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Show Ofthefecond. Booke. Thé Gontents eh Sem GHAPAIX Of thebeginning and eftablifhing of Gonernment. §. 11D. CHAP. XL Of Zoroakter, /uppofed to have, beng the chiefe Author ofMagicke, Arts, and ofdiners kindes of Magicke. §. I. oO: the proceeding from the ‘firft Ginern- §,.I. ‘ment under theeldeft offamilies to ReHat Loroalter was aot Cham, sir gall, andfrom Regall abfolute to Regall temI thefirft Inuenter of Aftrologie, or of pered with Lawes he Magicke sama that there were divers §. TE. great Magitians ofthis name, Ofthe three commendableforts of Gouernment,swith their oppofites :& of the degrees Of the Name of Magia: and that it wae ofbamane focietic, anciently farre diwers from Coninring and § ILL. Witchcraft. Ofthe good Gouernmentof thefirftkings. al LI, §. TITT Of the beginning of Nobility : aed of the vaine vannt thereof without vertue. That the good knowledge in the auncient Magicke isnot tobe condemned; though the Dewill bere, as sw other kindes, hath foughtto obtrude euill things under the name ad 60- CHAP. XK: Of Nimrod, Belus, and Ninus; and ~\ ‘of memorable things about ; thofe times: lour'ofgeod things. oN §, ITIL That. Daniels, wifliking Nabuchodonofors condersning of the Magicians, dethuet inflifie all theirpractices. V. The abufe ofshings, whisb may bee founa $41. is all kindes, is wot to coudewsne the right vfe Hat Nimrod wasthe. frp after the of: them. \Flond thatreigned like Saueraigne §. VI. c Lord:ana that bis beginningfeemeth Ofthe diners kizdes ofunlawful Magick. Sohaue bene of suf? anthority. VIL. §, II I . Of diners wayes by which the DewillfeeThat, Nimyod, Belus, and Ninus, were meth to worke hismoxders. three diftinc perfoxs. §. VIII. §. IIL That.none was ener vaifed from the dead, That Nimrod,nor Affur, built Niniue: by she power of the deuilt: ated that it warned and thatit ts probable out ofEfay 23.1 3,that the trae Samuclwhich appearedte Saul. Aflu bugle Vr ofthe Chaidecs. oO § TIII. , Of the acts ofNimrod and Belus,asfarre CHRAP..XLi#6 now they are knovne: Of the memorable buildings of Ninus : §.. Ve : That.wee are wot tomeruaile- howfo. many hingdomes could be ereéted about the[e times : and ofNexoris of Egy pt ; endof Tanais of Scythia. oT a} A Of the Name of Belus, andother. Names affine untoit. : : O F the magnificeat building of Nine by Ninus : aad of Babylon 4 Seale ramis. § MEL ain Ofthe rexfbipping of:Images,begusfrora Belusja Babel oh. cise and.of his wife Serairamats+ 4 of other her atts: oes ispophainweh MEY Trea lay §. Il. ‘aint of Ofthe end of Ninus 3-and beginn'7s Semiramis reigue, aida eels ! Of the WarresofNinus,.: 44laftly, ofhis Of Semiramis Parentage, and education Warre againit Loroatter: nate ‘. iit ‘ Methets ofher and Metamorphefis §. V- = Of ber Expedition into India; and death _ Ofthe Temple of Belus,, built by Seafter difcompfiture: with « note ofthe impré- Mitamis : 4nd of the Pyramides of Ababslitie of ber vices, SyPt. BBPLRPCAIRS:CRPCBISETS: LePOS CNISS The Contents of the' Cliapters, Parasraphs, and Sections, in. the fecond. Booke:of,.che frit..Part of the Hiftotie ‘ofthe World. CHAP.I. red/ons,proving that Abraham was wot the eldeftfon of Texah, 6. Vib : Ofthe Time of the Birth ofAbraham: and of the vfe ofthis que/tion,for the ordering of theftory of the AflyrianEm- A conclufion of this difpute, noting the Authors on bothfides : with an admonition, thar they whith [borten' the tines make all ancicot flories the more vnprebable, pire: §eV ILE A computation ofthe times of the Affyti- ans xwd others, croundedwpomthestimesno- §. 1. tedin the flory of Abraham. Ix F fome of the fucce{fors of SeThat Armraphel; onevof the foure\Kings tranfibriefe « with 3 f miramis whom Abrahamwuerthvew, Gen.t4. = Bi tion, to\ the.quefiion 5 about the probably be thought se bane beene Ninias the Tinie, of she, birth. of. Abras Sonne of Ninus. ham. oO gx. §.-H. Of Aridch, euother ofthe fowre Kings s that arguments, ox Apropofall ofreafons andthat Ellas,whercofhe ts faidto hase bie are brought tovrone Abtaham was bornein king, Lyes betweene Coelelyria, aod'Arabia the yeere22,after the Floud, and zot fx the. Petraza. 6: Oh Jere 35 Ae. §. TIT. Of Tidal, enatherof thefonre Kings. ) The anfwerto onvofthe Obsections propebut one "jetfbewing that Abrakatn wade tourney ont of M efopotamia zato Canaan; and it, after his Fathers death, §. FIL. The anfwwerts anether of the Obiecigens xX oXUPL That Chedorladmér,ithe chiefe of the foure Kingsjwas not of Adlyria, batof Perthie fia ls and thatthe Affytian Empire at timeycs mich mpsired, §. XIIL the foare That it not unprobable, that propofed,. fbeveing that, it. mas wot qolikely, nabis 4? Countries the sn Abraham beget Dominion ybould no had Terah that. Rings with : cbferoliere pecre. baa thirtieth and they hundred mud, bat that forehay ne : §. {Va Colonies planted themfélues, and they ve : igns, Obied the of Thean[wer totwea more the sabes of the tomnrries whence fay os wing that mee. may hauescertasetle of A- which ifit bee fo, wee peed-not tooarfelues biahams age frows the Scriptnre, though mee Amraphel was Ninias,#er trouble make noe Abraham, the.eldeit, fonne + aad swith many other aiffienlties, that there was great Gapfe, why in thelorie of Abraham ba tre Brethrenfooldlees : ces Spetted, & VI. i Thatthe naming ofibraham Sirf ofthe three Brethrea,GeneLle¥e2 6..40th ek RrgHe thet bee was the eldeit : together. withgratrs CHAP. |