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A73899 The auncient history of the Septuagint. VVritten in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since. Of his voyage to Hierusalem, as ambassador from Ptolomeus Philadelphus, vnto Eleazer then pontiffe of the Iewes. Concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible, by the 72. interpreters. With many other remarkable circumstances. Newly done into English by I. Done; Letter of Aristeas. English. Done, John. 1633 (1633) STC 750.5; ESTC S122439 62,988 230

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their Edicts Forces and Armies yet had neuer power to abollish the Holy Bookes written simply by our poore Shepheards when they could not conserue their Royall Lybraries fauoured of all the World Truely this may well put to the blush these wiselings that shew themselues fooles in so speaking and discoursing without Discourse and will iudge of things without inquiry Now for the Integrity of MOSES for vs Christians wee are sufficiently cleared and satisfied by the Authority Praise of Moses of the Holy Spirit of GOD. Who hath giuen excellent Testimony by all the Scriptures both in the old and New Testament of his Originall and Linage beeing descended from the latter Leuy Nephew of the Holy Patriarch Abraham Also of his miraculous conseruation and Deliuerance from Death and Waters from whence he was drawne foorth and then had that name of MOSES in their language Then his royall education and breeding his Loue to his afflicted people and his Magnanimity to despise humane greatnesse in preferring the iust cause and sufferance of CHRIST the Redeemer then look'd for before all the Regall estate and great Treasure of Aegypt Moreouer his sufferance long and bitter for the defence of right and equity and for the deliuerance of the poore afflicted His Diuine calling to the Charge and Gouernement of his People his Patience Gentlenesse and Perseuerance with such faithfulnesse in the difficult execution of this weighty charge and the singular gift of Prophecy and of his Diuine miracles so strange and supernaturall that they haue beene admired and celebrated of all the whole World But there is one poynt aboue all● very remarkeable and which is more then sufficient to ouercome humane Reason and to shewe the Integrity of MOSES which is that if hee had would hee might easily and according to the manner of men occupied the Monarchy and Domination for his Children and their posterity vppon all the people of Israel And with the same the two fertile Kingdomes reduc'd vnder his hand and Conquered beyond Iordane Neuerthelesse he left his Sonne Gersom and Eliezer and their posterity priuate men and of most simple estate● amongst the other Leuites And the same Children remayning subiect to the Sacrificers successors of A●ron and to the Magistrate and Gouernors of Israel More that he hath himselfe written and Inregistred his owne proper faults and yet more notable those of his House as of his Brother Sister and Nephews and the redoubtable iudgements of GOD's chastisements and punishments of them all Of which things all his People were witnesses in number more then sixe hundred thousand Persons And if they could haue contraried him for any fals●ity eyther for the present or times to come If hee had beene I say such as they could haue found any bracke in his actions or in his Writings or falsenesse in eyther his Person or any of his in his Life and his miracles in his Writings or end But in the contrary all the Hebrewes and Iewes which haue beene since that time and are now neere 3000. yeares since and that are dispersed through all the VVorld who are in so great a number that if they were revnited into a body of People and into a State their multitude should be innumerable and might astonish the most greatest Nation of the whole Vniuerse All those I say haue all receiued from their Auncient Fathers from their Kings and Princes and their Sacrificators and Auncestors from Father to Sonne and from hand to hand and with an admirable consent euen in the middle of so many confusions and dissipations haue kept and yet keepe alwayes in their Bibles the Holy VVritings of MOSES in their proper Letters and Hebrew Tongue as Bookes most True and Veritable Sacred and Diuine And such so Knowne and Acknowledged in all Nations with the excellent Testimony Authority and Holinesse of them that CHRIST himselfe hath spoken of them and the Prophets and Apostles also in their Writings and Allegations I and the most Auncient Pagans and Strangers cannot with sound sense but acknowledge them And so Reader although I haue beene as I formerly sayd something prolixe yet the Excellency of the Subiect forc'd and bound me to be so teadious herein to shew as an illustrious Addition the worthines of the Bookes and Diuine Writings as their Antiquity Dignity as also the Excellency of their Humane VVriter from the Dictate of the Most Highest And being the matter whereof wee haue formerly Entreated I held it not impertinent though I haue dealt too weakely in so worthy a Businesse but referre the rest and it to your charitable Censure FINIS