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Show The fir Booke of the first part' <u che Cuar.8.§ apa CHaPdeg.t Lt. of the Ediftorie ofthe World, Exfebins findethin the, Worlds age 2.14.0.For the:1,.6, Dysa/lia was begun butinthe 292 yecses afterthe Floud, as they account, andcontinued 190. yeeres, Thitdly, w hereas ‘Mercator-maketh cuery; Dyzafie to. endure 115 veers, Ea/ebins reckoneth many ofthem South, two Eoypes,wherdfthe neatheris bounded by A¢émphis onthe)ftvetch - Thebaide (called the vppet Egypt Aéers, " oyasraavaheaie Stob the North:and r ofthe eAithiopians ot blackborde the Syene, as far as South the echit elf roward d; which brothers had notany Allthe ret ofthe coatt ofafrica Weltward, Phat people Andin the farne manner did all theit other Nation'or Family that-dwelt between them. en,fort themfelucs. childr Weahs of reft {ins againe,and all the fons ofthe atlefle than..z09.yceres? forthe;28.had but fixeyeeres, the29,but 2ovandthe recline 18. yeeres- tisk, : and of the Egyptians Lunarity Ofthe time about which the nameof Egypt began to beknowne morefabulous; feeme yeeres,which made their antiquities her ancient name, andbePYHis fourifhing Kingdome poffett by Atizraim, changed {ome thinke)the fonneot Rameffes,as cgyptus(otherwife eae Egyptsas fich timeas Belus,chafed thence his elder-brother Dazaws,fhifting him intothat part of Greece now their propernames: called storea,by. whomthe Argixes were made Danaiabandoning coniewhich happened 877-yeeres after the Floud,inthetime of Jo/a, as St. Auguftinevvere fo Egyptsams the that appeareth it Ody/fes Homers. in But Gureth out ofEu/ebins. diuersocalled at the time ofthe Troian Warre. Andbefore this, Egypt was knowneby citeth in his fic ther names,as Oceana,Aris,Ofiriana,crc. And Manethon(whom Iofeplus confit booke againft 4ppéon)numbreth all the Kings ofEgypt after Mefes departure,who med 393-yeates. By vvhich other men coniecture, that the Egyptians tooke onthem &that name 330:yeares after Jefus,and about 1000. yeares after the Floud. But where Pa/foresot calleth alfo he Hye(os,which thofe be I/raelto taketh Sevbus inthe fame booke he calleth Shepherds, whichare faid to haue reigned in Egypt 521. yeares: whomalfo decelgrofly was he fure Lam this Jewes)in ofthe Anceftors the his Anceftors,(meaning ued,or that he vainly boafted: for the Wraelites had no fuch Dominion as Mantthonfai riolod fist . 20 former Opinion and Affertion, that it was in the.13.1. yeerethat Nimrodjyiththe fons ofNoah,came into the Valley of Shinaar: fo he forgetsthetime,whichiwas,confumedin the building of Babel: & that before the confufion of Speegh there was.no difperfion, norfar-off, plantation at all. Andthough hehaftily conueyed.Gower into Italy, and Txbalinto Spaine,in the tenth yeer of Naarods seigne :(which.was ten yeeres after hisarriualinto Babylonia)yet herein he ismore vnaduifed. Forhe makes Egypt poflett, & a gouernmenteftablifhed in the very firft yeere ofthe arriuall of Wéwred.into Shinaar,before all partition,or any expedition farre offor neer in queftion-: forfrom zhence(that iss from Babel) did the Lord[catter them vpon altthe carth. ToIPer Againft Pereritis': that it isnot valikely, but that Egypt wapedpled within'sb0.yeeres after "the Creation ; atlefi,that both it,and the most parts of the World were peopled before thes Flond. dtheir Dywafties(which Ex/ebiws doth not altogether deftroy,butleffen)I do not find Ofthe Egyptian Antiquities there are manyfancies in Trogus, Herodotus;Plato, Ditd. Sieulas,Melaand others.Forthey affirme(faith Pomp.ade/a)that there had reigned in E, gypt330.Kings before Amafis,who vvas contemporary with Cyrus and that they had? memory atid tory of 13¢00.yeares sand that the Stars had foure times changed thet courfejand the Sunne twice fet in the Haft. Thefe Riddles are alfo rife among the Athte anygreat ftrength inthis opinion ofPererivs; (to-wit) that it was either vnlikely orimpoflible that Egyptfhould bee peopled within 100. or 200. yecres after, Adam, in the 9 firft Age. Andwhereas he fuppofeth that it was not inhabitedat all before the general] Eloud, I doeverily beleeuethe contrary : and that not ohely ofEgypt, but the betrer part of all the World was then peopled: Pereriws his words are thele: Quomodo enimprim0s.mundi ducertos,vel etiam cent ums annos Adami proles aded miltiplicaré potuit, ut ad E- Lrptum u[G,babitandum c> complendumpropagatafit,ce. For how could the ehildren of A- tiawsand Arcadians, vino date affirme, that they are more ancient than Jupiter andthe Moone; vvhereof Oxia: dambefamultiplied in thefirft twehundred,or in thefirft hundredyeeres of the world, audfd propagated astainbabiteand fill Egypt ? for allowing this (faith Pererius) wee muft alfo confeffe,that there were then bothtlie A ffytians and other Nations. Nowyfecing thatthe Scriprures.are filent herein,andthatit is no point of our faning beleefesit is lawfull for euery manto be guidedin this andthe like queftions by the beft Antelouem genitum teryas habuiffeferuntur, Arcades Lunagens prior iafuits The-Arcadians the earth inhabited 6 chy §3 Vt whetas Pererius fecketh to oyerthrowthis Antiquity ofthe Egyptians touching neth,nor abodein Egypt fo.long atime by many yeares. Ere yetthe Moone did fhine,or lone'was bred. ; io Now -Anaiasin his Supplementof auethon affismeth, That.all thefe.1;5 .Dyyafties lax fted but r62,yeeres : and thatthe firft of the: 15, began but, inthe 131. yeereafter the floud : fo as where Mercator makes.allthe 15.to precede thé. floud, and the,.16. to haue beenetheninm being atthe time ofthe floud, dzareamakes themall afterit, But.the consotrariety offalthood cannotbe hidden, though difguifed. For Aggivs had forgotten his f! ~ But forthoferz000-yeares it may well betrue; feeingit is certaine that the Egy!" ansveckontheir yeares by Moneths,whichmakesafter that accountnot aboue 1000.0! 11a0.years,whether we take their Moneths or Lunary yeares to haue beene ofthe fish kinde of 27.dayes andeight houres,or otherwife 2. 9:dayes and twelue houres ; or ait any other ofthofe fiue diuerfities oftheir Lunary yeares. qo tcafon, circumftance,and likelihood , and herein,as in thereft, I proteft that I doe not gainfay. any mans opinionoutof anycroffing orcauilling humour: for I thinke it the part of euery Chriftian,rather to reconcile differences,whete there is pofltbility ofvni, on,than out offrowardfubtlery, andpréiudicate refoliedneffe, to maintaine factions needleffe,and dangerous contentions. x Firfttherefore,to this opinion,that Egypt was not plantedfo foone after adam , no, notatall before the Floud, I fay, that there is no reafon, why wee fhouldgiuea leffe increafe tothe fonnes of Adam, than tothe fonnes of Neah.For theirlength oflife, which exceeded thofe which cameafter the Floud double ; &(after a few yeeres) treble, is an infallible proofeof theirftrength andability,to beget many Children : & ag that time Of certainevaine 4ffertions ofthe Antiquity of the Egyptians. q * : * tf bal‘dus Mereatorin his Chrenalesy reafoneth forthe Egyptians Antiquity 19 this' bmanhér: That thefixteenth Dysa/ly (whereBufebing beginsto reckon ‘the Epp aus titnes had Beginningwith the eencrall Floudsand that therfore the frfeofthe % ct fiftecne reached the Creation,orfooneafterit. "To'which conie@ure of Mercator,PO Pius reiaketh this anfwers Thattheréin' Mercator was firtk decehied: becaufe he take for granted;that the beginning ofthe fixteenth Dywaffie vvas at once with the gener Floud:which Ex/ebiis maketh 292 .yeats afteisandin the time of Uabrabam. Second! Mercator maketh the beginning ofthe fhepherds Dyzaftia (being in number 17.) # oe time Oftheir firt King;Sai, to hauebeene inthe yeereof the Word: 8 45 i so they obferued no degrees ofkindred, nor confanguinity. And that there was'a {peedy increafe of people,andin great numbers,it mayin fomefort appeare bythis, that Cas, who (being fearefull that the death of Abe/ would hauebeene reuengedon him) withyard begotten, and dwelt in the Land. of drew himfelfe? fromthe reft,which we iffues built a City, (called Enoch) after the Noa, and{ there, by thehelpe of h ed that Nimrod cameinto the Valley o1" Shilowif it be 1 build the City and Towre of Babel : and n but 130.yeeres byBerofus,and after the account' of nonly vnderftood, by the birth of Arphax.ed, M ; Sela, |