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Show The fir Bookevof the fart part - Caar.7§.8 Cuar.§.3. y~ For Woah did not vfe.any Matt or Sayle(asin other Ships)éetherforedidthe Arke tio o« theiwife moue,than the Hulke or body ofa Ship doth in a calme Sea. Alfo,becatife it is :bec aufe as out of that confi. the Name ofChaos,and Semex Orbis,The Seed of the world fo from Neacame all ManPlants, and Beafts of kinds the all fed Heapeiwas drawne kind.WhereofOwid in the perfon of Janus: Me chaos antiqai (namfum res prifca ) vocabant, Ajpice quamlongi temporis acta cano, The ancient call' d me Chaes : mygreat yeares Bythofe old times,of whichI fing,appeares. not probable, thar during thefe ‘continuall and \downe-right Raines there wete an Windes at all,therefore was the Arke little moued from the place whereit was fathionedand fettogether: forit is written, God made a Wind to paffe upon the Earth, andthe waters ceafed. And thereforeit may be c gathered, that during. the fall ofthe Waters Gen.8,tthere was not any Stormeor forcible winde at all, which could driue the Arke any 10 yi, and his Nutmetlibertie, but in refpect ofthe Floud.Forthe Greekes called Lrber {es Ayades,of Rayne, becaufe Noah entred the Arke whenthe Sunne ioyned withthe a MonuStarres Hyades,a conftellation in the Browor Neckeof Taurus, and eucr after ment of Weabs Floud.He was alfo byothers furnamed Tritow, a Marine god, thefonne of Weptune; becaufe he liued in fafetie on the Waters. So was heknowne by thename Nat.comls. 6-125 nger ; though Diodorus' Of Diony(as, quafi Dawemv, me ntem pungens, Bite-braine, ox Wit-flu Father, andthe place y his Of Loco; o& Patre a name d conceiue otherwifejan deriue that out of Orhis Birth, (to-wit) of Zoue, and Nifa, a Towne of 4rabia felix, faith Swidas yoked pheus. He had alfothe by-name of Taurus, or Taurophacus ; becaufehe firft Hifan became Gen.g.20. Oxen;and tylled the ground: according tothat of Mofes; dud Noan fle Dw otherwi ( Bacchus Thebcs s their vauntof uerthe Grecian n. how(oc banedma Now syfus Vit is certaine,that the Namewas borrowed,and the Inventionftolne fiomNosh Stuckin ibris, Bur this Name of Bacchus,moreanciently Bedews, was taken(faith Gul. Stuckéus, and out and it is the more probe eee ofhim Daneus)fiom Nexchas,(.N)being changed into (B ) ;planter of the Vine afte , mamandietate. bl ble, becaufeit cannot be doubted but that Woah was thefir , the Floud : and ofWoah (the firft and ancient Bacchus ) were all thofe fables deuifed, of whith Diedorus complaynethin his fourth Booke and fifth Chapter. This firft Baschas (to wit) Neah,was furnamed Wy/iws,of the Mountaine Ny/4 in India , where the Grecia Bacchus never came,whatfoeuer themfelues faine ofhis enterprifes : and thefe Mout Aron fipnifiech properly the Arke of the Sendiuarie, but Thebet fach'a Veflell; as fwimmeth,and bearethit felfe vpon the Waters. Latthyjchis wirke ofWoah differed fromthe fafhion ofa fhip it this; that it hada Co. ver and Rosfe, with a ‘Creft in the mitdeft thereof; andthe aides declining like the Roofe of ai Houfe,to the end,bothto caft off the Waters;‘and that thereundet Woah hitnfelfandhis children tticht fhelcer,and feparatethemfelues ftom' the noyfommeffe cene.g: net ale ofthe 4rke. ofthe iahyBeafts,whichfilled the other roomesandpats 390 the Rabbine, Cedar; thé Seaenticfquare Timber;thdLatize{mooth Timber. Others wil Hate it Cy prés Trees} as dédicdtéd'té' the dead, becaufe Cyptes is worne at Funerals. Bist Crit SF doabt,ifthe word Gopherfignifie any{peciall kind of Timber, Woah obeyed the voyce of Godtherin.ifinot,he was nor then' curious as toiching the kindor na- ~"Furthermore,to the end that the memorie ofthis fecond. Parent ofMankindmight tuire ofthewood,hauitg the promile of God,andhis grace and metcie forhis defence: v.18, Forwith' Noah God promifedtoefablifh his contnant.: Plinie afirmeth, that in Egypr it Plitel.16,66400 was the-yie to build fhips 6f Cedar,which the wormes cate not;ahdhe auoweth,that he fawint Priea,in the'T emple ofApollo, Cedarbeanies, laid in thetime of the foundation his Name,with many Riuers & Mountaines; which oftentimes forgat that it was dont in his regard becaufe the many Names giuen him brought the fameconfufion to places. asto himfelfe, Notwithftanding all which,wefind the Citie ofNash vponthe bankes" ofthe red Seajand elfewhere: the Riuer ofNos in Thrace,which Strabocalleth Noam; ofthe Citté.and that they were ftilf found in his time,which was abont 1188-yeers after: promitherebyjthat this kind of wood was not fubieéto putiifying or mouldring ina very long time. Butin that it is eafie to cut, light to'carie, and of afweete fanour,lafting al{O better than‘anyother wood,& becaufe neere the place Where the Arkerefted, Ptolomie,Danus - dividing Iyria from Panonia,Thus muchfor the Name. pike 3 Se §. VILL thereat foiid'prear fore of thefe Cedartrees , as alfo in all the mountains ofthe Eaft, Offundry particulars touching the Arke: as the place where it was made, the matter, falbion, and name, Owin what part of the World Wouh built the Arke, it doth not appeate in the Scriptures neither doe I find any approued Author that hath written there!' Onely Goropius Becanus in his Jndo-Scythia conceiueth, that Noah built his 4™ neere the Mountains of Cawea/us,becaufe onthofe Hils are found the goodlieft Cedat* for wi 1en Alex. Macedon made the warre among a people, called Wee inhabiting rhe therfide of Caucafia,he found'all their Burials & Sepulchers wrought oner with Ced# thi Ofwhat Woodthe 4rke was builty it'is vnéefteing: The Aebyew word Gopher once and inthis‘place onelyvied, is diuerfly vnderftood': aad though the'matter bef little importance,yét this difference thereis; Thatthe Geveda Tranflation calls it Pine-tree ; the better be preferued,there were founded byhis Iffties manygreat Cities,whichbatt L itis very likely,that the Arke hadfun- arrinedswasfirtt called Larnaj/wsand by the change of (Z)into(P) Parnaffies bur Pan-scepb.devek: Saniathinkes that it tooke name of a Sonne ofthe Nymph 'Cleodorz,: called Partaffits, [olay the Intientor of C4aguration. Pencerws fades the word(Parna/fus tohaue no affinitiewith the Greeke, but thinkesit p, Ovaculfol, deriued:fromthe Hebrew word Nahaw,whichfignifieth "xgurationand Disivation: or 94. 29 fomHar or Parai,as in his Chapter of Oracles int he Leafe before cited. Jofephas calls the Arke Machbina,by the generall namé ofalhuge Frame; and Epiphan 1US Epiphin Ancor: out of the Hebrew, Arow:but he ne herein lyeththe difference betweene Aron and Theber, That eed whichthe Arke of 2V0zh refted after the Floud. oe Cydo 1 taines of W3/4 ioyne with thofe of Parepawi/as,and thofe other Externe Mountaines, 0 ae n opinion betri more probable,ifchat ancient Thiskind of Vefiell the Hebrewes Cai cal Thebet,and the Greekes Larnax,forfo theytermed Deucalions Ship :and fome fay,that the Hill Parnaffvs,towhichineight dayes hee Colins. Plinle, Stepb.deYrb. Rered.l.4. Strabo.l.7. great diftance fromthe place where it was firft by the Waters lifted vp:Thisisalfthe 72 4c dumplaninmsa fict bottom,and notrayfedin forme ofa Ship,withva fharpeneffe forward 7 to-cut the-waues,forthebetter t fpeed.a) Hewas alfo intituled Ce/wm and Sol,Heaucn andthe Swane, for his excellent knowledge Died. Siculus in Afttonomie: Vertwmnus Bacchus,and Liber Pater, not thatlatter, which to theirforand Alex. Aphrodifens fo call, becaufe he was the reftorer ofthe Greekes of the Hiftory of the World, Onely this: we are fure of, that the Arke was:built:in foine partof the Batterie World;& tomy vnderftanding;notfar from the place where-it -refted after the Floud, ied inthe Name ofbifrom fox his mercifulgoodnefle towards hint Vaeh wasalfo fignif before & after the Flond, both. times the beheld he ecaule Lanueb o (which was cinen't Arncont.Gent. Becaufe . he knew what wa : VS RNOBI A via preterit noucrit,cy futera profpexerit faith &b.6. perfon of /anus fhadowedby the in o wasalf He. ome. wastoc what for ed pafl,aned pronid Onid.de Fafis. lib, > laces ¢ To this p 1ace HICH BEFARM) Noah repaired,bothto feparatehimifelf fromthe reproba I Giines,who rebelledagainft God & Nature,as alfo becaufe he would not be inter? tedin uilding ofthe Arke; to which alfo he addeththe conyeniencie of Rivets" tran{port the Timber which he vfed,without troubling any other Carriages. One! 5° befides tHafE ofTibazde it is probable enough thatthe Arke might be of that wood: Whichhath;befides the other commodities,the gteateft length ofTimber,and therefore hereftto build hips withall. Pererias conceiueth,that thé ar ke had‘divers forts of Timber,& that the bottome hadof one fort,the decke & partition ofanother,all whichmay bethie or falfeifGopher maybe taketr for Timber in general. Tie itis that Cedat wil ferue for'all parts'oFa SHip,as wellforthe body,as for Mafts and Yards. Bat Naah had moft ref} idttreceiued from God: tothelength, btéadth,and height,and tot to fer that it misht D -andto pitchit, andto divideit ifto Cabines ¢ thereby 14 preferuetheir feuerall forts of food, Froin the viicleane,andté capable ofall kindoflining creaturesaccording to ‘the nuribers by God appointed: Al which when Avosh had garheréd together,‘hecaft his confidetice wholly on God; whd by his Angels ftected this Ship without a Ruddérand - e withoy - |