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Show I ~-- .... ~ .. ,...~ ...... '(':'~ · -~ -.. ,. .. ;--· · ...... _.,_, ......... ' ~u; ibe adu~ncement ~f lettr ning . . · ztlic ftr•rr~!Jtlls 4&&edit lumill4 vt.(per,-yet that~mought be by demonftrarion, a~d nottll faCt, and 1fby ~ra~. -.1J2il~~' i_r ... ,.. .. : .. --L ·t.hfVOtage but of halfc tire Globe. , .... .a."''iUU\;Ul l 'D d• d i~~-to circle the Earth,as t~e·ne~uen Y. JIJO tes~ oe, was not done,nor enterprlfcd, t~ll the(elater. tuoe~: And therefore thefe titnes may lufHy beare ~n then word, not on ely Plus vltra in pre-cede.nce ofthe an·· ,cient Non vltnt,and Imita!Jile fulmen., 1~ pr~cedt;1ce · oftheancicnt: ., ~ . . N°!' 171!1tabtl~folmen, D tllleiiUJIIi wym!J1~ tl 110/ll,tt~!JI~ jul,tll' .fTc. ·Butlikewife. --Imtt4!JtleC~I••· 1n refpeCI: ~f ·the m~ny memoraf>le voyages af. ·ter the n1aner ofheaue,about th~ gl~be of the e~rth. And this Proficience inN autgauon, ~nd ~tfco. uerics,may .plant alfo aa cx~eCl:ation of theJu~der :proijcience, and augmentation ~fall Scyences,be. caufe it~ay feeme they ~reord~1ned by God to be . CoevAIIs ,that is,ro n1eete tn one Ag~. ~or fo the Prophet D4nie/fpeakirJg oft};}e latt~r um:s f~ret~II~r~: p turimi pertr Anji/,unt, & M ulttplex ertt S ctentut, as tf the opennelfe and through patfage of the. 'vodd, and the encrea-fe of knowle~g~ were appointed ro . ·oe in th~ fame age,.,as \Ve fcc n ts a-1 r~ady pe:formcd in gt·eat part, the learning of thefe late~ tunes not ~tnuch giuingplace to the fonner twG>Pcr!ods or Re •. rurnes oflearning, the one of the Gr.arctans> the o-ther of the Romanes. · H.·~ s ToR ·y E c ·c L ·s t A s -r ·r c A L,re·ceiueth the.·. : fatne diuifi~ns with 1-:lifiory ciui1;~t furder in · . __ . -- · . ·the . .. f· ~ I • ,, .-,, · Theficfintl ~oof<!. : tO' die proprietie thereof may bee deuided into H 1 s ... !'flo il y oftlle C H v R c a,by a general namc.H 1 $· ~t OR yof.P~t o :PH 1! c I l!,&H Is TOR IE ofP·R o ... y .. x.D 1 N··c E :The fit·ft defcribeth the times of the militant Church;whether.ir be Ruetuat;as the Arke efNoah,or moueable~s -the Arke in tl'lc Wilderpes, or at reft,as t-he Arke in the Temple; fhat is,the fiatc of the Church iA Rer{ecution, 1n Remoue, and in ~ Peace. This parr I owght in no fort.ro note as defici. nt, oncly I would the vertue and finceritie ot ir, were accordinPto the Mafi"e, . and q·uantitie. But P am-not now in hand with cenfures, . but.\~ith om if.. fions. The fecond,whioh is H·'l S T 0 ·R ~of PI} o~ . PH E C I:E, confifte.th of:two Re1atiues, the Prophecie, and the ac.compJiiliment:an-d therefore the:· nature of fuch a·:worke ough~ to be,that euery pro~ hecieoftbe Scripture be forted with the euent fulfilling the fame, throughout the ages of the world, .. both . for. the bttter· confitm~rion of faith, and for the better: ~llumina.tion. of the Churc-h, touching · thofe parts of Pro phecies,w hich ·are yet v·n fu lfill.ed: allowing·neuertheleffe tbat Lat·itude ·> which is a-. .. greable, and familiar vnto diuine l'rophecies, be- .ingof the nature of their Author, with whom a·l t~oufande y.eares are but as one day, and thereJII fore are not fulfilled · punCtu~lJy, at once, but · )laue fpringing ·and germinant accomplilhment throttghout .mat~y ages , though the height or fOlac[e of them may ref~rre. to fome one age: : · This . / |