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Show ved skilfull in hewing timber than theIfraelites, may (as I thinke beinc luded For tian caufedhis feruants to bring down the Cedars and Firres from Libanon to thefea, and thence fent theminraffesto Ioppe, or the next porttoTerufalem. Forin the fecondof Chronicles the fecond Chapter, it is plaine, that all but the thirtieth yufand ¢ arpenters, and the ouer-feers,wereftrangers,andas it feemeth,t he vaflals of Air am,and of Faphres i eWhiaAt ofthe Hiftorie Wil (Cxar.i3.§23. . S~*«*«*«ibe Booke of thefirst part > of Egypt. In recompence ofall this timber and {tone, Salomon gaue Hiram tWen- tie thoufand meafures of wheate, and twenty meafures of pure oyle yeerely. Eufebin Out of Expelemus in the ninth bookeofhis preparation, the laft Chapte lath left ys4 Gopie ofSalomons Letter to Suro (which was the fame as Haramanc iram) King of Tyre in thefe words: tives e Phenicie resi. Amico paterno (ilute Ex SalomonSuroni,: Tyri,SmSydonis, atquee Phenicie regi, Amico paterno, alistew Stias‘i mea Deomagno Dauid patris metregnumaccep 2 Yr preceptt templum : nae, i ya bee « ripotoitur. c&be Deo gui terram creauit, condere, VE etiame 4a- te fcribere 1 tp precept: Scrivoigitu r, @ peboate vt artifices atquefabrosadadificanduims Templum Dei mittere velis. Zag Salomonto King Suron, ofT,pre,s ydon,and Pha nitia King, and f Hsfriend, Jendeth grettinzg. Tou may under hand that Ihaue receiued of the great God9 my father Danid, the Kingdome: and when my father cowsmanded meto build mple created heaxen and carth, hee commandedalfothat Ifbould write toyou: I write thereforet y0u,andbefe ech you,that you would be pleafed tofend me Artificers amaCarpenters to buila the = , ; eee eta dare To in'fauouresof Salomon) came v pinto the edge of the:Canaanites yet held,and put them tothe fword,and bu rot their Citie. The place & Territorie he gaue Salomons wite fora dowrie. Anditis probablethat becaule Salomon was then bufied.in his magnificent buildings, and couldnot attend the war:that he entreated his father in law to rid him of thefe neighbours,which Pharaoh performed. But heethereby taught the Egyptians tovifit thofe parts ag: fefent for ; coft, andfortifiedit with the beft Art thatthat age had.s mora,by which name (faith he)giuenbySalomon,t booke of Hebrew places,calls itThermeth. In af aa the Emperour,it was honouredwithhis name, z of this great charge of building Salomon raifedtr fides anhundredand twentytalents of gold receiu tered Hiram twenty townes in or neere the vpper e, k ulland marith ground, Hiram refufed them, andthe ay in Galilee of the gentiles,Won guod ; guia fab ditione To whichthe King Swron made this anfwer. Teneplumeffe tibi mittendss, mifi ad te millia hominum echoginta,~r Architecium Tyriwm by Vron ofTyre,Sydon and Phenicia King, to King Salomon greeting : whew I readjour let} ters, 1 gaue God thankes who hath inftalledyouinyourfathers K.ingdeme. And becasfe om write, that Carpenters and Workemen may be[ent to build Gods Temple, I bane[entyomfore. fore thoufand men,and a Mafler-builder a Tyrian, borne of a lewifh woman,a man admt tz building. Touwiltbe carefull that allneceffaries bepronidedfor then, and wher the Temp Tofvami.l.cors Of Godis built, that they come home to vs: The Copiesof thefe letters were extant in Zofephus time,as biimfelfeaffirmeth, ant befeene, faith he, Tam in noffri Squats in Tyriorum anwalibus, as wellin Tyrian annals, But he deliueretth them fomewhat in different termes,as our0 the R finde in his Antiquities. But werethis intercourfe betweene Salo bymeflage or by writing, ic is fomewhat otherwife deliucredin the! rKing.s. fiom ther Enpolemus ox Lofephus {et it downe, i fubftance thereis |. little tieel acd but fo, that in the wuto the 9: hetweenethe oneand theother. The likeletter in effect Salomonis faid to haue written to Vaphres Kingof | was anlivered as from Hiram. Dd i ; But Wheras fomeCommentors vpon Salomonfindethat Hiram King of Tyre;andV4 pores Kingof Egypt,gaue Salomon thetitle magnas,and cite Eupolemonin Et I doenot findeanyfuchaddition of magnusofRex in Eufebies inthe lalt chapter of that" booke;neither 1s it in Zo/epbusin the eight booke andfecond chapterof the Tewes Am es: it being a vain title yfed by fome of the Af rian and Perfian Kings, an¢ el fe by the Parthians,and manyotherafter them, infomuch as ia later cimest common, andwas viurped by meane perfons in refpect ofthe great Hermes U which was honoured bytkhat name ) forhis noble qualities,as much b or more than te mightineffe. the finithing anddedication ofthe 2 ct T emple ais 'IC and houfe ofthe Lor _Salowson ae tied Terufalem with atreble . heene thea wal l, and tepaired Hazor which had bene on eft Me ropolis ofthe Canaanites.be fote 8.c,, buile Berothon,Gerar,s Jofuds time's {o-did he Gaza of the Phili fer theMill © Of munition of scentiliserat, Not thatit was poffe becanfe it was unacr the rule ofa King that wasa mitems ex matre Indea, virumin rebus architeclure mirabilew. Curabis igitar vb nece/arys non ezgeant, Templo Dei conditoad nos redeant. _ After before they his fonné Rehoboams time Shefback this mans fiicceflordid facke lerufalemit fel, Salomon alfo built Megiddo in Manaffe; onthis fide lordan, andBalah in Dan : alfo Thadmor,whichm erProlomics Tham uda,or(as lofephus 101.8,0ns.¢ eq yothinks) Palmyrain the defart of Syr 1 ule it ftood onthe yemoft of Libanus, and was of Dawids conauet, when he wan Damafcus; it may feeme that Sa/omox therfore bef owed theron the moft ; Templeof God, S Xr Tyrt, Sydonis, & Phanicic Rex, Salomoni Regifalutem. Lectis literis gratias eg Deo, quitibi regnum patris tradidit : ¢ guoniamfcrtbisfabros miniftrofq; ad condendum lerufaleim, For Pharaoh(as iui 425 } aa LAA = Ephraim, and tooké Gerat,which place I it is true that Sa/omoz in the 2. yeerefortified thofeplaces,w ther. he made ai i svi Gentiles faith ler it Were. fufed. Fur- Zobah,and eftablifhed histr firtiandlat driuen tofight)that he madein perfon in all his life, sdominions, pafsing from‘Thadmot to the North arts of Idumzxa,from whence he vifited Eziongaber & E- of the Southof all his territories, bordering*to the red {ea : ibed in the Storie of Azo/ lomons fendingto Ophir, audof (omefeeming contradiitio ws about Salomons riches, of P inedasconceit of two frangepalfages about Africke. Salomon preparedhis Fleet of Ships for India,with whom Hiram ioyned in at vo andfurnifhed him with Marin ilots,the J cing of | other the moft expert fea-men. Fr this time to Edom, and was conqueredbyDs , di e Fleet pafle to the Eaft India, 1 Wasnot farreoff, namely to Ophir, one of the Ifland 1¢ Moluccas, a place ling rich in gold : witneffe the‘ yaniards, who notwi nding all the abun- ice Which they gather in Peru, doe yet plant in thofe > o cr 4 great quantitie from thence,and with lefle labo Very, ornew Spaine. rr Aa lke f, hh? ¢ mn urne Which1 was made bythefe Ships amout tin the fecondof Chrosicles the eight, it is writt exppence forthe charge ofthe I fleet Manilia 5 oihany one cred and twenty ts wherof 30. kes liue and twenty hundred and twer 7 ult thole two 1 places be recon xe hundredfixty and fi f Salomons w e Eaft Indies with fomereafor it; is ofo= s thofe pros iers haue returne to Ierufalem from theE: ipture is diuers times taken for the O ao 15. Only |