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Show The. firft Booke of the first part Cua2.5.88) of anotherGoliah,furnamed Getheus,becaufe he was of Gath : and ofthree other Gia; ofwhichthe firft wasflaine by Jehonathan,Dauids Nephew;whohad twelue fingers,and as manytoes : amatvofgreat ftature,and hisfingers were byfixeseuenfoure & twent Ye Alfothat samp/on was offurpaffing ftrength,no man doubteth, who torea Lion as it had beene aKid,and afterflue thirty of the Philiftines,& (after that) a thoufand inore of them witha Iaw-bone ofan Affe : And laftly, hee tooke the gates of Azzah,and the two Pofts,andlifted them away withthe barres, and put them vponhis fhoulders, and carried themto the top of the Mountaine before Ebron.If then it be approued byeuery iudgement.that both Nature and the Heauens.waxe old,and that the great age of Time hath(withit felfe) infeebled and almoft worne outthe vertueof all things, then, fay, Thatas inall otherkindes the Earth (before that Sinne had increafed the curfe and cots ruption) brought forth her yongue ones more {trong andbeautifull, than.it did in afters ages : {o alfo thofe Giants, thofe mighty men,and men of renowne,asfar exceeded the proportion,nature,and {trengthofthofe Giants,remembred by Mo/es of his owntime; and after him theirficceffors, asthe ordinary proportion ofall men in generall, foon after the floud andin times farreoff, exceededthe bulkes and bodies ofmen which are butremoued Ilandsout ofthe Seaywithlike fooléries.And forthat inuention\of eating vp Hils, and making warre with thegods, nodoubt but thatthe! fame was borrowed out ofthe ftory ofNimred;as before remembred'; and.cuen out of this: Seripture; That the Sonnes o£ God faw.the Daugliters of Men, ofwhonrthefirft,Giants. were begotten, Was that conceit taken of Orpheus and Hefiodws;That Giants were the fonnes ofthe Heauen and the Earth ; meaning by the Heauens.the fonnes ofGod, and bythe Earth the daughters ofMen: which verles ofOrphens are by Johw Caffam (whohathwrittena witty difcourfe ofthis fubiect) thus changed into Latine : Nomine caleftes illos dixére Gizantes, Orti quod terrafucrint & fanguine cali. From the Earth,and from thy bloud,O heauen,they came, Whomthereupon the godsdid Giants name, But whatwill not Opiniators andfelfe-beleeuing men difpute of,and make doubt of ifthey cannot conceinethat there wereinthefirft Age fuch kind ofmen; and ofwhich there haue beene imalltimesfince ; feciag the Scriptures auow the one manifeftly,and common experience the other? Andforthat{uperlatiue ftrayning ofwords, and the meaning ofthem; thar the name ofGiants was giuen to Oppreffors and Tyrants, and. notto ftrength of body and emi-, nentftature:{uch men might with better reafon cal them Oppreffors,becaufe they were Giants; and therfore had ability to oppreffe, than fay,That they were called Gians on ly,becaufe Oppreffors. Forfirft,44o/es himfelfe calleth them mighty mien'; which thewetha ftrengthfurpaffing others : and afterwards,men of renowne,(that is) ofgreat yadertaking and aduenterousaction. Andifthe fame ftature of body,and ability beene found among diuers Nationsafterthe generall floud, then might this hadnot placeof 4o/es haue more willingly hearkened to a difpute,and yeelded to interpretation. But befidesall thefe famous Giants found in prophane Hiftories(which I will referue Gent 4.4. of the Hiftory of the World, Cuar.6.§a. That the;Giants hauein eldertimes not onely caft vp.Mountaines vpon Mountaines, to. accompany the Giants of'Albion,in the {tory ofBritanie) the Scriptures doecleerly and without all allegoricall'conftruction anow; That, befides Nimrod, there were found34 of thefe Giantsin nowborne in the withered quarter and Winter of the World. If therefore Giants wete common in the thirdand fourthage,much more inthe firftflourifhing youth and newneffe of the world. ; B leis : But the wickedneffe (efpeciallyin cruelty and oppreflion) of thefe menwas fuch,-as God therforebythefloud gaueend toall flefh,but to theinft Noahandhis Family, And : God repented him that hee had made man: which S. Auge/linethus expoundeth ; Neg, enim Gen6.6, x . 2) ; Samat Deum facli [ui 5penitet, cuius eft de omnibus omnino rebus tam fixa 4 fentens Pe mit De ; ; jcut hominem,ita v ; i familiarins infinwabit omni generi bominum , quibws vault effé confultum :vt perterreat luperbientes, c excitet neolicentes, Cexerceat querentes ; c» alat intelligentes ;God (faith he) doth wot repent him of any thing which he hath done: (as men ufé te dee) but if the Scrip- fare Gia MO? all 2 2 thofe words or the likesit (bouldnot (in a fort) infinuste it felfe familiar: vito forts of men, , for whomit wouldprouide : that it mizht j ore terrifie theproud, firre up the neg& ligentexereife the (earchersof truth and nosxrifp thofe svat underfland. the time of Abraham, of Mafes, of lefua, and of Danid-namely,th e Num. 5-34. Rephaims in Afteroth, the Zuzxior Zanzummims in Ham ,:and the Emims which Dewtrvatro dwelt anciently inthe Land of Moab:whom Mofés (for ftatute) compareth with the A-, Vorfe ax. ; hia, quam certa prefcientia. Sedfi nonvtatur Scriptura talious verbis, mow fe quodsmmodo nakims whichdw elt in Hebron; for they alfo weretaken forgiants as theAnakims: Like wile where Mo/es {pcaketh of the Land of Ammon hee v{eth thefe words : That alfa w4 taken for alandof Giants, for Giants dvpelt therein afore-times : &hom the Ansmonites cal Commwren ines: people that was greatjand many.and tall asthe Atthins. Aad thefe Giants Cuar, VI, f tdolatrous cor ruptions . quickly rifing ; peartng in Fables and old Legends, called Kephaims in After oth and Karnaim,& the Zuzzi or Zanzummims, Chedor/agme king of Elamouerthrew,affifted byother kings his affociates. Alfo the Prophet Ams fou ee id among the Ammonites men ofgiant-likeftatt re,whom he comparcth to the Ce-f4 cay a otierags hto me Okes ; and the Prophet Barve H Thee were theGiauts js . J e Ceguansing thet were of [0 great fratureand fo expert in warre.Particularly 1* Written ofOg, king of Bafan,that his bed of yron was nine cubits long, and foure cl bits by oad: for only Ogking of Bafan remained ofthe remnantiofthe Giants,who com §. I. That in old corruptions we may finde [ome fienes ofmore ancient truth, before we proceede anyfarther, the occafton offereth'irfélfe for vs to nfider,how the Greekes and other'moreantient Nations, by fabulous tions, and bybreaking into parts the Story-of the Creation, and by mer Moroneka ied yeaaerthe Expedion ofld possepeople ngencrlaadeeate curDofthegreatreof Tene iuering itouer in a myfticall fenfe , wr upping it vp mixed with other a coucters.an Scare hers of the Land of Promife(fent by M&" umpery , haue fought to obfcuré the truth thereof ; and haue eby brought into many doubts, might receiue thofe eee ee a oe cn ly ors ne. onnesof Anak » in thefe words : All she peop , rather fought and defired to rerurn againe into Egypr, and were mo hing hog toto endure endure ttt rir former flanery,thanto t fall by the {tr «es Of 7 thofeekfearfull. Nat "urth ermore,the Scriptures, put vs outofdoubr : lat Geétab the Philiftine of Gath,was4 Giantof fixe cubits & {pan long : the Armour 'which hey Vore weighed fiuet : Do A NICKS Of bra i¢ the thaft weipned nue of his {peare ane S25 waslike } ticifs ike aa Weauers Weauers he- fixe \¥ hundred thickles of vr "» Weighed o AuUnUre - for the inuentions of Poets & Philofophers, oj great flature for there we /ary Giants thefons of ANAK, wai? Come of Le Giants, [o that we feemedin ourfights like Graffe-boppers and fo wee were ia thelt Sight, (chat is) the Searchers found in their owne iudgements i diatucltous li n ber ween the Anskims and themfelues:infomuch thar the Ifraelites eee fof KC teare,as they - UcKics Of yron. Alfo in bea me,and-his anx fp ff Samuel taste is mentionof another and bardly at length yanifhing inthe | and of the Reliques ofTruth touching thefe ancient times, obfcurely apworld: the Bookes of God. But as a skilful! and towed or ftolne out ifwell by fepararion of viftble elements drawhelpfull medicines fon out of the moft healthful! hearbs &plants(al}things haaing1n ¢ life h and dea : ur Heathen,' ' irpoles and; hopes of the iow all th fecke after God.and Truth,.fif d: out cocry where,and in iL ¢ withall the works and marualics ; Agze jwithall , of the frit Scory ‘reof, amply and linely cxpreft Philofophe ot the ets and Philofophers, 9.1L AS G25. |