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Show Tua. $$$ ane ee: .ThayfecoidBroke ofthispart " Caanx §.6 viiliice tothe Frierlyybook of4/emaths Ppiphars danglite ribut vito fuch as onifider re God workes vitally by, meancs and that Pataphar yeas the Stewardof that King,s nder whioni Jacob-died:it would {eemea matter not probable, shad ican Authot of fufficient credit to auouchit. Concerning the y varres Of Herc#/es, in which bythis ree konitig hee fhould haue {pent 42.yeares after he Jeft Egypt, crehe began in sta/y,it is ac ir ents which(the length ofhis /ta/taz wars confidered,andhis formerenterpr ifes 8c: Mi a ments proportioned to them) dothnot make againftvs,but f Or VS : crit ity ve ie: egal vs,yet could it not foweaken our fuppOfition,as there pr obabilit ies collec tc ‘ ee i . vndifputable truth of Scripture do confirmit. Neuerthe lefle I freely gtantt a a une ¢ prootes areno Other; thanfuch as may be gathered ourof Authors, not vvell agtceitig, ' nor to bereconciledin fuchob{curity otheiwife thah bylikelihoods.antwerabletothete holy Text. §. VE ofTyphon, Hercules, Beyptus, Orus, and the two Sefotties, fucce/sively reiauing aftr Mizraim': axa of diners errors about theformer Scfottres. ‘ Oncerning the reigne ofTyphon,and of Hercules; 1 find none that precifely doth define how long. either of them continued: Daniel Angelocrator giveth thvee yeares to Typhon,omitting Hercules But heis fo peremptory vvithout proofe, 20 as if his own word were {uficient authority, in manyp oints very queftionablezalleadg: ing no vvitneffe, butas it were faying, Teite me ipfe:y ct herein wee may thinke him to {peake probably,forafmuch:as the learned Krentz hemius a firmet hy that Hercules did very foone vndert ake his Fathers reuenge;and was not longin performing it:andthat leauing Egypt tohis brother,hee followed other Wartes in the fame quarrell,as hath beene thewed before. -Trueit is} that I cannot collect (as Krentzhemius doth J out of Bérfu, that Hercules reignedafter Typhon: yetfeeing Aventi nusa follower ofBerofas hathit fo, Typbox howfocuer diuided betweerie them,I gather out and Herculesfenen yeares were {pent, OfKrentxhemins only; who placeth the ginning of Orxe fever yeares after the death ofOfirés: forgetting to fet downe hisrea-3° fons,which inamatter {5 probable I thinke he vvanted hot. Now vvhereas go-yeares ofthe cighteenth Dynaflieto-Ofires, he allowet Typhoi Herculesand Ores :it feemes that? thereigne of Orilated 11 ssytares. Fromit out of Egypt, there paffed 123 "yeates by he death of Orus to the departure ofirae ouraccoune:: who(accordine:to Beroaldas and others thinke that 4érahamwas borne in the 130.yedre of Terah,and thereupon thus. Fromthe end of the Floud reckon to the birth of braham--- -. 352 Fromthat I willalfo beleeue it.That in the reigne of timeto as of Abraham adi das: acedvamaemaaneel departure out of Egypt___- P a hg 90 Summa which fumme diuers other waycs peeannBere49 Sage eee maybe colleéte dy Sincethetf oreto the departure outs Of Egypr, there doe remaine(as is aforefaid) onely 122:yeares from the death of Or! Weare nowto confider how. manyofth em are'to beallawed vato Sefofiris or Sefouch Lis:who is placed next vnto OFud, ky author ity of the S5boliafies Apollong.: nor without good probability. Forthis reat king of conquerout, is by many. Hiftories recorded to haue ouer-runa Srcat part of 4fa:t o hanebuilt afieet of fhips onthe red Sea; and fo to haue entred into Jagiaslikewife with another flectonithe middle-eaith fed into Ex; opesand fubdued Seas;to haue pal" many Natiohs-This is he (aS fline etring in accountof Reine cev#s indeeth) whom ; /+ his time éalleth Vexoris g 7 :Eoy Luftwe placeth Vexorts fore Nizus; wherebyit wou a ldfollowt hat sefofrés, if he were Vexoris was mor than wasOffres (orherwife Miz : Beier is cai raim)athing alto o c t tes geth er voli §alt kely og . Cer the departureof /rae/ our of Egyp tai itis that? Certa inene itis t.no'one Pharaoh came intoely. the land of Gamzcuiwl lieth MERE Way 110m Egypt into, Afietill the Fatherin Jaw ofS alomap, Pharaob¥ tooke Gerar, andgane it to his daug hter. (a8 Vee may reademoy at larcein theo!) Hift ory e Bibl Pol y ofth e) aet Ob tne afeivv r vvhi H2 time:-.¢Sefec oppreffe hicch ardaRehoboum h time set ouegl"it and ap , ae Necy ho Lous patlage through the landof Yract, fens. OF Kin; "apbres and.N e679 vvhen: hee made his expedition againft: the itis ourof. queftion, that neither. C7" of thent vvas areaa Bre l King af, SefosShri tris. OF a Scfac Sag tis do o it is doubied by foe, tora ftuuch as hee came into oan me cAkeatt 1 ein Line ~Cuar.2.§6. | ofthe Fiftorie ofthe World. vith a great armie. Redieccius propoundi the ng donibt,leaueth it vndecided 3 Viileffe it be {ufficient proofe ofhis owneopitiion,that he following the Scholiaftes Apellony. Butfurth himfelfe placeth Sefofris next to Orus : er anfwer may bemadeto thewthat they were not one. For,as Ju/line witneffeth,S¢/o/trisothe rwife Vexorts, made war on people farre remoued, abftaining from hisneigh bour Se/a s, e catic vp purpofely againit Hiersfale m. Sefoftris, as Diedorus witneffeth, had bu had 8020. charriots, s pofe, but to geta great Egypt. erties Krentzhemins colleð out ofHerodotus,and Diodorus, that one Mena, or Menis, was next to Orus : becaufe thofe Hiftorians affirme that he reigned ext after the gods ; it moueth me nothing. s did fucceede thofefifteene gods, namely, the twelue greater, and threeleffer : himfelfealfo (as the learned Reimeecius noteth) being called Menas. Which name,as alfo Menens,and miftaken by fome as proper names. Krenzhemius Men, weretitles of dignity : though dothvery probably gather,that Menas Was Adercurins Ter-maximus :the Hebrew word Mexi fignifying-an Arithmetician which name Tér-w#aximies might vvell bee attributed to Ofiris, vvho vvas agteat Conquerour; 20 Philofopher,and Benefactor to mankinde ,by bleArts. In proweffe and great vndertakings giuing good Lawes sand teaching profita: Porhe fought victory not fSr gaine, but for Sefoflrss vvasno whit inferiour to Ofiré, honour onely : and being vvell contented; that many Nations had acknowledged his power,and fubmitted themfelues to his vvill and royal! difpofition, leauing them ina manner to their liberty, returned into Egypt: Soone vponhis returne he vvas endangered was, being by his owne brother purpofely by a great Treafon, the houfe in vvhich he fired: yvhich neuertheleffe heeis faid to haue efcaped,and to haue reigned in all thirty three yeares : after whichtime hechofe rather to die than toline ; becaufe hefell blinde. Both Se/oftris \efta fonne, vvhofe name wvas Pheron Herodotus, aud Diodorwms, affirme that or Pherones :who afterwards tooke the jo Name ofSefoftris ; but was nothinglike to his Father.in glory : for he fhort! edorus hauing likewife haps he tooke the difeafe naturally from his heard,yet reports as a fable,faying thatperwhere expreffed : yet forafmnuch as Orws Father. How long this man reigneditis no the him,began 4-yearesafter thatthis se/ofris fecond,(otherwife Bufiris) vvho fucceeded reigned r 4.yearesat leaft. That Bufiris bega had beene king,it muft needes bee thatthis n Pired, the very accountoftime from thefir notvntill thefe 14.yearesat leaft were exlt ofBafris, to the departure of 2/rael out of Exypt,plainely thewes, being almoft generally agreed vpon, to haue beene 75. yeares. atnone came betweeneSe/aitris the fecond,a nd Bufiris or Orwe the fecond,it ftands o Onely vponprobabilities: yvhich are thefe . fell blinde after certaine yeares he recoueredhAfter Se/ofris had reigned {ome while,hee is fight,as is {aid : which may haue beeti true,butis morelike to haue beene fable : furel y the mannerof his recouery asitis fet downe,is very fabulous: namely,that by with her vvater,who had onely knowne looking vpona woman, orvvathitig his eyes her thetime of his reign,beforehis blindneffe owne husband,hee gothis fight againe. Ag ,and when he was vvell again(if cuer he may haue taken vp a good part of 14.ye were) eres: fo his vvorkes which vere great,do much more ftrongly argue,that his reigne vvas notveryfhort. His works are largely fer by Herodotus, and Diodorus :a part that which his Father had begun, of whi abo go be rather ftighted,(as his Father had u don iauelins ; and by his diligent ouerfigh e)with fpades and thouels, than with darts,and t ofthat worke, vvas like enough to lofe both eye-fight andhis Peoples loue;whomhi his s Father had very byfily employed in labour about it, excefiue $.2 $.V II, d |