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Show fi6 The firft Booke of thefirst part Cra AP, B.§10. que ci traps flamita Athiopre, O1 XC. fScripruresE/47 18. terraCrmbalorum Alerum maminws alarum que eft ¥ ans fimutos At, terre Ye : words e Septnagint inthef : "it yore oS ae tothe land foaddowing with wines, which « beyond the Rincrs of Acthiopia, fen. thiopia? Woe anh jh é ; ‘ a of reeds a tle eer ; a i on one ding EmbaJadours byfeaeuenthe ve/fels ae 2 a Lumine, The orner J rm i ¢- a wo: tothe Land ef the [hadie ¢oaft, faith w hic ave eran it rl alled with thefails, this fenfe, Thatthe waters are fhaddowed heigut the y b owed the Sea was thadd the wings ofthe fhips,the other,that the coaft of . ot n of bythe Proph« Cala Fay n0 Ie seer purpofe: That this Land here fpoke ns that fent this me lage tot eer i yptia theEg cerpreter hath doubted. For theywere - tee ~ aan pofition which E/ayrepeareth, Scby the former tranflation euery man fi eof te a a the other of Kingdomes:for hereby Egypt is tran{ported vato Chafh and Aral ia indecdt rat Lyech be thiopiaet next vnto Iwdeaywhenit isthe Land of d vnder the I peinnlise® * ine, tweene Judea and Egypt, andnot Aethiopia; wvhich is feate that fhouldbe, Region Andiofthis Beroa/dus asketh a materiall queftion,(to wit)whats of Acthi pieNian at ipa et fpeaketh,and placethit beyond the Riuer whichthe Proph owne Regi a.Now ta agi regione dict mequit; For tt cannot befai d that betreateth of an unkn neuer anyac. shad /ewe he whomt with line, oc Hiall if Acrbiovia it felfe be vnderthe Eqain knowledgeof Nations far bey onde ; quaintance,why fhouldanyman dreamthat they hadptwe hall impioufly th inke thatth exce ? pia ethio of s Riuer the nd beyo it againe,and difcourfe of thole Nations, inent nimpert Prophet fpake hee knew not what , or vfeda of which vverenotdifcouered in2ooo:yearesafter, inhabiting as far South asthe Ca nza, efpera Bowe of name the by ne y know monl geod Hope,com f. VI. That vpon the like mifiaking,both Terthaca in theflory of Senacherib, and Zera in theflory ofAfa are umaduifedly made Acthiopians. Nd by, this tranflation is the ftory ofSenacherib ytterly miftaken in the caufe of his cetrait. For Seaacherib vvasfirkt. repulfed at Pelufium,at the very entranceof Egypt ; from Judea:when hauing certaine knowledge that Thirrhaca,whichall the Interpretets! mepdxocit. Call King of Aethiopiz wason the way to {et on him, hee began to with-draw himfelfe: and fearing to leaue his Army in two, parts, heefent threatning Meflengersto Ezechis Kingof /edz,perfwading himto fubmit himfelfe: the Tenor whereofis {et downinthe fecond of Kings in thefe words: Haueang of thegods ofthe Nations deliuered bis Land out of the handsofthe King ofAfbur ? where is thegod ofHamah ec. By wvhich proud Embal- fage,if he had obtained entranceinto /eru/alem, he then meantto haue vnited thatgrett .Kings't 9. ‘Antig.l.10; a, Kings t9- Army beforezers/alem, commanded by Rabfekeb, with the other which lay before 7 lifiam,agreat City vponthe,branch of Nilus next Arabia. For Senacherib had already maftered the moft part.ofall thofe Citiesin Judes and Besiamiz vvith a third Army; (Which himfelfe commanded) being then at the fiege of Lebna. But vpon the rumoro that Arabian Army\ed by their King Thirrhakehb(whom lofepbus cals Tharfites yRabfakeh hafted fromthe fiege,of Hiera[alem,and found: Senacherib departed from ‘Lachis,andie downebefore Lebaa,whichwas afterwards called Eleuthoropoliszas {ome haue fuppolees But while he had ill fucceffeat Peluftumand feared Thirrhakeh,Godhimlelfe whom he leaft feated,fitook his Army before {erufalem by the Angelofhis power,foras 15 800%" were found deadinthe place,asin the life ofExcchias is hereafter more latigely- written Lib, ve.cep.t. Cuar:d: § abtze ofthe Fiftorie ofthe World. He heard alfo men fay ofThitthakch King of -Athiopia, Ge: whereas itfhould haue been¢ thus'‘¢énuerted withdewids s Audicas autem de Thirrhakeh Rege Chafbi; Hee heard alfo of Thirrakeb King ofthe Chufbites: For they were the Chujites And Arabians, whofe Hou- fes and>Cities were next the fire, and vpon whomthe very. fmoake of Jade flaming was blowne,being their neereft: Neighbours : andfo wetenotthezthiepianblack-Moores pigs vnder the £guinettial,whom neither wat nor peace(whichdifcouerethiall Regions)ener come neees foundont,faith P/ay.For this King was no more King of-£thiopia than Zerah was,who inuaded -4/a King of Jada, withan Army of a Million, and three thoufand Chartiots, *7™-14 Indeed, howfuch an Army &thofe Charriots fhouldpaffe throughall Eeypt,(the Kings 106fEyer being mighty Kings) letall men that knowhow'thefe Kegionsarefeated , and how farrediftant,iudge. For Prifites doe noteafily petmit'Atinies of 2 Million to run throtigh them; neither was therecuer fuch ftrength of Black-Moores heardof in' that pait of the World,orelfewhere. ‘Neither are thefe -A¢hiopians fuch twauailers or Conquerdrs''and yet isthis King Zérah alfo called King of sAethiopia.. Burthe vvord Chufb beitiefirft fo Conucrted for ethiopia', thereft ofthe Interpreters (not looking into the feates of Kingdomes,or'thepoffibilities ofattempts, or inuafions) followed one another ia the former miftakings. Hon Mikde Afarther expolition ofthe place,Elay 18.1. Oficerhing thefewords in that eighteenth Chapter of E/ay,Nauiamalarum winged bips,(So the Septuagint varneit) or Cymbalo aleruia (accordingto the Latine) fayles whifthive inthe windes,or terra vanbrofx ore (after unis) the Landof afoaddowedcoaft, or the Landfhaddowing withwings,as our Exglifh Goneua hatlrits:'Thetwo firftinterpretations‘ofthe Septwagintand'S..Hieremehauc onefenlein effedtForthe failes-atecommonly called the wings ofa fhip,& wevfeto fay. ordinarily wher our shipsfaileflowly,that ihe Wwatiteth wings s\(chatis)when-herfailesare either worriciortoonarrew:: and weal- fo vferhefamé phrafe ofthe windewhiftling inthe failes, And it may, bethatthe Eaypti, ns emploied [o many ofthofefmalthips,astheir fails were faid to giue afhaddow ouer 30the Red Sea! But tomake bothintétpretatioris good, Pints évpan E/ay).atirmeth, that thexvvord (Sabai) doth fignifie both ito fhaddow and: to igingle;(vvhich-is) to: makea kinde of Gymbaline found :foasthe meaning ofthis place (faith, Piatus)isthis.: *oete thee,O Egypt,which doc/tpromifeto othersfafeouard,vader the{baddow of thy wings; vwhich (indeede) feemeth to agree with theargument ofthe eighteenth Chapter of Z/ay: and this phrafeis often elfewherevfed,as in the fixteenth Plalme:Subormbra alarumtuaruns protege me ; Defend me underthe[baddew of thywings.The Boatesiofreede fpoken of are oftwo kindes; either of basket-willow,couered with hides(as ancientlyin Brittain)ora Tree made hollow in the bottome, and built vpoq bothfides ‘with ‘Canes. Of the one fort I haue feene in Ire/azd,ofthe'other in the Zadies. 4.0 gS XT Okthe plantation andantiquities ofEgypt ey Tod: That Mizxaimthe chiefeplanter ofEgypt:and the reit ofthefannes ofHam, were/eatedin or der, ene byanothers Andthatthis Armyof Zirrakch was ftom Arabia,lofepheus himfelfemakesit plaine. Fot he confeficth in thetenth Book,the firft Chapter ofthe zewes Antiquities , that irvvas come to Sémacheribs knowledge, that the Army which wasa foote (bothto relieuethe Egyptians and the ewes) marched towards him bythe vvay of the Defart: Now the Defartvvhichlayindifferent betweene Piernfilem and Pelufium, vvasthat ofPhar4# of Sur whichalfo toucheth onthe three Arabia's, to wit,the Stony ofwhich itis a part: the Defart,and the Happy ;andbyno other yvay indeed could the Arabians come onto fue, cour cithier'Pelufinm or Herufalém, But that there is any Defart betweene Pelufinm Cait lide ofden. Mizxsimbis. brother (with Phat) pakkouerinto Africa. Aiaral™ held Heypt.: and: Pht (as third brother)wasthrutt fattheroffinto Ateuritania,. Canaan tooke the 9ea-cpaft,and heldthe fide ofPayeftina sand.thefe foure brothers poflett ali that the South part of Egypt hath neuer yet beene heardioftordefcribed by any Cofmograp P or. Hiflerign.So thenthis defcription of the fecondiofKiaes, verfthe ninth,hath thefame miftaking as the reft. For here the word (Chufb)is alfo tranflated Aethiopiasand inchs prehending all 4rabia Daferts,and Petresall Caney which embrageth Galitea,Sam ty anc » fen{é haveall the Interpreters, (but Junin) expreffed the beginning ofthe ninth vere 131 , i " He fecond fonneofiHam was\adicraim, (who accordingtathe place ofa fecond brother).was fent Lomewhat farther offto inhabite., For, chufy firkt pollett cha' . #aa,0n, the Weltiide of Gehea chiefly ::and.from thence, as heingreafed in pees plesfo.he enteed Aradiaand bytime.came totheborder of the Red Sea,& ro theSouths Tract of Land,fromGehog in Chaldea,as fatre tothe Weltasthe afediterrage Sea: com- |