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Show ThefcoiBadeopihefistparCain8§3 ofthe Hiftory ofthe World. Anning Bialen? facceeded?jg mdlion pand reigned 36-Veercs 5 thefamic that entree fice. 6€as ae of ne : notwithitan ding whith; he continued his fiege ei nd fide fiue yeeres, but in vaine. ont Takami gobenoed the Tytians; who vaunted bienfelfe to bee'as wife as Dafiel Sand thatheéknewall fecrets(faith Ezekiel) of whom'the I ropher' a was largein his 28. Chapter out of whom itwas ann Prince ce flainéin that long a. Sete who furroundee and axtennpted : bre, 13, nidsly ' together, ere HE preuailea: yeetres T paaltcllowed etic, and reignedro. yeeres atributaty, Perctencep omens donofor' for aftérhis death,it was gouerned by divers!ages, fuéceeding eachother: Firlt,by Bemibalus\ehen by Chelbis;Abarasthe Prielt, Mittonus, and'Geraflus; whoreldit among them fomeyiyears,and oddemonths:after whom Balatorns commanded therein asa Kins forone yeere:afterhim Merbalus {ent from Babylon 4. yeetes : aftershim zon bookeofZudges,the Midianites:Amalekites, and alltheyofthe Eaft are called Hniaelites: Aadhe that well confiders how greatand ftronga Nation dmalec was, which durft giue of the Tyrians, and thatthe Tprians from them receiued and brouz ht into Phenicia the knowledge ofthe true God. Fhe greatmutations of this Kingdomeand State of the Tyrians, mixed witha rdi{courfe ofdiuers other Nations,there is one Zoziws that hath written a Tratt at large,intituled de rvints Geatinm. And althoughthegreat, and manyalterat 10 ons found inthisand other Gities, yea; inall things vnder heauen; haue proceededfrom his ordinance who onely is vnchangeable, andthe fame foreuer; yet whereasthe faid Bozius ,inforcing heere-hence,thatthe profperity and ruine ofthe Tyrians, were fruits of their embracing. or forfaking:the true Religion; to proue this his aflertion fappofeth the Tyriansto hauebeencEdummans,de(cended fron Efaw, Yacobs brother : firlt,it cat hardly be beleeved that Tyre, when it flourifhed moft-in' her ancient glory, was ia any Boxde nin, forttruly deuoutand religious. But tothisend (befidesthe proofewhich the Scriptures Ginlsc7 gineiof Hiramgood affection when Salomon builtthe Temple) hee brings many come cturall arguments , whereofthe ftrongeftis their petigreeand defcent: it being likely it his opinion, thatthe pofterity of Efawreceined fromhim by Tradition the Religio® of Abrahamand Ifaac. Thatthe Tyrians were Edumzans,he endeuours to thew, partly by weake teafons, painéfully ftrainedfrom fomeaffinity.of names;whichareargumentso more delight than waight: partly by authority.For Strabo, Herodotus, Pliny, and others witnefle, thatthe'yrs came fromthe red Sea, in which there were three Ilands, ca led'Tyrus; Atadus sand Sidon t whichwery names (as hethinketh) were afterwards giv™ torhe Cities of Rhwenicia, Confidering thereforethat all the coaft of the Red Sea, we a Cin his opinion) vndeitheEdamzans:as E/zhand Efiongaber; or vnder the Amalekitt, Q whodefcended of Amalee the Nephewof E/ax, whofe chiefe City was AZadian, fo led of tédianthefomneot tbraham by Cetharaswhofe pofterity did peopleir:theco™ 0 ring'little or nothing in\Religion from che children of Ifracl. Hereunto heeaddes, Cadmus and his Companions brought not into Greece the worlhip of A/fartis, the = ofthe Sidonians'Thatthe Parents»of Thales and Phereeydes being Phoenicians, th™ {cluesdiffered muchintheirPhylofophyfromthe Tdolatrouscaftomes of the Greeks That inTemaz,a Towne ofthe Edumzans,was an Vniueifiry; wherein: as may spp byé pbasthe Temanite, who difputed with Job, Religion wasfincerely taught) one *Paradoxe by a deferues in both very-litele ctedit: For neither dothie follow,thatif the Tyrians Wo dumvzans,they were then ofthe true Religion, or wellafie@ed to God: aad his pe? dedin riches ; and Salomon in wifedome, allthe people ofthe Eaft;, not the inhabitants of their fonnes, Ino where finde. And://zaelalfo hada fon called Thema: of whomit isnot volike that Peman.in the Eaft had the name : forasmuchasin the 7. Chap.of th Progenitms OfBozeus his comecit, that the Edumeans inhabiting along the Red Sea, werethe Suchis the difcourfe of Boziusswho labouring'to prooue whence Eliphaz came to reafon with /o6, is not that in Edamea, but another of the fame name,lyingHaft fromtheSeaofGalilee,and adioyning to Hus, the country of Yob: and 10 to Such the Citie ofBrldad the Suhite,asboth {uch Chorographers who belt knew. thofe parts,doeplainly fhew, andthe holy Text makes manifeft. For70dis faid'to haue excceEfauhadafonne called Temaz : butthar Fathers were wont inthofe dayes totake nameé §. Let. fequence appeares good/as hetakes it) thatthe Tyrians originally were Edomites: ing fuch as Dawéd in his ownedayes foundthem. Although indeed the Citie of Temi# of Mount Seir, which layne SouthfromPalefima.. Trueit isthat Eliphazthe forthe of fent thence alf{2 6 syeeres.Ththie'r'7-ofwhofe reigne Cyrus began to gonernePerfia, + rant.of Dawids vnfriendly behauiour amongft them, when firft they were fubdued + Surely it was nor any argument of Kindred or Alliance,betweene Tyrand Mount Ser, that Hiram held {uch good correfpondence with Daxid : euen then when Joab flewall the males of Edovs: neither wasit for their denotionto God, and goodaffe@ion to '#/= rael, that the Edomites werefo ill intreated, It feemeththat the piety and ancient wifedomeofEliphaz the Themanite was then forgotten,and the Edumeans punifhed,; for be- neitherisittrue thatthey were Edumzansarall. InwhatRelizion Bfau brought ¥ + ' and als children, it is no where found written >but that himfelfe wasa *prophane man, 0°", vowed by God, the Scripturesin plaine termes exprefle.' That his pofterity W°. " laters, is dire@ly proued inthe 3 y-Chapter ofthe fecond booke of Chronicles I a Edomites w perpetuall enemiestothe Hone ofIraelfaue onely when Dawe & of his race, Ki 38 of ¥wda, held themin fubie@ion, whoknowes not? or who & * battaile tothe Hoft of Jrae/, whicrein were 600000, able men, will hardly beleeue that 20 fucha people were defcended, from one of E/ashis grand.children. For how powerfull and numberlefle mut the forces of all Edow hauebeene {if one Tribe of them, yea, oné Familyofa Tribe had beene fogreat ? furely Mount Sei andall the Regions adioyning could nothaueheldthem., But we no wheresinde thar Edom had to doe with Amalec': ot aflifted the Amalckites : when $24/ went to roote them out.. For -4ralec is no where in Scripture namedasa Tribe of Edow: buta Nation of ir felfi wf dittin& from the Ifmaed- lites. The like may be faidof adsdiaz, thatthe Founderthereof beingfonto Abraham by Cethura,doubtlefie was no.Edomite, Andthus much in generall for allthe Seieniory oF the Red-{ea coaft, which Bozius imagines the Edumeans to hauie‘held: if tHe Edomites ih aiter-times heldfomeplaces, as E/axandEfiongaber onthe Red Sea fhore, yet in Azo/es 30 time, which waslongafterthe building of Tyre,theyheld them not. For A/o/es himlelfe faith, that //rae/ did compafleall the borders of Edom : within which. limits had, atidiae flood, Mofes mutt needs haue knownit ; becaufe he hadfoiourned long inthat Country: and there had left his wife and children, when he Wentinto Egypt. But coniecturall Arguments, how probable foener,are needlefic in fo manifeft'a Cafe. For inthe $3. P/4/.£ lou, \Amalec, and Tyre, are namedasdiftin& Nations: yeathe Tyrians and Sidonians being one people, asall good Authours thew, and Bozivs himfelfe conictlech, were Canaanites, as appcares, Gz7.¢.10.v.15.¢ 19. appointed by Géd fo been deltroyed, and their Lands giuen tothe children.of Affer, Lof-29 becaule they were Idolarers, and of thecurfed feed of Ganaan,t t Coulins to //rae/,norprofeflors of haue fame Keligion, For thoi ¢ [one : ¢ God that hath [ent King Danid'a auids Religion. The Turke hath faid‘as rtaineitis, thatthe Sidonians then worame Idolatry. he Temple, hee didit -for his owncends, ion of Corne,and Oyle, andtheoffer of rq. rthings, ir will appeare that ; s He ees ing otherwileaptto yeeld ood commoditics. F ich hecould well {pareto Salom haui ld firt, paucto Hiram - Dut U was 2 nec el- For Dawid had fabdued thocs On alomon bein y 3 tw of .} thei Cur OF Cicir |