75.
yeare
old
,
which
they
say
could
be
done
for
no
other
cause
,
than
to
limite
the
beginning
of
the
Peregrination
.
But
it
appeareth
in
the
former
Article
,
Pag.
that
the
75.
yeare
of
Abraham
,
beeing
the
first
yeare
of
his
age
mentioned
by
Moses
,
was
there
so
precisely
set
downe
with
Terahs
death
,
and
age
at
his
death
,
to
shew
the
distance
from
the
birth
of
Terah
,
to
the
birth
of
Abraham
:
which
could
not
otherwise
be
knowne
.
2.
They
vrge
that
Abraham
was
bid
to
goe
out
of
his
fathers
house
.
I
would
know
of
them
whether
Vr
were
not
his
fathers
house
,
when
GOD
spake
to
him
before
he
came
to
Haran
,
&
before
they
went
from
Vr
for
Canaan
.
Gen.
11.31
.
he
was
not
bid
go
from
his
father
,
&
therefore
his
father
and
he
both
together
left
their
auncient
mansion
,
and
house
of
their
auncetrie
.
Againe
Abraham
was
bid
go
from
his
natiue
soyle
,
or
land
of
his
natiuitie
,
and
that
was
not
Haran
but
Chaldaea
,
and
there
Abraham
beginneth
his
Peregrination
,
euen
from
the
land
wherein
he
was
borne
,
Gen.
24.7
.
Thirdly
they
presse
the
order
of
the
text
.
Gen.
12.1
.
as
though
that
calling
of
Abraham
,
were
after
the
death
of
Terah
:
because
it
is
placed
after
.
Whereas
indeed
it
is
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
reason
of
the
iournie
of
Abraham
from
Vr
toward
Canaan
,
which
Moses
had
specially
set
downe
,
Chap.
11.
31.
without
insinuating
any
cause
of
it
,
and
the
32.
verse
is
inserted
betweene
,
by
way
of
a
Parenthesis
.
The
order
and
sence
of
the
Story
is
this
.
Then
Terah
tooke
Abraham
his
sonne
,
and
Lot
the
sonne
of
Haran
,
his
sonnes
sonne
,
his
daughter
in
law
his
sonne
Abrahams
wife
,
and
they
departed
together
from
Vr
of
the
Chaldees
,
to
goe
vnto
the
land
of
Chanaan
,
and
they
came
to
Haran
,
and
they
soiourned
there
(
at
which
Haran
Terah
died
,
being
205.
yere
old
,
)
For
the
Lord
had
said
vnto
Abraham
,
while
hee
was
at
Vr.
Get
thee
out
of
thy
countrie
,
and
from
thy
natiue
soyle
,
and
from
thy
fathers
house
,
vnto
the
land
which
I
will
shew
thee
&c.
And
Abram
,
leauing
Haran
too
,
now
that
his
father
was
dead
,
went
as
the
Lord
had
said
vnto
him
at
Vr
,
continuing
his
iournie
toward
Chanaan
,
and
Lot
went
with
him
,
and
Abram
was
75.
yeare
old
,
when
hee
went
from
Haran
.
The
fift
Article
is
cleare
,
1.
Reg.
6.1
.
In
the
480.
yeare
of
the
departing
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
out
of
the
land
of
Egipt
:
in
the
fourth
yere
in
the
month
Ziu
,
(
which
is
the
second
month
)
of
the
raigne
of
Solomon
ouer
Israel
,
he
built
the
house
of
the
Lord
.
The
particulers
of
this
space
are
counted
thus
:
vnder
Moses
40
:
vnder
Iosua
17
:
vnder
the
Iudges
199
:
Eli
40.
Saul
and
Samuel
40
:
Dauid
40
:
Solomon
4.
For
Solomons
fourth
,
&
that
480.
yeare
runne
together
,
though
the
Temple
were
founded
the
second
month
of
both
those
yeares
,
as
appeareth
.
1.
Reg.
6.1.2
.
Chron.
3.2
.
The
number
of
450.
yeres
from
the
diuision
of
Canaan
to
Samuel
Act:
13.20
.
is
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
as
most
doe
take
it
)
or
an
ouersight
in
writing
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
for
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
which
indeede
is
pronus
lapsus
and
soone
done
:
non
casum
redolet
,
sedindustriam
,
as
Aug.
saith
of
the
like
.
For
it
was
the
temeritie
and
ouerboldnes
of
an
ignorant
Corrector
,
who
to
the
sum
of
339.
yeres
,
which
is
the
time
of
the
Iudges
&
Eli
,
added
the
111
,
yeres
of
seruitude
vnder
forreners
,
which
amounteth
to
the
iust
summe
of
450
:
not
considering
that
the
same
yeares
of
seruitude
,
were
included
in
the
yeares
of
the
Iudges
:
as
not
onlie
the
Iewes
,
but
also
Eusebius
,
Lyra
,
and
Hugo
doe
affirme
:
See
Mercator
Demonst.
Temp.
Chap
,
1.
T.
In
the
same
Chapter
of
the
Acts
Vers.
18.
it
is
said
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
and
about
the
time
of
40.
yeares
he
suffered
their
manners
in
the
wildernes
:
where
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
is
wel
added
,
to
shew
that
forty
years
were
not
fully
complete
:
for
there
wanted
about
a
month
&
fifteene
daies
:
which
were
spent
before
their
entrance
into
the
Desert
,
and
before
the
vttering
of
their
euill
manners
,
and
murmuring
against
God
because
of
the
Desert
Exod.
16.2
.
Wherefore
H.
Wolphius
ouer
reacheth
too
much
,
who
maketh
the
abode
of
the
Israelits
in
the
wildernes
to
be
full
42.
yeares
,
that
is
(
as
he
saith
)
one
yeare
,
on
month
,
and
twentie
dayes
from
their
departing
out
of
Egygt
to
their
departing
from
Sinay
,
Numb.
10.11
.
and
thence
to
the
returne
of
the
spies
,
ten
or
eleuen
months
to
make
vp
full
two
yeres
:
because
the
spies
returned
when
grapes
were
ripe
.
But
there
first
he
putteth
six
monthes
too
much
.
For
with
Moses
the
first
month
is
Abib
,
the
14
day
,
wherof
they
celebrated
the
Passeouer
.
Cap.
9.3
.
and
the
20
day
of
the
next
month
they
departed
from
Sina
Cap.
10.11
.
and
within
foure
or
fiue
monthes
after
they
might
haue
ripe
grapes
:
which
he
maketh
aboue
10.
monthes
after
.
And
then
he
beginneth
the
40.
yeares
,
which
after
their
turning
back
into
the
wildernes
,
they
wandred
in
it
,
till
all
were
dead
.
the
first
of
which
40
,
he
beginneth
with
the
third
yeare
of
their
departing
out
of
Egipt
:
De
tempore
Lib.
1.
Cap.
6.
For
the
defence
of
Wolphius
account
this
may
be
saide
.
God
threatneth
the
wandring
of
40
yeares
in
the
wildernes
after
the
returne
of
the
Spies
:
and
that
as
a
punishment
to
some
of
the
Spies
for
discrediting
&
discommending
the
land
;
to
the
people
,
for
not
beleeuing
Iosua
and
Caleb
:
and
that
also
to
be
inflicted
,
according
to
the
number
of
the
daies
,
wherein
the
spies
searched
the
land
,
which
were
40.
Numb.
14.33.34
.
and
therefore
they
must
not
begin
before
the
offence
was
committed
;
but
at
the
next
morrow
when
they
were
turned
back
into
the
wildernesse
as
a
punishment
Vers.
25.
which
was
about
one
yere
and
halfe
(
he
saith
two
yeares
)
after
their
departure
out
of
Egipt
.
This
reason
were
great
,
were
it
not
that
Moses
counters
doe
controll
the
same
.
For
Moses
affirmeth
that
Aaron
died
in
the
first
day
of
the
first
moneth
of
the
fourtieth
yeare
of
their
departing
out
of
Egipt
.
Num.
33.38
.
&
in
the
next
six
monthes
they
had
diuers
victories
,
specially
against
Sehon
and
Og
,
Num.
21.
and
did
and
indured
those
things
which
after
are
recorded
in
the
booke
of
Numbers
.
then
in
the
first
day
of
the
11.
month
of
the
same
yeare
Moses
deliuered
the
repetition
&
declaration
of
the
law
in
Deuteronomie
:
Deu.
1.
3.4
,
and
anone
after
died
:
and
Iosua
presently
as
the
month
of
mourning
was
out
,
led
the
people
ouer
Iordan
.
That
Moses
died
immediately
after
the
reading
of
the
law
appeareth
by
his
age
.
for
Deut.
31.1
.
it
is
saide
,
that
he
was
at
the
reading
of
the
law
120.
yeare
old
:
This
day
am
I
120.
yeare
olde
:
and
Cap.
34.7
.
when
he
died
,
he
was
but
120.
yeare
old
.
Which
was
not
full
fortie
yeares
after
their
departing
out
of
Egipt
.
For
a
little
before
their
departing
,
when
they
went
to
Pharao
,
Moses
was
80.
and
Aaron
83.
yeare
old
Exo.
7.10
.
That
Iosua
led
the
people
ouer
Iordan
presently
after
Moses
death
,
appeareth
by
the
ceassing
of
Manna
.
The
Israelites
did
eat
Manna
40
yeares
Exod
,
16.36
.
Manna
began
the
16.
day
of
the
second
month
of
the
first
yeare
Exod.
16.2
.
it
ended
and
ceased
the
16.
day
of
the
first
month
of
Iosuas
first
yeare
Ios.
5
,
11.
which
is
40
years
wanting
one
month
.
Wherefore
the
punishment
of
40
yeares
wandring
in
the
wildernes
,
according
to
the
40
daies
of
searching
the
land
must
be
vnderstood
of
the
continuance
of
their
abode
and
wandring
in
the
wildernes
till
40
yeares
from
their
first
entring
into
it
were
made
vp
and
fully
expired
.
For
although
the
yeares
were
proportionated
to
the
number
of
the
daies
that
they
searched
the
land
:
yet
it
was
the
punishment
not
only
of
the
reiecting
the
reporte
of
Iosua
and
Caleb
&
despising
the
land
;
but
also
of
nine
temptations
more
,
which
they
committed
before
that
.
Num.
14.
22.
The
sixt
article
is
plaine
1.
Reg.
11.42
.
and
2.
Chron.
9.30
.
The
time
that
Solomon
raigned
was
40.
yeares
.
out
of
which
40
we
must
take
4.
which
were
reckoned
before
in
the
480.
(
for
the
480
and
Solomons
fourth
ended
together
.
)
and
then
there
remaine
36.
and
Reboams
first
maketh
vp
37.
Other
reckon
from
the
temple
to
Solomons
death
37.
which
is
true
,
wanting
but
a
month
.
But
then
they
must
not
reckon
from
the
departing
out
of
Egipt
to
the
Temple
480
(
as
they
doe
:
)
but
only
479.
yeares
and
one
month
.
For
in
the
second
month
of
the
480
yeare
,
and
of
Solomons
fourth
year
,
the
Temple
was
founded
:
so
that
Solomons
fourth
yeare
is
the
four
hundreth
and
fourscore
yeare
.
The
want
of
marking
that
,
hath
caused
many
to
put
a
yeare
too
much
in
the
whole
Computation
after
.
The
seuenth
article
is
euident
Ezech.
4.1
,
Sonne
of
man
take
the
a
brick
,
and
lay
it
before
thee
,
&
purtray
vpon
it
the
citie
Ierusalem
.
2
And
lay
seige
against
it
,
and
,
builde
a
fort
against
it
,
and
cast
a
mount
against
it
:
set
the
campe
also
against
it
,
and
lay
engins
of
warre
against
it
round
about
.
3
Moreouer
take
an
iron
pan
,
and
set
it
for
a
wall
of
Iron
betweene
thee
and
the
citie
,
and
direct
thy
face
toward
it
:
and
it
shall
be
beseiged
and
thou
shalt
lay
seige
against
it
:
this
shall
be
a
signe
vnto
the
house
of
Israell
.
4
Sleepe
thou
also
vpon
thy
left
side
,
and
lay
the
iniquitie
of
the
house
of
Israell
vpon
it
:
according
to
the
number
of
the
daies
that
thou
shalt
sleepe
vpon
it
,
thou
shalt
bear
their
iniquitie
.
5
For
I
haue
laide
vpon
thee
the
yeares
of
their
Iniquitie
,
according
to
the
number
of
the
daies
,
euen
390
daies
:
so
shalt
thou
beare
the
iniquitie
of
the
house
of
Israell
.
6
And
when
thou
hast
accomplished
them
,
sleepe
again
vpon
thy
right
side
,
and
thou
shalt
beare
the
iniquitie
of
the
house
of
Iuda
fortie
daies
.
I
haue
appointed
the
a
daye
for
a
yeare
,
a
day
for
a
yeare
.
7
Therefore
thou
shalt
direct
thy
face
toward
the
seige
of
Ierusalem
,
and
thy
arme
shal
be
vncouered
,
and
thou
shalt
prophesie
against
it
.
8
And
behold
I
wil
lay
bands
vpon
thee
that
thou
turne
not
from
one
side
to
another
,
till
thou
haue
ended
the
daies
of
thy
seige
&c.
About
the
beginning
and
ending
of
these
390.
yeares
,
quot
capita
,
tot
sententiae
:
as
one
saith
of
the
same
out
of
the
Comick
.
Yet
Ezechiel
is
plaine
enough
in
both
,
for
he
maketh
it
the
time
of
bearing
a
burden
.
And
the
burden
is
the
iniquitie
of
Israel
.
(
Paul
calleth
the
like
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Act.
13.18
.
)
The
beginning
of
that
iniquitie
is
that
notable
Apostacie
&
Schisme
ot
the
tenne
Tribes
,
from
the
whole
Religion
and
seruice
of
God
;
and
their
notorious
Idolatrie
in
worshipping
Ieroboams
Calues
;
as
it
is
for
perpetuall
memorie
recorded
.
1.
Reg.
12.
And
Ieroboam
thought
in
his
heart
:
now
shall
the
kingdome
returne
to
the
house
of
Dauid
,
if
this
people
goe
vp
and
doe
sacrifice
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
at
Ierusalem
.
Whereupon
he
tooke
counsell
and
made
two
Calues
of
Gold
,
and
said
vnto
them
,
it
is
too
much
for
you
to
goe
vp
to
Ierusalem
:
Behold
O
Israell
thy
Gods
,
which
brought
thee
vp
out
of
the
land
of
Aegypt
.
And
he
set
the
one
in
Bethel
,
&
the
other
set
he
in
Dan
:
and
this
thing
turned
to
SINNE
.
And
Ieroboam
made
a
feast
the
fifteenth
day
of
the
eight
month
,
like
vnto
the
feast
that
is
in
Iuda
,
and
offered
on
the
altar
.
So
did
he
at
Bethel
and
offered
to
the
Calues
which
he
had
made
,
&c.
And
this
the
holy
Ghost
oftentimes
termeth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
the
sinne
of
Israell
,
Because
of
the
sinne
of
Ieroboam
which
he
sinned
,
and
which
he
made
Israell
to
sinne
.
1.
Reg.
15.30
;
and
the
way
of
Ieroboam
,
walking
in
the
way
of
Ieroboam
;
and
in
his
sinne
which
he
made
Israel
to
sinne
.
vers.
34.
and
the
sinne
of
the
house
of
Ieroboam
they
departed
not
from
the
sinne
of
the
house
of
Ieroboam
,
which
made
Israell
to
sinne
.
2.
Reg.
13.6
.
and
in
many
other
places
.
And
heere
the
holy
Ghost
beginneth
expresly
the
sinne
of
Israell
by
themselues
,
which
was
the
cause
of
their
vtter
ruine
:
For
Ieroboam
drewe
Israell
away
from
following
the
Lord
,
and
made
them
sinne
a
great
sinne
.
And
the
children
of
Israell
walked
in
all
the
sinnes
of
Ieroboam
,
and
departed
not
therefrom
,
vntill
the
Lord
put
Israell
out
of
his
sight
.
2.
Reg.
17.21.22.23
.
And
this
yeare
of
the
Schisme
and
Apostacie
of
the
house
of
Israell
from
the
house
of
Iuda
is
made
the
Epoche
and
marke
of
a
special
computation
.
2.
Chro.
15.19
.
&
16.1
.
Indeed
(
as
Tremellius
saith
)
Solomon
in
his
old
age
by
the
allurement
of
his
heathenish
wiues
,
sell
into
heathenish
Idolatrie
.
1.
Reg.
11.4.5
.
&
doubtlesse
drew
some
of
the
people
into
the
same
,
as
the
holy
Ghost
seemeth
to
say
,
vers.
33.
But
Ezechiels
account
cannot
possibly
beginne
there
(
as
Tremellius
beginneth
it
:
)
first
because
God
threatneth
there
a
punishment
for
those
sinnes
,
not
to
the
whole
people
,
but
to
the
princes
of
the
line
of
Dauid
.
Secondly
and
principally
because
Ezechiell
heere
speaketh
of
the
iniquity
of
the
Israelites
particularly
and
seuerally
;
that
is
,
as
they
are
diuided
and
distinguished
from
the
house
of
Iuda
:
as
in
the
other
account
of
40.
yeares
,
vers.
6.
he
speaketh
of
the
iniquitie
of
the
house
of
Iuda
by
themselues
;
as
being
separated
from
the
house
of
Israell
.
And
therefore
neither
of
those
accountes
can
possibly
beginne
,
before
that
diuision
and
separation
was
made
in
the
beginning
of
Rehoboams
first
yeare
.
And
surely
though
God
were
greatly
and
grieuously
offended
with
the
former
sinnes
of
all
the
12.
Tribes
,
and
specially
with
the
offences
&
enormities
of
their
Heades
and
Princes
,
Dauid
and
Solomon
:
Yet
herein
he
sheweth
his
trueth
and
mercy
,
that
he
concealeth
them
all
,
as
being
put
away
,
for
his
former
couenants
sake
,
made
with
Dauid
;
&
not
so
much
as
once
mentioneth
them
,
but
onely
speaketh
of
that
iniquitie
and
those
sinnes
,
which
were
committed
after
a
new
couenant
&
the
last
couenant
made
with
them
specially
.
Which
new
&
last
couenant
could
not
be
made
by
any
means
at
the
dedicating
of
the
temple
by
Solomon
,
(
as
Tremellius
taketh
it
)
because
if
there
were
any
reiterating
of
the
couenant
there
,
yet
it
was
with
al
the
tribes
together
before
the
diuision
:
but
the
new
&
last
couenant
made
for
the
Israelites
specially
&
seuerally
,
was
that
which
was
made
with
Ieroboam
by
the
ministerie
of
Ahia
,
as
it
standeth
vpon
record
.
1.
Reg.
11.
wherein
as
God
bindeth
himselfe
,
to
be
with
Ieroboam
;
to
build
him
a
sure
house
,
as
he
did
to
Dauid
;
and
to
make
him
king
ouer
the
tenne
tribes
after
Solomons
death
:
So
likewise
he
bindeth
Ieroboam
,
to
harken
to
all
that
God
commanded
him
,
to
walke
in
his
waies
,
and
to
keep
all
his
statutes
and
precepts
,
as
Dauid
his
seruant
had
done
.
Which
couenant
God
for
his
part
most
faithfully
obserued
,
defending
Ieroboam
from
Solomon
that
sought
his
death
;
preseruing
him
in
Aegypt
;
renting
the
ten
Tribes
from
Solomons
sonne
;
and
making
him
king
ouer
them
.
But
Ieroboam
was
no
sooner
in
his
kingdome
but
the
couenant
was
for
his
part
cleane
forgot
and
fordone
,
and
thence
Ezechiel
taketh
the
beginning
of
bearing
the
burden
of
the
iniquitie
of
the
house
of
Israell
.
The
end
of
the
bearing
of
this
burden
and
the
forbearing
of
the
iniquitie
,
is
both
plainely
expressed
,
and
also
typically
represented
to
be
the
besieging
of
the
Citie
Ierusalem
:
yet
not
the
besieging
simply
(
for
at
the
beginning
of
the
siege
they
were
in
case
good
enough
,
feeling
no
punishment
at
all
:
)
but
that
necessitie
,
when
as
by
reason
of
the
siege
the
Citie
grewe
to
be
in
harde
termes
,
and
extreeme
famine
,
and
beganne
to
consume
in
their
iniquitie
.
Then
indeed
Gods
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
forbearing
of
them
was
at
an
end
,
his
burthen
was
laid
downe
,
his
rod
taken
vp
,
and
the
punishment
begunne
,
as
God
most
plainely
expoundeth
the
type
himselfe
,
vers.
16.17
.
Sonne
of
man
,
behold
I
will
breake
the
staffe
of
bread
in
Ierusalem
,
and
they
shall
eate
bread
by
weight
and
with
care
,
and
they
shall
drinke
water
by
measure
and
with
astonishment
:
because
the
bread
and
water
shall
faile
;
they
shall
be
astonished
one
with
another
,
and
shall
consume
in
their
iniquity
.
When
and
how
truely
this
was
performed
,
appeareth
manifestly
,
Ier.
52.6
.
Now
in
the
fourth
month
,
the
ninth
day
,
the
famine
being
sore
in
the
Citie
,
so
that
there
was
no
bread
for
the
people
of
the
land
,
the
Citie
was
broken
vp
.
&c.
And
with
this
famine
Ezechiel
in
the
next
Chapter
beginneth
euidently
the
laying
down
of
the
burthen
and
the
punishment
of
the
iniquitie
vnder
an
other
type
:
1
Sonne
of
man
take
thee
a
sharpe
knife
,
and
make
it
passe
vpon
thy
head
&
vpon
thy
beard
:
then
take
thee
balances
to
wey
and
deuide
the
heare
.
2
Thou
shalt
burne
with
fire
the
third
part
in
the
middes
of
the
Citie
,
when
the
daies
of
the
siege
are
fulfilled
,
and
thou
shalt
take
the
other
third
part
and
smite
about
it
with
a
knife
,
and
the
last
third
part
thou
shalt
scatter
in
the
wind
,
and
I
will
draw
out
a
sword
after
them
.
3
Thou
shalt
take
of
them
a
few
in
number
and
bind
them
in
thy
lappe
.
4
Then
take
of
them
againe
,
and
cast
them
into
the
middes
of
the
fire
:
thereof
shall
a
fire
come
into
all
the
house
of
Israell
.
5.
Thus
saith
the
Lord
:
this
is
Ierusalem
.
The
rest
of
the
exposition
followeth
after
:
9
Behold
I
will
doe
in
thee
,
that
which
I
neuer
did
before
,
neither
will
I
doe
any
more
the
like
,
because
of
all
thy
abominations
.
12
The
third
part
of
thee
shall
die
with
the
pestilence
,
and
with
famine
shall
they
be
consumed
in
the
middest
of
thee
.
(
This
was
performed
before
the
taking
of
the
Citie
as
I
shewed
before
.
2.
Reg
25.6
.
)
an
other
third
part
of
thee
shall
fall
by
the
sword
round
about
thee
,
(
which
was
in
breaking
of
the
wall
and
taking
of
the
Citie
.
2.
Reg.
25.7
.
)
and
the
last
third
part
I
will
scatter
into
all
windes
,
and
will
drawe
out
a
sword
after
them
,
(
this
was
done
,
vers.
8.
and
the
armies
of
the
Chaldaeans
pursued
the
king
,
and
all
his
armie
was
scattered
from
him
.
)
Heere
you
see
,
the
first
beginning
of
the
punishment
is
the
famine
in
the
City
,
wherewith
no
doubt
they
had
beene
grieuously
consumed
before
the
Citie
was
taken
.
The
Citie
was
taken
in
the
ninth
day
of
the
fourth
month
of
the
yeare
3416.
which
is
from
the
15.
day
of
the
eight
month
of
the
yeare
3025.
being
Ieroboams
first
yeare
,
390
yeares
complete
;
beside
the
three
monthes
and
fifteene
daies
of
3025.
which
must
goe
to
make
vp
Ieroboams
first
yeare
,
which
was
wholly
numbred
in
the
article
before
;
and
also
beside
the
three
monthes
and
nine
daies
of
3416.
which
must
goe
likewise
to
make
vp
the
first
yeare
of
the
captiuitie
;
and
followeth
to
be
reckoned
in
the
next
article
.
Heerewith
also
lump
the
40.
yeares
of
Iudaes
iniquitie
spoken
of
by
Ezechiell
.
Cap.
4.
vers.
6.
which
beginne
with
the
13.
yeare
of
Iosias
;
as
God
himselfe
sheweth
their
beginning
.
Ier.
25.3
.
From
the
13.
yeare
of
Iosias
the
sonne
of
Amon
king
of
Iuda
,
euen
vnto
this
day
(
that
is
,
the
23.
yeare
)
the
word
of
the
Lord
hath
come
vnto
me
,
and
I
haue
spoken
earlie
vnto
you
,
rising
earely
and
speaking
:
but
ye
would
not
heare
.
This
day
that
he
speaketh
of
,
was
(
as
appeareth
,
vers.
1.
)
the
fourth
yeare
of
Iehoiakim
and
the
first
yeare
of
Nabuchodonosor
:
which
was
as
he
saith
,
the
23.
yeare
of
that
computation
.
For
Iosias
19.
last
,
and
Iehoiakims
foure
make
iust
23.
adde
thereto
17.
to
make
vp
Nabuchodonosors
18.
(
for
Iehoiakims
4.
was
his
first
)
and
there
amount
iust
40.
And
heerewith
also
agreeth
notably
the
tradition
of
the
Iewes
for
the
standing
of
the
Temple
:
which
R.
Abraham
,
the
Cabalist
recordeth
:
namely
,
that
the
temple
stood
427.
yeares
.
By
our
account
the
temple
was
founded
in
the
second
month
of
the
yeare
2988.
and
it
was
desolated
in
the
5
monthe
of
3416.
The
space
betweene
is
iust
427.
yeares
full
and
complete
,
beside
the
peece
of
the
first
yeare
wherein
it
was
founded
,
and
the
peece
of
the
last
yeare
wherein
it
was
destroyed
.
Beda
.
li.
de
nat.
rerum
.
Cap.
66.
saith
that
it
was
burnt
the
430
yeare
after
it
was
begunne
to
be
founded
;
which
differeth
but
one
yeare
:
which
perhaps
Beda
added
to
make
the
numberfull
and
round
.
Both
these
accounts
,
aswel
of
the
40.
years
of
Iudaes
iniquity
&
of
the
390.
of
Israels
iniquitie
are
confirmed
to
the
eie
in
the
chronological
table
of
the
kings
of
Iudae
&
Israel
.
The
eight
article
is
recorded
.
Ier.
25.11
.
And
this
whole
land
shall
be
desolate
and
an
astonishment
,
and
these
nations
shall
serue
the
king
of
Babell
70.
yeares
.
And
also
2.
Chro.
36.2
.
And
they
were
seruants
to
the
King
of
Babel
and
his
sonnes
till
the
kingdome
of
the
Persians
had
rule
to
fulfill
the
word
of
the
Lord
by
the
mouth
of
Ieremie
:
vntill
the
land
had
her
fill
of
her
Sabbothes
.
For
all
the
daies
that
she
lay
desolate
,
she
kept
her
Sabbothes
to
fulfill
70.
yeares
.
This
is
the
punishment
of
the
iniquitie
,
set
downe
by
Ezechiel
.
Cap.
5.
as
before
is
shewed
;
and
the
70.
years
of
Captiuitie
prophesied
by
Ieremie
;
which
beginne
at
the
taking
of
Ierusalem
;
and
end
at
the
taking
of
Babilon
.
For
at
the
taking
of
Ierusalem
they
became
absolutely
the
king
of
Babels
seruantes
,
and
so
continued
without
interruption
70.
yeares
,
as
Ieremie
foreshewed
.
Cap.
25.11
.
where
he
saith
also
,
that
the
land
shal
be
desolate
70.
yeares
.
At
that
time
and
before
the
land
became
desolate
,
and
therefore
Philo
distinguisheth
the
Desolation
from
the
Transmigration
:
affirming
that
the
Captiuitie
ended
70.
yeares
after
the
Desolation
and
81.
after
the
Transmigration
.
Also
Ezechiel
.
Cap.
40.1
.
maketh
the
SMITING
of
the
Citie
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
beginning
of
his
generall
aera
and
computation
.
As
in
the
same
place
he
maketh
the
second
Captiuitie
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
a
speciall
computation
,
because
then
himself
and
his
owne
king
were
caried
away
,
and
therefore
he
calleth
it
our
Captiuitie
.
And
Daniell
in
like
sort
,
Cap.
9.2
.
maketh
Ieremies
70.
yeares
to
be
the
terme
and
time
of
the
destruction
or
desolation
of
Ierusalem
.
And
right
so
the
holy
Ghost
,
2
Chr.
36.17
.
beginneth
the
same
with
the
taking
&
sacking
of
the
Citie
,
and
massacring
of
the
Iewes
at
the
same
.
The
end
of
these
70.
yeares
,
is
the
beginning
of
the
Persian
Monarchie
,
at
the
taking
of
Babilon
by
Cyrus
;
as
the
holy
Ghost
sheweth
euidently
.
And
they
were
seruants
to
the
King
of
Babel
and
his
sons
,
till
the
kingdom
of
the
Persians
had
rule
,
to
fulfil
the
word
of
the
Lord
by
the
mouth
of
Ieremie
,
&c.
2.
Chro.
36.20.21.22.23
.
And
Ieremie
himselfe
doth
end
them
at
or
immediatly
before
the
visiting
of
Babel
.
Cap.
25.11.12
.
And
this
land
shall
be
desolate
,
and
these
nations
shall
serue
the
King
of
Babel
70.
yeares
,
and
as
soone
as
the
70.
yeares
are
ended
I
will
visit
the
King
of
Babel
.
What
time
of
the
yeare
Babilon
was
taken
,
is
not
any
where
expressed
.
Onely
Herodotus
saith
,
thy
Cyrus
began
the
siege
in
the
Spring
;
and
preuailing
nothing
a
good
space
,
he
deuised
to
turne
the
current
of
Euphrates
aside
;
that
they
might
suddenly
enter
the
Citie
thorow
it
:
and
so
set
his
soldiars
to
worke
about
it
,
which
required
some
time
,
since
the
cutting
of
Gyndes
cost
them
a
sommers
worke
.
And
therefore
the
next
Spring
must
be
well
spent
before
it
coulde
be
finished
.
But
Ieremie
is
plaine
;
that
the
70.
yeares
must
be
ended
before
the
king
of
Babell
be
visited
.
And
they
ended
in
the
ninth
day
and
fourth
month
of
3486.
and
immediatly
after
it
seemeth
that
Babilon
was
taken
,
and
the
king
slaine
,
as
Daniel
and
Xenophon
report
.
Hierome
in
his
exposition
vpon
Daniell
reporteth
that
the
Iewes
had
a
tale
among
them
that
Baltassar
,
seeing
the
70.
yeares
expired
,
thought
the
promise
false
,
and
all
cock
sure
;
and
therfore
vppon
a
iollitie
,
and
vaunting
ouer
the
Iewes
,
made
his
great
banquet
,
and
sent
for
all
the
vessels
of
the
temple
:
as
Daniel
sheweth
.
But
the
same
night
he
was
slaine
and
the
promise
fulfilled
.
Heerewith
agreeth
the
supputation
of
Metasthenes
,
attributing
to
Nabuchodonosor
45.
yeares
:
Euil
Merodach
30.
Reg.
Assar
.
3.
Labassar
.
6.
Balt
Assar
.
5.
which
make
89.
thence
take
Nabuchodonosors
19.
which
were
before
the
Captiuity
,
and
there
remain
70.
For
Metasthenes
followeth
the
computation
of
the
Chaldaeans
,
as
doth
Daniel
and
Ptolomie
,
who
beginne
Nabuchodonosors
raigne
in
Iehoiakims
third
yeare
,
that
is
,
a
yeare
before
Ieremie
beginneth
it
:
so
that
his
19.
yeare
by
them
,
is
but
his
18.
yeare
by
Ieremie
.
Iosephus
also
agreeth
with
this
account
.
For
Ant.
Iud.
li.
10.
ca.
12.
he
saith
that
Nahuchonosor
raigned
43.
that
is
,
so
many
yeares
complete
beside
the
odde
monthes
,
which
were
almost
another
yeare
.
And
therefore
those
odde
monthes
he
ioyneth
to
the
odde
monthes
of
Regassar
(
whom
he
calleth
Neregal
Assar
)
and
so
maketh
him
foure
yeares
,
which
with
the
other
kinges
make
iust
70.
Ioseph
cont.
Appion
.
And
Iulius
Aphricanus
,
who
maketh
the
second
yeare
of
Syrus
to
be
the
72.
yeare
of
the
desolation
of
the
Temple
.
Beda
de
nat.
rerum
.
66.
The
ninth
article
cannot
be
confirmed
out
of
the
holy
Scripture
.
For
although
some
of
the
heathen
Monarkes
of
that
space
be
there
mentioned
,
yet
not
all
:
neither
haue
they
,
that
are
,
any
terme
of
their
raygnes
,
or
distinction
of
yeares
set
downe
.
Againe
Metasthenes
though
he
haue
a
computation
of
years
,
yet
he
hath
great
obscuritie
,
and
great
diuersitie
from
the
Grecians
.
Insomuch
that
some
coniecture
that
the
kinges
named
by
Metasthenes
and
Philo
vnto
Longiman
,
are
not
the
same
persons
,
nor
of
the
same
line
and
house
,
as
those
be
which
the
Graecians
speake
of
.
The
principall
oddes
and
differences
I
will
briefly
set
downe
,
before
I
come
to
the
proofe
of
this
article
.
The
holy
scripture
thus
farre
mentioneth
the
kinges
both
of
Assyria
and
Babilon
.
1
Pul
king
of
Assyria
,
whom
the
Historicians
call
Phul
Belochus
,
made
Menahem
king
of
Israel
tributary
2.
Reg.
15.
about
the
yeare
of
the
world
,
3240.
2
Tiglath
Pileser
,
king
of
Assyria
,
in
the
time
of
Pekahiah
caried
the
tribe
of
Nepthalim
captiue
into
Assyria
about
the
yeare
3250.
and
after
he
diliuered
Achaz
from
the
kinges
of
Syria
and
Israel
.
Cap.
16.7.9.10
.
about
the
yeare
,
3270.
3
Salmaneser
king
of
Assyria
subduing
Hoseas
king
of
Israell
made
him
his
vassall
and
tributarie
in
Achaz
12.
yeare
,
A.
M.
3274.
2.
Reg.
17.1.3
.
But
anone
after
Hoseas
rebelled
,
and
Salmaneser
taking
him
,
committed
him
to
prison
,
and
caried
his
people
the
tenne
Tribes
away
captiue
.
vers.
4.5.6
.
4
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
inuaded
Iudaea
,
tooke
many
townes
,
besieged
Lachis
,
made
Ezechias
to
become
tributarie
againe
,
(
who
had
rebelled
against
Salmaneser
before
:
)
and
not
content
heerewith
,
after
he
had
receiued
the
Tribute
,
sent
his
armie
against
Ierusalem
;
where
hauing
a
wonderfull
ouerthrow
,
he
fled
home
to
Niniue
,
and
there
was
slaine
by
two
of
his
owne
sonnes
.
Cap.
18.13
.
&
19.35.36.37
.
This
was
in
Ezechias
14.
yeare
,
A.
M.
3290.
5
Assaraddon
king
of
Assyria
,
sonne
of
Sennacherab
succeeded
his
Father
;
his
two
brethren
,
the
parricides
being
fled
for
feare
into
the
land
of
Ararat
.
Cap.
18.37
.
He
was
also
called
of
the
Iewes
Osnapar
.
Ezr.
4.
10.
and
this
king
caried
people
and
planted
Colonies
in
the
Cities
of
Samaria
,
in
stead
of
the
Israelites
.
2.
Reg.
17.14
.
Erz.
4.2
.
Heere
ceased
that
race
and
progenie
.
The
kinges
of
Babilon
are
thus
farre
recorded
.
1
Berodach
Baladan
(
or
as
Esay
calleth
him
,
Merodac
Baladan
)
the
sonne
of
Baladan
king
of
Babilon
,
sent
letters
with
a
present
to
Ezechias
,
2.
Reg
,
20.12
.
That
was
about
Ezechias
14.
yeare
,
Sennacherib
being
then
king
of
Assyria
,
and
hauing
the
seat
of
his
chiefe
resiance
at
Niniue
.
But
when
Merodac
began
his
raigne
the
scripture
doth
not
shew
but
he
is
the
first
,
that
is
called
king
of
Babilon
.
2
Mention
is
made
of
another
,
whose
Captaines
tooke
Menasses
king
of
Iuda
captiue
,
and
caried
him
to
Babilon
.
2.
Chro.
33.11
.
his
name
is
no
where
recorded
;
but
onely
his
title
,
King
of
Assyria
:
whereby
it
is
to
be
gathered
that
after
Assaraddon
,
the
kinges
of
Babilon
had
Niniue
and
the
whole
kingdome
of
the
Assyrians
.
For
it
is
manifest
that
this
king
was
of
the
race
of
Merodac
,
because
they
brought
Menasses
captiue
to
Babilon
,
which
the
olde
kinges
of
Assyria
had
lost
before
Sennacheribs
time
.
3
Mention
is
likewise
made
of
a
king
of
Assyria
against
whom
Pharao
Neco
king
of
Aegypt
warred
,
in
the
ende
of
Iosias
raigne
:
wherein
Iosias
was
slaine
.
2.
Reg.
23.29
.
His
name
is
not
recorded
:
but
he
might
well
be
Nabuchodonosors
father
,
whom
Berosus
in
Iosephus
calleth
Nabulassar
,
but
Iosephus
himselfe
calleth
him
Nabuchodonosor
too
.
In
the
ende
of
his
raigne
Niniue
was
destroyed
and
vtterly
razed
by
him
and
Assuerus
.
Tob.
14.17
.
whereupon
afterward
the
kings
keeping
their
Court
and
resiance
at
Babilon
,
were
called
againe
the
kinges
of
Babilon
.
See
my
Bibliotheca
historica
in
Monarchiarum
Perioche
.
4
Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babilon
,
began
his
raigne
in
Iehioakims
fourth
yeare
,
Ier.
25.1
.
tooke
from
the
king
of
Aegypt
all
that
he
had
betweene
Euphrates
and
Nilus
,
2.
Reg.
24.9
.
whereby
it
is
cleare
,
that
the
king
of
Assyria
,
against
whome
Neco
warred
,
and
this
king
of
Babilon
,
weere
both
of
one
state
and
kingdom
,
though
their
titles
differ
.
In
his
seauenth
yeare
he
took
Iehoiakim
:
in
his
eight
Iehoiacin
:
in
his
18
Zedechias
:
in
his
19.
he
burnt
the
Temple
and
Citie
.
He
raigned
44.
yeares
.
2.
Reg.
24.
&
25.
Ier.
52.
5
Euil
Merodac
king
of
Babilon
began
his
raigne
in
the
37.
yeare
of
Iehoiacins
captiuitie
.
Iehoiacin
was
caried
away
in
the
very
beginning
of
Nabuchodonosors
eight
yeare
.
To
his
seauen
,
adde
the
other
37
,
&
there
will
be
44.
and
they
were
not
fully
complete
neither
.
So
that
whereas
Iosephus
de
Ant.
li.
10.
cap.
12
saith
,
that
Nabuchodonosor
raigned
43.
yeares
,
he
meaneth
fullie
complete
,
beside
the
odde
months
which
were
almost
another
yeare
.
But
Metasthenes
giuing
35.
yeares
to
Nabuchodonosor
,
beginneth
his
raign
at
Iehoiakims
third
yeare
,
when
he
was
made
Generall
of
his
fathers
warres
,
his
father
being
sicke
.
See
Pag.
6
Baltassar
king
of
Assyria
,
and
the
verie
last
of
that
line
,
of
whome
Baltassar
aliâs
Daniel
speaketh
,
mentioning
his
first
yeare
.
Cap.
7.1
.
and
his
third
,
Cap.
8.1
.
and
the
last
yeare
and
very
last
night
,
wherein
at
his
solemne
feast
and
great
banquet
he
was
slaine
,
Cap.
5.30
.
but
in
what
yeare
of
his
raign
that
was
done
,
Daniel
doth
not
specifie
.
And
this
is
all
that
ther
is
spoken
of
that
Monarchy
.
Baltassar
being
destroyed
,
the
Monarchie
came
&
was
translated
to
two
states
ioyntly
together
,
the
Medes
and
the
Persians
:
as
the
Scripture
sheweth
.
First
Daniel
prophesied
to
Baltassar
that
verie
night
that
his
kingdom
was
deuided
,
and
giuen
to
the
Medes
&
Persians
.
Cap.
5.28
.
againe
he
saith
that
Darius
Medus
,
or
Darius
of
the
seede
of
the
Medes
,
being
62
yeare
olde
,
succeeded
Baltassar
,
Cap.
5.31
.
and
that
in
the
kingdome
of
the
Chaldeans
,
Cap.
9.1
.
who
in
the
beginning
of
his
raigne
highly
promoted
Daniel
.
Cap.
6.4
.
Likewise
that
Cyrus
the
Persian
then
raigned
with
him
,
appeareth
,
Cap.
1.21
.
where
Daniel
saith
,
that
he
remayned
in
the
seruice
of
the
kinges
of
Babell
,
to
the
first
yeare
of
Cyrus
(
or
of
Cyrus
the
Persian
Cap.
6.29
.
or
Cyrus
king
of
Persians
,
Cap.
10.1
.
)
which
were
not
true
,
if
Cyrus
raigne
began
not
with
the
raigne
of
Darius
:
because
Daniels
estate
was
altered
by
Darius
.
Therefore
he
coupleth
them
together
.
Cap.
6.29
.
And
Daniell
prospered
in
the
raigne
of
Darius
,
and
the
raigne
of
Cyrus
the
Persian
.
And
he
sheweth
that
their
lawes
were
made
by
both
states
,
and
had
their
force
and
authoritie
from
both
states
,
euen
in
the
beginning
of
Darius
Medus
:
Cap.
6.9.12.15
.
according
to
the
law
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
.
And
both
of
them
had
equall
soueraintie
,
and
administred
the
affayres
of
the
Monarchie
ioyntly
:
as
the
Romanes
had
often
times
two
Augusti
;
in
which
state
Annius
Verus
and
Marcus
Antoninus
were
the
first
,
as
Spartian
noteth
in
his
Adrian
:
Hi
sunt
,
qui
postea
duo
pariter
Augusti
,
primi
rempublicam
gubernauerunt
.
For
Darius
is
said
by
Daniel
to
haue
120.
prouinces
.
Cap.
6.2
.
and
Cyrus
saith
of
himselfe
,
that
God
had
giuen
him
all
the
kingdomes
of
the
earth
,
2.
Chro.
36.
Esd.
1.1
.
Of
Darius
Daniel
mentioneth
no
more
than
his
first
yeere
,
Cap.
9.1
.
&
11.1
.
who
dying
in
the
second
yeare
of
his
raigne
,
the
Monarchie
came
wholly
and
soly
to
Cyrus
the
Persian
.
And
therefore
Daniel
altereth
his
stile
,
&
calleth
the
third
yeare
the
third
yeare
of
Cyrus
king
of
Persians
,
Ca.
10.1
with
out
any
mention
of
Darius
.
With
this
historie
of
the
holy
scripture
Xenophon
agreeth
notably
.
For
first
he
maketh
two
distinct
kingdomes
,
one
of
the
Persians
,
wherof
Cambises
was
king
;
another
of
the
Medes
,
whereof
Astyages
was
king
.
Which
two
nations
were
combined
togetherin
league
:
which
they
confirmed
by
making
of
mariages
one
with
another
:
as
Cambises
maried
Astyages
daughter
,
by
whom
he
had
Cyrus
:
which
was
the
chiefest
grieuance
,
and
cause
of
the
complaint
,
that
the
king
of
Assyria
alledged
by
his
Ambassadors
to
Craesus
,
and
other
confederates
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Saying
that
the
Medes
&
Persians
were
great
&
mightie
nations
;
combined
together
;
made
mariages
one
with
another
;
and
were
so
linked
in
one
,
that
vnlesse
they
were
preuented
and
weakened
,
it
were
danger
,
they
woulde
set
vpon
other
nations
seuerally
,
and
supplant
them
.
By
which
inducements
,
and
rewardes
withall
,
many
other
nations
being
drawen
to
his
side
,
old
Astyages
being
dead
,
and
Cyaxares
(
that
is
Darius
Medus
)
raigning
in
his
fathers
steede
;
the
Assyrian
made
warre
against
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
and
inuaded
the
land
of
the
Medes
,
being
next
to
him
.
Whereupon
there
was
leuied
an
armie
in
Persia
of
30
thousand
olde
trayned
and
beaten
soldiers
,
beside
1000.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
worthie
leaders
,
to
passe
into
Media
for
Cyaxares
ayde
:
wherof
Cyrus
was
Generall
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
the
auncient
counsellers
of
Persia
made
him
Emperour
or
Generall
of
the
armie
that
went
into
Media
.
And
thereupon
no
doubt
foreners
,
and
those
especially
that
were
farre
of
,
called
him
king
of
Persians
and
of
Persia
.
When
he
came
into
Media
,
Cyaxares
and
he
so
ioyned
together
,
Euil
Merodach
:
for
Gobryas
commendeth
him
for
a
good
man
.
)
The
like
suceesse
he
had
against
Craesus
and
the
rest
of
the
confederates
,
whom
he
chased
,
hauing
drawen
the
Hyrcanians
to
his
side
.
Afterwarde
at
the
instance
of
Gobryas
,
a
vassal
of
the
king
of
Assyria
(
whose
sonne
this
new
king
of
Assyria
,
sonne
of
him
that
was
slaine
in
the
former
battle
,
what
he
thought
best
to
haue
done
after
this
.
When
Cyaxares
came
,
he
had
the
best
of
the
spoyles
and
pillages
for
his
share
;
and
the
Pauilion
of
the
king
of
Assyria
gorgeously
prouided
for
him
:
when
they
were
in
councell
,
Fellow
soldiars
,
since
my selfe
am
present
,
that
am
elder
than
Cyrus
,
it
is
meete
,
I
speake
first
.
In
this
councell
it
is
concluded
,
that
the
warre
should
proceede
,
that
prouision
be
made
of
engins
for
battry
:
and
Cyrus
is
made
Generall
,
as
he
was
before
.
The
meane
season
the
Assyrian
likewise
prouideth
for
war
;
confederateth
vnto
him
many
other
kinges
,
especially
Craesus
,
who
is
made
Generall
of
all
the
confederate
forces
.
But
he
was
soone
ouerthrowen
by
Cyrus
in
maine
battle
,
pursued
to
Sardis
,
and
there
taken
with
the
Citie
,
and
all
his
treasure
.
After
this
Cyrus
conquered
great
Phrygia
,
Cappadocia
,
Arabia
:
&
made
the
Greekes
Tributaries
:
and
after
all
that
marched
toward
Babylon
the
third
time
,
which
in
the
end
he
tooke
in
a
night
,
wherein
all
the
Babilonians
had
a
great
feast
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
Dranke
and
reuelled
all
night
.
And
the
king
of
Assyria
was
slaine
in
his
courte
the
same
night
by
the
soldiars
of
Gobryas
and
Gadata
,
There
was
chosen
in
Babilon
a
house
and
pallaces
,
that
when
he
would
come
thither
he
might
haue
his
owne
to
goe
vnto
.
As
for
himself
what
state
he
tooke
vpon
him
,
by
the
perswasion
of
Chrysantas
,
and
to
whatsoeuer
God
else
the
Magi
thought
meete
.
At
which
time
no
doubt
he
set
forth
the
Proclamation
mentioned
,
2.
Chron
36.22
.
Esd.
1.1
.
That
the
Iewes
should
goe
build
the
Temple
of
the
God
of
heauen
at
Ierusalem
.
Of
this
deuotion
and
religious
pietie
in
Cyrus
at
his
first
comming
to
the
Empyre
,
First
of
all
at
this
time
he
shewed
himselfe
more
religious
towarde
the
Gods
,
forasmuch
as
he
was
in
more
happie
estate
:
and
then
first
were
appoynted
priests
(
magi
)
both
to
sing
hymnes
to
the
Gods
assoone
as
the
day
dawned
,
and
also
to
offer
sacrifice
euery
day
,
&c.
And
for
his
special
deuotion
to
the
Iewes
,
&
the
God
of
the
Iewes
,
these
two
places
of
Xenophon
seeme
to
make
:
First
,
that
assoone
as
he
was
entred
Babilon
,
he
caused
proclamation
to
be
made
in
all
the
streetes
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
the
Assyrian
tongue
,
that
they
should
abide
in
their
houses
:
or
,
that
the
which
could
speake
the
Assyrian
tongue
,
should
abide
in
their
houses
.
Which
he
did
without
doubt
,
because
he
tendred
the
safegard
of
the
Iewes
,
being
Syrians
.
Otherwise
he
woulde
haue
done
it
in
the
Babilonian
tongue
.
For
the
Babilonians
,
Assyrians
,
and
Syrians
are
with
Xenophon
three
distinct
nations
,
hauing
their
diuerse
languages
.
The
second
,
that
he
made
a
speciall
sacrifice
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
To
the
Goddes
that
dwelt
in
Syria
,
As
Xenophon
setteth
it
downe
in
the
heathenish
speech
:
Cyrus
intending
doubtlesse
the
God
,
whose
house
was
at
Ierusalem
in
Iudaea
,
as
Ezra
setteth
it
downe
rightly
,
which
was
a
part
of
Syria
.
This
narration
of
Xenophon
suiteth
well
with
the
holie
scripture
,
2.
Chron.
36.22
.
Ezr.
1.1.2
.
Iewes
.
Cyaxares
was
not
at
Babilon
to
doe
any
thing
,
nor
came
not
thither
of
a
yeare
after
:
and
it
is
most
probable
that
he
was
neuer
there
in
person
.
Surely
neither
the
holy
scripture
,
nor
Xenophon
doth
anie
where
mention
his
being
there
at
all
.
Onely
Daniel
maketh
his
computation
by
his
raigne
,
so
long
as
Darius
liued
:
by
whom
himselfe
,
was
highly
promoted
.
But
after
he
computeth
by
Cyrus
,
who
was
sole
Monarke
.
For
Xenophon
saith
,
that
Cyaxares
gaue
him
his
onely
daughter
to
wife
,
For
I
haue
no
male
child
LEGITIMATE
.
The
mariage
being
celebrated
,
Cyrus
ordaineth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
lieuetenants
ouer
all
his
realme
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
It
seemed
good
to
him
to
sende
Lieuetenantes
into
the
nations
,
that
he
had
subdued
.
Right
as
Daniel
speaketh
in
the
same
phrase
,
as
though
Xenophon
had
translated
this
out
of
him
:
it
seemed
good
to
Darius
to
set
120.
Lieuetenantes
ouer
all
his
kingdome
.
Which
doubtles
was
done
by
their
ioynt
authoritie
,
and
was
the
act
of
them
both
:
but
Xenophon
doth
attribute
it
to
Cyrus
because
his
purpose
is
to
write
of
Cyrus
;
and
Daniel
attributeth
it
to
Darius
,
because
axioma
imperij
,
the
state
of
the
Monarchie
was
principally
in
him
while
he
liued
.
Trie
Xenophon
by
the
touch
of
holy
scripture
,
and
you
shall
find
a
pleasant
harmonie
betweene
them
;
and
nothing
in
him
to
crosse
or
contradict
it
.
It
may
be
some
digressions
of
communications
,
stratagemes
,
and
other
exploits
are
not
written
so
much
ad
historiae
fidem
,
as
Tully
said
,
as
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
Herodotus
saith
:
yet
the
mayne
course
and
tenour
of
the
storie
may
be
found
and
right
.
Herodotus
confesseth
that
the
historie
of
Cyrus
beside
the
way
that
he
telleth
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Is
told
three
other
manner
of
waies
,
and
that
he
tooke
his
way
for
the
likeliest
.
But
trie
it
by
the
touch
and
it
will
not
proue
so
.
For
first
he
maketh
the
Persians
no
kingdome
of
it selfe
;
nor
to
be
in
league
with
the
Medes
,
but
mere
slaues
to
the
Medes
and
drudges
:
and
Cambyses
,
who
maried
Astyages
daughter
,
no
king
,
but
a
pesant
and
vnderling
to
all
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
bearing
himselfe
farre
vnder
the
estate
of
a
meane
person
of
Media
.
The
reason
of
this
disparage
,
was
because
he
dreamed
,
that
his
daughter
had
pissed
such
a
floode
,
as
filled
his
whole
Citie
,
and
ouerflowed
all
Asia
.
When
Cyrus
was
borne
,
he
commaunded
Harpagus
to
take
and
destroy
him
.
Yet
he
was
saued
aliue
,
and
afterward
by
Harpagus
procurement
and
ayde
he
deposed
Astyages
his
grandfather
,
and
became
king
himselfe
,
Darius
Medus
(
or
Cyaxares
)
is
quite
wipt
out
:
beside
the
taking
of
Babylon
in
the
day
time
,
and
other
diuersities
.
Metasthenes
differeth
from
both
these
:
for
first
hauing
reckoned
vp
the
kinges
of
Medes
from
Arbaces
to
Apanda
(
in
the
same
sort
as
Ctesias
Guidius
doth
in
Diodorus
sixt
booke
,
who
also
addeth
that
Apanda
was
called
Astyages
of
the
Grecians
:
)
he
saith
that
Cyrus
and
Darius
subdued
him
:
and
raigned
in
Persia
sixe
yeares
:
and
after
(
resigning
the
kingdome
of
Persia
to
Cambyses
his
sonne
)
they
made
warre
against
Tamaris
sixe
yeares
.
In
the
sixt
yeare
,
being
called
out
by
the
Babilonians
,
they
slewe
Baltassar
reunited
the
Monarchie
,
and
translated
it
to
the
Persians
:
where
they
raigned
ioyntly
two
yeares
:
and
then
Cyrus
22
alone
:
whome
succeeded
Priscus
Artaxerxes
Assuerus
20
yeares
;
being
Darius
sonne
:
who
reuenged
the
Tamarical
faction
,
Darius
Longiman
.
Heere
you
see
,
Metasthenes
maketh
Cyrus
and
Darius
brethren
,
and
both
Persians
:
because
after
the
subduing
of
the
king
of
Medes
they
raigned
in
Persia
:
and
after
the
killing
of
Baltassar
they
reduced
the
Monarchie
to
the
Persians
:
as
Diodorus
maketh
Cyrus
(
for
of
Darius
he
maketh
no
mention
)
king
of
Persians
,
when
he
tooke
Apanda
.
Secondly
he
preferreth
Cyrus
,
as
the
elder
and
better
,
in
that
his
sonne
Cambyses
was
made
king
of
Persia
,
before
they
had
Babylon
.
3
He
maketh
them
to
haue
sixe
yeares
warre
with
Tamaris
,
before
they
slew
Baltassar
:
though
Cyrus
were
not
slaine
there
.
4
That
the
kingdome
of
Persia
was
resigned
to
Cambyses
six
yeares
before
the
taking
of
Babylon
:
of
whose
issue
and
succession
he
speaketh
nothing
,
but
affirmeth
that
Priscus
the
sonne
of
Darius
succeeded
Cyrus
in
Babylon
.
5
that
the
Babilonians
rebelled
against
their
king
,
and
sent
for
Cyrus
and
Darius
to
ayde
them
.
6
Betweene
Cyrus
and
Longiman
he
maketh
but
one
king
,
Priscus
:
whereas
the
Greekes
reckon
three
,
and
that
agreeably
to
Daniel
,
to
whome
Chap.
10.1.2
.
the
Angell
sheweth
that
betweene
Darius
Medus
,
and
the
rich
king
,
that
should
rayse
all
against
the
Graecians
,
(
that
is
Xerxes
)
there
should
be
three
kinges
of
Persia
and
he
should
be
the
fourth
.
Those
were
Cyrus
,
Cambyses
,
Darius
Histaspis
,
and
Xerxes
,
of
which
three
last
Herodotus
writeth
of
certaintie
,
without
intimation
of
any
other
reportes
.
Philo
in
Breuiar
.
li.
2.
agreeth
with
Metasthenes
:
but
that
he
giueth
an
Epithet
to
Darius
,
that
died
in
Cyrus
second
yeare
,
naming
him
Darius
Histaspis
:
and
further
addeth
,
that
the
principall
fautor
of
the
Tamaricall
faction
,
was
Artaxat
:
who
compelled
the
Assyrians
,
Medes
,
and
Persians
to
reuolt
from
Priscus
,
in
so
much
that
Priscus
kept
himselfe
at
Babylon
:
but
in
the
end
be
sudued
Artaxat
.
Thus
you
see
the
great
oddes
among
writers
in
this
article
:
all
which
Clemens
Schubertus
laboureth
and
toyleth
to
reconcile
together
.
But
I
doubt
,
he
hath
lost
both
oyle
and
toyle
.
Yet
that
which
he
hath
done
perhaps
may
giue
light
to
some
other
grounded
Historician
,
to
effect
some
further
matter
.
The
meane
season
for
the
order
of
the
kinges
or
Emperours
in
the
Persian
Morarchie
,
we
are
to
followe
Xenophon
for
Darius
and
Cyrus
,
and
Herodotus
for
the
rest
;
as
most
agreeable
to
holy
Scripture
.
And
for
the
Confirmation
of
these
two
last
articles
,
and
the
iust
Chronologie
thereof
,
I
will
take
a
course
more
certaine
,
(
Solem
quisdi
cere
falsum
,
Audeat
?
)
obserued
by
Ptolomie
and
other
of
the
most
autentique
humane
writers
.
And
to
tye
their
Chronologie
to
the
Computation
of
the
Scripture
,
which
ceaseth
with
the
ende
of
the
Captiuitie
,
Ieremie
the
Prophet
helpeth
vs
to
a
string
or
sinewe
,
Cap.
25.1
.
where
he
coupleth
the
fourth
yeare
of
Iehoiakim
(
that
is
the
3398.
yeare
of
the
world
)
with
the
first
yeare
of
Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
.
This
verse
of
Ieremie
is
the
very
kay
of
Chronologie
:
wherefore
I
will
first
shew
how
the
Diuine
and
Humane
Chronologie
is
locked
together
:
and
after
vnlocke
and
open
it
with
this
kay
.
And
first
as
we
reckon
the
yeares
of
the
kinges
of
Iuda
after
Ezechias
for
full
and
complete
,
so
we
begin
their
raigns
alike
as
we
did
his
:
that
is
at
the
beginning
of
the
vsuall
yeare
:
as
shall
appeare
in
the
Table
.
Wherefore
Iehoiakims
fourth
began
euen
with
the
beginning
of
3398.
Againe
Nabuchodonosors
first
yeare
did
not
beginne
euen
with
the
first
day
of
Iehoiakims
fourth
yeare
,
but
at
the
first
day
of
the
month
Phamenòth
being
the
seuenth
month
of
the
Chaldaeans
,
which
Phamenòth
in
that
age
began
about
or
rather
anone
after
the
middle
of
Thamus
which
was
the
fourth
month
of
the
Hebrewes
,
so
that
about
three
monthes
and
an
halfe
of
Nabuchodonosors
first
concurred
with
Iehoiakims
fift
,
as
appeareth
,
Ier.
52.29
.
where
one
captiuitie
or
carying
away
of
the
Iewes
is
attributed
to
Nabuchodonosors
seauenth
yeare
:
which
could
not
be
before
Iehoijakims
11
yeare
:
when
Iehoiakim
and
the
Nobles
were
caried
away
.
And
so
by
this
means
Iehoiakim
raigned
not
aboue
two
monthes
of
his
11.
yeare
:
not
full
so
much
(
I
meane
)
as
was
in
Nabuchodonosors
seuenth
:
and
then
Iehoakim
raigned
three
monthes
,
who
was
taken
in
Nabuchodonosors
eight
yeare
:
the
beginning
of
which
three
monthes
was
in
Nabuchodonosors
seuenth
,
&
the
end
in
his
eight
:
so
that
Zedechias
began
in
the
beginning
of
the
sixt
month
of
the
yeare
of
the
world
3405.
that
is
about
the
middle
of
the
second
month
of
Nabuchodonosors
eight
yeare
,
and
consequently
the
fourth
month
of
the
yeare
3416.
(
the
ninth
day
whereof
the
Citie
was
taken
)
was
the
verie
latter
ende
of
Nabuchodonosors
18.
yeare
.
Wherefore
Ieremie
,
vers.
29.
referreth
that
Captiuitie
to
Nabuchodonosors
18
yeare
:
with
which
18
yeare
he
coupleth
Zedechias
10.
too
,
Cap.
23.1
.
For
they
concurred
a
month
and
an
halfe
together
.
Againe
,
Cap.
25.
vers.
12.
he
placeth
the
burning
&
Desolation
of
the
Temple
and
Citie
in
the
fift
month
,
the
seuenth
day
of
the
month
,
that
is
Nabuchodonosors
19
yeare
.
For
his
19
yeare
began
about
the
midde
of
the
fourth
month
,
about
a
fortnight
after
the
taking
of
the
Citie
.
And
that
fift
month
was
the
ending
and
expiring
of
Zedechias
11
yeare
;
as
Ieremie
affirmeth
plainly
,
cap.
1.3
.
vnto
the
ending
of
the
eleuenth
yeare
of
Zedekiah
,
euen
to
the
carying
away
of
Ierusalem
captiue
in
the
fift
month
.
And
thus
it
is
euident
and
manifest
,
how
the
years
of
Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
,
and
king
of
the
Chaldaeans
,
as
he
is
called
,
2.
Chron.
36.6
.
are
locked
and
linked
to
the
yeares
of
the
kinges
of
Iuda
:
according
to
the
Computation
of
the
raigne
of
Nabuchodonosor
,
which
is
vsed
in
the
bookes
of
Kinges
,
and
Chronicles
,
and
in
Ieremie
the
Prophet
.
Now
for
the
vse
hereof
,
and
opening
of
the
Chronologie
by
this
kay
:
you
must
knowe
,
that
Ptolomie
taketh
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
marke
of
his
aera
or
Computation
from
the
beginning
of
a
king
of
Babylon
,
&
of
the
Chaldaeans
whom
he
nameth
Nabonassar
.
Ptolomies
Nabopolassar
.
Nowe
if
it
can
be
shewed
,
that
Nabuchodonosors
raigne
began
a
yeare
before
that
computation
of
Ieremie
,
we
may
vndoubtedly
affirme
,
that
Ptolomies
Nabopolassar
is
Ieremies
Nabuchodonosor
.
And
this
will
easily
and
euidently
appeare
,
by
two
sufficient
witnesses
,
Berosus
the
priest
of
the
Chaldaeans
;
and
Daniel
the
Prophet
brought
vp
in
Chaldaea
to
the
learning
of
the
Chaldaeans
.
First
Berosus
.
lib.
3.
rerum
Chaldaicharum
hath
these
wordes
recorded
by
Iosephus
de
antiqu.
Iud.
lib.
10.
Cap.
11.
Nabuchodonosor
the
father
,
hearing
that
his
Lieuetenant
,
whom
he
had
set
ouer
Aegypt
,
Syria
,
and
Phoenicia
,
had
reuolted
from
him
:
and
being
vnable
for
sicknesse
to
goe
against
him
in
his
own
person
,
made
his
sonne
Nabuchodonosor
Emperour
or
Generall
of
his
armie
,
and
sent
him
against
the
Rebell
,
who
ioyning
battle
with
him
,
conquered
him
,
and
recouered
his
countrie
againe
.
The
meane
season
Nabuchodonosor
the
father
died
of
his
sicknesse
in
Babilon
,
hauing
raigned
21
yeares
.
Nabuchodonosor
hearing
of
his
fathers
death
,
straight
waies
left
some
of
his
friendes
to
bring
the
captiue
Iewes
,
Syrians
and
Phoenicians
together
with
the
army
and
cariage
to
Babilonia
;
and
himselfe
accompanied
with
a
fewe
,
sped
him
in
all
hast
to
Babilon
thorow
the
wildernesse
.
Where
taking
vpon
him
the
gouernment
of
the
kingdome
,
which
the
Chaldaeans
kept
for
him
till
he
came
,
he
was
made
Lord
of
all
his
fathers
Empyre
.
And
first
of
all
he
disposed
the
captiues
in
conuenient
places
in
Babilonia
:
and
with
the
spoyles
which
he
had
got
,
furnished
and
beautifyed
the
Temple
of
Belus
.
Among
this
company
of
captiues
,
Daniel
was
one
:
In
the
third
yeare
of
Iehoiakim
King
of
Iuda
came
Nabuchodonosor
King
of
Babilon
vnto
Ierusalem
and
besieged
it
.
And
the
Lord
gaue
Iehoiakim
King
of
Iuda
into
his
hand
,
with
part
of
the
vesse
s
of
the
house
of
God
,
which
he
caried
into
the
land
of
Shinar
to
the
house
of
his
God
.
And
the
king
spake
to
Ashphenaz
the
maister
of
his
Eunuches
,
to
bring
certaine
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
of
the
Kinges
seede
,
whom
they
might
teach
the
learning
&
tongue
of
the
Chaldaeans
:
among
these
were
Daniel
,
&c.
Ioyne
to
these
,
Pharao
Neco
King
of
Aegypt
,
went
vp
against
the
king
of
Assyria
to
the
riuer
Euphrates
,
and
besieged
Carshemish
whom
Iosias
as
feodarie
or
confederate
to
the
king
of
Assyria
,
seeking
to
resist
,
was
slaine
:
and
the
people
of
the
land
made
Iehoahaz
his
sonne
king
of
Iuda
,
whom
Neco
taking
imprisoned
a
while
at
Riblah
,
and
after
caried
him
into
Aegypt
:
making
Eliakim
his
brother
(
whose
name
he
turned
into
Iehoiakim
)
king
in
his
steede
.
Yet
the
Iewes
woulde
not
vouchsafe
him
the
name
of
King
,
while
his
brother
Iehoahaz
liued
,
but
onely
the
title
of
high
Priest
,
as
he
is
called
in
the
booke
of
Iudith
.
For
they
still
hoped
for
and
earnestly
expected
the
returne
of
Iehoahaz
out
of
Aegypt
,
as
Ieremie
sheweth
plainely
,
Cap.
22.11.12
.
and
about
this
time
(
as
it
is
most
probable
)
Nabuchodonosors
Lieuetenant
,
seing
Neco
preuaile
so
mightily
,
reuolted
from
his
maister
to
him
,
and
betrayed
all
those
countries
into
his
handes
,
which
Berosus
speaketh
of
.
Wherefore
Nabuchodonosor
sent
his
Captaine
Holophernes
against
those
Rebelles
with
a
great
power
;
but
what
bad
successe
he
had
,
the
booke
of
Iudith
sheweth
.
This
voiage
of
Holophernes
happened
,
while
Iehoahaz
king
of
Iuda
,
was
captiue
in
Aegypt
;
and
his
brother
Iehoiakim
raigned
at
home
,
though
the
people
did
not
vouchsafe
the
name
of
King
,
his
brother
being
aliue
.
Holophernes
being
ouerthrowne
,
King
of
Babilon
:
Ptolomies
Nabopolassar
is
that
Nabuchodonosor
,
which
destroyed
Ierusalem
.
So
likewise
by
Ptolomie
this
5
of
Nabopolassar
is
the
100.
yeare
from
the
second
of
Mardocempad
:
draw
these
100
yeares
backe
,
and
the
holy
Scripture
will
lead
you
to
the
25
yeare
of
Ezechias
,
and
3302
of
the
worlde
:
So
that
Mardocempads
first
was
Ezechias
24.
yeare
,
&
the
3301.
yeare
of
the
worlde
.
This
Mardocempad
certainely
was
the
next
king
,
that
succeeded
Merodath
Baladan
in
Babilon
:
whose
name
is
not
recorded
in
the
holy
Scripture
:
but
he
seemeth
by
all
probabilities
to
be
that
king
,
which
caried
Ezechias
sonne
Menasses
captiue
to
Babilon
.
2.
Chron.
33.11
.
In
like
sorte
this
second
of
Mardocempad
,
was
Nabonassars
28
yeare
,
as
Ptolomie
saith
,
drawe
thes
28
yeares
backe
with
the
odde
daies
,
you
shall
finde
that
Nabonassar
began
in
the
ende
of
the
yeare
of
the
worlde
,
3275.
that
is
in
Achaz
13
yeare
:
and
the
beginning
of
the
first
yeare
of
Hoseas
Tributarie
raigne
vnder
Salmaneser
.
Now
if
we
can
finde
who
was
then
king
of
Babilon
,
we
may
vndoubtedly
say
,
that
he
was
Nabonassar
.
It
is
generally
taken
by
the
learned
Chronologers
,
Funccius
,
Mercator
,
Erasmus
,
Rainoldus
,
Eucelcerus
&
other
,
that
this
Nabonassar
was
Salmaneser
which
caried
awaye
the
tenne
Tribes
in
Ezechias
sixt
yeare
.
But
vnder
correction
,
I
take
him
to
be
Merodac
Baladan
as
Esay
calleth
him
(
who
in
the
booke
of
Kinges
is
termed
Beroodoh
Baladan
)
the
first
king
of
the
Chaldaeans
or
Babilonians
,
Achaz
Salmanesar
was
king
of
the
Assyrians
,
and
the
same
yeare
made
a
great
voyage
into
Palestina
against
Hoseas
king
of
Israel
:
and
subduing
him
,
made
him
his
vassal
,
Teodarie
,
and
Tributarie
,
2.
Reg.
17.3
.
yet
it
is
most
certaine
that
before
the
14.
yeare
of
Ezechias
,
the
kinges
of
Assyria
had
lost
Babilon
and
Chaldaea
,
there
beeing
then
a
new
king
,
Merodac
Baladan
;
and
it
become
another
distinct
kingdome
,
from
the
kingdome
of
the
Assyrians
,
whose
seat
was
at
Niniue
,
as
the
holy
Scripture
euidently
sheweth
,
2.
Reg.
17.12
.
Ierem.
50.17
.
2.
Reg.
19.36
.
This
Merodac
is
the
first
that
in
scripture
hath
the
Title
of
King
of
Babilon
:
and
Ieremie
maketh
him
the
very
author
,
father
,
and
founder
of
that
kingdome
,
race
,
and
familie
,
Ier.
50.2
.
As
it
is
apparant
,
that
he
raigned
in
Babilon
when
Ezechias
was
sicke
,
so
there
can
be
no
reason
shewed
to
the
contrarie
,
but
he
began
his
raigne
there
14
yeares
before
:
nay
it
is
most
probable
and
likely
,
that
Salmanassar
being
that
yeare
3275.
a
farre
of
,
and
occupied
in
his
warres
in
Syria
and
Israel
;
Merodac
Baladan
tooke
that
opportunitie
to
reuolt
from
him
and
erect
that
new
kingdome
.
By
occasion
whereof
Ezechias
king
of
Iuda
anone
after
rebelled
against
Salmaneser
too
,
2.
Reg.
18.7
.
entering
into
league
with
the
newe
king
of
Babilon
.
For
it
appeareth
that
they
were
combined
and
confederate
against
the
king
of
Assyria
:
because
Merodac
sendeth
so
friendly
to
Ezechias
to
congratulate
his
recouerie
:
and
because
Ezechias
sheweth
his
Embassadors
so
readily
all
his
treasure
and
power
,
to
this
ende
,
that
the
other
of
the
league
might
see
,
what
forces
he
was
able
to
make
against
the
common
enemie
,
the
king
of
Assyria
.
And
about
the
same
time
Hoseas
king
of
Israel
,
induced
by
these
examples
,
reuolted
from
Salmaneser
,
and
entred
into
league
with
So
king
of
Aegypt
.
2.
Reg.
17.4
.
But
shortly
after
Salmaneser
subdued
him
again
:
which
Senacherib
his
sonne
attempting
to
doe
to
Ezechias
,
had
that
miraculous
ouerthrow
,
2.
Reg.
19.35
.
which
Merodac
hering
,
together
with
Ezechias
recouery
,
sent
that
solemne
congratulation
,
Cap.
20.12
.
3
I
see
no
reason
why
Ptolomie
or
the
Chaldaeans
,
should
take
aeram
Chaldaeorum
the
Computation
of
the
Chaldees
from
Salmaneser
king
of
Assyria
more
than
from
any
other
king
before
him
,
as
Pul
,
or
Tiglath
Pileser
.
But
euery
man
may
see
reason
enough
,
why
he
should
take
it
from
Merodac
,
because
he
was
the
founder
of
that
kingdom
of
the
Chaldaeans
,
their
first
king
of
Babilon
,
&
first
raiser
of
that
house
&
familie
;
as
Ieremie
maketh
him
:
and
Daniel
maketh
that
kingdom
of
Merodac
,
&
his
successors
,
the
race
of
the
Nabuchodonosors
,
the
first
of
his
foure
Monarchies
,
Dan.
1.
&
7.
Surely
new
aeraes
,
computations
,
&
dates
,
are
taken
from
new
&
great
euents
and
actions
:
as
deliuerance
from
seruitude
,
and
restoring
of
libertie
.
1.
Mac.
13.42
.
And
such
a
one
as
that
,
was
this
action
of
Merodac
deliuering
the
Chaldaeans
from
the
bondage
of
the
Assyrians
.
As
for
the
difference
of
the
name
,
it
is
most
vsuall
,
that
forrenners
and
they
which
are
farre
of
,
hauing
a
diuerse
language
,
call
the
same
king
by
another
name
,
than
he
is
called
at
home
.
As
whome
the
Chaldaeans
themselues
cal
Nabopolassar
,
the
Iewes
called
Nebucadnetzar
;
&
whom
Daniel
calleth
Baltassar
,
which
doubtles
was
his
right
Chaldaean
name
,
Herodotus
calleth
Labynetus
;
Iosephus
,
Naboandel
;
Alphaeus
,
Naboniddochus
.
Eus.
praep.
Eu.
l.
9.
&
our
Merodac
himself
,
is
called
Berodach
.
2.
Reg
20.12
.
&
Esar-chaddon
is
called
also
Osnapar
.
Ezr.
4.
But
to
leaue
this
to
the
iudgement
of
the
learned
,
it
is
agreed
&
certaine
that
Nabonassar
was
that
king
,
which
raigned
then
in
Babilon
.
Wherfore
,
to
come
to
the
ninth
Article
,
Nabonassars
aera
hath
lost
in
that
space
by
wanting
the
leape
yeare
.
And
therefore
the
Olympiades
began
in
the
yeare
of
the
world
3247
:
being
Vzziahs
52.
yeare
.
By
this
account
the
first
yeare
of
Cyrus
Monarchie
,
being
the
23.
yeare
of
his
Regiment
or
raygne
,
is
the
third
yeare
of
the
60.
Olympiad
:
which
agreeth
with
Euschius
,
l.
10.
Praep.
Euang.
cap.
13.
where
out
of
Thallus
,
Castor
,
Diodorus
,
Polybius
and
Phlegon
he
placeth
the
first
yeare
of
Cyrus
Regiment
or
raigne
in
the
first
yeare
of
the
55.
Olympiad
.
The
distance
of
78.
yeares
from
Cyrus
first
to
the
beginning
of
Artaxerxes
Longimans
seuenth
,
is
proued
thus
:
Diodorus
Siculus
Pag.
260.
placeth
Xerxes
death
in
the
4.
yeare
of
the
78.
Olympad
,
and
Artaxerxes
beginning
about
4
or
5
monethes
before
the
ende
of
the
same
yeare
;
which
by
resolution
are
312.
yeares
.
Adde
thereto
5
more
,
to
make
vp
Artaxerxes
sixt
,
and
there
will
be
317.
in
the
ende
whereof
Artaxerxes
6
began
;
and
ended
within
three
or
foure
moneths
of
the
ende
of
318.
abstract
thence
238.
accrewing
of
59
full
Olympiades
,
and
two
yeares
of
the
60.
Olympiad
,
which
were
before
Cyrus
first
,
and
there
remayne
78.
and
about
three
quarters
:
which
three
quarters
were
passed
of
the
yeare
3.
Olymp.
60.
before
the
beginning
of
Cyrus
first
.
The
same
may
be
proued
by
Iulius
Aphricanus
,
who
(
as
Eusebius
sheweth
Demonst.
Euang.
l.
8.
ca.
2.
and
Hierome
in
Dan.
9.
)
placeth
Artaxerxes
20.
in
the
yeare
4.
Olymp.
83.
and
also
by
the
raygnes
of
the
Kinges
of
Persia
:
for
Cyrus
7.
Cambyses
8.
with
the
Magi
:
Darius
Histaspes
36.
Xerxes
21.
and
Longimans
6.
make
iust
78.
To
Cyrus
I
attribute
7
yeares
after
the
taking
of
Babilon
;
Cicero
,
Eusebius
,
and
Iustin
doe
.
Which
30.
yeares
are
to
be
reckoned
from
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
instant
of
time
,
wherein
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
the
ancient
counsellers
of
Persia
chose
him
Emperour
or
Generall
of
the
Armie
,
that
went
into
Media
.
The
tenth
article
is
set
downe
.
Dan.
9.24
.
Seuentie
weekes
are
determined
vpon
thy
people
,
and
vpon
thy
holy
Citie
:
These
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
seuenthes
or
seuen
nightes
,
sennightes
(
as
we
say
)
or
weekes
,
are
not
to
be
accounted
by
daies
,
but
by
years
as
all
do
agree
.
And
seuentie
seuenties
of
yeares
,
are
490.
yeares
.
The
beginning
of
these
490.
years
the
Angell
fixeth
most
certainely
,
&
sheweth
plainely
to
Daniel
in
the
next
verse
:
Therefore
vnderstand
and
marke
;
From
the
proceeding
forth
of
the
word
(
or
Edict
)
to
bring
againe
the
people
,
and
to
build
Ierusalem
,
vnto
Christ
shal
be
,
&c.
This
Edict
proceeded
forth
in
Artaxerxes
seuenth
yeare
:
as
it
is
recorded
,
Esz
.
7.
from
the
12
verse
to
the
26.
Artashasht
King
of
Kinges
to
Ezra
the
Priest
,
and
perfect
Scribe
in
the
Lawe
of
the
God
of
Heauen
.
13.
I
haue
giuen
commandment
,
that
euery
one
that
is
willing
in
my
kingdom
,
of
the
people
of
Israel
,
and
of
the
Priestes
and
Leuites
,
to
goe
to
Ierusalem
with
thee
,
shall
goe
.
14
Therefore
art
thou
sent
by
the
King
and
his
seuen
counsellers
,
to
make
inquisition
in
Iudah
and
Ierusalem
,
of
the
lawe
of
thy
God
,
which
is
in
thy
hand
.
This
branch
is
for
the
bringing
againe
of
the
people
:
after
which
followeth
the
second
branch
for
the
presentes
,
which
the
King
and
the
Princes
,
and
the
people
sent
to
be
offered
to
the
God
of
Heauen
,
in
his
house
at
Ierusalem
:
and
then
the
third
branch
for
the
immunities
and
liberties
of
the
Priestes
,
Leuites
,
&
all
other
ministers
of
the
house
of
God
,
vers.
24.
and
lastly
insueth
vers.
25.
the
fourth
branch
,
for
restoring
the
Policie
and
Gouernment
,
And
thou
Ezra
after
the
wisedome
of
thy
God
,
that
is
in
thy
hand
,
appointe
Iudges
,
and
Iustices
of
Oyer
and
Terminer
,
to
all
the
people
that
is
beyond
the
riuer
:
of
all
that
know
the
law
of
thy
God
,
and
them
which
know
it
not
,
teach
.
26.
And
whosoeuer
will
not
doe
the
Lawe
of
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
the
Lawe
of
the
King
,
let
him
haue
iudgement
without
delay
,
eyther
of
death
,
or
of
banishment
,
or
of
confiscation
of
goods
,
or
of
imprisonment
.
Heere
you
see
commission
is
giuen
to
Esdras
:
to
restore
a
common
wealth
in
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
:
to
ordaine
Magistrates
and
Officers
of
their
owne
:
to
execute
lawes
:
to
punish
all
manner
of
offenders
;
and
to
exercise
all
sortes
of
punishment
:
which
be
the
principall
and
essentiall
partes
of
a
Citie
;
as
Cicero
said
:
Ciuitas
est
,
in
qua
est
Consul
,
est
Senatus
,
est
iuris
&
aequitatis
,
quae
vincula
sunt
ciuitatis
,
repetita
memoria
.
And
these
were
at
this
time
and
by
this
Edict
,
graunted
to
the
Iewes
,
and
neuer
before
:
being
much
more
of
the
essence
of
a
Citie
,
than
the
repayring
of
walles
,
which
Nehemias
came
about
.
To
Daniel
the
Angel
speaketh
of
a
word
or
Edict
,
that
hath
two
branches
:
the
first
to
bring
againe
the
people
:
the
other
to
build
the
Citie
of
Ierusalem
;
both
which
Esdras
had
;
but
Nehemias
wanted
the
one
,
and
Zorobabel
wanted
the
other
.
Wherefore
considering
the
euidencie
of
Daniels
prophecie
&
the
Angels
speech
,
and
waighing
withall
the
wonderfull
concent
&
harmonie
of
the
best
approued
humane
writers
with
this
Computation
(
which
after
will
appeare
)
it
cannot
be
but
cleare
and
manifest
to
all
men
,
that
Daniels
weeks
begin
neyther
at
the
one
,
nor
at
the
other
of
them
:
though
many
learned
men
haue
made
the
beginning
thereof
at
each
of
them
.
As
:
at
Nehemias
comming
in
Longimans
20
yeare
the
common
exposition
beginneth
Daniels
70
weekes
:
whom
very
many
great
Clarkes
followe
,
as
Beda
,
Petrus
Galatinus
:
and
of
late
Lucidus
Samotheus
,
and
Clemens
Schubertus
&c.
But
as
that
is
taken
,
it
differeth
not
in
time
from
our
account
.
For
they
make
it
the
20
yeare
,
not
of
his
sole
raigne
after
his
father
,
but
from
the
beginning
of
his
raign
,
while
his
father
liued
:
the
20
yeare
whereof
was
but
the
7
of
his
sole
raigne
,
which
I
reckon
of
.
So
they
iump
with
vs
.
Yet
that
is
not
the
commission
,
which
the
Angell
prophecied
of
:
1
Because
Nehemias
did
bring
none
from
Babilon
with
him
,
Cap.
2.17.4.1
.
and
as
the
whole
suruey
of
the
worke
sheweth
in
all
the
third
Chapter
.
3
That
commission
was
out
before
,
though
the
worke
were
neglected
,
which
appeareth
in
that
he
maketh
mention
of
Ouerseers
of
the
worke
before
he
acquainted
any
man
with
his
commission
or
purpose
,
Cap.
7.16
.
At
Cyrus
first
yeare
and
at
the
going
out
of
the
word
at
Daniels
prayer
,
R.
Aben
Ezra
beginneth
Daniels
weekes
:
whom
of
late
Tremellius
and
Henricus
Wolphius
follow
.
But
that
cannot
be
the
word
,
which
the
Angell
ment
:
because
the
Angell
poynteth
out
,
describeth
,
and
from
all
other
words
distinguisheth
the
word
that
he
ment
,
by
two
notable
&
euident
markes
and
signes
:
namely
that
it
should
be
the
going
forth
of
a
word
to
bring
againe
the
people
,
and
to
builde
Ierusalem
.
Wheras
the
commission
which
Zorobabel
receiued
at
that
time
,
and
was
proclaymed
in
all
Cyrus
kingdom
,
had
not
a
word
of
building
Ierusalem
,
or
of
ordayning
any
state
and
common
wealth
there
:
build
the
house
of
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
,
which
is
at
Ierusalem
.
For
that
was
the
thing
that
Cyrus
respected
,
euen
the
seruing
of
God
,
Aben
Ezra
,
wanting
not
wit
but
grace
(
as
one
speaketh
of
him
)
sought
by
this
sleight
to
bring
the
Gospel
into
discredit
and
disgrace
among
other
nations
and
to
alienate
them
from
it
:
when
they
should
see
Christians
,
to
proue
that
Christ
was
incarnate
and
suffered
in
his
due
time
,
corsse
and
contradict
the
Historie
and
Chronologie
of
all
other
nations
and
times
;
and
the
recordes
of
all
states
and
Empyres
.
As
to
the
like
end
,
that
is
,
to
obscure
&
ouershadow
the
time
&
truth
of
Chrrst
,
his
fellow
Rabbi
Solomon
,
beginneth
Daniels
weekes
at
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
by
Nabuchodonosor
,
&
endeth
them
at
the
destruction
of
the
same
by
Vespasian
.
It
is
a
very
hell
to
them
,
to
see
the
recordes
of
the
Monarchies
beare
reccord
to
Christ
;
or
the
annales
,
actes
,
and
histories
of
other
kingdoms
and
people
appeare
as
witnesses
,
that
Christ
was
giuen
and
exhibited
in
the
fulnesse
of
time
,
that
God
so
long
before
had
set
and
shewed
by
his
Prophets
.
And
this
vse
we
are
to
make
of
humane
writers
and
Chroniclers
,
though
heathenish
;
euen
to
make
them
serue
vnto
Christ
,
toward
the
leading
of
vs
into
an
vnderstanding
of
the
trueth
of
times
and
seasons
:
since
the
holy
Ghost
doth
not
refuse
the
same
neyther
in
the
olde
,
nor
new
Testament
:
leading
vs
to
the
better
and
readier
knowledge
of
the
old
times
by
the
yeares
and
account
of
Nabuchodonosor
:
and
of
the
new
times
of
our
Sauiour
himselfe
,
by
the
time
of
Augustus
,
Tiberius
,
Cyrenius
,
Pilat
,
&c.
Wherof
we
shall
make
small
vse
,
if
we
be
barred
from
humane
writings
&
records
.
The
ende
of
these
70
weekes
is
the
Passion
of
Christ
,
as
is
euident
,
vers.
24.
&
26.
Yet
the
authors
of
the
former
opinion
,
which
begin
them
at
Longimans
20.
yeare
,
and
Tremellius
for
the
other
,
end
the
70
weekes
three
yeares
and
a
halfe
after
Christ
;
beginning
the
last
weeke
,
wherein
the
Testament
should
be
confirmed
to
many
,
at
Christes
baptisme
,
and
ending
halfe
of
it
at
his
passion
,
reseruing
the
other
halfe
to
his
Apostles
for
the
accomplishment
of
the
worke
:
or
as
though
the
Angell
had
vsed
numero
rotundo
pro
corrupto
,
the
full
and
round
number
for
the
broken
,
not
respecting
the
odde
three
yeares
and
halfe
,
that
were
wanting
of
the
full
summe
.
Which
negligence
doubtlesse
the
Angel
would
not
commit
in
a
matter
of
such
importance
.
Againe
it
is
euident
,
that
the
Angell
respecteth
for
the
marke
and
scope
of
all
those
workes
,
the
person
and
office
of
Christ
onely
;
and
not
of
his
Apostles
.
Neyther
can
those
actions
which
he
speaketh
of
,
be
attributed
to
the
Apostles
,
as
to
restraine
the
falling
away
;
to
seale
vp
sinnes
;
to
expiat
Iniquitie
,
to
bring
in
Euerlasting
righteousnesse
,
&c.
The
order
of
the
Angels
speech
,
I
will
briefly
set
downe
.
First
vers.
24.
deliuereth
the
prophecie
in
generall
,
setting
downe
the
whole
terme
in
one
grosse
summe
of
70
weekes
:
and
withall
reciting
vp
the
benefits
in
ample
sort
,
which
that
time
shall
bring
forth
.
Secondly
,
vers.
25.
by
a
speciall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
he
handleth
all
againe
:
First
setting
downe
and
fixing
the
very
instant
,
where
the
Computation
shall
begin
:
Viz.
at
the
proceeding
forth
of
the
Edict
to
bring
againe
the
people
,
and
to
build
Ierusalem
.
Secondly
he
deuideth
the
whole
terme
into
three
partes
:
two
whereof
he
reckoneth
in
the
same
verse
:
First
seuen
weekes
,
and
after
threescore
and
two
weekes
,
vnto
Christ
,
wherein
the
people
shal
be
returned
,
and
the
streetes
and
wall
built
:
and
those
two
partes
shal
be
in
straites
of
time
and
much
destresse
.
But
then
come
the
happy
and
halcyon
daies
wherein
the
benefites
before
promised
shall
be
performed
.
Which
is
the
last
time
,
and
therefore
,
vers.
26.
he
setteth
downe
the
ende
of
the
last
weeke
,
and
consequently
of
the
whole
terme
:
namely
the
passion
and
death
of
Christ
:
and
after
the
threescore
and
two
weekes
CHRIST
shal
be
slayne
.
Intimating
withall
the
euents
that
shall
insue
the
same
,
euen
the
vtter
desolation
of
the
Citie
,
as
a
punishment
for
their
ingratitude
in
contemning
Christ
&
the
benefits
brought
and
wrought
by
him
,
and
for
their
slaying
of
him
.
This
last
part
,
or
last
weeke
,
which
he
reserued
for
Christ
,
he
handleth
more
particularly
.
vers.
27.
For
first
least
he
shoulde
take
it
,
that
Christ
should
be
slaine
presently
after
the
ende
of
the
62
weekes
:
he
sheweth
,
that
he
shall
continue
first
a
whole
weeke
:
and
he
shall
confirme
the
Testament
vnto
many
one
weeke
:
meaning
the
better
Testament
,
Heb.
7.22
.
euen
the
new
Testament
,
Heb.
8.8
.
And
least
he
should
be
mistaken
,
as
though
he
should
spend
a
whole
weeke
in
confirming
that
testament
;
and
bestow
seuen
yeares
in
his
Publique
Ministerie
,
he
vseth
a
speciall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
by
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
correction
expoundeth
his
owne
meaning
:
euen
in
halfe
of
that
weeke
he
shall
cease
and
abolish
the
sacrifice
and
the
oblation
.
Which
was
the
last
halfe
of
that
last
weeke
;
euen
from
his
baptisme
to
his
Passion
;
the
whole
time
of
his
Ministerie
,
that
is
three
yeares
and
halfe
:
whereby
he
abrogated
and
abolished
the
Leuiticall
Priesthood
,
and
chaunged
it
.
Heb.
7.11
hauing
himselfe
an
euerlasting
Priesthood
,
vers.
24.
wherunto
he
was
called
and
inuested
at
his
baptisme
,
when
it
was
said
vnto
him
:
thou
art
my
son
.
Heb.
5.5
.
exercising
&
executing
the
same
in
the
daies
of
his
flesh
:
wherin
he
offered
vp
prayers
&
supplications
with
strong
crying
,
Heb.
5.7
.
and
finishing
it
at
his
passion
,
by
which
he
did
at
once
put
away
sinne
,
by
the
sacrifice
of
himselfe
,
once
offered
.
Heb.
9.29.28
.
which
being
done
,
this
man
after
he
had
offered
one
sacrifice
for
sinnes
,
sitteth
for
euer
at
the
righthand
of
God
.
Heb.
10.12
.
and
therfore
iustly
&
rightly
he
cried
vpon
his
crosse
CONSVMMATVM
EST
is
it
finished
.
For
there
was
an
ende
of
all
sacrifices
,
oblations
,
and
the
whole
Leuiticall
Priesthood
,
and
of
the
70
weekes
too
.
The
distance
of
490.
yeares
from
Artaxerxes
7.
to
the
passion
of
Christ
,
is
proued
thus
.
Esdras
with
the
heades
and
all
the
multitude
of
people
,
and
his
commission
to
restore
the
common-wealth
of
Ierusalem
and
Iuda
,
departed
from
the
riuer
of
Ahaua
to
goe
vnto
Ierusalem
the
12
day
of
the
first
month
:
that
is
two
daies
before
the
Passouer
in
Artaxerxes
7
:
yeare
,
Esd.
8.31
.
that
is
a
little
aboue
100.
daies
before
the
end
of
the
second
yeare
of
the
80
Olympiad
.
as
is
shewed
before
.
And
Christ
Iesus
with
his
Apostles
and
Disciples
tooke
his
iourney
,
to
goe
to
Ierusalem
to
his
passion
,
whereby
he
restored
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
to
vs
,
and
made
vs
Citizens
of
Ierusalem
which
is
above
the
12
day
of
the
first
month
,
that
is
two
daies
before
the
Passouer
,
Math.
26.1
.
a
little
aboue
100
daies
before
the
end
of
the
4.
yeare
of
the
202.
Olympiad
.
as
Eusebius
proueth
out
of
Phlegon
.
The
distance
betweene
these
two
iourneyes
is
precisely
490.
yeares
.
For
202.
Olympiades
multiplyed
by
4
make
808.
yeares
:
and
79.
Olympiades
and
2
yeares
,
make
318.
yeares
:
which
being
subducted
out
of
the
other
,
there
remains
490.
Also
it
may
be
proued
out
of
the
most
excellent
Chronologer
Iulius
Aphricanus
,
whose
wordes
Eusebius
citeth
Demonst.
Euang.
l.
8.
ca.
2.
Anno
imperij
Persarum
115.
Artexerxes
20.
&
Olymp.
83.
anno
.
4.
Nehemias
missus
est
Hierosolymam
ab
Artaxerxe
,
inde
ad
Olymp.
202.
annum
2
Tiberij
Caesaris
16
:
anni
numerantur
.
475.
In
the
115
,
yeare
of
the
Empyre
of
the
Persians
,
being
Artaxerxes
20
,
and
the
4
yeare
of
the
Olymp.
83.
Nehemias
was
sent
to
Ierusalem
by
Artaxerxes
.
From
thence
to
the
2
yeare
of
the
Olymp.
202.
and
Tiberius
16
,
are
reconed
475.
yeares
.
Where
first
I
woulde
haue
noted
,
that
he
coupleth
Artaxerxes
20
,
with
the
115.
yeare
of
the
Persians
;
for
the
confirmation
of
that
,
which
before
I
set
downe
.
For
in
that
summe
are
contayned
first
23
yeares
of
Cyrus
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
raygne
,
before
his
Monarchie
:
Secondly
,
the
78
yeares
,
assigned
before
from
the
beginning
of
Cyrus
Monarchie
to
the
ende
of
Artaxerxes
6
yeare
:
Thirdly
14
that
remayne
to
make
vp
Artaxerxes
20.
This
20
yeare
of
Artaxerxes
(
as
may
be
gathered
by
that
which
before
is
spoken
of
his
first
,
6
and
7
yeare
)
began
about
a
quarter
of
a
yeare
before
the
4
yeare
of
the
Olymp.
83.
so
that
from
the
beginning
of
his
7
yeare
to
the
beginning
of
the
yeare
4
Olymp.
83
are
13
yeares
and
a
quarter
:
Which
being
added
to
Aphricans
475
,
make
488
and
a
quarter
:
then
adde
the
third
years
of
the
said
Olympiad
,
and
three
quarters
of
the
fourth
(
for
Christ
suffered
about
a
quarter
of
a
yeare
before
the
ende
of
the
4
yeare
of
the
Olymp.
202
)
&
there
will
be
iust
490.
Likewise
the
same
will
fall
out
by
Tiberius
raigne
.
Aphrican
saith
,
that
from
Artaxerxes
20.
to
Tiberius
16
are
475
yeares
:
but
there
wanteth
aboue
halfe
a
yeare
of
it
.
For
Tiberius
16
ended
the
19
day
of
August
,
which
was
but
50
daies
after
the
beginning
of
the
yeare
2
Olymp.
202.
Adde
thereto
13
yeares
from
Artaxerxes
7
,
to
his
20
:
and
there
wil
be
487
yeares
and
about
5
months
.
The
16
yeare
of
Tiberius
was
Christs
31
:
wherefore
we
must
adde
further
Christes
32
and
33
,
and
about
7
moneths
more
,
that
is
from
the
19
of
August
to
his
passion
;
and
there
will
be
iust
490.
The
same
may
be
proued
also
by
Ptolomies
calculation
For
he
li.
4.
c.
6.
sheweth
that
Adrians
19
yeare
was
the
854
yeare
from
the
second
of
Mardocempad
,
&
li.
4.
c.
9.
he
maketh
the
20
year
of
Darius
Histaspis
,
to
be
the
219
from
the
same
2
yeare
of
Mardocempad
:
to
which
219
ad
16
for
the
rest
of
Darius
,
21
for
Xerxes
,
&
Ataxerxes
6
&
ther
wil
be
262.
which
being
substracted
from
the
854
,
leaue
592
from
Artaxerxes
7
to
Adrians
19
inclusiuè
.
The
19
of
Adrian
is
ioyned
by
Historiographers
with
the
yeare
of
Christ
136
,
as
his
first
is
ioyned
with
118
:
out
of
136
take
34
(
that
is
,
the
space
from
Christs
incarnation
to
his
passion
)
and
there
remaine
102
:
which
being
taken
out
of
592
there
remaine
490
from
Artaxerxes
7
to
the
passion
of
Christ
.
Or
thus
,
Ptol.
li.
3.
ca.
82.
reckoneth
from
Nabonassar
to
Alexanders
death
,
424
yeares
:
then
consequently
Alexanders
last
,
is
the
200
yeare
from
Cambyses
7
inclusiuè
.
For
I
shewed
before
,
that
Cambyses
7
is
Nabonassars
225
:
adde
Cambyses
first
6
,
and
Cyrus
his
7
,
and
they
make
213
from
Cyrus
first
of
his
Monarchie
to
Alexanders
death
.
And
from
Alexanders
death
to
the
Conquest
of
Aegypt
,
when
Augustus
reduced
it
to
a
Prouince
,
Ptolomie
reckoneth
294
yeares
:
which
was
done
in
Augustus
his
III.
Consulship
,
and
the
yeare
of
Antonies
death
;
as
Clemens
Alexandrinus
sheweth
,
who
also
reckoneth
thence
to
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
28
yeares
,
and
thence
to
his
Passion
are
33
:
all
which
make
568.
Out
of
which
substract
78
from
Cyrus
first
to
Artaxerxes
7
,
and
there
remaine
490
from
Artaxerxes
7
to
the
Passion
of
Christ
.
Eusebius
in
like
sort
agreeth
exactly
with
this
account
for
the
Persians
.
For
Demonst.
Euang.
l.
8.
c.
2.
from
the
first
of
Cyrus
his
Regiment
,
to
the
end
of
the
olde
Testament
,
that
is
to
the
death
of
Simon
the
high
Priest
(
which
was
in
the
yeare
of
the
Greekes
177.1
.
Maccab.
16.
)
he
reckoneth
425.
yeares
.
Take
23
yeares
of
Cyrus
Regiment
before
his
Monarchie
:
then
213
(
as
before
was
shewed
)
from
Cyrus
Monarchie
to
Alexanders
death
:
then
12
from
his
death
to
the
Coronation
of
Seleucus
Nicanor
,
where
the
Computation
of
the
Greekes
beginneth
:
and
lastly
their
177.
yeares
,
and
there
will
be
in
all
425.
Likewise
the
Computation
of
the
Sabboth
yeares
and
Iubilies
agreeth
notably
with
our
account
.
For
Moses
ordayneth
that
the
Israelites
should
begin
their
Computation
of
them
,
assone
as
they
were
entered
into
the
lande
,
so
that
the
Manna
ceasing
,
their
tillage
and
husbandrie
began
in
Iosuahs
first
yeare
:
and
the
first
Sabboth
yeare
was
in
his
7
yeare
,
that
is
the
yeare
of
the
world
2555.
wherein
the
Land
was
at
rest
from
warres
too
:
Ios.
10.43
.
and
then
they
began
the
diuision
of
the
land
,
as
is
euident
by
Calebs
age
,
Ios.
14.7.10
.
and
the
7
month
and
10
day
,
the
people
being
assembled
at
Gilgall
,
the
lawe
was
red
,
as
it
had
beene
red
by
Moses
7
yeares
before
Deut.
31.10
.
which
day
they
began
to
rest
,
and
rested
till
that
day
tweluemonth
:
intermitting
their
earing
and
tillage
of
2555.
and
the
haruest
of
2556
:
so
that
the
fruites
of
one
yeare
serued
three
yeares
,
as
God
promiseth
,
Leuit.
23
:
that
is
the
olde
fruites
of
the
labours
,
toyle
,
and
tillage
of
the
6
yeare
,
2554.
serued
the
7
yeare
2555.
wherein
they
were
gathered
;
and
the
eight
,
2556
wherein
they
gathered
none
;
and
the
ninth
,
2557
till
haruest
that
they
might
gather
newe
.
And
so
afterward
for
the
Sabboth
yeares
.
Euerie
seuenth
Sabboth
yeare
was
the
Iubilie
,
that
is
the
49
yeare
from
the
former
Iubilie
exclusiuè
,
or
the
50
yeare
inclusiuè
,
so
that
the
yeare
2597
was
the
first
Iubilie
,
&
2646
the
second
&c.
Now
with
this
Computation
al
the
sabboth
yeares
&
Iubilies
,
that
we
find
recorded
do
iustly
agree
,
as
the
18
yeare
of
Iosias
,
that
is
,
3381
was
the
17
Iubilie
as
Ezechiell
maketh
it
,
taking
thence
his
Computation
&
account
Cap.
1.1.2
.
It
came
to
passe
in
the
30
yeare
in
the
fourth
month
,
(
which
was
the
fift
yeare
of
king
Iehoiacins
captiuitie
.
To
the
last
14
of
Iosias
,
adde
11
for
the
raignes
of
Iehoiakim
&
Iehoiacin
,
&
5
of
his
captiuitie
,
and
there
are
iust
30.
So
likewise
the
Iewes
besieged
in
Bethzura
,
in
the
50
yeare
of
the
Greeks
were
driuen
to
yeeld
the
towne
for
want
of
vittailes
,
by
reason
of
the
Sabboth
yeare
,
1.
Maccab.
6.49
.
For
the
49
yeare
of
the
Greeks
,
that
is
3759
was
a
sabboth
yeare
,
whereby
they
intermitted
the
tillage
of
that
yeare
,
and
the
haruest
of
the
50
yeare
;
and
their
olde
store
of
the
haruest
of
49
,
which
should
haue
serued
them
till
they
might
haue
new
fruites
of
the
yeare
51
,
was
spent
by
them
which
had
escaped
from
the
Gentiles
,
and
were
come
into
Iudaea
,
vers.
53.
Againe
Herods
oppugning
of
Ierusalem
was
in
a
Sabboth
yeare
,
which
caused
great
famine
in
the
Citie
,
Ioseph
.
li.
14.
ca.
28.
meaning
not
that
the
Sabboth
yeare
continued
all
the
time
of
the
siege
(
which
could
haue
beene
no
great
cause
of
famine
,
because
they
ought
to
haue
had
store
enough
of
all
the
former
yeare
for
all
the
Sabboth
yeare
,
and
the
yeare
after
too
,
though
they
had
had
no
warres
at
all
)
but
because
the
oppugning
began
in
the
end
of
the
Sabboth
yeare
,
wherin
no
supply
might
be
made
,
which
in
the
winter
following
caused
great
dearth
indeede
.
The
Citie
was
taken
,
as
Iosephus
saith
,
the
185
Olymp.
Vipsanius
and
Gallus
being
Consuls
,
the
third
month
,
and
it
was
the
third
yeare
of
that
Olympiad
,
because
their
consulship
began
at
Ianuary
in
that
third
yeare
,
and
in
October
before
the
Sabboth
yeare
ended
:
and
a
little
before
that
the
Citie
was
oppugned
and
besieged
by
Herod
and
Silo
Ioseph
.
li.
14.
ca.
27.
where
grew
a
mutinie
among
the
Romane
soldiars
,
not
liking
to
winter
there
for
want
of
prouision
:
which
want
grewe
by
reason
of
omitting
the
haruest
before
in
regard
of
the
Sabboth
yeare
,
Ioseph
.
li.
14.
ca.
27.
Moreouer
the
sonne
of
God
was
Incarnate
of
the
virgine
Marie
,
to
whom
the
great
and
glad
newes
was
brought
by
an
Angel
from
heauen
,
the
verie
first
yeare
of
the
30
Iubilie
:
and
the
same
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
hauing
accomplished
the
worke
of
our
redemption
,
rested
in
his
sepulchre
,
not
onely
the
sabboth
day
,
but
also
the
Sabboth
yeare
.
For
in
the
10
day
of
the
7
month
of
the
yeare
4053
next
before
the
passion
of
Christ
,
beganne
the
215
Sabbath
yeare
,
wherein
Christ
Iesus
by
his
Passion
purchased
for
vs
true
manumission
,
eternall
remission
,
perfect
liberty
and
euerlasting
rest
,
euen
Sabboth
vpon
Sabboth
,
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
.
To
which
Sabboth
yeare
,
and
acceptable
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
he
prepared
his
countreymen
of
Nazaret
in
his
sermon
there
not
long
before
.
Luke
.
5.
Nowe
that
the
10
Articles
of
the
Computation
from
the
creation
to
Christ
be
clearely
confirmed
;
and
that
the
Olympiades
be
tyed
to
the
Aera
of
Nabonassar
;
and
they
both
be
applyed
to
the
yeares
of
the
world
,
which
are
most
certainely
continued
in
holie
scripture
till
the
Captiuitie
of
Babilon
:
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
doe
the
like
with
the
yeares
of
Rome
,
which
depend
of
the
Olympiades
,
because
that
Computation
is
much
vsed
in
the
Romane
Historiographers
.
And
for
the
beginning
of
the
Computation
,
Aera
,
or
stile
of
Rome
,
which
the
Chronologers
briefly
note
with
these
two
letters
V.
C.
that
is
vrbis
conditae
,
of
the
building
of
the
Citie
:
there
is
great
difference
among
the
ancient
writers
,
as
is
well
obserued
by
Solinus
,
and
more
particularly
by
Sigonius
.
Of
the
three
principall
opinions
,
the
first
beginneth
it
in
the
yeare
3
Olymp.
6
or
23
yeare
of
Iphitus
:
the
second
in
4
Olymp.
6.
or
24
yeare
of
Iphitus
:
the
third
in
1
Olymp.
7.
or
the
25
yeare
of
Iphitus
.
The
reason
of
which
differences
I
will
endeuour
briefly
to
shewe
;
and
to
reconcile
these
Computations
,
for
the
better
light
to
the
studious
in
Historie
.
And
heereto
the
distinction
vsed
by
Liuie
in
his
verie
beginning
will
helpe
vs
a
little
:
where
he
saith
,
Ante
conditam
condendamuè
vrbem
:
before
the
building
of
the
Citie
was
finished
:
or
before
the
building
of
the
Citie
was
begunne
.
First
therefore
it
is
held
as
certaine
of
the
Romane
Historiographers
,
that
Romulus
hauing
reuenged
the
iniuries
of
Amulius
,
and
leauing
the
rule
and
gouernment
of
Alba
to
Numitor
,
incontinently
and
with
all
speede
began
the
building
of
a
new
Citie
:
the
plot
whereof
was
drawen
out
with
a
plough
,
&
the
foundation
laid
on
the
day
of
the
shepheards
feast
called
Palilia
,
which
after
was
called
Natalis
vrbis
,
the
birth
day
of
the
Citie
:
which
was
(
as
Plinie
saith
,
li.
18.
c.
16.
)
the
11.
Calendes
of
May
,
that
is
,
the
21
day
of
April
,
in
the
third
yeare
of
the
sixt
Olympiad
,
as
Plutarch
recordeth
in
his
Romulus
,
(
that
is
,
the
yeare
of
the
world
3270
)
and
within
46
daies
of
the
ende
of
that
third
yeare
and
beginning
of
the
fourth
.
Which
space
of
46
daies
is
accounted
for
a
yeare
,
and
at
that
instant
Plutarch
beginneth
,
where
he
saith
that
Numa
Pompilius
was
borne
when
Romulus
built
the
Citie
:
and
that
he
began
his
raigne
in
the
40
yeare
of
his
age
.
And
Paterculus
:
In
the
6
Olympiad
,
22
yeares
after
the
first
beginning
of
them
,
Romulus
hauing
reuenged
the
iniuries
of
his
grandfather
,
built
(
that
is
,
began
to
build
)
the
Citie
of
Rome
in
the
feast
Palilia
in
the
Palatine
.
But
in
his
Computation
he
vseth
the
common
account
ab
vrbe
condita
:
from
the
time
after
the
Citie
was
built
;
as
straight
followeth
:
from
which
time
(
that
is
,
post
vrbem
conditam
,
as
he
speaketh
Pag.
40.
)
to
thy
Consulship
,
M.
Vinicius
,
are
781
yeares
,
and
that
was
done
after
the
taking
of
Troy
430
yeares
,
as
the
place
is
corrected
:
And
Liuie
when
he
saith
,
that
Romulus
had
peace
40
yeares
:
And
Pomponius
Atticus
,
and
M.
Tullius
,
as
Solinus
setteth
downe
their
opinions
,
Cap.
2.
The
Citie
was
in
building
and
accomplishing
a
whole
yeare
,
being
finished
at
the
same
feast
in
the
4
yeare
of
the
6
Olympiad
,
that
is
,
the
21
of
April
3271.
where
began
the
account
,
V.
C.
that
is
,
ab
vrbe
condita
,
and
Romulus
raigne
of
37
yeares
.
And
from
thence
Varro
taketh
his
Aera
&
Computation
,
which
is
followed
by
Eutropius
,
Orosius
,
and
Censorinus
,
where
he
saith
:
This
yeare
,
the
stile
whereof
is
the
Consulship
of
Vlpius
and
Pontianus
,
is
the
yeare
1014
from
the
first
Olympias
,
beginning
it
but
only
from
the
Summer
Solstice
,
about
which
time
the
Olympique
plaies
and
games
were
shewed
;
and
the
991
yeare
after
Rome
was
built
,
beginning
it
at
the
Palilia
,
whence
the
yeares
of
Rome
are
accounted
.
Nowe
Dionysius
a
Greeke
,
and
writing
in
Greeke
,
to
make
the
Computation
of
Rome
agreeable
and
proportionable
to
the
yeare
and
Computation
of
the
Greekes
,
did
cast
away
those
fewe
daies
of
the
last
yeare
of
the
6
Olympiad
,
and
did
begin
it
with
the
beginning
of
the
new
Olympiad
,
and
maketh
from
the
destruction
of
Troy
,
to
that
time
432
yeares
:
agreeing
iust
with
Diodorus
Siculus
,
who
maketh
it
408
yeares
from
the
destruction
of
Troy
to
the
first
Olympiad
.
Iulius
Solinus
followeth
Dionysius
,
as
you
may
see
,
Cap.
2.
Comparing
and
proportioning
our
times
and
the
Greekes
together
,
we
finde
that
Rome
was
built
at
the
beginning
of
the
7
Olympiad
,
in
the
433
yeare
after
Troy
was
taken
.
And
in
the
same
place
he
sheweth
,
that
in
the
yeare
V.
C.
after
Rome
was
built
,
801
there
was
written
in
the
publique
actes
the
207
Olympiad
,
which
exceedeth
the
other
by
24
yeares
.
And
so
Clemens
Alexand.
Strom.
li.
1.
reckoneth
from
the
first
Olympiad
to
the
time
that
Rome
was
built
24
yeares
.
This
Computation
of
Dionysius
and
Solinus
is
most
vsuall
.
And
although
there
be
but
small
oddes
betweene
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
markes
of
these
two
last
accountes
of
Varro
and
Dionysius
:
viz.
as
much
as
from
the
21
of
May
to
the
first
day
of
Hecatombaeam
about
the
sommer
Solstice
,
yet
it
breedeth
in
account
the
oddes
of
a
whole
yeare
:
because
Varro
endeth
his
first
yeare
of
Rome
with
the
4
yeare
of
the
6
Olympiad
;
and
beginneth
his
second
yeare
where
Dionysius
beginneth
his
first
:
and
so
he
accounteth
those
fewe
daies
betweene
the
Palilia
,
and
the
Olympiades
for
one
yeare
.
The
same
oddes
must
be
obserued
,
if
you
suite
the
Computation
of
V.
C.
to
the
vsuall
yeare
of
Rome
which
began
at
Ianuarie
,
that
Varroes
first
yeare
ende
at
Ianuarie
next
ensuing
the
building
,
&
Dionysius
first
begin
but
at
the
same
Ianuarie
.
Whereupon
Eutropius
and
Orosius
place
Augustus
death
in
the
yeare
of
Rome
767
:
which
after
Dionisius
account
was
but
766.
In
the
same
sort
Orosius
endeth
Augustus
first
yeare
at
Ianuarie
,
where
the
Ciuil
and
Common
yeare
ended
;
accounting
the
short
time
betweene
the
10
Cal.
of
October
and
the
Calends
of
Ianuarie
for
one
yeare
,
and
then
at
Ianuarie
in
his
first
yeare
,
beginneth
his
second
yeare
.
Whereupon
he
saith
,
that
Christ
was
borne
,
anno
quadragesimo
secundo
Augusti
propemodum
emenso
.
Of
the
yeares
of
Rome
depend
the
yeares
and
catalogue
of
the
Consuls
;
S.
Luke
coupleth
the
30
yeare
of
Christ
with
the
15
of
Tiberius
:
so
that
the
15
yeare
before
Tiberius
,
is
the
first
of
Christes
Natiuitie
:
and
that
was
the
42
yeare
of
Augustus
.
For
out
of
the
56
yeares
of
his
Empyre
take
14
and
there
remaine
42
:
which
42
yeare
is
the
15
yeare
before
Tiberius
,
in
which
Christ
was
borne
,
as
all
the
ancient
writers
agree
,
Euseb.
Eccl.
Hist.
li.
1.
ca.
5.
Epiph.
cont.
Haer.
li.
1.
tom
.
1.
Tertul.
cont.
Iudaeos
,
Pag.
128.
Oros
.
l.
7.
ca.
2.
And
for
the
further
confirmation
of
this
Computation
,
it
doth
heereby
appeare
most
clearely
,
that
the
birth
of
Christ
is
rightly
and
iustly
placed
in
the
751
yeare
of
Rome
after
Dionysius
account
;
and
also
in
the
4020
yeare
of
the
world
.
For
Paterculus
affirmeth
,
vol.
2.
p.
40.
that
Augustus
Caesar
was
created
Consul
(
where
Suetonius
,
Eusebius
,
Eutropius
,
and
the
most
part
begin
his
Empyre
and
Monarchie
;
though
Tacitus
begin
it
at
Iulius
Caesars
death
,
but
then
he
attributeth
58
yeares
to
his
Empyre
)
the
10
Calendes
of
October
709
yeares
post
conditam
Romam
,
after
Rome
was
built
:
which
yeares
are
fully
complete
,
and
as
much
,
as
from
the
sommer
Solstice
vnto
the
22
of
September
:
adde
thereto
42
,
and
there
will
be
751
,
in
which
yeare
Christ
was
borne
.
Now
for
the
yeare
of
the
world
,
it
appeared
before
that
Dionysius
began
the
Computation
of
the
yeares
of
Rome
with
the
7.
Olympiad
,
which
was
about
the
sommer
solstice
of
the
yeare
of
the
world
3270
,
which
taketh
vp
the
first
yeare
of
Rome
,
and
of
the
7
Olympiad
all
saue
one
quarter
.
Wherefore
to
3269
and
a
quarter
adde
709
,
and
a
quarter
(
that
is
from
the
sommer
solstice
to
the
22
of
September
:
)
and
then
41
of
Augustus
,
and
a
quarter
(
from
the
22
of
September
to
the
25
of
December
:
)
and
there
will
amount
4019
yeares
and
three
quarters
to
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
.
And
heere
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
note
the
harmonie
,
and
agreement
betweene
Paterculus
and
other
ancient
and
autentique
writers
in
this
poynt
.
Paterculus
giueth
for
a
note
worth
the
remembrance
,
that
the
said
10
Calendes
of
October
,
or
the
22
day
of
September
,
was
a
day
before
Augustus
was
full
20
yeare
old
,
pridie
quàm
viginti
annos
impleret
.
And
first
for
the
day
Suetonius
agreeth
,
affirming
Cap.
5.
that
Augustus
was
borne
9
Cal.
Octobris
,
or
23
day
of
September
.
Secondly
for
the
yeare
,
it
may
be
gathered
thus
:
Florus
and
Eutropius
affirme
,
that
when
Iulius
Caesar
was
slaine
,
Augustus
was
18
yeare
olde
:
whereto
we
must
adde
as
much
as
from
the
23
of
September
to
the
Ides
or
15
day
of
March
,
on
which
day
Iulius
Caesar
was
slaine
.
After
his
death
Antonius
and
Dolobella
being
Consuls
tooke
the
authoritie
vpon
them
til
Ianuarie
following
,
wherin
Hirtius
and
Pansa
were
created
Consuls
:
who
afterward
were
slaine
at
Mutina
:
and
the
10
Cal.
of
October
next
after
their
death
Augustus
was
made
Consul
;
and
the
morrow
after
(
as
you
see
)
was
iust
20
yeare
old
.
So
that
from
Iulius
Caesars
death
to
Augustus
Consulship
was
about
a
yeare
and
halfe
.
Which
agreeth
likewise
with
the
account
of
Paterculus
.
For
Eutropius
saith
,
that
Iulius
Caesar
was
slaine
anno
ab
vrbe
condita
septingentesimo
ferè
ac
nono
:
In
the
yeare
after
the
building
of
Rome
seuen
hundred
and
almost
nine
.
He
addeth
almost
,
because
the
seuen
hundreth
and
ninth
yeare
was
not
fully
complet
by
his
account
and
Varroes
(
indeede
not
begun
by
Dionysius
account
:
)
and
the
22
of
September
tweluemonth
after
Augustus
Consulship
began
:
so
that
as
Paterculus
saith
,
709
yeares
after
the
building
of
Rome
,
were
fully
complet
before
Augustus
Consulship
,
and
as
much
as
from
the
sommer
solstice
to
the
22
of
September
.
And
whereas
Solinus
,
Cap.
2.
saith
that
Hirtius
&
Pansa
were
Consuls
in
the
710
yeare
of
Rome
,
he
must
not
be
taken
,
as
though
their
creation
were
in
the
yeare
710
;
but
that
the
710
began
about
the
middle
of
the
yeare
of
their
Consulship
:
or
else
that
therein
he
followeth
the
Computation
of
Varro
,
and
not
of
Dionysius
.
But
he
is
greatly
ouerseene
in
the
same
place
,
auouching
that
Augustus
was
created
Consul
,
decimum
octauum
annum
agens
,
being
in
his
18
yeare
.
Contrarie
to
Paterculus
,
as
you
heard
before
;
and
to
Suetonius
likewise
,
who
saith
Consulatum
vigesimo
aetatis
anno
inuasit
:
He
forcibly
tooke
the
Consulship
,
in
the
twentith
yeare
of
his
age
.
Of
the
Computation
by
the
yeares
of
Christ
.
AT
this
day
all
Christendome
vseth
to
make
their
accountes
&
Computations
by
the
years
of
Christ
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
presently
after
Christ
that
Computation
was
not
vsed
:
but
the
common
order
of
accounting
and
dating
was
by
the
Consuls
of
Rome
:
sauing
that
the
Church
had
a
particular
Aera
or
Computation
of
their
owne
,
which
began
38
yeares
before
Christ
:
and
some
kingdomes
accounted
by
the
raignes
of
their
owne
kinges
;
all
which
are
seene
by
the
dates
in
the
Tomes
of
Councels
.
But
the
Church
of
Rome
vsed
a
Computation
from
the
passion
of
Christ
,
as
Beda
sheweth
,
li.
de
nat.
rerum
.
Cap.
46.
which
also
you
may
see
in
Hierome
and
Isidore
:
and
some
vsed
the
Computation
of
Antioch
,
as
Eusebius
,
Euagrius
,
Cedrenus
,
Nicesorus
,
which
began
48
yeares
before
Christ
,
as
Marianus
Scotus
sheweth
.
Yea
both
Heathen
and
Christian
vsed
the
Aera
or
account
of
Diocletian
,
as
you
may
see
in
Ambrose
,
&c.
which
began
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
285
,
and
also
in
former
times
the
Computation
of
the
Chaldaeans
was
much
vsed
,
as
you
may
see
in
Ptolomie
,
which
began
the
13
yeare
after
Alexanders
death
,
euen
with
the
second
yeare
of
the
117
Olympiad
:
and
at
the
next
Vernal
Aequinoctiall
began
the
Computation
of
the
Greekes
vsed
in
the
bookes
of
Maccabees
and
in
Iosephus
,
viz.
at
the
crowning
of
Saleucus
Nicanor
:
and
at
the
coronation
of
Ptolomaeus
Philadelphus
in
the
26
yeare
of
the
Greekes
began
the
Aera
of
Dionysius
much
vsed
by
Ptolomie
:
yet
the
Church
and
Emperours
of
the
East
vsed
to
Date
by
the
yeares
of
the
world
according
to
Eusebius
account
,
as
you
may
see
in
the
councell
of
Basil
,
where
the
Emperours
Crisobol
or
letter
patent
,
is
dated
anno
à
mundi
creatione
6944
:
and
the
Patriarch
of
Constantinople
his
letters
are
dated
anno
ab
Adam
seu
mundi
constitutione
6944
:
which
was
the
yeare
from
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
1435
:
as
both
the
said
letters
do
testifie
:
for
they
are
both
dated
by
the
years
of
Christs
Natiuitie
likewise
.
Marry
now
the
Turkes
vse
their
Computation
which
they
call
Alhigera
,
beginning
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
622
:
and
the
Persians
vse
their
Iesdagert
,
which
began
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
632.
But
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
532
Dionysius
Exiguus
instituting
the
Paschal
Cicle
,
and
Golden
number
,
would
not
number
and
calculate
the
same
by
the
Aera
or
Computation
of
wicked
Diocletian
the
10.
persecutor
of
the
Church
,
which
then
was
vsed
thorow
the
whole
Empyre
,
but
would
cast
and
account
it
by
the
yeares
of
Christ
,
beginning
at
his
Incarnation
,
as
Beda
sheweth
Tom.
2
li.
de
nat.
rerum
.
cap.
46.
Which
Aera
or
Computation
was
not
vsed
by
the
Emperors
or
Popes
till
long
after
.
For
the
first
Emperour
that
vsed
it
in
dating
of
his
Actes
,
proceedings
,
&
Epistles
,
was
Carolus
Crassus
.
And
afterward
Eugenius
IIII.
at
the
aduise
&
instance
of
Blondus
his
Register
receiued
it
into
the
Popes
Bulles
and
writtes
:
as
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
affirmeth
in
his
Paulina
parte
2.
li.
13.
Praeside
Eugenio
IIII
adhortante
Blondo
Forliuiensi
Pontificij
collegij
a
secretis
Notario
,
in
bullis
atque
rescriptis
Pontificalibus
annorum
haec
a
Christi
Incarnatione
supputatio
scribi
primùm
coepit
:
when
Eugenius
IIII
was
Pope
,
at
the
instance
of
Blondus
of
Forli
,
Clarke
of
the
Popes
counsell
,
this
Computation
of
yeares
from
the
Incarnation
of
Christ
began
first
to
be
written
in
the
Popes
Bulles
and
Mandates
.
Which
I
doe
not
take
,
as
though
the
Computation
by
the
yeares
of
the
Lord
was
then
first
brought
into
the
Church
(
as
Gerardus
,
Mercator
and
other
take
it
,
)
or
as
though
it
were
not
vsed
in
the
actes
of
the
Church
,
and
in
ecclesiasticall
courtes
and
proceedings
before
that
time
;
but
that
then
and
by
that
meanes
it
began
first
to
be
vsed
in
the
Bulles
,
Mandates
,
and
writtes
,
that
were
meere
Papal
,
and
passed
onely
from
the
Pope
.
For
in
writtes
of
that
nature
,
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
was
not
mentioned
at
al
before
that
time
,
but
onely
the
yeares
of
their
owne
coronation
,
anno
Pontificatus
nostri
,
&c.
For
anone
after
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
addeth
:
Sed
notarij
annos
à
natiuitate
computare
consueuerunt
.
But
all
other
notaries
vsed
to
account
the
yeares
from
the
Natiuitie
.
And
that
is
euident
by
the
dates
of
all
the
Sessions
of
the
councell
of
Constance
,
which
was
before
Eugenius
:
which
are
all
dated
anno
à
Natiuitate
Domini
:
but
the
Popes
Mandates
and
letters
are
only
dated
,
anno
Pontificatus
nostri
.
So
that
the
Computation
of
Dionysius
was
both
vsed
,
and
also
corrected
,
before
Eugenius
IIII.
The
order
whereof
I
will
briefly
set
downe
.
The
computation
from
the
Incarnation
of
Christ
,
ordained
by
Dionysius
was
vsed
till
Decem.
25.
1351.
At
which
time
for
speciall
cause
,
which
is
shewed
,
pag.
_____
it
was
decreed
,
that
the
computation
by
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
should
begin
,
not
at
the
Incarnation
or
25
of
March
(
as
before
it
did
,
)
but
at
the
Natiuitie
or
25
of
December
:
and
yet
the
same
number
should
be
kept
and
obserued
without
alteration
all
the
yeare
thorow
,
saue
the
first
quarter
.
Forsomuch
they
preuented
the
change
and
beginning
of
the
new
yeare
,
writing
1352.
after
the
said
25.
of
December
,
which
otherwise
they
should
not
haue
done
till
the
Incarnation
or
25.
day
of
March
following
.
The
Act
or
Decree
is
recorded
by
Ierapha
:
His
quoque
temporibus
apud
Perpinianum
oppidum
in
curia
generali
25
Decembris
1351
fuit
determinatum
in
Catalonia
,
ne
Calendae
à
notarijs
in
chartis
scriberentur
,
nec
ab
Incarnatione
annus
Domini
,
sed
à
Natiuitate
inchoaretur
.
And
also
at
that
time
,
at
Parpinnan
in
a
generall
Court
,
Decemb.
25.
1351.
it
was
decreed
in
Catalonia
,
that
the
Calendes
should
not
be
vsed
by
Notaries
in
Chartes
,
and
that
the
year
of
the
Lord
should
not
begin
at
the
incarnation
,
but
at
the
Natiuitie
.
The
practise
hereof
appeareth
in
the
councell
of
Constance
about
53
yeares
after
:
where
all
the
Sessions
and
Actes
are
dated
,
not
by
Calendes
,
but
by
the
daies
of
the
month
,
and
by
the
yeares
from
the
Natiuitie
of
the
Lord
,
and
not
from
his
incarnation
.
Which
yeare
did
alter
&
chaunge
not
at
the
incarnation
:
for
the
second
session
holden
the
second
of
March
,
and
the
third
holden
the
25.
of
March
,
that
is
the
day
of
Christes
Incarnation
;
and
the
fourth
holden
the
30.
of
March
;
and
the
fift
,
holden
the
6.
of
Aprill
,
are
all
recorded
in
one
and
the
same
yeare
1415.
But
the
yeare
altered
and
changed
vpon
the
verie
day
of
the
Natiuitie
.
For
the
coronation
of
Martin
V.
is
recorded
to
be
vpon
sunday
the
21.
day
of
Nouember
anno
à
Natiuitate
Domini
1417.
Indictione
10.
and
vpon
tuesday
the
28
of
December
following
was
holden
the
42
Session
,
and
there
the
yeare
is
altered
both
of
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
and
also
of
the
Indiction
.
For
it
is
dated
anno
a
Natiuitate
Domini
1418.
indictione
11.
Indeed
printed
copies
haue
there
also
1417.
but
an
auncient
copie
written
by
a
Notarie
at
the
very
councell
(
which
Lucidus
Samotheus
affirmeth
that
he
hath
seene
)
hath
1418.
And
it
must
needes
be
so
:
first
because
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
is
there
expressed
,
which
would
not
haue
beene
done
vnlesse
the
yeare
were
chaunged
.
For
otherwise
he
would
haue
said
,
anno
&
indictione
quibus
suprà
.
Secondly
because
the
22.
and
29.
of
April
following
,
are
there
recorded
,
anno
&
indictione
quibus
suprà
.
And
the
next
before
mentioned
is
that
:
whereas
in
April
1417
the
32
Session
was
held
,
as
before
there
was
mentioned
.
Thirdly
because
the
Indiction
is
changed
:
which
the
Church
of
Rome
altereth
with
their
yeare
.
But
in
all
that
Councel
the
writtes
and
processes
of
the
Popes
themselues
,
Martin
v.
Gregorie
xij
or
Iohn
xxiiij
.
are
dated
neither
by
the
daies
of
the
month
nor
by
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
but
by
the
Calendes
&
the
yeare
of
their
owne
Papacie
or
Coronation
.
And
I
haue
a
pardon
granted
by
Martin
V.
to
Issabell
Wootton
of
London
dated
thus
:
vi
.
Idus
Martij
,
Pontificatus
nostri
anno
nono
,
without
any
mention
of
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
.
Wherefore
Blondus
perswading
Eugenius
IIII.
about
thirtie
yeares
after
that
councell
,
to
date
his
Bulles
Pardons
and
writtes
by
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
would
haue
him
to
follow
Dionysius
stile
,
and
to
write
from
the
Incarnation
,
keeping
the
same
number
,
but
altering
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
marke
:
though
all
other
courtes
and
notaries
did
keepe
their
newe
stile
from
the
Natiuitie
;
as
Forocemproniensis
affirmed
before
.
The
practise
heereof
is
euident
in
the
councell
of
Basil
,
held
vnder
the
same
Eugenius
,
wherein
all
his
Bulles
and
Mandates
,
as
also
the
Bull
of
Nicholaus
V.
are
dated
,
anno
Incarnationis
Dominicae
,
&c.
and
by
the
Calendes
.
And
the
reuocation
of
three
of
his
Buls
is
dated
by
himselfe
Calendis
Ianuarij
,
anno
Incarnationis
Dominicae
1433
:
but
the
Bishop
and
two
Cardinals
which
subscribed
to
the
same
Reuocation
,
the
fift
day
of
Februarie
following
,
date
their
subscription
anno
a
Natiuitate
Domini
1434.
where
the
yeare
,
you
see
,
is
chaunged
.
And
so
all
the
Sessions
and
Actes
of
the
same
councell
are
dated
by
the
yeare
à
Natiuitate
Domini
.
or
anno
Domini
,
which
is
all
one
:
for
they
meane
à
Natiuitate
.
The
like
practise
we
haue
in
the
Bull
of
Clement
VII
.
for
the
Iubilie
1525.
For
the
Bull
,
as
it
came
from
the
Pope
himselfe
,
is
dated
thus
:
Datum
Romae
apud
sanctum
Petrum
,
anno
Incarnationis
Dominicae
1524.
Cal.
Maij.
But
out
of
the
courte
of
Audience
by
the
Bishop
of
Worcester
,
Auditor
Generall
of
the
Apostolique
Chamber
,
it
is
dated
thus
:
Datum
Romae
in
aedibus
nostrae
solitae
residentiae
,
anno
a
Natiuitate
Domini
1524.
die
decimo
mensis
Iunij
.
And
these
are
the
two
vsuall
datings
and
computations
in
Christendome
at
this
day
:
the
occasion
of
the
difference
whereof
I
will
briefly
shew
.
The
principall
cause
of
the
oddes
and
errour
was
in
Dionysius
Exiguus
;
who
both
erred
himselfe
,
and
caused
other
to
erre
,
as
one
saide
truely
of
him
;
though
the
same
man
could
not
find
out
the
errour
:
as
in
like
sort
,
Reinerius
,
Sigebertus
Gemblacensis
,
Stofflerinus
,
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
,
&c.
haue
found
by
their
Calculations
,
that
Dionysius
was
out
and
in
an
errour
:
Marry
wherein
the
errour
consisteth
,
and
what
was
the
true
cause
thereof
,
which
being
taken
away
,
it
might
be
amended
and
made
right
,
they
coulde
not
perceiue
:
and
therefore
mistaking
the
cause
,
they
plunge
themselues
into
further
errours
.
The
trueth
is
briefly
this
:
Dionysius
intending
principally
the
time
and
account
to
come
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
onely
the
time
and
Computation
past
,
came
too
short
of
the
Conception
or
Incarnation
of
Christ
by
one
whole
yeare
,
in
his
account
backward
;
because
he
accounted
from
the
Incarnation
of
Christ
to
his
Passion
but
onely
33
yeares
&
so
made
the
whol
life
of
Christ
but
onely
32
yeares
;
beside
the
odde
time
from
the
25
of
December
to
his
Passion
.
In
which
errour
were
(
as
Forosemproniensis
reckoneth
them
vp
parte
2.
li.
4.
)
Apollinarus
Laodicensis
,
Augustine
,
Victorinus
Lemonicensis
,
Magister
Historiarum
,
Nicholaus
de
Lyra
,
and
Marianus
Scotus
;
to
whome
we
may
adde
Bartholomeus
Scultetus
,
and
many
other
excellent
Astronomers
.
And
because
that
would
not
fit
well
with
Histories
and
the
astronomicall
calculations
,
it
hath
driuen
other
into
grosser
absurdities
,
namely
to
auouch
,
that
Christ
liued
but
31
full
years
,
as
Iohannes
de
Muris
,
and
Rogerus
Bacon
in
his
Epistle
to
Clement
V
:
or
that
he
liued
34
yeares
full
,
as
Chrysostome
,
Albertus
Magnus
,
and
of
late
Gerardus
Mercator
:
all
contrarie
to
the
faith
of
the
Church
;
as
Beda
sheweth
li.
de
nat.
rerum
.
Cap.
46.
Habet
ecclesiae
fides
,
Dominum
in
carne
paulò
plus
quam
33
annis
vsque
ad
suae
tempora
passionis
vixisse
:
The
faith
of
the
Church
holdeth
that
the
Lord
liued
in
the
flesh
a
little
more
than
33
yeeres
to
the
time
of
his
Passion
:
And
contrarie
to
Ignatius
,
who
attributeth
to
Christ
33
yeares
and
somewhat
more
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Trallians
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
Christ
hauing
conuersed
three
Decades
of
yeares
was
baptised
,
and
hauing
preached
three
yeares
was
crucified
:
where
he
reckoneth
33
full
yeares
,
beside
the
time
from
his
baptisme
,
to
the
beginning
of
his
preaching
:
and
contrarie
to
Eusebius
,
who
placeth
Christes
Natiuitie
in
the
3
yeare
of
the
194
Olymp.
and
his
death
in
the
yeare
4
of
the
Olymp.
202.
which
is
the
distance
of
33
yeares
and
as
much
as
from
the
25
day
of
December
to
the
day
of
his
Passion
:
&
contrarie
to
the
age
of
Christ
by
the
yeares
of
the
Emperours
.
For
Saint
Luke
saith
that
Iohn
the
Baptist
began
his
office
in
Tiberius
15
yeare
:
which
ended
the
19
day
of
August
,
if
we
begin
his
Empire
at
Augustus
death
.
Yet
Tacitus
and
Suetonius
,
Cap.
14.
shew
,
that
Tiberius
stood
a
while
after
Augustus
death
,
in
great
suspence
,
whether
he
might
take
the
Empyre
vpon
him
,
or
not
;
insomuch
that
some
brak
pacience
,
&
one
in
a
tumult
cryed
out
,
aut
agat
,
aut
desistat
,
&c.
And
therefore
it
may
be
,
that
his
Empyre
began
to
be
accounted
two
or
three
monthes
after
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
(
for
it
mattreth
not
much
)
it
is
euident
by
Daniel
,
that
Christ
was
baptised
about
October
,
accounting
from
his
Passion
backward
to
his
baptisme
halfe
a
weeke
:
and
it
is
probable
by
the
Analogie
betweene
the
Baptisme
of
Christ
&
the
feast
,
of
Expiation
that
he
was
baptised
at
that
feast
,
which
was
that
yeare
the
7
day
of
October
.
Nowe
Christ
at
his
Baptisme
was
almost
full
30
yeare
old
,
as
appeareth
by
Saint
Luke
,
Cap.
3.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
Iesus
himselfe
was
beginning
almost
to
be
of
30
yeares
of
age
,
that
is
,
beginning
to
be
full
30
yeare
olde
:
as
Epiphanius
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
twise
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
doth
place
the
wordes
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
&c.
and
Iesus
was
beginning
to
be
almost
of
thirtie
yeares
,
being
the
sonne
,
&c.
And
so
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
is
taken
Act.
13.18
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
almost
fortie
yeares
he
bare
their
maners
in
the
wildernes
:
meaning
not
full
40
:
for
there
wanted
aboue
a
month
of
it
,
as
before
is
shewed
.
And
so
ferè
is
vsed
by
Eutropius
:
Caesar
was
slaine
in
they
yeare
seuen
hundred
and
almost
nine
,
septingentessimo
ac
ferè
nono
:
because
there
wanted
aboue
a
month
of
the
full
of
that
yeare
.
So
Christ
was
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
ferè
triginta
annorum
,
almost
30
yeare
olde
:
for
he
wanted
aboue
two
monthes
.
And
so
Epiphanius
taketh
it
,
cont.
Haer.
tom.
2.
li.
1.
He
was
indeed
29
yeare
old
and
1●
monthes
:
30
yeare
old
,
but
not
full
.
In
which
sence
Ignatius
said
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
For
he
was
not
full
30
till
the
25
of
December
following
in
Tiberius
16
yeare
.
To
which
day
,
from
the
25
of
December
in
Augustus
42
are
iust
30
yeares
.
For
it
is
euident
before
that
Aug.
was
20
yeare
olde
wanting
one
day
,
the
10
Calendes
of
October
,
when
he
was
created
Consul
(
where
his
Empyre
or
raigne
began
)
and
he
died
,
as
Suetonius
recordeth
,
Cap.
100.
the
14
Calendes
of
September
,
or
19
day
of
August
,
when
he
was
threescore
and
16
yeare
olde
wanting
but
35
daies
.
So
that
he
raigned
56
yeares
wanting
36
daies
.
Whereto
agree
Eutropius
and
Orosius
,
who
say
he
died
in
the
yeare
of
Rome
767
,
after
Vurroes
account
that
is
766
after
Dionysius
account
.
Now
Christ
was
born
the
25
of
December
in
his
42
yeare
(
as
before
is
shewed
)
so
that
Augustus
raigned
after
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
14
yeares
and
8
monthes
wanting
but
5
daies
:
adde
to
them
15
years
of
Tiberius
,
&
there
will
be
29
years
&
the
8
monthes
:
which
15
of
Tiberius
ended
the
19
day
of
August
:
and
Christ
was
baptised
about
October
following
;
&
the
25
of
December
following
,
he
was
iust
30
yeare
old
:
which
was
in
Tiberius
16
yeare
.
Now
that
Christ
liued
3.
years
&
3.
monthes
after
that
,
which
was
three
yeares
and
an
halfe
after
his
Baptisme
,
is
plaine
both
by
Daniel
,
who
attributeth
to
his
ministerie
3
yeares
and
halfe
,
that
is
halfe
a
weeke
:
and
also
by
the
historie
of
the
Euangelistes
,
who
make
expresse
mention
of
4
Passouers
after
his
baptisme
,
at
the
last
whereof
he
suffered
his
Passion
:
The
first
Iohn
.
2.
when
he
cast
the
buiers
and
sellers
out
of
the
Temple
:
the
second
Math.
12.
Marke
.
2.
Luke
.
6.
when
the
Disciples
pluckt
the
eares
,
in
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
second
principall
Sabboth
:
the
third
Math.
14.
Marke
.
6.
Luke
.
9.
Iohn
.
6.
when
he
fed
5000
with
fiue
loaues
.
The
fourth
and
last
Math.
26.
Marke
.
14.
Luke
.
22.
Iohn
.
13.
when
he
instituted
the
new
Sacrament
of
his
bodie
and
blood
,
and
accomplished
the
worke
of
our
Redemption
.
And
this
the
fathers
receiued
by
tradition
:
It
is
left
vnto
vs
,
that
all
the
time
of
the
doctrine
of
Christ
was
three
yeares
and
a
halfe
,
which
is
halfe
one
weeke
.
Euseb.
Demonst.
Euang.
li.
8.
ca.
2.
And
Ignatius
in
Epist.
ad
Trall
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
hauing
preached
the
Gospell
three
yeares
he
was
crucified
:
he
saith
not
two
yeares
,
or
foure
yeares
.
As
for
the
odde
daies
he
standeth
not
vpon
.
For
it
was
not
his
purpose
to
make
so
exact
a
computation
,
and
yet
he
is
neere
the
marke
.
For
if
Christ
began
not
to
preach
till
the
beginning
of
the
spring
,
as
Clemens
Romanus
Recog.
1.
Pa.
2.
affirmeth
,
then
he
preached
not
much
aboue
three
yeares
.
But
how
long
it
was
after
his
Baptisme
before
he
beganne
to
preach
,
the
Euangelistes
doe
not
shewe
,
neyther
saith
Ignatius
any
thing
of
that
space
:
but
that
he
preached
ful
three
yeares
.
Wherfore
to
conclude
,
the
time
of
the
life
,
of
Christ
from
his
Natiuitie
to
his
Passion
,
was
33
yeares
and
a
quarter
:
and
from
his
Conception
or
Incarnation
to
his
Passion
,
was
full
34
yeares
.
That
Dionysius
betweene
the
Incarnation
of
Christ
and
his
Passion
reckoned
but
33
is
manifest
by
Beda
de
nat.
rerum
Cap.
46.
Sancta
siquidem
Romana
&
Apostolica
Ecclesia
hanc
se
fidem
tenere
,
&
ipsis
testatur
indiculis
,
quae
suis
in
cereis
annuatim
scribere
solet
,
vbi
tempus
dominicae
Passionis
in
memoriam
populis
reuocans
,
numerum
annorum
triginta
semper
&
tribus
annis
minorem
quam
ab
eius
Incarnatione
Dionysius
ponat
,
adnotat
.
Denique
anno
ab
eius
Incarnatione
iuxta
Dionysium
701
Indictione
14
fratres
nostri
,
qui
tunc
fuere
Romae
hoc
modo
se
in
natali
Domini
in
cereis
sanctae
Mariae
scriptum
vidisse
,
&
inde
descripsisse
referebant
:
A
passione
Domini
nostri
Iesu
Christi
anni
sunt
668.
The
holy
Romane
and
Apostolique
Church
testifieth
that
she
holdeth
this
faith
,
euen
by
the
very
Indices
or
Tablets
,
which
she
vseth
to
write
yearely
in
the
Tapers
,
when
as
putting
the
people
in
minde
of
the
time
of
the
Lordes
Passion
,
she
setteth
alway
a
lesse
number
by
33
yeares
,
than
Dionysius
doth
set
from
his
Incarnation
.
And
in
the
yeare
from
his
Incarnation
701
after
Dionysius
,
the
14
Indiction
,
our
brethren
which
then
were
at
Rome
,
did
report
that
at
Christmas
in
the
Tapers
of
Saint
Marie
they
saw
written
,
and
also
wrote
out
,
in
this
sort
:
From
the
Passion
of
our
Lord
Iesu
Christ
there
are
668
yeares
.
Subduct
668
out
of
701
,
and
there
remayne
but
33
from
his
Incarnation
to
his
Passion
.
Likewise
if
you
goe
by
the
Indictions
backward
,
from
this
yeare
701
being
the
14
Indiction
,
to
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
,
which
Beda
de
nat
,
rerum
.
ca.
48.
saith
was
the
fourth
Indiction
,
&
then
his
incarnation
was
the
third
,
you
shall
finde
the
same
oddes
and
distance
.
More
argumentes
and
testimonies
might
be
alleaged
for
proofe
heereof
,
were
it
not
confessed
by
Dionysius
his
followers
,
that
they
all
make
but
33
yeares
from
Christes
Incarnation
to
his
Passion
.
Which
afterward
being
perceiued
,
caused
those
alterations
of
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
which
I
noted
pag.
_____
,
and
the
varietie
of
Computation
which
is
vsed
in
Christendome
.
For
they
which
made
the
first
alteration
Anno
Domini
1351
,
being
loth
to
alter
the
number
,
and
to
adde
one
yeare
more
to
their
vulgar
and
vsuall
Computation
,
(
which
would
breede
by
all
likelyhoode
too
much
inconuenience
)
they
thought
it
better
to
keepe
the
same
number
,
and
first
to
alter
the
Epoche
or
marke
,
setting
it
shorter
backe
by
three
quarters
of
a
yeare
,
and
therefore
decreed
that
it
should
be
accounted
but
from
his
Natiuitie
:
Secondly
to
anticipate
the
change
of
the
next
newe
yeare
,
beginning
it
sooner
by
one
quarter
of
a
yeare
.
And
by
this
means
they
both
regained
the
whole
last
year
,
and
also
made
the
Computation
of
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
to
come
within
eight
daies
of
the
vsuall
Computation
of
the
Romanes
,
which
began
at
the
Calends
of
Ianuarie
.
But
Blondus
about
80
yeares
after
that
,
perswading
Eugenius
IIII.
that
the
Popes
owne
rescriptes
,
Bulles
,
Actes
,
and
processes
might
also
be
dated
by
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
whether
it
were
,
for
that
he
would
of
singularitie
make
the
Pope
differ
euen
in
his
Dates
from
the
common
course
,
or
(
which
I
thinke
rather
)
for
that
he
saw
the
newe
stile
and
account
did
not
well
concurre
and
agree
,
neither
with
the
naturall
course
of
the
yeare
,
which
beginneth
with
the
Spring
,
when
the
sunne
entereth
into
Aries
,
nor
with
the
ordinance
of
God
,
which
appoynted
the
month
Abib
for
the
first
,
nor
with
the
ancient
Computation
of
the
Church
,
which
began
both
the
yeares
of
the
world
,
and
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
at
one
time
,
viz.
about
the
Vernall
Aequinocticall
,
)
refused
the
new
stile
and
Computation
from
the
Natiuitie
,
&
tooke
the
old
from
the
Incarnation
.
Yet
beginning
the
change
of
the
new
yeare
after
the
new
yeare
of
the
other
Computation
from
the
Natiuitie
(
as
euidently
appeareth
by
the
two
dates
of
the
Popes
Reuocation
in
the
councell
of
Basil
,
)
he
intimateth
not
obscurelie
,
that
this
his
Computation
reached
not
to
the
true
Incarnation
of
Christ
by
one
whole
yeare
,
but
that
it
beginneth
at
the
feast
of
his
Incarnation
,
which
was
in
the
first
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
,
and
so
left
out
the
whole
last
yeare
before
the
beginning
of
his
Computation
.
This
Computation
of
Blondus
is
vsed
by
the
church
of
England
:
and
not
onely
heere
,
but
also
in
Italy
by
the
states
of
Florence
,
and
Sienes
;
all
which
vse
the
Computation
from
the
Incarnation
,
and
begin
the
yeare
the
25
day
of
March
,
after
that
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
begun
their
Computation
from
the
Natiuitie
the
25
of
December
before
.
As
Anno
Reginae
37
,
the
25
day
of
December
,
the
Church
of
Rome
began
the
yeare
1595
from
the
Natiuitie
:
and
the
Citie
of
Rome
together
with
the
Astronomers
(
for
they
haue
a
peculiar
Computation
,
proportioned
to
the
ancient
and
vsual
yeare
of
the
Romanes
,
without
any
regard
of
the
first
8
daies
of
Christes
Natiuitie
)
begin
the
same
yeare
1595
the
first
day
of
Ianuarie
,
or
the
feast
of
Circumcision
,
which
therfore
is
called
New-yeares
day
,
as
our
yearly
Almanacks
shew
:
and
at
the
25
of
March
following
,
we
of
England
,
Florence
,
and
Senes
begin
the
same
yeare
1595
from
the
Incarnation
or
Conception
of
Christ
.
Which
is
as
much
,
as
if
Christ
had
beene
borne
and
Circumcised
too
,
a
quarter
of
a
yeare
before
he
was
conceiued
:
were
it
not
that
they
by
this
their
Computation
would
giue
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
there
is
lost
a
whole
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
which
they
would
regaine
and
restore
by
beginning
their
Computation
from
his
Incarnation
a
iust
yeare
after
his
true
Incarnation
:
that
is
at
the
feast
of
his
Incarnation
or
Annunciation
next
after
his
Natiuitie
.
But
the
states
of
Pisa
haue
the
right
and
perfect
computation
from
the
Incarnation
,
which
runneth
alwaies
a
iust
yeare
before
this
of
England
,
Florence
,
and
Senes
.
For
the
same
25
of
March
Elizabethae
37
they
begin
the
yeare
1596
from
the
Incarnation
;
and
so
date
all
their
recordes
,
writtes
,
processes
,
Epistles
,
euidences
,
&c.
Indeed
in
those
places
,
where
anie
of
the
other
Computations
are
vsed
,
perhaps
it
will
seeme
good
and
conuenient
,
as
not
vnlikely
it
did
to
Blondus
,
not
to
alter
their
account
and
stile
ancient
though
erroneus
,
but
rather
to
keepe
and
retayne
the
vulgar
and
vsuall
Computation
,
both
in
their
publique
and
priuate
Actes
,
because
the
alteration
thereof
would
breede
some
confusion
in
their
recordes
and
euidences
.
But
yet
it
is
necessarie
for
the
studious
in
Historie
to
be
acquainted
heerewith
,
and
to
vnderstand
the
differences
of
Computations
in
the
worlde
.
Of
this
poynt
I
haue
beene
the
larger
,
partly
because
the
author
of
our
last
great
Chronicle
,
in
his
description
of
England
.
li.
3.
ca.
14.
maketh
this
a
great
scruple
(
to
vse
his
owne
terme
)
and
so
leaueth
it
,
concluding
that
with
vs
Christ
is
borne
before
he
is
conceiued
:
and
partly
because
I
remember
this
doubt
was
moued
to
a
man
of
manifolde
learning
,
and
of
great
reading
and
iudgement
,
as
any
in
this
land
,
who
did
answere
it
by
a
distinction
of
Annus
Natiuitatis
,
and
annus
Actatis
.
Which
distinction
I
haue
read
in
Iacobus
Phillippus
Bergomensis
Chronic.
li.
8.
where
he
laboureth
by
that
meane
to
take
away
all
doubt
about
the
yeare
of
the
Baptisme
and
Passion
of
Christ
.
And
first
he
putteth
a
difference
betweene
the
vsual
yeare
,
and
the
Emergent
yeare
:
which
Emergent
yeare
,
a
quouis
rei
euentu
quouis
tempore
anni
vsualis
emergit
&
incipit
,
&
reuolutis
duodecim
mensibus
solaribus
finem
habet
,
atque
iterum
in
sua
vestigia
redit
,
&
iterum
atque
iterum
circumuoluitur
,
donec
ea
res
numerari
desinit
,
a
cuius
euentu
coeptum
est
numerari
;
vt
solet
fieri
in
primordijs
regum
&
imperatorum
.
And
after
he
addeth
:
ad
hoc
tempus
anni
emergentis
annos
Domini
dupliciter
numeramus
,
aut
secundum
Natiuitatem
,
aut
secundum
aetatem
&c.
By
this
Emergent
yeare
we
account
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
two
waies
:
eyther
by
his
Natiuitie
,
or
by
his
age
.
Whereupon
Christ
being
borne
in
the
end
of
the
vsuall
yeare
,
(
he
meaneth
of
the
Romans
)
he
had
of
the
last
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
but
onely
7
daies
:
but
the
first
yeare
of
his
age
,
from
the
25
day
of
December
,
wherein
he
was
borne
,
to
that
day
tweluemonth
,
is
ended
in
the
second
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
.
And
so
he
accomplished
two
yeares
of
his
Natiuitie
,
after
the
vsuall
yeare
almost
in
the
first
yeare
of
his
age
:
and
the
second
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
and
the
first
of
his
age
is
all
one
.
Whereby
it
commeth
to
passe
that
the
yeares
of
Christes
Natiuitie
are
34
and
a
halfe
almost
,
&c.
Anone
after
,
and
in
the
33
yeare
of
his
age
and
34
of
his
Natiuitie
Christ
suffered
.
Againe
,
therefore
Iulius
Caesar
being
slayne
in
March
,
whence
Augustus
Empyre
is
accounted
,
Christ
began
the
first
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
in
the
end
of
Augustus
42
yeare
.
&c.
This
difference
I
thought
good
to
alledge
,
because
it
may
serue
the
Historician
to
many
good
purposes
;
as
namely
it
openeth
and
declareth
the
meaning
of
Oroseus
,
where
he
saith
,
anno
Augusti
42
prope
emenso
Christus
natus
est
,
as
before
I
expounded
it
.
As
for
the
scruple
before
mentioned
and
moued
,
it
doth
somewhat
ouershadowe
it
,
but
not
cleane
take
it
away
:
shifting
it
off
prettily
,
but
not
satisfying
it
fully
.
For
if
we
take
the
common
and
vulgar
Computation
of
Christ
to
be
secundum
Natiuitatem
after
his
Natiuitie
,
then
indeed
the
second
yeare
of
Christ
secundùm
Natiuitatem
must
begin
before
the
second
yeare
of
Christes
true
Incarnation
;
and
so
onward
the
Computation
secundum
Natiuitatem
will
begin
a
quarter
of
a
yeare
before
the
Computation
from
his
Incarnation
:
Although
the
first
yeare
of
Christ
secundum
Natiuitatem
,
which
contayned
but
7
daies
began
three
quarters
after
the
beginning
of
the
first
yeare
of
his
Incarnation
.
But
heere
first
I
say
,
that
in
the
common
and
vulgar
Computation
of
Christendome
,
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
is
not
taken
secundum
Natiuitatem
,
but
secundum
aetatem
,
&
beginneth
not
at
the
first
day
of
Ianuarie
,
but
at
the
25
day
of
December
which
was
the
day
of
his
Natiuitie
,
as
appeareth
by
the
councell
of
Constance
,
which
putteth
the
28
of
December
,
and
the
11
of
March
both
in
one
yeare
.
And
although
the
Astronomers
,
and
some
other
haue
reduced
the
yeare
of
Christ
to
the
vsuall
yeare
of
the
Romanes
and
beginne
it
with
the
beginning
thereof
,
that
is
at
the
first
day
of
Ianuarie
,
being
the
day
of
Christes
Circumcision
,
yet
they
doe
not
account
those
7
daies
before
for
a
yeare
,
but
cleane
cast
them
away
,
and
reckon
them
not
at
all
:
as
Forosemproniensis
sheweth
pag.
2.
li.
4.
and
as
the
yearely
Almanackes
testifie
,
which
after
the
Circumcision
keepe
euer
the
same
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
that
the
Church
of
Rome
doth
,
whereas
otherwise
they
woulde
haue
a
yeare
more
.
Thirdly
if
it
were
so
,
that
the
common
and
vsuall
Computation
of
Christendome
,
did
take
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
,
secundùm
Natiuitatem
,
yet
that
will
not
helpe
the
matter
and
cause
in
hand
:
because
Bergomas
maketh
but
33
yeares
betweene
Christes
Incarnation
and
Passion
,
and
then
we
are
in
as
bad
case
as
we
were
before
.
For
a
whole
yeare
of
the
life
of
Christ
is
still
lost
:
so
that
the
Computation
will
not
reach
to
the
true
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
Christes
Incarnation
by
a
whole
yeare
.
By
this
also
you
may
see
,
that
the
dreame
of
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
,
was
nothing
but
a
dreame
.
He
writeth
,
that
he
had
shewed
him
in
a
vision
or
reuelation
,
that
all
Chroniclers
and
Historiographers
did
anticipate
the
yeare
of
the
Lorde
,
and
put
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
two
yeares
sooner
than
they
shoulde
:
and
this
vision
,
or
dreame
rather
,
he
laboureth
tooth
and
nayle
to
confirme
;
whereas
indeed
in
the
vsuall
Computation
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
is
set
backe
by
one
yeare
.
If
you
desire
to
knowe
,
to
what
yeare
of
the
worlde
the
yeare
of
any
other
Computation
is
to
be
referred
,
adde
to
your
yeare
of
the
-
Olympiades
3246.
-
Rome
-
3270.
after
Dionysius
.
-
3269.
after
Varro
.
-
Nabonassar
3275.
-
The
Chaldaeans
3710.
-
The
Greekes
3711.
-
Dionysius
3735.
-
Antioch
3971.
-
The
Councel
3981.
-
Christes
-
Incarnation
-
4019.
after
the
Computation
of
Pisa
.
-
4020.
after
any
other
Computation
,
as
England
,
Florence
,
&c.
-
Passion
4053.
-
Diocletian
4313.
-
The
Turkes
4640
-
The
Persians
4650.
As
thus
.
The
Councel
of
Nice
was
holden
Aera
363
:
add
therto
3986
&
we
shal
find
the
yeare
of
the
world
4349.
Again
from
363
substract
38
:
and
you
haue
the
yeare
of
Christ
325
;
adde
thereto
4024
;
and
you
finde
that
way
too
the
same
yeare
of
the
world
4349.
Yet
it
is
hard
to
giue
a
rule
to
reconcile
the
Computation
of
Eusebius
and
the
Greekes
,
with
this
Computation
,
because
he
maketh
new
oddes
almost
in
euerie
article
.
But
after
Christ
there
is
one
vniforme
order
.
For
he
placeth
the
birth
of
Christ
in
the
yeare
of
the
world
5199
,
which
is
too
much
by
1174
:
and
that
must
be
subducted
out
of
this
Computation
.
But
the
Computation
of
the
Emperour
and
Patriark
in
the
Councel
of
Basil
,
which
couple
the
6944
of
the
world
,
with
the
yeare
of
Christ
1435
,
is
too
much
by
1484
yeares
.
By
the
like
respect
hauing
a
yeare
of
any
one
Aera
or
Computation
,
by
this
table
ye
may
easily
reduce
it
to
any
of
the
other
.
But
in
these
concurrences
due
regard
must
be
had
what
time
of
the
yeare
euery
Computation
beginneth
:
otherwise
(
as
Dionysius
Halycarnassaeus
complaineth
of
Thucidides
manner
of
Computation
)
it
will
be
hard
to
couple
them
together
but
that
there
will
be
an
oddes
of
one
yeare
.
And
therefore
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
set
downe
the
seuerall
formes
and
beginnings
of
these
yeares
by
the
which
the
principall
Computations
are
reckoned
.
First
the
yeare
of
the
Hebrewes
consisteth
of
12
monthes
,
the
odde
hauing
30
daies
,
and
the
euen
29
whose
names
be
1
Abib
or
Nisan
:
2
Iiar
or
Ziu
:
3
Siuan
:
4
Thamus
:
5
Ab
:
6
Elul
:
7
Thisri
or
Ethanim
:
8
Marchesuan
or
Bul
:
9
Cisleu
:
10
Tebeth
:
11
Schebath
:
12
Adar
.
And
because
all
this
amounteth
but
to
354
daies
in
the
common
yeare
:
therfore
to
meete
and
match
the
course
of
the
Sunne
,
they
insert
in
certaine
yeares
a
thirteenth
month
of
30
daies
which
they
call
Veadar
,
according
to
their
cicle
and
rule
of
19
yeares
,
wherein
the
3.
6.
8.
11.
14.
17.
and
19.
haue
the
said
thirteenth
month
.
And
further
to
make
vp
the
odde
minutes
,
in
euery
fourth
yeare
they
intercalate
one
day
,
as
we
doe
in
our
leape
yeare
.
This
yeare
began
(
as
some
are
of
opinion
)
before
the
departure
out
of
Aegypt
at
the
Autumnal
Aequinoctiall
:
as
the
Arabians
,
Persians
,
and
latter
Iewes
begin
their
yeare
:
and
as
the
Computation
of
the
yeare
for
the
Iubilies
began
.
But
out
of
doubt
it
is
,
that
after
the
departure
out
of
Aegypt
Nisan
was
made
the
first
month
&
beginning
of
the
yeare
,
Exod.
12.2
.
This
month
shal
be
vnto
you
the
beginning
of
months
:
euen
the
first
month
of
the
yeare
.
Which
began
at
the
new
moone
next
to
the
vernal
Aequinoctial
.
At
which
Aequinoctial
the
old
Astronomers
began
their
yeare
:
and
the
Church
beginneth
the
yeare
of
the
world
.
And
therfore
Dionysius
Exiguus
to
make
the
year
of
Christ
proportionable
to
the
yeare
of
the
world
,
began
it
at
the
Incarnation
or
Conception
which
was
on
the
vernal
Aequinoctial
.
But
in
the
year
of
the
Lord
1351
for
a
speciall
cause
before
spoken
of
,
it
was
reduced
to
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
.
And
so
there
is
but
a
weeke
oddes
between
the
Ecclesiastical
or
Church
Computation
of
Rome
,
and
the
ciuill
or
imperiall
Computation
.
For
the
Church
of
Rome
begin
their
newe
yeare
at
the
day
of
Christes
Natiuitie
,
that
is
the
25
of
December
:
and
the
Empyre
beginneth
their
new
yeare
the
first
day
of
Ianuarie
:
which
we
in
this
realme
and
other
countries
too
commonly
call
new
yeares
day
;
because
the
late
Astronomers
begin
their
new
yeare
there
:
as
our
yearly
Almanackes
doe
witnesse
;
and
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
sheweth
parte
2.
l.
4.
The
Astronomers
of
our
time
,
which
after
the
manner
of
the
Romanes
haue
reduced
the
Computation
of
yeares
to
Ianuarie
,
and
the
radices
motuum
to
the
beginning
of
Ianuarie
in
the
first
yeare
of
Christes
Natiuitie
,
begin
the
first
yeare
of
his
Natiuitie
at
the
8
day
of
his
Natiuitie
,
not
accounting
the
daies
betweene
his
Natiuitie
and
Ianuarie
.
Which
may
euidently
appeare
by
this
,
for
they
which
seeke
the
place
of
the
Planets
at
the
houre
of
Christes
Natiuitie
goe
backe
7
daies
from
the
radices
of
the
Planets
noted
in
the
tables
.
And
this
manner
of
Computation
obserue
not
onelie
Astronomers
,
but
also
Diuines
allowed
in
Christian
Religion
,
as
Petrus
de
Aliaco
,
Nicholaus
Cusanus
,
Rogerus
Bachon
,
and
generally
all
that
haue
sought
out
the
places
of
the
planets
at
the
houre
of
Christes
Natiuitie
.
The
like
or
greater
dissonancie
there
is
,
betweene
the
beginning
of
the
Indictions
of
the
Empyre
,
and
the
Indictions
of
the
Pope
.
The
Indictions
of
the
Empyre
begin
the
8
Calendes
of
October
;
but
the
Pope
beginneth
his
Indictions
three
monthes
after
the
8
Calendes
of
December
;
that
is
,
at
the
day
of
Christes
Natiuitie
.
The
Aegyptians
are
made
by
Herodotus
,
li.
2.
and
by
Diodorus
Siculus
,
li.
1.
to
be
the
inuentors
and
first
autors
of
the
yeare
.
But
indeede
as
they
had
it
from
the
Hebrewes
,
among
whom
Noach
himselfe
the
first
of
the
renewed
world
did
ordaine
the
yeare
,
and
monthes
,
as
Ioseph
.
Antiqu.
Iud.
li.
1.
and
Berosus
l.
3.
affirme
,
distinguishing
the
yeare
by
the
course
of
the
Sunne
,
and
the
12
monthes
by
the
course
of
the
Moone
;
so
they
did
corrupt
and
depraue
the
same
.
For
their
yeare
(
after
the
which
Nabonassars
Aera
is
accounted
)
hath
indeed
12
monthes
,
namely
,
Thoth
,
Phaothe
,
Athyr
,
Chiac
,
Tybi
,
Mechir
,
Phamenoth
,
Pharmuthi
,
Pachon
,
Paune
,
Epephi
,
and
Mesori
:
all
which
haue
30
daies
a
peece
,
and
the
last
35
:
which
make
in
all
365
daies
for
their
yeare
.
But
because
they
omit
the
intercalation
of
a
day
in
the
leape
yeare
,
it
falleth
out
that
the
first
day
of
their
month
Thoth
and
consequently
of
their
yeare
,
wandreth
thorow
all
the
daies
of
our
yeare
in
1460
yeares
.
Which
space
of
1460
yeares
is
called
of
them
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
great
canicular
yeare
,
because
they
begin
it
,
when
the
first
day
of
their
month
Thoth
and
the
rising
of
the
dogge
starre
meete
together
.
In
the
first
yeare
of
Nabonassars
raigne
,
the
first
day
of
Thoth
was
the
26
day
of
Februarie
,
accounting
the
year
of
Iulius
Caesar
backward
.
And
the
first
yeare
of
Christ
it
was
the
24
day
of
August
.
The
same
wandring
course
hath
the
yeare
of
the
Sarazins
and
Turkes
,
but
it
differeth
in
the
forme
much
.
For
their
yeare
hath
but
354
daies
,
as
the
common
yeare
of
the
Hebrewes
,
and
in
30
yeares
they
haue
11
leape
yeares
,
that
haue
a
day
more
a
peece
:
so
that
the
beginning
of
their
yeare
wandreth
thorow
all
our
yeare
once
in
30
yeares
.
The
yeare
of
the
Greekes
agreeth
in
forme
with
the
yeare
of
the
Hebrews
.
For
first
the
common
year
hath
12
months
with
the
same
number
of
daies
,
which
are
named
of
the
Athenians
thus
:
Hecatombaeon
,
Metagitnion
,
Boedromion
,
Maemachterion
,
Pyanephon
,
Anthesterion
,
Posideon
,
Gamelion
,
Elaphebolion
,
Munychion
,
Thargelion
,
Scirophorion
:
of
the
Macedonians
thus
,
Lous
,
Gorpiaeus
,
Hyperberetaeus
,
Dius
,
Apillaeus
,
Audinaeus
,
Peritius
,
Dystrus
,
Xanthichus
,
Artemisius
,
Deutius
or
Destius
,
Panemos
.
Againe
they
haue
a
thirteenth
month
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
the
yeare
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
according
to
the
same
rule
,
as
the
Hebrewes
had
:
and
lastly
euery
fourth
yeare
a
day
intercalated
for
the
leape
yeare
,
but
it
differeth
in
beginning
.
For
the
first
day
of
Hecatombaeon
and
Lous
is
the
next
newe
moone
to
the
Summer
Solstice
.
And
when
that
moone
is
at
herful
,
they
celebrate
&
keepe
the
solemne
games
at
Olympus
,
euery
fourth
yeare
.
By
which
the
Graecians
account
and
compute
,
dating
by
the
first
,
second
,
third
,
or
fourth
yeare
of
such
an
Olympiad
.
At
the
same
time
began
the
Aera
Chaldaeorum
in
Ptolomie
:
but
the
yeare
of
the
Greekes
or
Saleucians
began
at
the
vernal
Aequinoctiall
as
may
be
gathered
by
2
Maccab.
15.
The
stile
V.
C.
that
is
,
Vrbis
conditae
,
of
Rome
built
,
began
according
to
Dionysius
,
iust
with
the
yeare
of
the
Olympiades
.
But
according
to
Varro
,
Plutarch
,
Orosius
,
Eutropius
,
&c.
It
began
the
11
Calendes
of
May
or
21
of
April
,
for
the
first
yeare
:
but
for
the
second
and
so
onward
,
eyther
at
the
beginning
of
the
Olympiades
,
or
at
the
vsuall
yeare
of
the
Romanes
.
For
the
common
and
vsuall
yeare
of
the
Romanes
had
another
course
.
For
before
Romulus
,
they
began
the
yeare
at
the
sommer
Solstice
,
as
it
is
likely
,
because
they
learned
their
yeare
of
the
Graecians
.
Yet
it
may
be
,
they
had
both
their
year
&
the
beginning
of
it
from
Noach
or
his
children
,
and
afterward
corrupted
the
same
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
,
Romulus
(
as
Macrobius
sheweth
Saturnal
.
li.
1.
)
ordayned
a
yeare
of
304
daies
,
and
deuided
it
into
10
monthes
,
called
the
first
March
in
honour
of
his
father
Mars
,
and
therewith
began
the
yeare
coupling
the
first
of
March
with
the
vernal
Aequinoctiall
without
respect
of
anie
leape
yeare
.
But
Numa
Pompilius
seeing
this
yeare
goe
too
fast
for
the
course
of
the
Sun
,
added
50
daies
more
,
and
after
vpon
better
aduisement
he
put
to
one
day
more
and
so
brought
them
to
355
,
and
withall
added
two
monthes
,
Ianuarie
and
Februarie
,
and
began
the
yeare
with
Ianuarie
,
as
the
Citie
and
Empyre
of
Rome
hath
done
euer
since
.
And
because
all
this
would
not
serue
,
he
deuised
an
intercalar
month
,
as
the
Greekes
had
;
but
he
cleane
left
out
the
leape
yeare
.
Yet
before
Iulius
Caesars
time
they
had
gotten
a
quarter
of
euery
leape
yeare
,
by
their
new
Intercalation
and
adding
to
the
three
last
yeares
of
euerie
Octo
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
or
eight
daies
space
)
a
thirtieth
month
.
But
Iulius
Caesar
in
his
IIII
Consulship
and
yeare
of
Rome
708
,
with
the
aduise
of
Sosigenes
an
Astronomer
of
Alexandria
,
and
ayde
of
M.
Flauius
a
notarie
in
Rome
,
tooke
away
those
intercalated
monthes
,
ordained
the
quantitie
of
the
common
yeare
to
be
365
daies
:
and
that
euery
fourth
yeare
should
in
Februarie
haue
a
daie
more
called
Bissextus
(
because
they
wrote
twise
or
two
daies
together
sexto
Cal.
Martij
,
the
sixt
Calendes
of
March
:
)
We
call
that
yeare
the
leape
yeare
:
because
there
we
leape
backe
to
another
Dominical
letter
.
Moreouer
those
daies
he
deuided
among
the
12
monthes
in
such
sort
,
that
all
the
odde
monthes
beginning
with
Ianuarie
had
31
daies
:
and
all
the
euen
monthes
,
as
the
second
,
fourth
,
&c.
had
in
a
full
or
leape
yeare
30
daies
:
but
in
the
common
yeares
Februarie
had
but
29.
Augustus
Caesar
commanded
the
three
next
leape
yeares
to
be
omitted
,
and
so
brought
it
into
order
againe
.
But
Augustus
calling
the
month
Sextilis
after
his
owne
name
August
,
because
it
should
not
be
inferiour
to
Iuly
,
that
bare
his
predecessors
name
,
tooke
one
daie
from
Februarie
to
August
;
and
then
because
three
monthes
together
had
31
daies
a
peece
,
he
put
one
from
September
to
October
,
and
one
from
Nouember
to
December
.
And
this
forme
and
fashion
of
the
yeare
remaineth
at
this
daie
:
sauing
that
the
pointes
of
the
Aequinoctials
and
Solstices
are
varied
since
Iulius
Caesar
15
daies
backward
,
so
that
the
vernall
Aequinoctiall
is
now
the
11
and
10
daie
of
March.
Which
variation
Gregorie
xiij
.
pretending
to
amend
,
in
the
yeare
1582
made
an
alteration
of
the
yeare
,
and
brake
the
course
,
which
it
hath
euer
kept
since
Iulius
Caesars
time
,
reducing
the
Aequinoctials
and
Solstices
to
the
pointes
,
which
they
possessed
at
the
Councel
of
Nice
.
And
this
he
effected
,
by
taking
10
daies
out
of
October
1582
:
ordayning
for
heereafter
,
that
euery
400
yeares
3
bissextil
or
leape
yeares
should
be
omitted
:
making
the
quantitie
of
the
yeare
lesse
than
Iulius
Caesar
did
by
one
hundreth
thirtie
third
part
of
a
day
,
and
one
third
of
such
a
part
.
And
so
he
saith
,
that
Calender
will
last
and
serue
till
the
yeare
of
Christ
5000.
This
is
the
summe
of
Gregories
correction
of
the
yeare
and
Calendar
.
How
well
he
hath
done
,
to
make
this
correction
,
&
how
well
he
hath
done
it
,
may
in
few
wordes
appeare
vnto
vs
,
if
we
consider
these
fewe
pointes
.
First
in
remouing
the
Aequinoctial
he
condemneth
the
councel
of
Nice
,
who
thought
it
not
meete
to
remoue
it
at
all
,
but
fixed
it
,
where
they
found
it
,
viz.
at
March
,
21.
as
Iulius
Caesar
left
it
at
March
.
25
:
and
so
Petrus
Cameracensis
vrged
in
the
councel
of
Constance
,
and
had
perswaded
Iohn
xxiij
.
if
he
had
continued
in
the
popedome
,
and
of
the
same
opinion
was
Paulus
Forosemproniensis
,
in
his
Paulina
parte
,
1.
Secondly
he
taketh
not
the
right
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
marke
or
point
.
For
if
he
would
needes
remoue
it
,
why
did
he
not
reduce
it
to
the
originall
and
first
beginning
of
the
Iulian
yeare
,
that
is
to
the
25
of
March
,
which
place
it
had
at
the
Natiuitie
of
Christ
,
a
thing
more
memorable
than
the
councel
of
Nice
?
But
they
must
needes
shew
their
mindes
euen
in
this
,
how
they
more
affect
and
preferre
the
actions
of
the
Church
than
of
Christ
Iesu
.
If
the
Aequinoctials
must
needes
be
fixed
,
and
kept
from
varying
,
fixe
them
where
they
ought
to
be
fixed
,
that
is
where
they
were
at
their
Creation
:
or
at
the
least
where
they
were
at
Christes
Passion
and
Resurrection
.
For
the
right
celebrating
therof
they
pretend
to
be
the
cause
of
their
alteration
.
But
rather
,
why
are
they
not
suffered
to
runne
their
race
and
hold
on
their
course
,
which
they
euer
haue
kept
since
the
beginning
?
For
what
authoritie
hath
he
,
more
than
all
the
world
before
him
,
to
set
the
heauens
their
boundes
,
and
prescribe
lawes
to
the
starres
,
yea
to
bridle
the
Sunne
it selfe
,
as
though
he
held
the
world
in
his
hand
?
Cannot
he
be
content
,
that
the
Sunne
Moone
and
Starres
shall
keepe
their
course
,
and
the
festiuall
daies
be
solemnised
in
their
appointed
times
,
as
well
as
God
himself
was
?
Why
doth
he
take
vpon
more
than
God
himselfe
did
in
the
Leuiticall
Passouer
and
other
solemnities
;
which
being
once
by
him
appointed
,
continued
a
longer
time
than
from
the
councell
of
Nice
to
Gregorie
xiij
.
without
any
alteration
of
the
yeare
?
He
may
assure
himself
that
if
it
had
beene
necessarie
or
meete
to
be
done
,
or
anie
inconuenience
had
growen
by
the
not
doing
of
it
,
God
himselfe
would
haue
altered
it
in
that
strickt
pedagogie
of
his
people
,
who
were
so
precisely
tied
to
the
obseruation
of
daies
and
times
.
Thirdly
the
manner
of
remouing
it
,
was
cause
of
great
confusion
and
trouble
,
by
taking
of
10
daies
out
of
one
month
at
one
push
;
as
they
did
:
contrarie
to
the
wisedome
of
Augustus
Caesar
,
who
to
amend
the
surplussage
of
three
daies
,
caused
the
three
next
leape
yeares
to
be
omitted
.
And
contrarie
to
the
iudgement
of
his
owne
predicant
Friar
Iohannes
Maria
,
who
affirmeth
that
that
waye
would
be
difficilis
&
gignens
perturbationem
magnam
,
Iohannes
Lucidus
Samotheus
,
who
intimateth
that
the
same
waie
would
be
troublesome
,
and
that
the
safest
and
best
waie
were
to
fixe
it
where
they
found
it
,
as
the
Nicene
fathers
had
done
.
The
whole
councel
of
Basil
refused
this
waie
of
Gregorie
xiij
.
though
greatlie
and
vehementlie
vrged
vnto
them
by
Cardinall
Cusan
,
and
Hermannus
Zoestius
.
Fourthly
for
the
remedie
prouided
for
hereafter
,
the
meanes
of
omitting
three
leape
yeares
in
euerie
400
yeares
,
will
not
keepe
the
Aequinoctial
at
the
21
of
March
.
For
the
variation
of
it
from
Iulius
Caesar
to
Gregorie
xiij
.
is
not
agreeable
to
that
proportion
.
For
by
his
reckoning
,
in
133
yeares
,
and
one
third
part
,
it
goeth
backe
one
daie
.
Nowe
from
Iulius
Caesars
instituting
of
the
Calendar
to
the
yeare
1582
,
are
1627
yeares
.
In
which
summe
you
haue
133⅓
,
but
12
times
beside
the
remainder
of
¼
almost
.
So
that
by
this
reckoning
,
at
that
yeare
1582
the
Aequinoctiall
is
remoued
from
the
25
and
26
of
March
not
full
12
daies
and
a
quarter
:
wheras
all
Astronomers
hold
,
that
it
is
remoued
15
daies
.
So
likewise
from
the
councell
of
Nice
,
which
was
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
325
to
that
yeare
1582
,
there
are
1257
yeares
:
in
which
summe
we
haue
133⅓
but
nine
times
,
beside
the
remainder
of
¼
and
a
little
more
.
So
that
by
this
account
the
Aequinoctiall
is
remoued
from
the
21
daie
of
March
,
not
much
more
than
nine
daies
and
a
quarter
:
and
Pope
Gregorie
hath
stricken
out
of
the
Calendar
full
10
daies
.
Wherfore
his
Calendar
must
needs
be
false
,
eyther
in
the
place
of
the
Aequinoctiall
,
which
is
reduced
to
the
21
of
March
;
or
in
the
new
quantitie
of
the
yeare
,
and
remedie
prouided
for
the
perpetuitie
of
it
.
And
surely
this
is
a
notable
argument
of
mans
dulnesse
of
wit
,
and
dimnesse
of
sight
euen
of
his
owlish
eies
(
as
Aristotle
calleth
them
)
in
the
great
workes
of
God
.
For
indeed
,
the
exact
course
of
the
Sunne
,
and
the
iust
quantitie
of
the
yeare
,
is
incomprehensible
of
mans
wit
.
Which
hath
bred
among
the
best
Astronomers
at
the
least
20
diuerse
opinions
of
the
quantitie
of
the
yeare
,
all
differing
from
this
of
Gregories
,
as
you
may
see
in
Censorine
de
die
Natali
,
Cap.
de
anno
vertente
,
and
in
Picus
Mirandula
aduers
.
Astrologos
.
li.
9.
ca.
9.
where
he
noteth
and
obserueth
that
Azerchel
,
Baten
,
Isaac
,
Israelita
and
some
iunior
Astronomers
doe
holde
,
that
as
the
daies
doe
lengthen
and
shorten
,
so
the
yeares
do
likewise
,
and
that
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
1310
the
yeare
was
at
the
shortest
,
and
within
a
while
after
would
begin
to
lengthen
againe
.
Lastly
for
the
terme
that
this
Calendar
will
serue
,
I
take
it
one
of
the
wisest
actes
of
his
Holines
,
when
as
he
auoucheth
that
his
Calendar
will
serue
and
last
without
alteration
till
the
yeare
of
Christ
5000.
For
vnlesse
the
terme
be
long
the
labour
is
needlesse
:
because
in
a
hundred
yeares
the
variation
is
not
sensible
,
and
therefore
causeth
no
inconuenience
at
all
:
in
that
(
as
himselfe
saith
)
133
yeares
and
a
third
part
make
but
one
daies
oddes
.
And
therefore
since
the
Creation
the
Aequinoctiall
hath
odded
but
42
daies
:
&
now
it
would
be
1463
yeares
before
it
could
get
out
of
March
,
where
now
it
is
.
And
whether
the
world
shall
last
so
long
,
God
knoweth
.
Sure
we
are
,
that
it
shall
not
last
so
long
after
Christ
as
it
had
lasted
before
Christ
.
For
the
holie
Ghost
well
nigh
1600
yeares
agoe
saith
,
It
was
the
endes
of
the
world
1.
Cor.
10.11
.
the
last
daies
,
Heb.
1.1
.
yea
the
last
houre
,
1.
Ioh.
2.18
.
and
therefore
we
must
needes
be
now
in
the
last
minute
of
the
last
houre
,
our
hourglasse
being
almost
out
.
Wherefore
let
them
that
be
wise
consider
,
whether
the
Pope
in
setting
that
tearme
of
5000
yeares
of
Christ
,
shew
not
himselfe
and
his
to
be
of
the
number
of
those
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
mockers
,
in
the
last
daies
,
and
say
,
where
is
the
promise
of
his
comming
&c.
But
let
vs
,
comparing
the
wordes
and
warninges
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
with
the
tearme
of
times
heere
set
downe
,
perceiuing
the
houreglasse
to
be
almost
runne
out
,
and
seeing
all
these
thinges
,
knowe
that
he
is
neere
,
euen
at
the
doores
:
Math.
24.23
.
and
because
wee
know
not
when
the
time
will
be
;
Let
vs
take
heede
,
watch
,
and
pray
,
Mark
.
13.33
.
making
our selues
readie
,
and
euer
waiting
with
all
attendance
to
be
caught
vp
in
the
cloudes
to
meete
the
Lord
in
the
ayre
,
1.
Thess.
3.17
.
who
hath
said
,
Reuel.
22.20
.
Surely
I
will
come
quickly
.
Yea
come
Lord
Iesu
.
Amen
.