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Show i aieniaissemmrnnemnaneastenirerial Thefirft Booke ofthe firft part Yab6y.8. Cuar.8,§) rads Reignesshall the Earth.be broughtforth in one day, orfhall a Nation be borne at once? Butit may be obiedted,That the Sonnes,of Zapherk might come by Sea sand fofaue this great trauailethrough Defarts by Land, But we nenerreade of any Nauigation in thofe days, norlong atter.Surely he that knowetii whatit isto-imbarke fo great.a. people as ye may iuftly fuppofe thofe Conductors catryed with them, will not eafily belecue that there wereany Veflels:inthofe dayesto tran{port Armies,and (witha Utheir Cat. tell ,by whofe Milke they liued and fed their Children ; For Milke and Fi uitiwerethe banquetting Difhes of our Fore-Fathers, Andin the éldeft times,euen theK ings and Fathers of Nations valued themfelues bythe, Heards and numbers. of their Cattell: who had Flockes.of Sheepesanid.great Droues and Heards oftheir own,and their ownlt Sheep-heardsiand Heardimen.Nowif Taba/ had paftrby Sea from any partiof Pale. ftina,Syriasox Cilicia, he might hauemade good choicewithin the Streights, and not haue ouer,gone.Gravado,alentia; and other Prouinces in that T ract : paft.the Streights ofGibralter, difdayned.all -Andalufiaand Portagal; with all thofe goodly Ports and Countties ; and.haue fought outthe yron,woody, andbarren Countrey of the World (called Bifcap) byalong anddangerons Nauigation.But before the iourney of the argongutathere were {carce any V.ellels that durft croffe the Seas in that partof the world: Cased. §i4, And althongh it.cannot be denyed,when Nosh by Gods infpiration was inftruéted in fomany, particulars concerning the-4rke,thar then many: things concerning Nauigationwerefirft reuealed,yet it appeares that there was muchadiffcrence betweenthe Arke ofNeah,and fach Ships as, were for.any long Nauigation. «Yea; ‘ancient Stories thew, thar.it was long,afterthefe timesyereany durftiprefume: vpomany long Voyagesty Sea, at leaft with multitudes of Women,and Childien,and Cattell sas.alfo commonreafon can tell.ys,that euen now whenthis: Artis core tol: hen perfection, fach Voyages ate very troublefome and dangerous.So asit doth appeare, tharthere was notin that Age of Mimredany Ship,or vic of Shipsfit forany long Natigation: Forif. Gomer 8 Tabal rohadpafled themfelnes,and.their people by Sea;the exercilé. of Navigation would! itor hanebeene dead for fo many hundredyeares after. Leauingtherefore the fabulous to their Fables,andall memelfe to their fancies; who hauecaft Nationsinto ‘Countries far off,I know not how,I will follow: herein the Relationof Mofes and the Piophets sto which Truth thereis ioyned both Naturé,Reafon, Bolicie, and Neceffitie :andto: the reft,neither probabilitie, nor pofitbilitie. and yet thatwhich Jaen had(ifthe Tale be true)was but a Galley,&a poore one( God §. DEA: Of Goo aed MAGOG) TVBAL, and Meswecn, feted firft about Afia the leffe; ont of EzecH1EL {Ca P.48. 395 knowes)andperchance fuch.as they vfethis:day in Jreland : which althoughit carryed Diedsicull4. but foure and fiftiePaffengers, yet it was farre greater-than any of the formertimes:1) CHfolitss Fras enim antes paruarum nanicularum vfive:For ixformes times they vfed veryfmaltTeffels, I denynotbut thatthe Tyria#s gaue themfeluesof oldto farre-off N auigations,whence Tibaltes afcribed the inuention-of Ships vnto them : Tibull Bleg,7. Srrabed..6. Prima ratem ventis credere dotia Tyres. Tyres knew fit{t how Ships mightvfethe Wind. viedsiewtts. And for thofe Boates called Jonge maues or Gallies,Pdiny faith that eAgefias afcribeth the Plinqes6 Thyeyd. Aeuice to Paralus:and Phileflephanu to Jalon: Ctefias to Samyras, and Saphanus to Semtamis: Archimachusto v£geon to which inuention the Eryzhrei are {aid tohaue addeds* certaine numbers of Oares.; and then Aminoclestheco) inthian to haue increafed them: the Carthayinians afterwards to haue brought them to foure Bankes: the Laing, Rem firft to hauebeene vfe by Nefichthon the Salaminian, with which Veltels in thofe parts ofthe World,the Romans ferued themfelues: in the Puxicke Warre. But thefe bee pet hapsbut the partialities of. Writers,or their ignorance. For therearethat as conftantly caft the deuiling of thefe Gallies on Sefofirés,though Plintgese. Ofher Armic ouer Indus in Abrahams time. Soitis Semiramis vfedthem in the paflage faid,.that Danaus was the firtt that ° } . ae Ewfebde prep, broughta Ship . into Greece:and yet the Samothracians e . 7 Euang.c.tchallenge the inuention ; rs eee i \ Ywtdle Cori Tertalian(onthe 2 ; and yet contrarie)giues it mil to Atinersa: others to Neptune Thucydid es to the Corinthians. And foignorantwerethe people ofthofe Ages, asthe Egyptians vied 0H " the Shar coaft 4 the Shores of the Red. Sea vponraffes, deuifed : : by King Erythrus:3}. and in the time ofthe Romans.the Brittans had aki ndof Boat (with which they croft the Seas ) made of fm ll twigs,and couered ouer with Leather: of Which kind I haue Dingle in Irel feene at the relan and.and elfewhete, Na WES exco riocircumfute in Oceano Brit Texter : of which Lucan the Poet annico (faith) : Primiim cana[alix,madefatto Texitur in Pappim cafag, Vetiorts patiens tumidu Vimine, par uans mfaperenatat anh CH, Sie P cnctus aguante Pado .fufog, Britannus The moyftned Ofyerofth e hoarie Willow dag _ into a litt le Boat : Then cloth'din Bullockes Hide. y Of i a proud Riuer, lightly dot h it i ee Vaderthe Waterman : So on the Lakes ofouer -fwe lling Por Sailes the Vewetian san d Owalthough many Learned and Reuerend menhane formed (T know. not Notte: ledja Plantation ofthe World,which alfohath been and.is receiued: yet I hopeI may be excufed, if I differ altogetherfrom them in many particu lars, Certainly,that great Learned man of this latter Age, Arjas Mowntanss was alfo in fome things much.miftaken.: and for 9fephusyas hee hath many. goodthings, andis.2 Guide to manyerrours withall,fo was hee in this Plantation of the W orld very grofle andfabulous;whereby both Ea/cbius, Hier ofolymitanus, Epiphanius, @nd.others, chat haue taken his teftimonies for currant,haue beenebyhun farre mifle-tedBut the bet ter 30 to.conceiue what Regions ofthe World Gomerthe firftfonne of Japhet polleft, as alfo Tubal,it is needefull to begin with Magog: becaufe the Scriptures take moftknowledge ofGog and Magog:which two names haue troubled many Commentators, faith Matth., Beroaldus,whohath laboured herein with great diligence,and whom (ofall that euer I read)I find moft iudicious in the examination of this Plantation. He etakes authoritie from the Prophet Ezechielchiefly, who inthe 38.and 39.Chapters di recteth vs, what Nations the Gomerians,Tabalines, and Togormians Were, tog theMagogéans: of which Geg was Prince or Chiefe Conduétor in their Atte aint /rael, For-befides the portions of Europe, andthe. Northi-eaft parts of the greater Afia, which Jar pheths flues poffeftall Affa the leffe was peopled by them. Andth hofe of the Iffue 4° 0f lapheth ( whomE<echiel {peakcs of) werefeated h eabout,it may beft appeare, if weconfid the circumftances ofthe place,and the dependenc i¢ vpon the former Pros phefie in the 37.Chapter.For in that 37-Chapter, Exechiel propheficth of the voitin S 0.37.0. ofthe two Kingdomesof//rae/ and luda,after. their delinerie from captiuitic, By which Prophe fie of Exechzel,it appeareth, that Gi »d purp fed to gather together his people,to giue lifeto dead bones, andtorul :them by onePrince, For to that pur Pole itis wr itten * And Davip 9 Seruant ball bee K tg oner inte, and the 9[ball hawe One tnduta inuenco, N ahigat Oceano, of the Hiftorieof the World, Onth' out-fpred Ocean,the Brittaine{o Sheepheard,( that is they fhal! be vnited as they werein Dawidstime. Hereupon in the 38.Chapter Ezechie/ prophefieth againtt thofe Nations,w h fhould feeketo impeach irpofedto receiue this Vnion,anddifturbethe people of Ufracl,whom God purp ; to grace, so and promifed to reftore. And {9 in the fame Chapter ar th i Nations¢ oupled FOB: her, whichinfefted the #/rac/ites after thei: returne, andfought to hibiecs them: all h were the Subiedts or Allies of Gag,Prince ofthe M, 42$,0% Cale/yr fams, Next 7a,orthe holy 1, followed alfo byth of the Nations of Affa y North fro! dca. The wordsof Exechielare thefe : Sonne of man, pe 7? oe iy an d eB thy face againfi G ,(or MMosoc cee Al m4 1 VBAL: ag 4171 fit baa t : 4 ‘ ave Macoa, the chiefe te Princes of Mesecy ©3* the le chiefe: Prince of : a, 41 come again? Y f L: an d in : ECH 474i IVBAL: in the OMER and all his Bands, and the IM the ixth A verie; c 4 : Daas ; pantig. ng firft tek deli ? het cechjbesd delucre ice el hauin 2MaA Hosfe offT TOGORM of thethe Nort 1 Ezechiel A Of h ¢g h g quarters. g :d in > |