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Show T, ind.x. Lhe firft Booke of the fuk part Cua P.3.9.9 Indges fjpeaketh thereof in thefe words 1 Cumd, rewerberentur; peruenerunt ad Charran,gue eft in medio itinere contra Nineuem,vndecimo die when they returned, they cameto Charran, (which isthe mid-way againft Nineuc) the elenenth day. This cityis by the Martyr Stephex named Charran({peaking to the highPriett : ) ree ue Men,Brethyen, ana Fathers, hearkew ! The God af glory appeared toour Father As RAHAM, while he was in Mefopotamia, before hee dwelt i Charran, But the feate of this cit yis not doubted of forit isnot onely remembred in many Scriptures, but, withall, exceeding famousforthe death and ouerthrow ofCraf/zsthe Romane,whoforhis yn{atiable gree. dineffe was called Gurges anaritia ; Thegulfé ofauarice.Whereok Lucan: Lean.1.105 Affyrias Latio maculanit fanguine Carras, With Romanbloud th' Affyrian Carre he defil'd. Put this city Canne or Chalneis made manifeft by ado/es himfelf,where it is written Gen.t0.10, of Nimrop: U@aathe beginningofhis Kingdomes was Babel,» Erech,or Acad Chalue, in the land ofSinaar or Shinar:where Mofes {heweththefirtt compofition of the Babylonian Empire, and what cities and people were fubieét vato Nimrod, all which lay in the faid Valley ofShinar,or neere it ; and this Valley of Shinaris that Tradctjafterwards called Babylonia and Chaldxa,into whichalfo Eden ftretcheth it felfe,chaldea, Babylo= aia, Sinaar , idem funt faith ComEs'rOr.) Three names of one Coustry :which Region of Babylonia took nameofthe Towre Babel, & the Towre,of the confufion oftongues. And that Shinar was Babylonia,it is proued in the eleuenth chapter of Gemefis; in thefe E words: And as they wentfrom the Eall,theyfounda Plaine in the Lawdof Shinar, andthere they abode :in which Playne Babylon was built (as aforefaid.) Now Shinar being Babylonia, & Canneh,in the firft beginning ofNimrodsgreatnes , and befote he had fubdued any ftrange,or far-offNations,being one part of his Dominion,andalfo named by Mo/és to be'in Shinar, it protieth,that Canneh ioyneth to Babylonia ; whichalfo Ez¢chiel coupleth with Eden, and (further) affitmeth, that thofeof Eden werealfo the Mérchants whichtraded with the Tyrians: and E/ayin the thrcates of Senacherib again Terufalem (with other Nations that Sewacherib vaunted that his Fathers had de ftroyed) nameth the children of Eden which were at Telaflar.:i But , fore I conclude where Edenit felfelyeth, it is neceffary to deferibe, thofe other Coun-" tries, which Ezechiél ioyneth therewith in the places before remembred 5 as, thofe'of Sheba ‘and Raamah: It is writtenin Génefis thetenth Moreouer the Sonnes of Hast were Guar.ziSi9. of the Hiftory of the World, ¢ but whatfoeuerthedifference may bec'ih the Hebrew Orthographyy:their Countrie s and Habitations are diuérs.For Shebais that'which bordereth the Pesfian Seaj& Saba (whence the Queene of Saba) neighboured'the Red Sea', andfothat place of the 72; Pfalme :expounded, Reges Arabum e Saba hath in the-Hebrewthisfenfe: Reges Sheba CP Sabe, i TI much of thofe Countries which border Edeh,and who altogether traded with hich,the chiefe were the Edenites, inhabiting Telailar: for thefe sena= Fathers had deftroyeéd;andthis place of 'Telaffar lay moft con: > receine the Tradefrom Sheba and Arabia , and alfoto conueyir ouer dto Tyrus. Now to make thefethings the moreplaing; wveeimuft relives deathofSenacherib,many parts ofthe Babylonian Empirefellfrom death thefe' Monarchies were viterly difioyied. peareth both in E/ay the 37. and! in the fecond'of Ki#gsy bythe thréares of vvhilethe ArmyofAffyria lay before Terufalent ,' thar the-Cities of Gos laran, Refephjand the E t Telailar, had refitted the Affyrians , .thoughby in 2 fort) maftered. and eted, "Haue the gods oj the Nutions delinered therm; i:fry sv, y Fathers haue destroyed, as Gofan abil Haran, Refeph , and‘ the children ofEden, P were at Telaffar? Burit appeared manifetly after Sesacherth3 death b that rhefe formerly contending, were then freed from'the dthers fubiection for Efarytia,and Merodach Baladan, Babylonia. ‘And afcerthat the Army*of Se: ided ‘by ‘Rebfache which laybefore Tefitfalent (Exechias then reig- 2.Kings.19 39 vas in Egypt, was by the Angell of God deftroyed: the King bies, both to congratulate the recouery ofhis health ; and his vi- Ide 9.1 Affyrians. After which ouerthtow,' Seaécherié himfelfe w aS Ey 37.38. of RAAMAH were Sep &4# NIMROD: fo as Sheba was the grand-child ofGah Ayers. and:.anon. after. Gysule, and Wirwrodthe fonne of Cuff whofeelder brother was sébah the Temple'of his Idols'; B/ar- Haddon fucceeding himin Ln ndavacours 1 :t houghfomethete are that conceiue to. the contrarie, that Niwsrod was the elderin valour and vnderf tanding, though not in time and precedence of birth ; whoinhabitedthat patt of Shinary where Babel w as built s-afterwards Babylonia.His brothe\ rRa amah oF Regma tooke: that part adioyning to Shinar s toward 6 the Seafid ; e an d Perfian eulfe( called afterward Giezma and nt by Mérodach | Exechins fhewed all his Efay39.%. ed thie kings of Babylon afterward to , the {ufpition of warre encreafing bes 5 which inhabited the bordets ofShittar ‘to- were imployed to beare off thé incurfions'ofthe Sheba, bythe Father. and his Si ons, Which poffeffed it.) For(faith Eztcu1ev)themerchants of Raiamah and Sheba were thy mi reha nts, they occupied is thy Bares with the.chiefe of all pices, and all precious flones, ana 20a. SO as Sheba was that Tragof Country; which parteth Arabia ‘Deferta from Arabia Felix » and which ioyneth to the Sea where Tigris and Euphrates fall out and rend r themf{elues to the Ocean. This part; and the confinins icinted Strabo calleth Carabria;wherethe beft Mytrhe and Frankincenfé is cathered » whi a a sh haue af interchange ortrade with Elana. lying on the Eatt fide of the PerG Hi bt this appeareth who werethe Shebeans, fpoken of by Eze wel 1 , and Baan faidto haue Merchants of Tyre,for gold, {pices, eS, and and'pr f ecious; {tones : of which they .had:not onel plenty of their owne-but we vere alfo furnifhed fromthat par tofIndia ss *han (called ce heir cording'to Strabo) t or exchange oft 4 nen +} ofth eir Aromatiques,and other proper . j commodities Por, #8 Strabo reporteth out of Era TOSTHINTS Ja Perfite oreiyitjo Infila eft 16 7% multe cs ' preti P UNLORCS Telaffar:'andthe very word (Telafar faith eagainft the Affyrians. This place Hierofolymia bue'this "Pelaffar'is the fame, which c4m, thom hee followéd inthe enterprize of Perfiay "who defcribeth the éxcecding ftrength thereofin lof Euphratés"Ypon a fte¢pe arid vnaflaultable otattéinpt it and therefore it was a tans. being alfo-a 'paflage out of' Me- i he Countrey adioyning were (Mech Teridata, bawing Refeph (which _,, & Carinch,(whiclthe calleth Thelbe-canne)on the (6 found the'City' of Manncanne vpon Tigtis; ad Ezechies Nave ot nin le AMWiaiwh STH [hats Liar fionts Now,the difference betweene Sheba the , fonne of 2 1aimsh,and Scha thei ; ds Mths That sebeis wiitteawith C4? fonne ofof Capp the H COLEW W4mecas)-and Sheb beb a with (sche € ebans, Exechiel namethtogether with the: Edenites,, becaafe they inhabited et ofthe fame Riuer,vponwhichthe Edenites were feated: and fo thofe ards the Sea-coaft,and vponit, paft vp the Countrey, by Tigris and Eugioynedin onemaineftreame,andfo through the Regionof Eden, which is boundeth, therebythebetter to conuey theit metchandife toward Tyre. And as fCharran, and Canneh, border Eden ‘on the Weft and Northwelt fo doth ith,and Chilmadon the North-eaft ? Chilmadbeing's Région ofthe hin the Chaldxan Paraphraft ; which Countréy bythe'Gro: Coromitena, (L) placed byexchange for (X.) which change the Hes Cys; Gc. Andthefannes of Cvs. were SeBajand Havaranyand Sapran, and RAaMan, he. Andthe fonnes Qienantur sin algsvere, clari ce perlwcidz lapilfi, Ex NES (lath Strabo) affirmeth, that inthe beginning of the Perfian en Wibie culfe.the sp ‘¢, teeress.: ap erfian gul, Uehere are raaBY PY eci oust Weavlesbred: and iz ¢ ther., very cleave and {bining 43 ynfounded: (» ris end : d then) Bur the vnder{tanh the Chaldaans call At- : one taken for the other by in- Weflovotemisits Babylonia nomen tranferunt (faith oy "F Mefovotamiatooke the name of Babylonia, Laftly, it uppeareth by cofnu Alas Prophets-named ,in'what part of the World Eden is : {cated, |