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Show ‘Thefecond Bookeofthefirs part a ras e CHarag.2. CraP.3.§.2. thefer make 71.with ith which whic there sre we were vvaftedthree taineis ftill found, called /efus welwhole ftreames doe afterwar d wakes th ¢GAC OE Balfamum, no whereelfe foundin Egypt. And hereof fee more in Brochard, in his de{cription ofEgypt. of Afcatades who out ofthe reieneOno . rah i ents r oy Cec $5o0.years : ten Fenton, tak yi eal yeares of Cecrops Beg Oey Coa addedtoyx make 8o.at which age Mofes left ; 60.a' dee { hn .make fucceffour,thofe nine yeares added to- 71haeraread Sparctus fucceffour,thofe was vas Sparetus Yas and adde thefe nine -yéares to thethnee yeares of Ger ops fc ogee a ; a Theré is alfo the City ofNoph,remembred byEfa yand Ezekiel, the fame which Ho! r/i19.15: fea the Prophet calleth Moph : which latter nate it tooke froma Mountaine adioyning, £7 focalled ; which Mountaine Herodotw remembreth. Andthis is that great City, whi was called Afemphis sand fo the Septuagint writeit . It isknowne to the Arabians by the name of Afazar.The Chaldeans name it Alchabyr', and T:udalenfis Mizraim. Pelufiima,which will semaine but foure yearesOf Cecrops his 50: and foit Falleth right wit a ; use fin words.s affirming thar towards the end of Geereps his time; ato/es led the people of //rat Ing. outNowthetimeia of Egypt. imet which 2 ese aehy ohana hadPe he!be dae i the Hebrewes wereoRprct q in 5 meth to hone haue,had fe ya Feypt, ig i : é re, ginning fomeeight ornine yearsif beforert the birth of Jf Lofes, &c 54+)«ycare, eae a 'after Tofeph :betweene vvhofeidéeath andthe birth of Mol, there were ¢ yedtes: fome of yvhichtime,and 8o.yeares afters they lied in great fernituc xr ur fery! Fotas it isyvritten in Exodus: They fet tusk e-maflers ower thems ; 7 Hee t om a" der with burdens sand they built the CitiesyPithomsand Ramafes, oo, And by ef ne ? '? caafedthe children: ofIfrael to ferne ;and made them weary of their tines, by fore - "1h clayaud bricke, and in all worke ofthefield,with allmannerofbondage. Al} vvhic . aid vR on them by a-maftering powerandftrong hand, they enduredto eri ys t i‘ w: t j 4 6 of Jdotne'ofc Godappointed : euch from 5 4:yeares,or not much moreafteroy the death 2370. fepb,who leftthe World wherfit hadlafted 2370.yeares, to the eightieth yeare of 40‘fessand mifacles in the field of Zeam, vvhich he performedinthe : vntill he vwroughthis eat ? ‘di 2514, ‘Wotldsage2s14.towardsthe end thereof,accord ing to Codoman,mor or aafter our account,' 2513) And becanfe thofe things which we deliuet of Egypt, maythe better bec sai 20 fioodst thinkeit neceflary to [peak aféw words ofthe principall places therein named, in this difcourfe. Vatablus, Pagnin, Juniusand our Englifh write Sia; the Sept agint call 1O'Ssissand AMontanns, Lebaa ; is notthe fame with Damyata, as Gal. Tyrivs Vvitnefleth, In the'time of Baldwin the third, Pelufium vvas called Belbcis . Belbeis (faith Tyrivsjue olim ditta eff Pelufium; Belbeis thet in times paft was callea Pelufinn, ~The City of No,‘the Septuagintcall Diofpol is. Of which name there are twoor three r2¢.30.19.16; in Egypt. Hécrome conuerts it Alexandria, by anticip ation, becaufe it was fo called inthe future, ore (for fo Hieromeand Zeigler doe writeit) isthe fame which the Hebrewesca lf Exech Pibefeth. Tomake the ftory the moreperceiucable, Thaue added a defcription of the land of Gofew,in whichthe i/faelites inhabited vwith thofe Citics andplaces fo often remem2°bredintl Scripture = as of Tach c3 » Heliapolis OL Beth/fermes, Balferho. , SMCCOER. and theteft'; together with Mofes paflagethrough the Defartsof Arabia the &; all ftory without the Knowledge ofthe place s yvhereinthe a@ions were performed, as ie wanteth a great pattdfthe pleafiire,fo it no wayenricheththe knowledoc "r ftanding of the Reade? neither doth any thing {crue memories, fo well 4s thefe pidtures and defcriptio to retaine, what wee re- de, inour ns doe. In which re pect Tamdriven, to digtefle in'manyplacesjand'to interpofe fomef uch difcourfe, otherwife feeming impertines®: taking for nyauthority, after many others more ancient, that great learned Man, Arias Montanus svvho inhis Prefa ce §.11. Sir Ofdiners Cities and places in Ezypt , mentioned in this Story , or elfewhere ix the Scrip tere. + = His City vvhichthe Hebrewes call) Zoam,was built feuen yeares after Hebron, E aechiel-calleth it Taphnes 3and fo-doth Hicremy;the Septuagint, Tans 5 daliphe, Protaiais after the name ofan Ezyptien Queene ; Antonius giuesit the name lommy, Onium: There are two Cities of that name ; the oneonthe frontier of the lower Egypt, towardsthe South; the other fomewhat lower onthe Eafter-moft branch of Nr lus falling intothe Sea at Pelufiam. Andit may be that Heliopolis tothe South of the tie uer Tratazvvas the fame which Vatablus & our Exglifh call Agen. Of the latterit isthat the Scriptures take certaine knowledge ; the fame,which Pomp. Melajand Pliny call Soli oppidam Tyrins in the Holy warre., Malbee;the Arabians, Bahalbeth and SimeonSth bi, Fons Solis. Of this Heliopolis, or On, was Putiphar Prieft, or Prince, vvhofe daughter / Jeph married. Inthe Territory adioyning Zacob inhabited, while hee lined in Fyyp* In the confines ofthis City, Onias, the high Prieft ofthe lewes, builta Temple, dedicated tothe eternall God; not muchinferiour to that of Hierufalem (Prolomy Philopater theo gouerning in Egypt) vvhich ftoodinthetime of Vefpafian, 333.yearesafter the founds tion by Oxia,whomlofephus falfly reporteth herein to haue fulfilleda prophecy of E+ Saying, le dieilla crit Altare Dominiin medioterreAigyptis In that day [hall the the Lord bee in the middeft of the Land ofEgypt. Antiochus Epiphanes at that timeAIsat of oe building tyrannizing ouerthe Jewes,eaue the océafion for the ereéting ofthis Temples Egopts Laftly,: there it was that our Christ Iefas remained , while ofeh, 6 the'Vitgin Mary feared the violence ofSaviour Herod; negre which (faith Brochard) the pe to the Storyofthe Holy Land, hath thefe locorumobfernatioxe ves geste narventur, alt [ine Topezraphie coz @ at, Derturbata cravat ombiz , vtex qs nibil pon obfis- vvord 3° nition yuu, nibil nor diffeile lie? posit ; Ifnar of} Thanis ; Hegefippus,Thamna; and wikiam Tyrias, Tapias. \tadioyneth to the land of Gor fea; andis the fame, wherein Hieremy the Prophet was {tonedto death, for preaching + gainft the Zerptian'and Jewifh Idolatry, a Zoan or Taphnes was in Mofestime the Metropolis ofthe lower Egypt , in yvhichthett Pharaohs thencommonly refided ; & not vnlikely to be the fame City,vvhere Abraham in histime found-him, But Eafebius out ofArtapanusafirmeth,that «4braham did read Aftronomy in Hetiopolis,or-On,to Pharctates King of Egypt, Alex,Polyhiftor, out of Ex polésus hath ic othecwife,faying,that Abraham inftru@ed the Egyptian Priefts, and not . the King, both which authorities Ex/ebius citeth. The Septmagint, andthe Vulgar eal on, for Zeawrite Heliopolis. Papnin,Vatablus,junins.and our Englifb call it Onsand Pit of theHiftorieoftheWarld, ration (faith hie) bee wade ofthefe things which are ‘erformed, without the abfernation ofthe places read write Topographicall knewledce; allthi wwe. [hall ehereb yunderftand nothing but obfcur theRr catest diticulty. : ° Ofthe crdelty againft the nis 424A dede CAC ASION, , wherein they were done': ar if Histories bes ngs will afveart'[o intricate ana confufed, ely, tor drawthence any howledze, but with : : Urachites Joung children in Egypt F, : and efMolesbis preferuation Veto returne tothe ftoryit {elfe. Itappearetht hat notwithftan ing the labour and flauery, which the //racktes endured, yet they .decreafed notin numbers : infomuchas. Pharaoh conic langer of bodies of an opprefied multitude, howperilfous difcontented pouerty, and the they might betohis eftate,by fughe Diuell. refoluedto laught erall the male children ofthe Hebyewes,asf EP ae oon IL. S they in¢ uid Bo Pe A be borne. r To which end hefent for Sepbordand Thura, women the moft famous‘ah 5 >, ucexpertamonsttthem, gue preerant (faith Comeftoy)multitudinis obftetricum, 20 bad consns andoi -wines ; by whom (as itfeemeth) hee gaue order 50 to all the reft for the execution his Edi@. ‘For to haue called all the Mid-wiueg of together, hadbe é fasting cyl Parliament. Wow vvhetherthefe two (be- ne Eeyptians, it is dinerfly difputed.S.Ag- Verf.s6. tten Exodusthefirlt , The Kingof Egypt cousee : manded thi » women, Orc. But lofephis,Abulenfis, and Pererius be- Abul, & Pergxi (ocuer they Were, whenit pleafed Godt o fruflrate ™=xd. t fecret murder, rid might witneffe both the wie: le of the Eespridas andthe it lema ifeft, of his future indigna. id feucnse : Pharaohfinding ty, Sethe feare of God, commanded |