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Show Curr6.§7) The fecond Booke of tthefr Shpart 1 Caarw §.8. ee 5 ey he ae hich wo.wmife man will. dare tofafbion out wnto the likenes of athofe things:w theHiftorieofthe World, ubtle([e, ; sa n els J< of Idols caft afide) a worthy Temple andplaceof i e (all deuifing 4 therefor VS : hat wdAQst by the forme ofa Matt; Prudence and Skilfulneffe: by2 Lion, Fortitude': by. aHorfey Libertie's Bya Crocodile}Impudency : bya Fifh, Hatted isto be vnderftoad: Ainigmati+ cali isd compofition of mixture of Images or Similitudes : in which fenfe, the mon- Egjp ians, and wi ded Aofes, faying, That Moles mas learned in all the wifedome.of, the yDiodorus, knownot)b | (howtruly. corrected trace e thefameis « words d n a er hisnorks n i y e h st ards. n ana works mighty imbis Altars, tofignifie,tharto men all diuinethings are Anigmaticall and obfeure.:'So:the dwit has any figure aise) hetobe worfbippe him,and wiledome untoEgyptian to beerecled masconcesni , for whichthe A fer " Ste hie eC ay ng the *orsyer Now. Diogenes,Lacrtins damblicus Philo Indeus sand Enfebius Cafarienjis,and parts, wz. Mathematicall, Naturall,Divine, and Morall. ftrous Image of a Lions body having a Manshead, was grauen ontheir Temples. and Imageofthe Sun fet on the head of a Crocodile, (which liueth afwellinthe Waters, as on Land):expreffeth thar the Sun nourifheth Meteors inthe Aire, afwell from the Wa- diuided into ae a0 Inthe Mathematicall part, which is diftinguiflytinto Geometric, Af renee, o om tickyand Mafick ;, the ancient Egyptians exceed all others,.For Geometryw hichis interpretation meafuring of grounds,was vfefull ynto them: becanfe it eentilting mtin fallible principles, directed them certainly in bounding out theirproper ae 1 Ter. ritorics, whentheirfields and limits by the inundations of, Wilws, were ycerelyouttflawneand confounded, {oasno man could know what inright belonged vnro him. Forthe fecondpart, to wit, d/frenomie, thefite of the Country being a lenelland fpa- ciousPlaine, free and clecre fromthe clouds, yeelded them delight with eafe; in obfer uing and contemplating the rifings,fallings,and motions of the Starres. I Arithmeticke al{o, whichis the knowledge ofnumbers, they ftudied ; becaufe without it,in Geometry and 4/fronemy, nothing can bedemontftrated or.concluded. But of Au fickethey made no otheraccount; nor defiredfarthar knowledge, rhan feemed tothem:¢ {ufficient to ferue and magnifietheir Gods, their Kings, and good Men. The Naturall part of this Wifedome, which handleththe principles, caufes, elements andoperations ofnaturallthings,differs little from Perspateticgll Philofophie 3 teaching, that Afateria prima isthe beginning ofall things ; that of irall mixt bodies! & liuing crea tures hauetheirbeing ; that Heauenis roundlike a Globe; that all Starres haue acertain fouent heate, and temperateinfluences, wherebyall things growandare produced; that raines proceed and be from mutations inthe ayre 5: that. che Planets haue, cheir prot : ) foules, &c. The Diuine part ofthis wifedome, whichis called 7;heologie, teachethand beleeuet! r that the world had a beginning, , and fhall perith, that men hadtheir firft orignallin} Egypt; partly.by meanes of thecemperatenefie of that Country, where neither Winter with cold, nor-Summer with heate are offenfiue ;.and partly through thefertility, that Wilus giveth inthofe places; That the fouleis immortal, and hath tran {migration tom body.to body ;. That Godis one, the Fatherand, Prince ofall Gods ; andthat fromthis God; other Godsare, asthe Sunneand Moone, whom they worfhipped by chenam= ofOfiris and /fs, and erected to them Temples, Statues, and divers Images, becaule , true fimilitudes of the Gods is not known 3 thatmany of the Geds. haue:beene 12 ™ eltate of mortal men, and after death, for their vertucs,and. benefits beftowed 00 ys Kinde, hate beene Deified; that:thofe beafts, whofe Images and formesithe Kings « catricintheir Arges, when they obtained viGory, were adored for. Gods: becaulevirt det thofé Enfigncs they. preuailed ouertheir enemies... Moreouerthe Egyptian Dunne hada peculiar kinde of writing, myfticall and {ecret, wherein the highestpoints o! a Religion adworlhip of God,which wasto be concealed fromthe vulgar fort, were {Cured. RO, A learning. a a erties ~ Clemens diftributerlithe whole fume of this thee . int later Egyptian nice "all . uctall forts, viz, Bpéftolar, which is vfedin writing common Epiftles; Sacerdora: twe ispeculiar to.sheiy Priefts ; and Sasred, which Sacred, contain Scripture o! ou kindcs = the ohe proper whic hatexprefled by letters Alphabeticaleth in obfcure a* me 1 Words; as torexatuple., whereit is written :. The. As by.the Hornet patton ratilie thi¢ beauty of the Hawke; which isread thus :. The Moone doth by-the Suase boriolt putofthe lightefGod; becaule Lightisaa Image of Diuine beaury; the other 4Y™ grr cill, or-byfignacures, whichis threefold, viz, Imitatiue Tropicall,and Anygut Tinitatine which defieneth things by chatagters.liketo tahines fionified,as by@ : the Stin, and bythe Hornes af the Moone,the Mooneitfelfe : "Tropicallos 130 Wiichapplics the diuers formes and figures ofnaturall bodies or creacures,to ig dignities, forcunes, conditions, vertues, vicesaffections,ahd actions oftheit rig ee RS ka theEgyptiaz Dinines, the Image of an Hawke fignifietsGods Noo it Be Horne fighifierhthe dupne.,.the picture of the Bird woefignifierh te" SaReE py ters as fromtheEarth. ‘Soa Scepter, atthe top wherofis made an Eye, and:an Earé, fignifieth'God, Hearing, Seeing, and gouerning all things, ‘The Scythians are thoughrto rohaue been delighted withthis kinde of writing. For Pherecides Syrius teporteth, That when Darivs fending letters, chreatned Jdanthura, Kiogof the Scythians, with ruine & deftruétion'of his Kingdome,unlefle he! would acknowledge fubie@tion : Zdanthurateturnedto hima Moufe;a Frog, a Bird; a Dart{ anda Plough-thare : which Orontopagas, Tribuneof‘the Souldiers, interpretedto fignifie, chat by the monfe, their dwellings sb the Frog, their: waters: by the Bird,their ayre ; by the Dart, their weapons : by the Plough, theif landes : werefignified obec ready tobe delinered to. Darivs, astheirSoueraigne' Lord.» But Xyphodres made another tonftruction, ~#z. that the King meant, Thatexcept Darius with his men did haftenaway,asa Bird through the Ayre, or creep into holes:as a moufe , dr runne into the waters which they had paffed-asa Froge they 2ofhould not efcape his armes, but either be flaine, or being thade:Captiues; Till ‘his grounds. The fame Hiftory is with little: difference.reported by Herodotus: The foutth and laft part, which is Morall and Politique; doth containe efpeciallythe HerodJ.4 Lawes} which(according to Laertias) Aercurius T:rifmegiftus, Or Ter Adaninus devifed Wwhoin his Bookesoror Dialogues Dialo; of Pimander wer && Afelepins; hathwritten fo many things of God, Worthyof admitation ; afwell (faith Sixtus Semenfis) of the Trinity, and of the comminy of Chri/?, as ofthe laftandfearefull day OfJudgement : that (as {aith the fame Author; the opinion being alfoancient) he is not onely:to beaccounted 4 Philofopher, buta Prophet of things to come. ] Jamblicus inhis Bookes of Myfteries of the Egypfiatis, taking two very ancient Hi- 30 ftorians for his: ‘Authors, to wit, Selewcus 8 Adenetus , affirineth that: this Azercury was not onely the:Inuentor of the Egyptian Philofophy, but ofall other learning,called,the wifedomeofthe Eeyptians before remembred and that hewrote of that fubie@ 36515. Books, or Pas Ofwhichthere were'numbred ofFiery Spirits, one hundred Books: of Ateall Spirits as many, and of Spirits Celeftiall a thoufand 3 which becaufethey wereoiit ob the Egypriansilanguage conuertedby :certdine learned Philofophers' into rhe naturalhGnerke, they feenied to have beene firft writtenin that Tongue. Clemens.As aus weireth, that among the Bookes of Herniessto wit, of the Wifedomeof the Clem.Stroms.6; ‘ans,ithore were eXtant in his time 36. of Phyfick fixe Bookes ; Of the orders of Priefis tenes and ofAflrology foure. C4 Briefe of the Hiflory of Volua ; nd ofthe (pace between him and Othionie l: and oftheres tmaindcrs of the Canaapites; with a note of fome Contemporaries tolofua: and ofthe breach i] Faith oF Frer the death of A¢o/es,and.inithe oneandfortieth yeere ofthe Egreffion, iri the firft moneth called Nifan, or March, lofua the fon ofNwzjof the Tribeiof Eparaim, being filled wich the Spirit of wifedome; tooke on him the gouernment ofI{tael; \God gining himcomfort, and encouraging him to paflethé 50 Riuer of Iordan,and tq pofleffc,andd iuide amongthe Iftaelires the Land promifed, The beginning of Jofua's ule, Saint Aupufline dates withthe raighe of Arhyutas, the vib.r8.de ct: eightcenth Kingin 4/fyria ;, with Corax the fixteentt 1 Kingin sicyoniawhen Daman go. *P<. uerned the Argiaes'; and Exithonius, Athens. Jojwa inairating inall chiags his Predeteffar, fent ouet-Jerdan certaine difcoucrefs-t6' Yo. 2x; view the feate dnd ftrengthof Yerico, the'next City voro him on the ber; Which hee was :to pafle over.rs Which dilcoucrers being faued,.aother fide ofthe Riz ndfenrback by Ry. kabya Wor nan of ill fame, becanfe the kepta Taucrne or Vitling-houfe,made lofua kinove that the inhabixants of/ericg,andthofe of the Countrey aboutit,hearing ofthe approach Totz,1 of |
