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Show 118 Theyfirit Beokeof the fartpart ae Cc HAP.8.S,9 Mefians{rem the Mount Adulas,umto the Coaft of Ponti.This. Region was afterwardcalled Cappadociayin which isthd Towne Mazita, oc. this ts the principal: Country of Macoc, Andthis doth c4saimalfo anow,and yet forgetsthat. Geg ‘was Prince both of Meith and. Tubal; and therefore) that theone was a Nation of Spaniards, the other df( pps docians;is very ridiculous g Spainelying ditéGly Weltand not North from sades. Alf Exechiel.inthe 27+Chapter,, wherehe prophecieth ofthe deftruétion of Tyr¢,nameth Mefechand Tabalioyntly-And forafinall proofé; thatthefe Nations were ofa Nor- _thren Neighbour Land(howfarrefoeuerftretched )Exechielin the 38. Chapter makes themall Horfenten, Thoujand nouch people with shee; alfball ridevpon Horfes, ewen a great multitude anda mightiesDhenifany manbelecue that'thefe troupes. came out of Spaineyy ever the Pyrewes, and firtt-palled ouieria part of France, italic, Hungarte, and Sarmatis, and imbarqued agaitteabout the Hellefpont,or elfe compatfedall Pontus,and Ewxinw,to come, ihto.the lefler 4fiaswhichis halfe. the length or compaffe of the thei knowrie Wonrld;,he may becalledafttong belecuer, but he thall neuerbeiuftified thereby. But onthe contrarie itis knowne,that Selewcis was'a Prouince neighbouring »Pé/é/tina or ln deaandthat-Hierapolis(or Magog) ioyned ynto it :whofe Princes commandedall syris, and-Afathe leffe, (namely the Seleacida ) and Held it,. till Scipio; Afiaticusouerthrew Antiochus the Great after whichthey yet poffeft Syria till tt le itimeof Tig ramest! and whether Mefbech bein Cappadocia,or vnder Iberialyetis it oft he Tabalizes; and one and the fame Dominion. r Of Gomer.the like maybe faid.Firft, he feated him felfe with Teyerma, not farre from Magggand Tubal,in the borders of Syria and Cilicia, Afterward: hee proceededfurther into fia the leffe andin long trac of timehisvy: dliant Iffuefilled-all Germanic,vefted longinranceand Brittanie,and poffelled the vemoft/borders of the earth,accomplilhing(as Aelandthon well niotesthefignificatio n.oftheirparents:name, which is "emi ane me thefe borderers wanted further placeswhereit they might exo- nérate their of ing'multitudes'that were bounded inby the great Oceay;then didthey _- Sie ce Nations occupying the Countriés, through «which they had formety pal ed, |. opprefling firfttheir Neighbours; afterwards vhe people more: remote. ereupon.tiwas (as the worthy ireftorer.of our Antiquities,» Atwilian Cambaen hathy noted,).that they were called Cimbti; which in their old Langua edothfignifie Robbers:sheceffitie inforcing them td fpoylethe; i ee te etc 3 DROS poytetheir Neighbouts;to whomin their originall they'wete : as neere ioyned,as 5 afterwardsin ards in the-feates which the f Forthatthe i they poffeffed: fe Warlikenations of Germany were in elder A Cc 7, He of Cafar affirming 7 Wer in elder Ages accuftomed to befbeaten by ; the Games the authoritie t proofe fufficie 8 it is proote inti fufhicient. But in ‘i times following 7 they pul' pet richer Conquefts,and moreseafie thoughfurther diftant,by which (to ieee other enterprizes not here to be {poken:of) they..were draw oe length into Affa the leffe, and occupyed thofe parts;mhich i had formerly Y ee Stinco beene held Af | ir Progenitouts I {ay y notthat they y clayme ; theirs claymed thofe Lands as ee by Defcent; forlikely eae itis, that they knewlittle ir * oad vwAORasye Toeee can any man. therefore deny,thatthey# cre e ol > becaufe in-lare ret S ither: vnleffe hee t will thinke, that eNations: whichfrom f:Ages they eg all thofe arre parts haueinuaded andviel: el roel conquer may by thatiA ‘gument bee. pro ; ued notto have ifft i ied fro ; m then; ce - eeea Nowe ‘Ni peticokor his is»¢excellent wif i edomefirnamed Dis; whom Aamitt eee - ewe and Twbalwhich BrotherMo /es neuer heard of,who fpake Ra ial mmkS onn Quiseshie grea theSa find inf Poetsfor' Funtiins, 4 jite conf y:mwuft i wea t ekace op ehim S fucr it ome inceold rtume off whothis S wM 0 a Céfar.Comment. ee tet is oehi proo e he e Getieeta mtbte was that fe't e Di,whom eeto xi hat Vignipars t, Ci «ferfaithith neef e ter; "yea, and Vigu beetheir ier fam confeefte rs Chron. ignier confefteth th with) with! ijt qustl eftait'; Noman knowes who he was Asglatobit hue InChrox. Acainit thefabulous Berosvs hi, : lA . fidion, That the Italian Tanvs, was NoadWea his Sonnes,<I think eltneceffarie to-difproue ht hath of . we before Igoe. on.with ction Which, Azmius culous, though Warranted Wogh himielfe ; an. inuention (indeed ) very 1% as hee hath wrelt ) by thofe Authours of _ wrelted in' ofthe Fiiftorte ofthe World. Cus p,8. § Je 0, Lani himfelfe hath Commented : as the Fragment of Bero/is, Fabiws, Pitor, andothers. For Anniws feekes to perfwade vs,that Woab (fu d-Janus) wasth which founded Genea with other G difproue by Mo/fes filence,isa fufficient argument to me, ifthere were no difproueit.For ifhe yvouchfafed to rememberthe building of Babel, Er. we and Ninene by Nimrod,Noah wasa manof too great marke to be forgotten, with all the acts hedid in 92.yeares.Butit wete a needlefle labour forme to difproue the autho- ritie of that Bero/us,on Whom Avnias groundeth, fecing fo many learned men h demonftratiuely proued that Fragment to be counterfeit. Befides that 10/, 0 fyrianin his his Oration Oration. againft againft the the Greekes,auoweth, Greekes,auowceth,that the ancient. an onely three Bookes dedicated to Antiochus the fucceflor of Selexcy L wus hath denifed fiue Bookes,wherewith he honoureth Berofas. And whereas handled onelythe eftate of the Chaldeans and Affyrians,dunius hath filled this F ment with the bufinefle ofall the World. Andif wee may belecue Eu/cbins better Anniusthen all the Kings ofthe Latines( before zea )confumed but 15 0:yeers:wher- as no manhathdoubted,butthat fiom Woah toe£reasarriual into /ta/ythere paft 1126, (after theleak rate of the Hebrew account)and(after Codomaz} 1291.-For Janus (who wasthe firft of their Kings ) lined at once with Ruth,who m i yeare (as fomereckon)2717.after the Floud 1o64.and Noahd es atter th 20 Flond : and fo there paft betweene Ianas of Italie and Noch{urnamed Jazus 794.yeers. ForSaturnus fucceeded Janus,Picus after Saturnus; Fannusa ws, and Latinus followed Fawwas : which Latizas lined atonce with Tamtanest 7:King of 4 Pelafeus ofPe/oponne/us ; with Demophoow of Athens ; and Sampfon ludge of 4 all thefe fiue Kings ofthe Letines hauingconf{umedbut one hundred. andfiftiey : andthelaft of them inthe.time of Sempfon:then reckoning vpwards for one hundred, and fiftie yeares,andit reacheth kwt,with whomJamasliued True itis, that the Greekes had their Jaws; but this was not .Neah: fo had they soz the fonne ofXuthas.the fonne of Deucalion, from whomthey drawthe Jones, who were 1 indeedthe children ofZewan,the fourth fonne of ‘Jepheth, For the'vulgar‘Tranflation.&!° (where the Hebrew wordis lawan)writes Greece,andthe Septuagint, Hellas; whichis the(for) 30 fame.So had they Medas the fon.of Madea,whomthey make the Parent ofthe, 2Zeqes,/ thoughthey were def{cendedof'a fax more ancient Father(to wit)Madaithe third fonne ©?" of sapheth, q Laftly,wefee by atime experience,that the Brittifa Languagehath remayned a1 vs abou¢2000, y.cares,andthe Engli{b {peech querfince the inuafion ofthe Angles, and thefamecontinuance haue all Nations ob{erued,amongthemfelues, though with { cotruption andalteration. Thereforeyitis ftrange ifeisher Veah (by them cal had left in gle his grand=child Gomer after him,or- Twain Spaine, that nopla emblance of the Hebrew,Syrian, orScythian ( which notime. could‘have quite'¢ guifhied)fhould hauebeene foundinthe Languagesiofthofe Countries. For which teamer, Tubal, ec. indtalie, r 40 fons we doubt not butthefe perfonall, Plantations of/ani SD 308 Frawce, aremecrely fabulous.) Let the "alias. therefore content themfelues vith the Grecian lanas,which commanded them and planted them, and who preceded the fall of Troy but 15 0.yeeres\(faith Eufebins ) which.wasin the time of Latgaws, the fit King: which alfo Saint dagu/fixe and Ju/line confirme: andthis'agreeth with reafon, ume,and poffibilitie Andif this be not fufficientto difproue this vanitie, Imay out of the ues adde thus much: That whereas fome of them. make V¢ffe(others Gama/fenay the wife ofthis Lszus,who inftituted the holy Fire of the Pefehirginsin Rome(the Las tines and Romans taking ftomJanus all their Idolatrous and Heathenifl Ceremonies ) thereis no. man fo impious, as to beleeue'that Weshhimfelfe (who is faid'byasofes to walked with God,to bea iuft man;and whom Godofall Mankind madechoice, of) ignorant ofthe true and only God,or fowicked and vagratefull,.to fet ty Heathen, Saluage, or Idolatrousadoration,orhaue in{ticuted any Ce- a |