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Show rex F ; Cuar.g.$15: 13.) ofthe Hiflory of the World, Char8. S.i5..3' T he firkt Booke ofthe first part of Sedan Holam,one oftheir Chronicles)afir mthat Vz or Hus, Tea a Hal, of Phaleg;and Phalegwas borne inthe yeare after the % = ia ‘ , ; ate x Mefch or. Mes. ‘ rt ‘ : tay AL AWN . : o this opinion ofthe zzez brewes,and the doubt the y make howinfo few yeares as ror. (thetime ofPhalegs birth ) fo manyp J eople k could be increafed. 3 Pererius 8giues this anfwer, That if 70, perfons ofthe > 79.p Famil Spe Fox: OF Huphntinbited about Dame/ens',"and built thatCity; faieh ae"9a siege oftaeus miftaking this opinion.borh in thieni and i Lpraj,whio a tor t aa ‘ent withar "MvabasisSuctaed Eliezer Wasthe Founder therea ht ae : a ce theéldentin Aras elwelt li heart neare vite likely tharHw deftfon vfofAram vito: hisfathet, tswho inhabited n webody afiris For Hi wasa Region ofthe fitresatiayhing to atY eb 10 Hiren.Lim tO 'Badabea Or Tratonitsss whereoftheProphet Hieremy : cea= > ateee Be pe See a 34 ceoewes andthe Mont ae fa I t 0,an di lrday wett ihatiing init taiheroleAa Serr to the Eaft;Edraito the South; Damafews North, aan Ne iti : g (fo be gathered out bf Mieremy And all fores ofpel or auDioheiapeafwheLeneofMasNh thisR egion dwelt 10),defended of He) : h ah of Nabor.the brother of Abraham (faith S.Hitrome)and married Diwathe'Daug itera fs ith: Phile.: fon ° of _4ram,S.Hierome makes the : ; Father ofthe en! ae ther thethird fon,parentto the Acarmanians OF Garians which a y ofJacob increafed to 600000. fighting menin 215 y, and fill the earth ? What ftrength this anfwer hath, let others iudge: forthe children of J/rae/ were 79. and had 215.years time: andthe fons of wozh were but three,andhad but ror.years oftime,to the birth of Phaleg. Others conceiuethat Phaleg tooke that name aftcrt tegs death (which hapnedin the yeare, which is commo - 20 diuvifion (as this diuifion is placed by the Hebrewes, Hierome and Chrifoftome) then was the earth fo peopled inall i the Eaft and Northerne parts, asgreater numbers haue not beene found at any time fince. For Niaus affociating to himfelfe Ariens King ofArabia, a people who atthatturhe (faith Diod.Siculus) Plurineum ccedea both in riches andbodies of men, fubdued manyC opibus atd, armis preitabant, Ex. ities in Armenia 3 receiued Barza: 2 #is into grace; then inuaded Media, and crucif ied Pharnu aeith wep founded the Baé#rians : but Jofepbusgaue all Noahs childrea pe Wifeand feuen Children, vanquifhedall thofe Regio s thé King thereof, with his Fepptians, Phenicians, the Kingdoms ofSyria,andall ns between welus atid Tanau,the the Nations of Perfia, to the Hyr eamtan Sea. Forthe numbers which followed Niwas (alrea dy remembred outofCrejias) thers,to carry. themfar awayin all hafte:Por mine own opinion,! alwaies oe fr of Neighbourhood, and thinke with Janius (to wit) That Gether feated himfe sn his brothers, inthe body of Sjrza, and in the Prouince ofCa/stobis,and Seleucts, wh Pholomy placcth Gindarusand the Nation by Pliny called Gindarent. ‘°°. Saal tunis al{o gineth to Mes ot Adefch the North part of Sjria, Betweene Céliciaan Sa " Sopot amia, neare the Mountaine Mafias.Thecertainty ofthofe Plantations can g69 ee wife be knownethanbythis probability, that Ayam tHe fathet (of whom thatgt - j gion took name)planted his fons in the fame, Land ‘about him : for he wanted i a ofTerritory for himfelfe and them; neither then when the Worldwas newly plan Ms nor in many hundred yearesafter : and therefore theré iso reafon to caft them in iy efait parts‘ofthe World,fo far afiinder. And as neceflity and policy held them ei ther for a while : fo Ambition (which began together with Angels and Men)ihabitte the hearts oftheit children,fet them afunder. Foralthough thefefons of Aram,andt i fons ofthe reft of woabs children,kept themfelues within the bouaus of {ome one oe ; Kingdome;yet therein euery onealfo fought a Prouincé apart,& to themfeltes; aes BH tothe Cities therein built their own names,therebyto leaue thei¢ memory to theit £0 fkerity: the vit of Letters being thenrare,and knowneto few. i SOee TOETI: " ~ Of the disifiom ofthe Earth in the time of Phaleg, one ofthe fownes of Heber, of#h iy . 26f Sem. he "P& manypeople whichat the diuifion (at Phalegs birth) through Plantation of aflthe Eaft partofthe World were then liuing, and 4 (at his death) Hath mace hee doubt, whether the Earth Rie poser say OW were dinided at eyther.. The Hebrémes (faith Pererivs 70 there were not then fufficient numbers borne to fillthe earth : It was neuer meant ftant, but bytimes and degrees. And furely whatfoeuer mens opinions haue beeneheerein y Yet it is certaine , that the diuifion of tongties and that the earthcouldbe filled euery whereat the veryin of men muft goe neere together with thecea fing of the 4° workeat Babel: and that the enterprizeofBabel was left off inftantly vpon the confufion of Languages , where followedthe execution of thediu ifion; and fo neyther at the birth nor death of Phaleg :for Phaleg was borne in the yeare ror. afterthe Floud, Berofas. Nowif it be obictedthat Phalegtthe Etymo logie of whofe name fignifieth diuifion) mutt haue lived without a ame, except the name had beene giuen him ar thetime of this confufion and pattition : to this obiectionit maybeanfwe them out of all the reft, ; 7 al Mes the fourth fon is made theparent ofthe Aconians: df whom Yomiethiig hath : {poken already. Arphaxad the third fon ofShem begat Shelab. and Heber. ‘Heber hadtW ons,Phaleg and /ocian sand in Phalegs tinae was the Earth diuided. againft Zorea/ter and others sand Zoroafler on the 3° 400000.proueit fufficiently, tharifthediuifion btherfide, who madé refiftance with hadnot happened before the death of Phaleg,there had neededno diuifionat that time at all. tisfied with their partitions,as they fought to be mafter For fome ofthem werefo ill {athere neuer gathered than by Ninus and Semiramis: s ofalliand greater Armies weré wherefore inthis opitiion there ig little appearance ofthe truth. But for that conceit that if the diuifion had beene madea t the birth of Phaleg, which wasthe yearethat Nimrod came into Shisaar, orten years after he atriue d, faith Ta this fort did the pride ofthe spawiards in' America' caft them into fo many Aisi Ces : curly one emulating and difdaining the greatneffe of other,as they are thereby v this day fubieé to inuafion,expulfion,and deftruction : fo as(7vowe Hifpania and Pers a cepted, becaufe thofe Countries are ynacceffible to Stratigéts)'an eafie force will ¢ Chap.8,$.7. lofeph.t, i. Ante de Ciit, hams, but was by morelikely computation 12 yeares nly heldto be the 48.0f Abra- Dei l16.6,11, before his birth) then wasthe divifion 38. years after Nixus, who gouerned§2.years : in the 43.yeare of whofe reigne Abraham was borne. But when Ninus began to rule the C4fjrians, 8o.years before this Per.in Gea.lib; giues Hal (whom he writes Chul) the Defart of Palmyrena,as tax as Enphrates,wher ‘ .years, (befides women,children, and impotent perfons)howmuch morei s it likely, that fo fooneaftet the Floud the children of Noah mightina thorter time bring forth many multitudes 3 hauing rezo ceiuedthe blefling of God, tne cafe and multipl he diuifion, in memorythereof: as lofephusand Saint Augufliae,whoreafon in this manner. Ifthe dinifion were at Pha not Where to fet him) I do notdifproue,though I feeno reafon'why? Géerher oo: ua; the fellowthip of his owne brethren,anddwell among Sivatigers in: Afiathe ef. a th the City ofChoke. Floud 161. and lined in‘all 2 39% yeares, which numbersadded makes 340. And. there the Floud, ere the children ofNosh feuered themfelue s.fore was it fo many yeares after Butt fils he Soanes-of Aram were; \Gether,and enibnass el this partition happenedat the death red, That the change of names vpon diuers accidents is nottarein the Scriptures: forlacob was called Ufrael after 6 he had wreftled with the Angel ; Abraham wasfir ft Abram sand Edom Efaw and that 5° Phaleg beinga principal! manin this diuifion hadhis firft name vponthisaccident changed,it is moft probable. _ Andlaftly , whereas the Hebremes , Saint Hicrome and Chryfoflome account Heber a : great Prophet, if that bygiuing his fonnethe name of Phaleg , hee fore-toldthe Hion whict followed: tothis I fay ok doenot finde that Heber deferued any fuch Omour, ifhee had theren pon focalledhis fonne: fordiuifion anddifperfion followincreafe ofpeople of neceffity . and this Prophe fie (if anyfuch had beene) might 1c reference to the diuifion, which afterwards fell amongft the Heprewes them- Nz But 1§ 6.10, |