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Show ee ee, (Cowarp BG The yirft Bookeof the firf part Cusr.B.§2. the purpofe of his Prophetic, teacheth what Nations they were, that fhoul: ailayle J/racl,Heioyneththem together vader their Prince Geg, and thewer habisations were on the North quarters of sade, and how fe ated and ioyned Gog fignificthin the Hebrew faith Saint Hiereme ) tei tumor couering of a hou/e tuswpon Exechrelafirmeth that by Gez is meant Avticbrifl for fim evit Diaboli tegumentam (ubff ecic humana: That INE (faith hee) jnoldtimes- comming onftioftlioNorthvecat walted'the better part of4fiathe lefic an poflet Cele/preaswiicre they baile both Seythopolteand Hierapolé which the Syrians call Mogg: AndthavrotitisiAd ages Bedchiri-had refevencey itis very plaine :forthis Citic Hierapalisot Adaghg frandeth dut Norly fromv/ndea; according tothe words oF Fer Anerchrif.. Antichri ht (hall be the cones eo of chia), clianfromitHeavonth: quarters tholé Navions fhould come.!s Fot asthe Kings of the South whichani¢hedithe 1/tathitesw 16) Prolomies; Kingsio€ Ezyph: {6 'tholeoF th North were theltingsiof laf Denilvnder bumane forme Headdeth,that Atageg is as much to fay as Ge (Adbeing an Hebrew Prepolition,and importeth as much as ¢f or from Adacogforthofe people whichfollowAntichrilf, So farre Pints agrecth this obfeniationof Berealdns, Magog (faith he )in Hebrew j tic had the Witleof Sactied,asitheS was ital place ofimott sterefbed Idolatrysdnd but forian Emphafis(which the Hebrewes call Heliaiedia jis never add of men,but often to place. Soas Gog was Princeof that Nation (ealled cither Maver, or,according to others,the people ofGag ) alfo Prince of asefbech, (or Wofech) ndo f the Succeffours ofSelewcus Nicanor, who'did not ( as other ¢ ‘ tomakethe dewes their Tributaries only,but endeuouredbyall meanes of violence to extinguiththe Religionit felfe ( which the Hebrespes pr knowledging of onctrue God: and to force themto worfl ipan rotten gods of the Heathen; of which nothing remaynedbur tl Images.Saint Ambrofe and Iftdoretake Gog forthe Nation oft ke bec they inuaded Europe, and facked Rome, and manyother places andCities thereat Hermolaus Barbarus out of Pomp.Mela deriues the Twrkes from the Scythian , cftect Héisrapoliswas the Citieo! kasT-conceiue:)fafely canichide;t 2 6 Nostherne Nations in refpedt o babies ofSparnebucapedple o Swid.col,207. inninExec, 38, | blowwe1s and Wx ; C Gomerta 3 5 Wee may hi Were sor the Ts dnd Gdlefyrias if Jofephwemakes mention ofthe Werijfaying, that thtyrweve!ancientlycalled Phebeloxs! sfrom Whence (faith Zuftine)they paffedSto Spaimerefearch out the Adines of Hat Regiog hauing, beikewnderftood hacdnwas ai Southerlii Gountrie ahd: Mountai-+ Rous For st feemephthat the Kubalives called Chatpoe? lined-altogesher by theexchange ofiromyand other Metals,as Apstonies Witnieffcriin thefe following V erfes,telling how phiudigadantes: did vilit them, 1 ( Heo genstelluremirigido uty vertit aratno; Sedferri venus feindit[ubjmontibusvaltis: Mencibas hecimutct; qhervite cliente minifiragt20 40 The Calybes plough nottheir batten foyle But:vnderminehigh Hils for Iton Weines¢ Changing the purchafe' oftheir endieffe toyle For Marchandize,whichtheimpoorelliues {yftaines, Bot itismote probable,that spaéne was frftipeopled bythe #fricasswho hadeuer firice anaffectionito returne thither, 8c toi repeople it anewe This appeared by the Carthagiv uigas. ofoldswho were eafily drawacito!paffé ouer the Streights into that/Countrey 5 and after by the Addores whocheld Grawados and; the Southparts cighthundred yeeres; till the time of Ferdinand anid /fabelo And either ofthefe opinions: are more probable, fe) than thatiin the twelfth yeere ofWimrads Reigne; Tubal paltjinto Spaizey anditherein ilt Saint /ual:a poore'Lownesanda poote deuige; God knowes: Certaine:it isthat t finde Mofoch or Me/éch,and Tabal Neighbours, and Gomer and Togarmeenot éfhallwrong Ezechiel : for he called Goz the Leaderor Prince of ies fechand Tubaland maketh Gomer and Togarma their Affiftants,. And that Mefech inha- bi Stythians . notwithftanding that in 1 this place, pea aie is ie the Princ e of Magog, the Nations of Chlefptia and the Nott Ho fis etn a ber: by sese a: for by Afia; Pun cits (though he followed Bero/) confeffeth, for thefe bee his words © veys, gu 2>MosE "Mase, prices Mefios ab Adule monte. Uff, aa Ponticans Mepionen pofuit' hit vegio poftea Cappadocia ditt 6; d2 qua vrbs Mazica, Oe: hae oft alatter Plantation from thefe po propagated into Scythia, Yerit is not to be denyed, that the Sapthiet Ua! his bands6f the NS go 38 ofFH ng , Celefyria habet Baw bycen,que ali nomine Hierapolis vocat ar, Syris vero Mazoo.Cele/pria hath init Bambytt, which by another name iscalled Hierap g Worfhippedtheldalliof the itt the Greeks. sail Dezcero. rfwofthe shoe ] tothe Countries netre theiGuxingSeasand from theacein afteriAgésinte Spaine': Crees Thefe Opinions doe alfo feeme toftre ngthen alesbut ofthe Syrians Magog. Hee farthertelleth ¥ that the monftrous Idoll Atergatis,‘cal led by the Greekes Dereeto,was here worfhippedRe peaaying that the Citie had ancientl y another name,whic! ott eet ; forbearing perhaps the word M. 4g0¢, as founding nothing clegently1N the Greeke. But if we may beleene Strabo the: N was Ede//s in Mefopot amit the fame Bambyceor Hierapolis;where the fame Idol w as worfhipped. Ortelius is doubtful : whether one ofthefe Authors did not miftake I éa.Je may wellenough beethat thef the place of this Bambyce ox Hierspty ame name and Religion was commonto them both, Certaine it is, that both of then lay due North from Pa aftina, and welt both fubieét vito the Kings of the Race of Seleweus. Now I doe not condemne tht Opitiion Of Hermolaus Barb aras follow} alt a bigs Bint Eos Jofephus , but gtant,that perhaps4% pe bee : oe ae of the 4 ng ia begintitad,charin procefleoftimeithele people might frdmtheirtizt habitation) pafle but the differences not great. A¢arius Nicer maket h mention of this 67ges King of Lydia: who after hee had fubdued the Countrey about the Riuer Rhodias which runneth into the HeWefpent called the Promo ntorie 774/ ¢fe after his owne name that of Jumius. For Atacoo, {aith ae cae which Halyattes obtain ed , andafter him his Sonne peti " ae ‘anius furt ler Notes) haning maftre d all thofe Regions as farreSouth s Liba ms eG pean built the Citie Gizart e or Goskarta (which in the Syrian fignifieth eae the Citie of Gog ) feated in Cele/jr e/jria, iz, whole #4,who le People peoplepeople were weret we the he ancien ietitt Enemies Enemie ies s! off0!# Now that Mages is found in Calefvia, Plinie affirmcth, fayi A where: stharrhe onarétobere= jeGed. Butitvafephes veferre himafelferof e thatfome Coloiof the Tadatives might fronivberia and Aipapat eh ftenichar Ipie between' Caleb(orddengrelia.ands Mbania;(mot pat pofert bythe: s )then ighisiddgemerit of betterallowance:For!withouwany repu ié ofor nsyitmay Pinions of Berofis, toféphexjand ion: Se ae : \ Which Lake strabo findeth in Lydia, (of which Gyges was King) fortie Furlongs from serdi calleth it Gygenm flaghum. Herodotus and Nicand er {er it about the Riners of Hyllus, Adeninder Magog iwhomalto, Baechieheonpléth'Go others fora Nation inhabiting a Region, as /wnius,who fayes that Geg is the name of Nation,denominated from him whomthe Greekes Stories call Gyees: who in time hauing flaine Candaales the Lydian, gaue his owne nanie tothar Nation. t after called Gygades: and thereofalfo the Gygeam Lake; PoRfo.che word Hirnapelis ignifieth)y Mermdydeisttergdte,ouvirgitisaiccordin lfsheaiwe conferrethe words ofédiaicti rerywherein he oymerhrogether@e Tabal: as bythe firk Verfe of the 29. Chapter is made manifeft : Beheld 1 come acainh thee Go the chiefe Prince of Mrsuecu a¥d TyBAL. This muft necdes bee meant by Strab.l.13. efloutsof; Se/encws, the Sie deficuiy bis Raiatakes ionot dely tohauebeetie called Bypbyte,pad o/h? wehauedtaid, butalforide/f2 snot by Réphvates; t anovhér ofthefamenamenow theknewhnameiswideppoitorfowedlazia: expoundsthis Hitydpolisjorasdgors This CB ez, which fheweth Atagep tobe aR egion or Nation: for the Lette: Magopians ofGog. Manytake Gog for the proper name of aMan: others of y nlichaus Tytied vhinkesthatichis Hierapolhis that Rapes, tients | mifle,that he expoundeth Mapoz not for any one perfon, but fora N List Fide, ofthe Hi/Pory ofthe Worlds ter7d MEA GOG prinsipalis! Mesa V3) whom MOskS tableth Mésé CH, placed the ancient . ®' ; Mefians |