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Show tntttttenc, Thefirft Booke ofthefir(part Cuar.8. $7 Cwar.dig.8, Jeffe;commandedby the Sicceflors of Se/enens, enemies of the re-eftablithmentof//rael long after the frit plasiation and Zuda.But(as I haue already faid) it might well bee,that the iffue of 4zefech(or Mo/ochmight pafle into Cappadocia, and thence into Hyrcawiazand namefrom Yon the fon ofXavthxs ; for fo miuchhe hadJearnedfrom themf{eluesswhich was. alfotheopinion of Pawfaniae, Trucitis, thatthe Greekes in: after-times caftthem. of Winds, andiwas long before thename'ofGreece was,euer heard of. Andit ts alfo manifeft, that in Cecrops time the Greekes wereall faluages,without lawor religion, fi. Lib.r8.de Cine uing este beafts inall refpedcts: and Cecrops (faith Saint Ang ufline) lined together Deiyto. with Adofes. gite names,both to Afasega in the one,andto the Mountaines 44o/chzes in the other,and from thence might fend people more Northerly into A4u/cowia;& fo all opinions faued. Bur all faluage Nations ouer-growne and vnicultiuated, doe (for the moft part) fhew a xo. late plantation,euen as Ciuility, Letters,and magnificent Building,witneffe antiquity. Tiras, the feuenthfonne of Japheth, vvhich Montauus reckons among the fonnes ofGe- Montin chr? mer , wasthe Father ofthe Traciaas,as all Authors (worthy the examination) affirme. Jofevbus yasthe firft that determined hereof: and becaufe the Scriptures are altogether filentwhat partofthe world Tira peopled,the coniectures are indifferent, and glue no gtoundat all of difpute. It followeth nowtofpeake of the fonnesof Gomer , vvhich ; yvere three, Af ARCS, Riphath, and Tagorma. The fixth fonne of Lapheth was Mefbechwhomthe, Septuagint call Mofech: (a part of thofe Nationsicommanded by Gag the chiefe Prince ofAtefbech and Tubal.) But thiswe muft remember, that betweene Afefechthe fonne of Aram, and Adefbech (or Mofech) the fonne of /apheth:, there is little difference.in name, and both bydiuers Interpreters di uerfly vyritten? AZomtamns with the Vulgar wvriteth Aze(ch, the fonne of Aram, Mes;the §.VIII, Of Afcanez avd Riphath, che two elder Sounes of Gomer. Geneua,MajPslunins, Mefch, Butit may. begathered outofthe 120. Pfalme ., that eyther! Mefbech thefonne oflapheth, wasthe parent ofthofe people, or gaue name torhatPro- uince wherein Dawid hid‘himfelfe : or elfe (vvhich mayrather feem) thatit tooke name from Ate/ch the fonne of Aram.For Danid bewaylinghis exile (while he liued amonga barbarous andirreligious People)vfeththefe words : woe is me that I remainein Myf, Pfal.z20.0,5, and dwellinthe Tents of Kedar : vvhich /wnixs conuetteth thus: Hei mibi guia peregrinwt tame din: habitotanquam Scenite Kedareni: The Septuagint giues it this fenfe : Weeis mel canfe my habitation (or abode) & prolonged,who dwell with the Inhabitants of Kedar: yvith yvhichthis ofthe Latineagrecth ; Hea mibi, quiaincolatus mensprolongatus cst , habitant ie scale‘haafwey oe PEs and ‘in thefe wvords +O me mifersm, Viana a ne i on cum taberhaculis Arabumm: O, wretch, that gw fi" we trausiled among t hofevofy Afia s Ihave dwelt in the T,abernacles of she Arabians. Bit howfocuer orwhich foeuer coguerfion be taken forthe beft,yetallmake menridhofk dar::whichisa Prouinceof Arabia Retrica yandthe Chaldean putteth Afia in ftead ofMt fech,butthe Hebrew it felfhath A/efecb.And ifit beto betakenfora Nation, (asitismol eee iranfwersto Kedarthe name ofa Nation) feeing Mefhthe fonne of Arath ytipin -nite : aneaes this Nation.tooke name froin Me fot fo Exechiel k Adefez7 hand Bueeea,and like cnoughtobecommanded byrone abet velmakes Tabal.Burasfor thoferhat takeMe/ech out of thePrinces wold Moforh(giucby the Septuagintto be the wtu/couian: fare they,prefumc much vpon the , affinity him of names,as aforefaid Dawid icleuier tranelled rane! (forto Mifeouiawwas veterlyAnd unkfure Lam ; thatpees fo farre N aths" ; arte te eimoiieainradloha cad tigen y . nown)buta out the border. of Kedar(in may. be) he Scawezvvas the Father of thofe whichthe Greeks call Regini, (faith lofephus) but hegines noreafon why. Enfcbius makes Afcanez the Fatherof the Goths. The ewes in their Tharguws make him the roote of the Germane Nation, but.their expofitions are commonly very idle. Phwyfindeth Afcania in Phrygia, neere the Riue ts of Hilaand Gios : #elanchton being of the fameopinion,that the Twi/cones vvere def{cendedof the Afcanez: (for Tuifr cones. faith he,is as muchito fay,as of the Afcanez.prepofite articule die Afcanez) and that wordfignifieth a Religious Keeper of fire: it being nancient fuperftition to prayat of Sacrifices;as afterwards at the Tombes of Martyrs. Not farre from Phrygia Melanch.incar. bib.t. was the lake 4/canie,knowne by that namein the Romaxes time. Andamong the Kings which cametothe fuccourof Trap, was Afcanius (Deo fimeilis faith Homer) like unto God + Homlliad.s becaufe he was beautifull andftrong : for in the fame mannerdoth Firgil grace Aeneas re Seed , he et Us humerofg, Deo fimilis,in face and bodylikeoneof the Gods: VirgilPe alfo remembreth {uch 2 © bad er ad edna. ee Se aaa! 2 cf Dem : \iuer,together W ith the Hils Gargara :as, lll duct amor trams Gargara.tran{d fomantems vingGeergl3s Afcanium; Appetite leads thens both oncr the Mountains Gargara,and the roaring Afcanius But this P/zmy maketh moreplaine in the defcription of Phrygia. Forhe placeththe City of Brillion vpon the Riuer sala 4, Which isa lioyning to Myfz, and is neerethe bor der of the Troian Empire :and the Lake« ez I directs vs to findeby thedefcription 4.0of Prafia, founded by Hannibal atthefoot of Olympus, which licth far within the Conntries of Bithynx and then from Pr MKfia tO Nicea are accounted 25. miles, in which vvay len betw eene Prafia.and Nicea. And fo Iumins (as I conceiue him) takes : itants of Pontus, at 1 Bithynia,and thofe North parts of nakes it a City of Trods built by 4/canivs the fon of e£weas: Sasir or-Galaads Andve a A reeeee beinga Gity onthe Mouatains® notliiaed nutes ae ‘a Mentanwt makes Mofech the. Father of the Afafeepiat i fthat name in Myfie.Of ard in isCanpadets teat : Saale co Of ludgements as,ornian firftfeated. -;ane etaan odoniwardidxpont ding the places ofthe. 12.9.P/aloe( Ae, that Nationexceeded: whichfe C3 Cembeseiiesferétahens infiznem effes That theforty 9 ued5 or (perchance) netier cater oe wanhyofthe Nea Dents eT Se ara@or, ncsaine Lerity.orcruelty.which-thole ce of Afcanez dm e4 REASION, und icf ame he Angeil to Hepar, Gen. 2 be.awilde man hiehand Gall, be ag Ans c ainfl energ et lt Ansh hiiathe Defart\foat y em aed4 cuery sant Beageaieze aith Pliazyco nfrontet Cochlej omthe ‘ Eaft, éred Southwaiidy beth which ioyne togeh the Arabians5 ther vpon. the Vabathei, $o ; fon of Gomer , or of Afeanius at Afcanins which brought fie- thereadamsayevllbealbedothelange ceeFe eaar thefecond fonne of J mael, ofw hom a people ofequ? fiercene(s to any of thewGrldavere be gorten,bo int this day(ifthe Arabieas,Ufmselites, at, aenee th hofe times andlongafter,cuch™ t maybee:accounted one:pe fame being foreihewed by the {pe ech oft Afcanie a Lake of Bithynia,Pto- th Afcania both a Lake,a Riuer,and a Townein Atyffe, vith Pliny: For Pliny findeth Prufia (before Spoken s before Troy Afcanes, Atufcouia though tiith fens Saneyg te eam y 2 and that Kedar alfo did ioyneto Ade/ech :all which wvere Regions ofSyria,or ofAfiathe theneereftway,leauing his owne nanie to fome maritimate Prouinceon that fide,as hee didto that part of Greece fo called. But yetserabohimifelfe beleened,that sonia tookthe Vexors of Egypt, and Tanaisof Scythia; witnelleth,:which preceded farre thereigne!! 123; red Cawaan and uh before) that¢/ech, Tiubal,Gomer, Togorma and Magog,ncighbou Babylonia inca Greece, birtooke Afia the'lefie in his paflage ;.and) fromrthence patt ouer felues intothat partiof 4fie the lefle, oppofitevntothem, whichthcy held. fordivers years And howfocuer the Greeks vaunt themfelues to be Fathers of Nations,& themot ancients yetallapproued Hiftorians (ngtthein owne) deride and difproue, theirpride, arid vanity therein.' For this difpute of Antiquity (among prophane Writers), reffed betweene the Seythians and the Egyptiansjas Iuflize our of Trogas,in the warre berweene of the Eiiftorie of the World, iy part of / hbrycia Or Atyfia, yvhich by Hrerems7is « ; fidentiy determi! nthe \/eawes yvere, vvhoic the Trampet among the Natisns agains . vvas n either eX» biit farther off, and from the igure Sywee. Ll Afcanez, re which leceiue not,we may ¢ fhall learne of vvhat Naste: Set upa Standardinthe Land, blow p the Kinos of Ararat, Minwi, and Afi ABEL CSA 27. La i who meth tMat the Countries vvhence thofefic- Azainfl |