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Show a The firft Booke of the first part Ws Herod, f. 2 Plat, 3.064 the Cua P.7.9i Chapter, and Straboinhis Pel TiowhomPliniein histhird Bodkeand fifthe Lydi< yvnder Ti the wAiater them ; pie Fer S"2 them th Lyi, yrider' A fifth bebineydides in histixt , {peakes at large Yaad after Hh in o ine thence the? ech hoc ting Ww wmbri, too Tyrrh uf kyw Tyrrba § thethebuilt ame stoatid gauér site ; thar red eos ine hund Cattle n eweluc Capta therei their Cities; to whichit after they )theyj added diuers othets,wheredf 3 GAppenin in e Mouritaines t LAppen pate h And ftouert he Set andpa had poffeft ents ee : ward (after ina Bowova was one. d Bozo frerwar Lh e pats Site there was notaticiently firch a Nationas thefe 7 mbriintho Stephanus think the teftimonies béfre repeated. And tefpec ot; but thatethe akc Samertto serene sd med Ombres OOS ees hauine ee te EO‘aff thef ribri of Italie that‘ thename was detiued from the Greete word f a] eured heres fror were de(cended ofthe Nation of Sscythians (Called Galli) it thallj be> fhewedhereafter, e cenae ‘ . 4 § TLL Offame other Records teftifping the vniucr[all loud :and oftwe ancient Deluges in Ezypt : and offoueelfewhere, A Ait Augu/tine out ofVarro affirmeth , that the Greekes and Latines cam ae a medtion ofthé Vniucrfall Floud, becaufe theyhad 01 I ing of Antiquitie fore F going thut OF Upyges; and therefore Caccerding to Rhode, IB4S be fore t ah bréd)were all things among the Greekes(which antiquitie had worne oul iowledge called Ogycid which we in Englifb commonly call(wor me-¢ or of as all the'parts of the Earthwvere fuccei inelyplanted andpeo hadtheir propertimes , and nottheir beginning at once andatthe 9 Cuar.7.9§.5. Bp fable )denifedthat HErcvrrs flew the Eagle which fed on Pro me reys Liner meaning, that he delinered Prometheus ofthat forrow & torment, whichforthe loffe of his People and. Countrey ( by the: Waters deftroyed and couered over jhe fuffered, A fourth Floud chanced about Pharus in Egypt, where Alexander Macedon buile Alexandriajas Asnins concciueth out of his Xeaophon,who inthis bricfe fort writeth of all thefe Inundations: Jsundationespluresfuere ‘prima nouimeftris iiundatio terraram[ub xenop.dezq uin, prifco OGY ar :fecunda Niliaca,'Gt. There were many lannaati ons (faith the fame Xeng- Comapert phon :)sthe firBwhich was vniuerfallofnine Moneths anid this happened Under thefir Ocr- TemSeER GES :thefecond was Niliaca, and of one Moneths continuance; inthe time of Hercgles and Prometheus, Egyptians : athird of two Moneths, vader Ogiges Atticus: the fourth of three moneths, in The//alia;vnder Deucalion : and 4 fifth ofthe like continuance ( calléd Pharonica)vnderProteus of Eeypt; about the time of ‘Helens tape. Diodoras in his fifth Bookeandeleuenth Chapter, taking the Samothraces fot: his Authors, remembreth 4 Floud in 4fathe leffe,and elfewhere, of no lefle deftraGion than any ofthe otherparti: cular Inundations,faying,that the fame happenedbefore that of ‘Dewealiex 3the Sea of PontusandHelle(pont breaking in ouer the Land. Butthere hauebeen many in diners times,and ages,not inferior to-anyof thefé twolaft remembred,NiiacaFlouds and Pharonica in Exypt:as inthe yeere ofour Redem pticn 59o.whe nin October of the fameyeere, Gregorythen being Bifhop ofRome, thete happe- 4 ned a.maruellous ouerfowing in Haly,and € peciallyin the Venetian Tetritor ie, and in Lyurte,accompanied wath a moft fearefull tormeof thunder' & lightning:after which followed the great Placueat Rome; by reafon ofthe manydead Serpents caft vp &left vponthe Land,afterthe Waters decreafed and returned: Andin the yeere 14.46. thete Familic,yvhich afterward became a great People,with vvhomthe know Letters yyas not receiued , finde no Parent ofmoreantiquitie, than fach themfelues,nor allow. ofany beforetheir owne; and as the' ians,fo did themfelucsto be Jadiecnaandgrowing out ofthe Earth, orinuenrfome other | rophiat Of ridiculous beginning. But theChe/deaus had cettaine knowledge of Noshs I loud,s _ Berofus vvitneffeth ; and Nicalaus Daneafcenss maketh particular mention theréof (455 aforefaid)thoughhealfo affirme by. heare-fay, that fome Giants faned themfelues vpon the Mountaines Baris in Armenia » but fpeaketh not. thereof as from anyauthoriticap, Euf.deprep. proucd:vfing the vvord Sermo offsTshatfuch a[pesch there was. And Enfebitts remembrett Euang-.9.¢.4a place out of the ancient Hiftorian dbydenus : who writteth,that Sifsithrus, to prefetut himfelfe from a Floud fore-told him by Saturzus , fled tothe Hils of C4rmenia by fhip, 4d Armenian nauigiocomfugiebat : who thethird day (after the Waters werefallen )fett forth birds, that finding no land'to reft on,returned againe:which hee alfo dida fecond time, but atthe third returne the birds feet were couered with madde andflime. Tothis effect are Eu/ebins words ont ofAbydenus, which mayfeeiné a tine defctiption ( thougi in othertermes ) ofNozhs Floud: Cyrillus alfo affirmeth, that' Alex. Polyhiffor ‘maketh mention of this generall Flout AndPlato in Timeo produceth an Egyptian Prieft; who reeoutited to Solon out of tht perithed 10000. people,by the breaking in ofthe Séa at Dordroch in Holland : ofwhichsurfer. kind Itakethar Floud to be of Achaia or Attica. Before th atjandin the yéere 123% thems {peaketh ofan Earthquake, which fwallowed manythoufands : andafte ofa Floudin Frifeland,in which thereperifhed1 oooco-perfons, Strozins Sizog. in} his" & Magra cmutfaria.telleth ofan Inundation in Italie, in the time of Pope Damafus, in, which alfo manyCities of Sic# were fwallowed : anotherin the Papacie ofAlexander! 30 he fixt : alfo in the yeere 1515.Maximilian being Emperor. He alfo remembretha pe- fu rilious ouer-flowing in Po/onia,about Cracoata,by which many people perifhed. Like-} Wile Vigtnier a French Hiftorian fpeaketh ofa great Floud in the Southpart of LasgueJ2 Hn J ee) oe os *) ° 1 "/ quai aoc,which tellin the yeere ofce our Lord'1 15 57..with fo dreadful a tempeft,as all the peo- rco000. pleattended therein the very end 6fthe World: and Tudgement Day; faying, Thhat by the violent defcent of the Waters' from the Mountaines, about Wi/mes there were renioueddivers old heapes and mountures of ground, and many other places torne vp and rent :by which actident there was found both Coyne ofSiluer and Gold, diuers pieces ofPlateand Vefels ofother Mettall,fuppofed to be hidden at fach time as the Gothes inuadedthat Prouince,in the ycere 1156, sy Ve That the FlordofN oA ui was[upernaturall, thoughfomefay it might hane beene forcfeene by the Starres. holy: Bookes ofAgypr,-thie ftorie'iot the Floud voiuerfal, which(faich heyhappened lots beforethe Greciaminuindations. Fityer Aanias his Xenophon remembreth athird Flout, Died. ‘16 ofthe Hiftory of the World, ¢ Whichalfo Diodorus Siculus confirmeth, fomewhat more ancient than that ofOgyges B Artica. For he namedithe generall Floud forthe firft, which. happened (faith he) vndet the old Ocrcxs: Sub prifco Ogyge, which was Nozh: hecalleth the fecond Wiliaca Het eaves andPronerbeusthen lining,44.,yectes before that ofurrica,in the 34.yeere ofBuk Ow howfoeuerall thefe Flouds;and many other,which hauecouerédat feueral times {cuerall Regions,not only in thefe parts of the World, but in Amerjéa al= Floud couered a grear part ofthe héther Egypt ;efpécially all that Regionfabiedto™™ fo,(as Lhane learned of fome ancient Southfayers among them) may bé aferibed tonaturall cauifes and accidents;yet that'Vnitierfall Floud(in thetinie 6fNoah ywas powred ouer the wholeface ofthe Earth by a power aboue Nature,and bythe efpedial ‘ commandement of God himfelfe, whoat that titfie gaue ftréngth of ‘influence to ‘thé win propter curfus velocitatem, byofunditatemif ddudtniAguilas tune appellatum ; HE® was made more forciblésthan any ability ofnature couldeffector any fecond¢aufes, by chu; King ofthe Afjriansthough ¥ doetiot beleeuehin a8 touching the time. 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Wat.Comet, 4.6 methcas, and hereofcamethe Fable bFthe Pulture oti Prometheus his Liner jafcerwae flaine by Hercules ofEgypt': which Scion Died. sievluy délivereth'in thefewords +? f CYLEMCure confily mac nitudine, tum virtute, volunt evefligiocomprefsifexe aqnarnm * Petia adprioyem curfum conuertiffe : Vagde oo Git yhidamPoete-yom geftam' in faba vertevtesHERCVLEM tradunt Aguilim PROMETHET Zecur ‘dcbafcentem oectaiffes 1 5 a f ti jt) depih, wa+ ia" Floud { meaning of Nilus ) for the‘[wlftnelf e ofhis* conve, ab alle 4for the J es ayes calledthe Eagle: bytHe rey LES by bit great indsemtat und oartie dia1 ain ip Pref: dndfir aizbpen this River, Jofarreextended and Oner-lpred, tirning it into theo: wels; Witnce certaine Greeke Pocts(conucrting thi labour awd ai workeofH e R'C VE ¥ v7 Ae Stars;& abundanceto the Fountaines ofthe Deepe: wheéfeby the irruption of Watets whatfoeuer vnic on, could perfornte; without recéiuing fromthe Fountain of all power firength,& faculties fupernaturall. Hemricus Mechlinien/isjaScholler of d/bertas Magnus, in his Commentaries vponthegreat coniunctions of Alby Até/ar,obferucth,t hat before the Floud ofwo b.thalike coniundation of /apitery and Saturnehappened inthe laft de- Stee of Cancer, againgt that conftelationfince called the Ship of Argos; by which the Floud of Noah might be fore-told, becaule Canter is both's wattic Signe,and the Honte = H 3 of |