farther even into the Land of Assyria and there he built Niniveh with three Cities more For this we are to note that the Scripture names not Ashur who came of Sem to be the mighty Hunter but Nimrod who was the Son of Cush and the Grandchild of Cham. The margent therefore of our last Translation doth not without cause point us to that reading which at the first I mentioned agreeing therin to learned Junius Willet and a great many more of good note whom upon necessity I am bound now to follow unlesse I will acquit Nimrod of that brand which the Scripture layes upon him and by following a wrong translation lay it without other warrant upon another This I may not do and therefore I look upon Nimrod still as the great and mighty Hunter who was the first that hunted out of one Country into another to inlarge his dominions This he began to doe eight yeares after the confusion of Tongues viz. in the yeare of the Julian Period 2530. when the yeare of the World was 1821. And why I place Nimrods going into Assyria his building of Niniveh and laying the foundation of a Kingdome there in this yeare is because it must be about one thousand yeares before the destruction of Troy as Diodorus Siculus hath told us lib. 2. cap. 6. Now Troy as we know was destroyed in the year of the Julian Period 3530. at which time as he also saith Tautanes reigned in Assyria Tautanes and not Semiramis for she was rather in the Patriarch Abrahams time when as Josephus saith the Assyrians had the Empire of Asia Howbeit some have accounted otherwise the ground of which mistake I do beleeve arose first from hence and came to be embraced both because there were more Zoroasters then one and also because there was another Semiramis later then she that reigned next after Ninus the grandchild of Nimrod One of the Zoroasters was but six hundred yeares before Xerxes the Persian went with his huge Army into Greece as Xanthus Lydius mentioned by Diogenes Laertius hath told us another long before and was that King of the Bactrians with whom King Ninus waged warre as Diodorus and Justin out of Trogus testifie And as for Semiramis the first was the daughter of Derceto begotten on her by an unknown man the other was the daughter of the second Belochus King of Assyria many years after Ninus And therefore whereas Porphyrius alledgeth out of Sanchoniato that Semiramis was not long after the dayes of Moses it must be understood of the latter and not of the first Semiramis for the latter indeed began to flourish with her Father not above 15. years after the death of Moses as by warrantable computation appeareth but the former was a long time before But to returne again to Nimrod he as I said began to lay the foundation of the Assyrian Kingdome in the yeare of the Julian Period 2530. from whence it continued without any great alteration till the year of the Julian Period 3893. in which year Sardanapalus came to his end through the conspiracy that Arbaces and Belesis made against him For when they saw how he retired himselfe from his Nobles and betooke him to spin and dally with his Curtizans they then rise up in Arms against him and doe at last drive him to sacrifice himselfe with his Wealth nd Wenches to Vulcan in a great pile of Wood set on fire that in it he might dye with all his Delights about him in which onely thing saith Justin he shewed himselfe a man This time of his death was 1238. yeares after Ninus began as in Eusebius may be seene by gathering into one summe the particular years of the Kings that reigned here And as it was 1238 years after Ninus before whom Belus next after Nimrod reigned sixty five years So was it 1363. yeares from the time that Nimrod came out of Shinar and founded first this Kingdome here Herodotus I know fals far short of these numbers but is followed by none of the Ancients neither Ctesias Trogus Pompeius Diodorus Siculus Velleius Paterculus Josephus Eusebius nor Augustine Ctesias I confesse reckons 1360. from Ninus to the death of Sardanapalus but it had been better and in a manner right if he had reckoned from the time aforesaid when Nimrod went into Assyria built Niniveh and laid the foundation of this Kingdome there for in reckoning so I can find but three years difference between him and my selfe Trogus or Justin out of him reckons no more then 1300. leaving out perhaps the sixty three odde years and speakes onely of the round or even number but begins as Ctesias before him from Ninus instead of beginning from the time when Niniveh was first founded Or rather he accounts 1300. from Ninus to the time aforesaid instead of accounting them from Belus the Father of Ninus for from Belus to the end of Sardanapalus were but three yeares more as will afterwards better appeare Diodore in the end of his second book saith that this Kingdome continued more then 1400. yeares which is also true if we account from the time that Nimrod who also founded this Kingdome began to reigne at Babylon for from thence hither were 1411. yeares Velleius helpeth nothing for the beginning but much for the ending for by him we gather that this Kingdome ended not many more then sixty five years before the building of Rome which upon a precise account was just sixty nine befor Romulus laid the foundation thereof Eusebeus without question had seene all these but sought not thus narrowly into the ground of their difference howbeit he might and did perceive they all aimed at this to make Ninus the Establisher of the Assyrian Kingdome At him therefore he begins his Chronology and finds according to the testimony aforesaid that in the Temple of the Trojan warre and when Troy was taken Tautanes reigned in Assyria This Tâ—utanes saith Diodorus sent aid to Priamus in the time of the Trojan Warre viz. one thousand Ethiopians and as many Susians with two hundred Chariots and made Memnon a Duke of Persia Generall over them This Memnon did good service but was slaine by the treason of the Thessalians Diod. lib. 2. cap. 6. Moreover Eusebius by some Testimony sure that he had seen dates the time of Sardanapalus by the reignes of Ariphron and Tespieus Archons of Athens namely that in one of them he began to reigne and in the other he lost his life when Arbaces and Belesis rose up against him I reckon therefore that Belus who was the next King after Nimrod began his reigne in the year of the Julian Period 2590. and reigned as Eusebius and Augustine say sixty five yeares He was a man of a more contenting disposition then his Father and imployed himselfe most in drayning the Fennes about Babylon and carrying of the water from the low grounds to make the Country the more useful which pleasing government of his was so gratefull to his Subjects as that they
but ninteen years the Marmora Arundelliana 28 Orosius 30 Ctesias 31 Julianus Toletanus 34 Herodotus 36 and Clemens of Alexandria 46. In which diversity all the helpe that we have is from Herodotus who though he give him 36 years doth neverthelesse declare that he dyed in the fifth year after the Marathon war which war was not till the second year of the seventy second Olympiad in which was the one and thirtieth year of his reigne And therefore the whole time of his reigne could be but 34 years compleate as Julianus Toletanus reckoneth And of these he reigned but 33 before his son Xerxes was taken in to reigne with him as in Herodotus again appeareth lib. 7. Xerxes therfore began in the year of the Julian Period 4226 and as Diodorus saith reigned something more then twenty years after whom Artabanus by whom Xerxes was slain continued seven moneths and at the end thereof Artabanus also being slain Artaxerxes Longimanus began to reigne alone and dyed not untill the seventh year of the Peloponnesian War in the winter time thereof viz in the year of the Julian Period 4289 almost finished as both Thucidides and Diodorus witnesse Thucid. lib. 4. Diodor. lib. 11. Ctesias therefore was right in giving 42 years to this King after the death of Artabanus But we are to note that this Artaxerxes had a twofold beginning to reigne The one some years before his Father Xerxes dyed The other after his Fathers death when he had slain Artabanus who slew his Father seven moneths before From the first he reigned 49 years and from the second but 42 as hath been shewed The first began in the year of the Julian Period 4240 towards the end thereof even before the beginning of the seventh moneth the other in the year of the same Period 4247. Thucidides hath an eye to the first of these and so have the holy Scriptures in accounting the years of this King but other old Authours generally account from the latter time when he began to reigne alone in which Diodorus a little differeth from Ctesias and hath therefore but 40 years in the stead of 42. But now why this King should begin in his Fathers life time and so soon as I have mentioned is in regard of what we finde storyed concerning the banishment of Themistocles the Athenian who being expelled out of Athens by his unthankfull Country-men and Citizens fled to the King of Persia for succour in the second year of the seventy seventh Olympiad as Diodorus casts the time and then we are sure Xerxes was living because the time of his reigne was something more then twenty years Diodorus hereupon saith that Themistocles came to Xerxes and so doe some others but Thucidides who was near those times as also Plutarch Charon Lampsacenus and Aemilius Probus have witnessed that he came to Artaxerxes of late having begun to reigne And if to Artaxerxes of late having begun to reigne it must needs follow that Artaxerxes had a beginning before the second year of the 77 Olympiad which as appeareth by the account of Daniels 70 Weeks was in the year of the Julian Period 4240 about the sixth moneth which among the Jews was called Elul and living after that till the seventh year of the Peloponnesian War must needs have a longer time of reigne from this beginning then either forty or two and forty years But for a more clear demonstration and so to reconcile these Authours that they may speak true on either side let me add out of Petavius namely That Themistocles being banished came to come to Xerxes King of Persia as Diodorus and diverse other Story-writers declare and finding Xerxes busied in some expedition or not in the City which was the seate of his Kingdome he sent letters to his son Artaxerxes who of late had began to reigne as Thucidides sheweth For in this respect Story-writers may indifferently relate that he fled as well to the one as the other and our conclusion from hence may be that he fled to the Persians Xerxes yet living when Artaxerxes was already taken in to reigne with him in the Empire as being the next that was to reigne alone after him Thus Xerxes also began to reigne before Darius dyed as hath been proved out of Herodotus Petay lib. 12. cap. 25. For according to a Law among the Persians when the King went to war abroad he did for the most part appoint and constitute one of his sons for his successour from which time some Authours account the years of such an ones reigne whilest others account but from the time of his Fathers death And in the Kingdome of Babylon Nebuchadnezzars reigne began after the same manner as by Berosus compared with holy Scripture may be seen This was usuall also among the Kings of Judah and Israel as by the Scripture alone is manifest which not observed hath caused many grosse mistakes concerning the right reckoning of their reignes Eusebius mentions the flight of Themistocles two years sooner then Diodorus doth who therefore casteth it into the fourth year of the seventy sixth Olympiad which was in the year of the Julian Period 4241 and then was the first year of Artaxerxes still running on by my account This of Eusebius I finde approved by a late learned writer Jacobus Armachanus in his Annals of holy Scripture who sayes that it agrees conveniently enough to the tradition of Thucidides which setteth the comming of Themistocles to Artaxerxes between the siege of Naxus and that noble victory gotten by Cimon over the Persians at Eurimedon and doth withall place the beginning of the reigne of Artaxerxes between those bounds For * viz. Thucidides he said Themistocles then sent letters to Artaxerxes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of late having begun to reigne by which he both desired his friendship and also promised his owne aide to him against the Greekes From which is found out the true beginning of the reigne of Artaxerxes and is from hence proved not to be so late by nine years as is commonly accounted Thus he in his Annals I say of holy Scripture which when I saw I was not a little confirmed in my judgment For though I accounted thus long before I ever read any thing of his in this kinde yet for my better confirmation herein I was glad to meete with the concurrence of so eminent a man from whom though I varie much in the ancient account of the Hebrew moneths and year as also in some other particulars yet here as in many things elsewhere I cannot but embrace him with much gladnesse and shall ever esteeme him as sure enough he is a man of excellent parts great industry piety and much learning worthy to be accounted among the number of those whose memories are precious after their deaths But to returne There is moreover a passage mentioned by Petavius out of Justin to shew the occasion of this beginning as may be seen in his Doctrina Temporum lib. 10.
putat Angelus sexaginta duas Septimanas à principio septimanae primae sed à fine Septimae ut sensus sit Christum moriturum esse Septimana Septuagesima That is The Angel accounteth not the sixty and two Weekes from the beginning of the first Week but from the end of the seventh so that the sense is Christ was to dye in the seventieth Weeke But in what year of that Weeke is shewed afterwards Shall be slain The word in the Originall is Carath which signifyeth to cut off either by banishment or death In the first sense Christ was cut off when the Jews said We have no other King but Caesar Joh. 19.15 and in the other sense he was cut off when after their loud cryes of crucifie him crucifie him they put him to death But not for himselfe This is likewise true of Christ as the Prophet sheweth Esa 53.4 5 6. But whether it be the right reading of this place some make question and doe therefore render the words thus And there shall not be unto him that is He shall not be or not have any being but be extinct and gone Meaning that being slain or cut off by death he should have no longer being among the living and so also Esay saith He was cut off out of the Land of the living for the transgression of my people was the stroke upon him Esa 53.8 All which was certainly fulfilled when Christ tasting death was not onely buried but by his enemies shut in the Sepulcher least he should againe be seene in the Land of the living And the people of the Prince to come shall destroy the City and the Sanctuary This is meant of the Romans under the Conduct of Titus the son of Vespasian Emperour of Rome by whom the City of Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed which is here foretold as a judgement to come upon the Jews for their putting Christ to death And the end thereof shall be with a Flood Meaning that the Romane Army should be unto them as the overflowing of Waters in a Flood and should therefore prevaile against all the force that the forsaken Jews could make against them And unto the end of the War desolations are determined By which is meant that so long as the War continued should be nothing but desolations and destructions Which accordingly came to passe fast one upon another first in one place then in another till all was wasted as Iosephus hath at large declared in his seventh book of the Jews War at the first chapter in his sixt book at the first chapter likewise as also in some other places of his writings Whose relations doe excellently agree with the word desolations in the plurall number here foretold by the Angel in the words of this prophecy Ver. 27. One Weeke This is the last week of the seventy in which the Angel sheweth that though the Jewish Nation should be cast off and their City and Temple destroyed yet neverthelesse the Messiah should for one whole Week Offer himselfe unto them and gather many of them into the Covenant of the Gospel This Week was therefore wholly spent in preaching to those of the Circumcision in the forepart whereof Christ himselfe in his own person preached unto them and in the latter part he also preached unto them by his Apostles who went not unto the Gentiles till this Week was ended For as the 70 Weekes were cut out over the People of Israel and over the holy City but not over the Gentiles so also the confirming of the Covenant by Christ in this last Week of the 70 was cut out over the people of Israel and over the holy City but not over the Gentiles And that not without cause For though Christ by his death redeemed as well the Gentiles as the Jews Ioh. 11.52 yet because he was in the first place promised to the Jewish Nation and after a peculiar manner their Saviour it was consentaneous that in the first place he should offer Salvation unto them and confirm his Covenant with many of them before he caused his Gospell to be spread abroad and to take place among the Gentiles This appeareth by that Caveat which in this Week he gave to his Apostles when they had their first power to preach namely that they should not turn into the way of the Gentiles Mat. 10.5 It appeareth also by that which himselfe said to the woman of Canaan That he was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Math. 15.24 And as they had this Caveat so they heeded it very carefully even after his death and Passion insomuch that Peter abstained from preaching to any but the Jews untill he was taught by Vision that the Gentiles also pertained to the society of the Church Acts 10.1 In a word Paul was converted about six moneths after the Passion of Christ three years after which he returned to Ierusalem that he might see Peter from whence after he had stayed 15 dayes he went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia and preached there to the Gentiles Gal. 1.18 By which it appeareth that it was full three years and an half after Christ's Passion before they began to preach to any but the Jews and at that time this One Weeke was ended For as it followeth Christs death was in the middle of this very Week And in the midst of the Weeke he shall cause Sacrifice and Oblation to cease This was certainly done by Christs death For in the former verse it was said That after threescore and two Weeks Messiah should be slain and now in this verse is shewed the very precise time of his death viz. That it was in the middle of this Weeke for then was Christ to cause the Sacrifices and Oblations to cease Yea all the Sacrifices of the old Testament and the whole Legall and Typicall service was then at an end by that one Oblation of Christ upon the Crosse for nothing but the death of Christ was of efficacie to abolish the Sacrifices and Legall figures which were but figures of him and of his Sacrifice as may be seen by that which St Paul writeth to the Hebrewes in the ninth and tenth Chapters He taketh away the first that he may establish the second saith the Apostle there Chap. 10. verse 9. Not that the Jewish Sacrifices did actually then cease Peta De Doct. Temp. lib. 12. cap. 35. but that they were de jure or in very deed and truth then abolished as Petavius noteth Which also not onely the last voyce of Christs dying saying It is finished but even the vaile of the Temple being rent in twaine from the top to the bottome declared Mat. 27.51 For by that Symbol Christ witnessed that he by his death abolished all the Sacrifices and all the legall worship For as Lansbergius well observeth so long as that Shadowie service of the Jews remained Lansberg in his Chronol lib. 2. cap. 11. the vaile was between in the
was sometimes called Herod of Palestine or Herod Archelaus which is nothing strange because others of the same stocke had the like Praenomen or forename As for Example his name who was the Tetrarch of Galilee when the Baptist was beheaded and under whom our Saviour suffered was Antipas howbeit he was also called Herod Luke 23.8 Also Agrippa sonne of Aristobulus had not only the name of Agrippa but of Herod Act. 12.19 and so I do not doubt but that Archelaus was also sometimes called by the name of Herod Secondly Josep an t lib. 18 cap. 6. Philip dyed in the twentieth year of Tiberius and in the seven thirtieth year after his Father The twentieth of Tyberius began in the 78 Iulian year on the nineteenth day of August and ended not until the same time in the next year the death of Philip therefore was in the 79 Iulian yeare before the nineteenth of August and consequently the death of Herod in the three and fortieth yeare as at the first was proved Scaliger did somewhat sticke at these things whereupon his conjecture was that there might be some fault in Josephus and that for the 20 yeare of Tyberius we ought to read the 22 which he found warranted by Ruffinus an ancient interpreter of Josephus Kep Silva Chronol But Kepler answereth that the Greeke Copies of Iosephus are of better credit and that the fault therefore is in the Latine which we may not preferre above the Greeke because the one is the Translation the other the Originall Thirdly after Philip had gotten the Tetrachship of Galile Iosephus telleth us that he built a Towne and in the honour of Iulia the Daughter of Augustus called it Iuliada which certainely he did whilst Iulia was in favour otherwise he had transgressed against the Emperour but Iulia was out of favour and banished for her foule adultery in the foure and fortieth Iulian year And therefore Herod could not be alive in the beginning of the next year as Scaliger would have him because this Towne was not built by Philip till after his Fathers death And as for the banishment of Iulia Dion lib. 48. that it was in the yeare aforesaid is thus proved She was born saith Dion when Marcus Censorinus and Calvisius Sabinus were Consuls and from thenceforth flourished and lived in her Fathers favour and in the favour of the people of Rome Macrob. Sat. lib. 2. cap. 5. untill as saith Macrobius the eighth and thirtieth yeare of her age These men were Consuls in the seventh Iulian year the eight and thirtieth from whence was sure enough the foure and fortieth in which year Cesar himselfe was the thirteenth time Consul Fourthly Iosephus also testifieth that after Herod was dead the sonnes of Herod contended before Augustus concerning their Fathers Heritage and then Cajus was at Rome and sat in judgement but Cajus was absent and gone into Syria in the same year that Iulia was banished And therefore Herod must needes be dead before that time And that Cajus went so soone into Syria may thus be proved He was borne as Dion sheweth in that year when Apuleius and Nerva were Consuls which was in the six and twentieth Iulian year in the nineteenth year after he went into Syria and afterwards into Armenia returning no more for he died in the 49 Iulian year when Sex Aelius and Sentius were Consuls as is testified by Paterculus Tacitus saith Quirinus was made an Overseer to Cajus Cesar not being twenty yeares old when he went to Warres in Armenia Ovid de Arte amandi lib. 1. Ovid gives him the same age which his Father had when he also began to be famous and enter into the Warres which was about nineteene according to what is found in an old Monument recording the famous deeds done by Augustus Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato concilio privataque impensa câ—mparavi Where the word undeviginti sheweth that he wanted one of twenty But what need I urge these two last proofes thus far seeing those before them are sufficient I conclude therefore that Herod dyed in the forty three Iulian yeare about the six and twentieth day of February which was three and thirty dayes before Easter for that he dyed so long before Easter appeareth by the great Pompe and State at his Funerall together with some other circumstances mentioned by Iosephus Three and thirty dayes before that 's the least it might perhaps be forty which will therefore make his death to be on the nineteenth day of February feria tertia that being the fift day of the twelfth Moneth Adar thirty seven yeares compleat from his first beginning to reigne and thirty four current from the death of Antigonus when he and Socius tooke Ierusalem There is no objection of moment that can be made against it howbeit because something is objected I shall not be wanting to give an answer Our Country-man Lydiat hath greatly taxed Iosephus as if herein he had reckoned amisse but it was an unjust censure For questionlesse those things wherein he blameth him and would make the world thinke him to be faulty would never have been forgotten by his adversarie Apion if in them he had been worthy of blame The greatest Cavill which I suppose can be urged is out of the fourteenth booke of his Antiquities at the beginning of the seventeenth Chapter where Herod is said to be of the age of fifteene yeares in the time of the Pharsalian battell which was in the year of the City 705 and yeare of the Iulian Period 4666. from whence he lived untill he was about seventy yeares old testified also by the same Author in the 17th Booke of his Antiquities at the eight Chapter and in his first Booke De bello Iudaico at the last Chapter From whence it followeth that Herod dyed not till the year of the Iulian Period 4720. which was the 52 Iulian year when A. Licinius and Q. Caeeilius were Consuls Which if it be true then must not the beginning of his reigne be untill the first year of the Actium fight where Iosephus setteth the seventh yeare of his reigne and not the first even the seventh of his 34 yeares accounted from the taking of Ierusalem by him and Socius Some indeed and among them Cardinall Baronius and our Country-man Lydiat begin the thirty seven years of his reigne but then grounding chiefly upon this That that fight being ended and the Victory falling on the side of Augustus Herod who had taken part with Antonius against him came as a suppliant laid downe his Crowne and had never more taken it up if Augustus the Conqueror had not been favourable and given him leave againe to weare it so that receiving his Crowne at that time from the hands of Augustus he at that time began the 37 years of his reign A weake argument I dare boldly say for this at the most was but the pardoning of his offence and thereupon the confirming of him in his
45.6 Thus we see how Moses is to be understood in Exod. 12.40 and consequently to account the 430. years of this Period For the dwelling of the children of Israel who dwelled in Egypt was 430. yeares that is Their peregrination or their dwelling as strangers And so the Greeke translateth which the Apostle also confirmeth in Act. 13.17 Their dwelling I say as strangers begun from the time that Abraham left his kindred and his Fathers house as already hath been proved For though this people were not called Israelites in Abrahams time ☜ but afterwards N. B. yet because they proceeded out of Abrahams loynes and did evermore boast of him as their Father and because he also the thing which Moses aymes at was the first in their generation who sojourned in a strange land the foresaid Text in Exodus puts no difference but speaks of them all according to that name by which they were then called when Moses brought the seed of Abraham out of Egypt even in the fourth generation as God himselfe had formerly spoken and told it to Abraham in particular long before And thus we have hitherto the right meaning of that text Quest Quest But how is Moses to be understood in his number of 400. yeares in Gen. 15.13 doth not that crosse the former account Answ Nothing at all For there is a double summe of yeares mentioned concerning the seed of Abraham sojourning and afflicted viz. 400. Gen. 15.13 and 430. Exod. 12.40 The 430. yeares was from Abrahams departing out of Haran to the comming of the Israelites out of Egypt as hath been proved And the 400 was from the fifth of Isaac to that time also for both these reckonings have both one time of ending but begin not both at once the latter not beginning till Ismael who was borne of the Egyptian woman Hagar mocked Isaac and was cast out of Abrahams house The Apostle makes this manifest by calling Ismaels mocking of Isaac persecution Galat. 4.28 So also Moses in saying that Abrahams seed should be evill entreated For know this of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs and shall serve them and they shall entreat them evill 400. yeares Gen. 15.13 meaning that from the beginning of this affliction should be 400. years before the end of their affliction from the Egyptian bondage For as the first manifest affliction of Ahrahams seed began now when this son of the Egyptian woman in a strang land mocked Isaac so it ended at the bringing of the same out of Egypt 400. yeares after Not that they were afflicted all that time but that their affliction which began now in a strange land should not be ended nor they brought into their promised land untill the end thereof SECT IIII. Of the fourth Period from the comming out of Egypt to the beginning of the building of King Salomons Temple that it was a Period of 479. yeares compleat or of 480. yeares current THis is proved by a plaine Text in 1 King 6.1 where we read thus And it came to passe in the foure hundredth and fourescore yeare after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt in the fourth yeare of Salomons reigne over Israel in the moneth of Zif which is the second Moneth that he began to build the house of the Lord. In which Text we have the whole summe in grosse but must finde the particulars elsewhere and they are found as followeth First 40. yeares in the wildernesse after the Israelites came out of Egypt Deut. 1.3 Deut. 34.4.5 Josh 1.2 Psal 95.10 Act. 13.18 Secondly 17 to the death of Joshua after Moses For seeing all the other numbers but this may be found expresly written this must needs be as much as all the other when they are gathered together shall want of 480. Thirdly from the death of Joshua to the death of Othniel 40. Jud. 3.11 Fourthly 80. after that to the death of Ehud Jud. 3.30 Fifthly 40. from thence to the death of Deborah Jud. 5 31. Sixthly 40. after that to the death of Gideon Judg. 8.28 Seventhly Abimelech 3 yeares after Gideon Judg. 9.22 Then Thola 23 Judg. 10.2 Jair 22. Judg. 10.3 Jeptha 6. Judg. 12.7 Ibsan 2. Judg. 12.9 Elon X. Judg. 12.9 Abdon VIII Judg. 12.14 Sampson XX. Judg. 16.31 Heli 40. 1 Sam. 4.18 Samuel and Saul 40.10 Act. 13.21 David after Saul 40.2 Sam 5.4 Salomon after David till the founding of the Temple 4 current for in the fourth yeare of his reigne the Temple was founded 1 King 6.1 All which Summes being added together amount to 480. To which I add this note that if Salomon began in the last yeare of King David as some men thinke then must Joshua have 18 yeares for the time that he had ruled after Moses which I also thinke he had Quest But if this account be true Quest how must we understand the 300. yeares in Judg. 11.26 where Jeptha saith That the children of Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her Townes and in Aroer and her Townes and in all the Cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon three hunded years By which it seemeth to be gathered that Jeptha judged not till 300 yeares after the children of Israel came out of the wildernesse into the land of Canaan at the death of Moses And if the time from thence thither were 300. yeares then must the time from the comming out of Egypt to the Temple be more then 480. For from the first yeare of Jeptha to the fourth yeare of King Salomon were 175. years which added to the 40 yeares of the wildernesse and to the 300. after that to Jeptha doe make in all 515. But I answer that these 300. Answ yeares are not to be reckoned from Moses death but from the time mentioned in the beginning of Jeptha's narration ver 16. where the words are But when Israel came up from Egypt c. From whence to the dayes of Jeptha were 306. years which 6 odd yeares Jeptha omitted it being not greatly materiall to account them so precisely thus doth Luther understand the place Iunius Broughton and others Broughtons observation being this Note saith he that the 40 yeares in the wildernesse are joyned as one time here that things done in sundry parts of it be reckoned from one beginning Or as a late writer answereth About 34 years after that Sihon King of the Amorites had fought against the predecessour of Balack the son of Zippor King of Moah and had taken all his Land even unto Arnon Israel smote Sihon and all his people possessed his Country Which was in the last year of Moses From whence unto Ieptha were but 266 years current yet by adding the years of their owne possession unto Sihon's whose right they had by the Law of Conquest Ieptha did justly say that they had dwelt in or possessed those Countries 300 years Which indeed is the same answer that Sir Walter Raleigh giveth in his History of the
Ahasuerus which was his Imperial name and was so called as being the first that obtained the Persian Monarchie by the right of inheritance for such saith Master Lydiat is the signification of the word Ahasuerus or Assuerus Nor will Scaliger himselfe but confesse that it was ordinary with these Kings to change their names when they tooke the Government of the Empire upon them as Cluverus observeth in his Computo Chronologico Cambyses therefore is not unfitly taken for Ahasuerus Ezra 4.6 Next after whom was Magus the Magician who reigned under the name of the brother of Cambyses the other son of Cyrus called by Ctesias not Smerdis as in Herodotus but Tanyoxarces or Tanyoxerxes the same sure which Ezra calleth Artaxerxes or Arthashast Ezra 4.7 So that thus we have the first Artaxerxes he who was before Darius And as for the other after him we need not make question but he was Artaxerxes Longimanus For though Longimanus did not immediately succeed Darius yet was he the first King after him who shewed favour in the restoring Jerusalem If they say the reigne of the Magician was too short to have any hand in the hindring the building of the Temple I answer it was not so short as some may imagine for though he reigned but seven moneths after the death of Cambyses yet was not that the whole time of his reigne for he sat in the throne a good while before even most of the time that Cambyses was out of Persia making war in Egypt and in Ethiopia and against the Ammonians To all which Petavius well accordeth in his twelfth book and 25 Chapter De Doctrina Temporum where noting the Kings of Persia in that order wherein they stand in the book of Ezra thus he saith The first is Cyrus then Assuerus cap. 4.6 to whom the Jews were accused Then Artaxerxes verse 7. who also favoured the Jews enemies and forbad the building of the Temple Afterwards Darius cap. 5. in whose second year the Temple is restored And after him Artaxerxes That Artaxerxes saith he who is mentioned next after Assuerus was not Longimanus but either the same with Assuerus as Josephus thinketh supposing Cambyses to be signified by both those names to whom Torniellus agreeth Or else to speak truely Assuerus is Cambyses and Smerdis the Magician Artaxerxes who cunningly held the Empire eight moneths after Cambyses and hath some of his acts remembred by Herodotus as that he should free his subjects from tribute and grant them a cessation from military employments for the space of three years yea even for almost six years did this personated brother of Cambyses lie hid saith Ctesias and carryed himselfe so cunningly as if he had been Tanyoxerces indeed whom Herodotus call Smerdis Quare ad hunc trahi non immerito potest quod in Esdra legitur Praefectos adversus Judaeos literas ad Artaxerxem dedisse Petav. De Doctr. Tempor lib. 12. c. 25. Learned Langius likewise assenteth hereunto and hath lately declared himselfe against Scaliger in this particular Quid enim vetat saith he reliquorum Regum more hos cum imperium capescerent nomen mutasse ex Cambyse Oxyarem sive Assuerum ex Smerde supposititio quem Ctesias Tanyoxarcen vocat Artoxarcen factum fuisse Thus he with much more to the same purpose in his second book and ninth Chapter De annis Christi And thus in this Section I have shewed the true time of the building of Zorobabels Temple and proved it to be not in the dayes of Darius Nothus but in the dayes of Darius the sonne of Hystaspis who began his reigne in the year of the Julian Period 4193 which was fifteen years after Cyrus proclaimed liberty for the Jews to returne home againe into their owne Country Which account doth exactly agree to the Caelestiall Observations of Ptolomie joyning the twentieth year of this Darius with the 246 of Nabonassar as also the one and thirtieth with the 257 of Nahonassar the first whereof was in the year of the Julian Period 4212 and the next in the year of the same Period 4223. In both which years the Moon is noted by him to be Eclipsed The first according to our Julian account was on the nineteenth day of November And the other on the 25 of Aprill Before which there is another Eclipse noted by him in the seventh year of Cambyses whereto he joyneth the 225 of Nabonassar and was in the year of the Julian Period 4191. The first of Darius Hystaspis must therefore needs be in the year of the said Period 4193. SECT VII Of the seventh Period from the second year of Darius Histaspis to the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus THis seventh Period is a Period of 65 years which I cannot better demonstrate then by running through the reignes of all the Kings of Persia from the first of Cyrus to the end of the last Darius whom Alexander conquered I begin then with Cyrus who by the consent of all Authours began to reigne in the first year of the 55 Olympiad viz. in the latter part thereof which was in the year of the Julian Period 4155 at the Summer time whereof the second year of the said Olympiad began He reigned 30 years as Ctesias and most Authours write of which seven were over Babylon according to Xenophon or nine according to Ptolomie in his Mathematicall Canon of the Kings of Babylon But I like best to follow Xenophon The next after Cyrus was Cambyses who had some kinde of Dominion in the third year of Cyrus as Daniel sheweth but from his Fathers death who dyed in the year of the Julian Period 4185 to his owne death he had but seven years and five moneths as it is testifyed by Herodotus and confirmed by Ptolomie In Ctesias his fragment we finde 18 which I beleeve to be a corruption and should more rightly be eight the last of which was incompleat as by the seven years and five moneths noted in Herodotus well appeareth This King Cambyses went to war in Egypt in the third year of the sixty third Olympiad which was in the year of the Julian Period 4188 as Diodorus sheweth lib. 2. during which time of his war there and in Ethiopia and against the Ammonians his Kingdome at home was governed partly by his owne brother Tanyoxerxes and partly by one of the Magoi of Persia who slew his brother and then counterfeted his person and under the vaile of his name held the Empire til the death of Cambyses and seven moneths after at which time the chiefe Nobles of Persia discovering the fraud slew him and advanced Darius the son of Hystaspis to the throne in the year of the Julian Period 4193. The next therfore that reigned after this counterfeit brother of Cambyses was Darius the son of Hystaspis the years of whose reigne are so diversly computed by sundry Authors as that it may seem hard to say how long he reigned For Tertullian lib. contra Judaeos gives him
c. 25. where he also answereth to what Pererius objecteth against it And indeed it is probable that when Xerxes upon the death of Pausanias who should have betrayed Greece to the Persians but was discovered went about to renew his war against the Grecians that then he tooke this his sonne Artaxerxes to reign with him and to be his next successour which Artabanus afterwards would have hindered and made void but could not The next after this Artaxerxes was Xerxes the second who reigned two Months or as Ctesias saith 45 days After whom Sogdianus had seven or eight Moneths more And when Sogdianus was dead Darius Nothus in the yeare of the Julian Period 4290 began to enter upon those XIX yeares which Diodorus saith was the time of his reigne according to whom I reckon the yeares of all the other Kings in this Monarchie to the end thereof And must therefore give to Artaxerxes Mnemon after the death of Nothus 43 years To Artaxerxes Ochus after the death of Mnemon 23. To Arses after Ochus 3. And to Darius Codoman after Arses 6. And thus we have all the Kings of this Monarchie together with the yeares of their reigne and do thereby finde the death of the last of them to be in the yeare of the Julian Period 4384. But for a more cleare demonstration see the Table following Y. of the Julian Period Yeers of the World Rests Jubilees Captivity Olympiads Egypt Babylon Lydians Medes Persians A Perfect Table for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4131 3422 1  24 2 14  25  35  13  CYRUS over Persta *  This was the 24th yeer of the Captivity the fourteenth yeer of Apries King of Egypt the 25th yeer of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon the 35. of Halyattes King of Lydia and the thirteenth of Astyages King of Media 4132 3423 2  25 3 15  26  36  14   4133 3424 3  26 4 16  27  37  15   4134 3425 4  27 1 17  28  38  16   4135 3426 5  28 2 18  29  39  17   4136 3427 6  29 3 19  30  40  18   4137 3428 7 6 30 4 20  31  41  19   4138 3429 1  31 1 21  32  42  20    4139 3430 2  32 2 22  33  43  21    4140 3431 3  33 3 23  34  44  22    4141 3432 4  34 4 24  35  45  23   Tyrus is yeelded to Nebuchadnezzar and Egypt is conquered soon after continuing under Babel forty yeers 4142 3433 5  35 1 25 Amafis 45. 36  46  24   4143 3434 6  36 2 1 37  47  25   4144 3435 7 7 37 3 2 38  48  26   4145 3436 1 Jub xviii 38 4 3 39  49  27  1 * Nebuchadnezzar is seven yeers mad 4146 3437 2 39 1 4  40  50  28  2 4147 3438 3 40 2 5  41  51  29  3  4148 3439 4 41 3 6  42  52  30  4  4149 3440 5 42 4 7  43  53  31  5  4150 3441 6 43 1 8  44  54  32  6  4151 3442 7 1 44 2 9  45  55  33  7  4152 3443 1  45 3 10  1 Evilmerodaeh 12. 56  34   Evilmerodach began in this yeer and reigned twelve yeers Sulpit. 4153 3444 2  46 4 11  2 57  35   4154 3445 3  47 1 12  3 1 Crefus 14. 1 Cyaxares secundus  Astyages being dead Cyaxares began Xenoph. 4155 3446 4  48 2 13  4 2 2 1  In this yeer Cyrus is made Generall of the Persian and Median Forces from which time his thirty yeers of reign are to be accounted 4156 3447 5  49 3 14  5  3 3 2  4157 3448 6  50 4 15  6  4  4 3  4158 3449 7 2 51 1 16  7  5  5 4  4159 3450 1  52 2 17  8  6  6  5  4160 3451 2  53 3 18  9  7  7  6   4161 3452 3  54 4 19  10  8  8  7   4162 3453 4  55 1 20  11  9  9  8   4163 3454 5  56 2 21  12  10  10  9   4164 3455 6  57 3 22  1 Belshazzar 14. 11  11  10  Evilmerodach being slain in battel Belshazzar began and reigned 14. yeers Sulpit. 4165 3456 7 3 58 4 23  2 12  12  11  4166 3457 1  59 1 24  3 13  13  12  4167 3458 2  60 2 25  4 14  14  13  In this yeer Cyrus conquers Croesus and possesseth his Kingdom 4168 3459 3  61 3 26  5  15  14  4169 3460 4  62 4 27  6  16  15   4170 3461 5  63 1 28  7  17  16   Y. of the Julian Period Yeers of the World Rests Jubilees Olympiads Persians Medes Egypt Babylon Captivity A Perfect Table for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4171 3462 6  2  17 18 29 8  64  4172 3463 7 4 3  18 19 30 9  65  4173 3464 1  4  19 20 31 10  66  4174 3465 2  1 60 20 21 32 11  67  4175 3466 3  2  21 22 33 12  68  4176 3467 4  3  22 23 34 13  69  4177 3468 5  4  23 24 35 14 Cyrus 7. 70  4178 3469 6  1 61 24 25 36 1 Babylon is taken by Cyrus and the seventy yeers of the Captivity are ended even in this first yeer of Cyrus which was also the first of Darius-Medus 4179 3470 7 5 2  25  37 2 4180 3471 1  3  26  38 3  4181 3472 2  4  27  39 4  4182 3473 3  1 62 28  40 5  Egypt shakes off all subjection to the Kingdom of Babylon forty yeers after Nebuchadnezzar conquered it Ezek. 29.13 Jer. 46.26 4183 3474 4  2  29  41 6  4184 3475 5  3  30  42 7  4185 3476 6  4  43 1 Cambyses 7. 5 m. Cyrus being dead Cambyses began to reign alone and reigned from hence seven yeers
and five moneths Herodot 4186 3477 7 6 1 63  44 2 4187 3478 1  2  45 3 4188 3479 2  3  6 4 Cambyses conquers Egypt and being absent from home hath his Kingdom governed by the Magoi of Persia when they had slain his brother 4189 3480 3  4  m 5 4190 3481 4  1 64  6  4191 3482 5  2  7  4192 3483 6  3  8  Magus seven moneths after Cambyses 4193 3484 7 7 4  1 ¶ Darius Hystaspis 34. Darius the son of Hystaspis 34 yeers 4194 3485 1 Jub xix 1 65  2  Haggai and Zachary Prophesie in this yeer and exhort to the building of the Temple 4195 3486 2 2  3   4196 3487 3 3  4   4197 3488 4  4  5   4198 3489 5  1 66  6  4199 3490 6  2  7  in this yeer before the sixt yeer of darius was ended the building of the temple was finished on the third day of the moneth adar ezra 6.15 4200 3491 7 1 3  8  4201 3492 1  4  9  4202 3493 2  1 67  10  4203 3494 3  2  11  4204 3495 4  3  12  4205 3496 5  4  13  4206 3497 6  1 68  14  4207 3498 7 2 2  15  4208 3499 1  3  16  4209 3500 2  4  17  4210 3501 3  1 69  18  Y. of the Julian Period Teers of the World Rests Jerbilees Olympis Persians A perfect Table for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4211 3502 4  2 19  4212 3503 5  3 20 ☽ In this yeer being the 246 of Nabonassar Ptolomy notes an Eclipse of the Moon which by the Julian Kalender was on the nineteenth of November It was as he also saith in the twentieth yeer of Darius Hystaspis  4213 3504 6  4 21   4214 3505 7 3 170 22   4215 3506 1  2 23   4216 3507 2  3 24   4217 3508 3  4 25  4218 3509 4  171 26  4219 3510 5  2 27  4220 3511 6  3 28  4221 3512 7 4 4 29  4222 3513 1  172 30  4223 3514 2  2 31 ☽ Here again Ptolomy notes another Eclipse of the ☽ in the 31 of Darius and yeer of Nabonassar 257. it was by the Julian Kalender April 25.  4224 3515 3  3 32   4225 3516 4  4 33   4226 3517 5  173 34 1 Xerxes 20. ¶ In this yeer Xerxes began to reign and reigned somewhat more then twenty yeers Diod. This King in the Book of Esther is called Ahasuerus as is supposed and thought to be the Husband of Esther Scalig.  4227 3518 6  2 ARTAXERXES from hence 49  2  4228 3519 7 5 3 3  4229 3520 1  4 4   4230 3521 2  174 5   4231 3522 3  2 6  4232 3523 4  3 7  4233 3524 5  4 8  In this yeer Xerxes began to move towards Greece  4234 3525 6  175 9  In this yeer he cometh into Greece with his huge Army and is quickly beaten home again Petav. lib. 13.  4235 3526 7 6 2 10   4236 3527 1  3 11   4237 3528 2  4 12  4238 3529 3  176 13  4239 3530 4  2 14  4240 3531 5  3 1 15  In this yeer about the sixt moneth Artaxerxes Longimanus began first of all to reign he reigned till the seventh yeer of the Peloponnesian War dying in the Winter time thereof and had therefore from hence 49 yeers of reign though from the death of Artabanus but 42 Ctes  4241 3532 6  4 2 16   4242 3533 7 7 177 3 17   4243 3534 1 Jub xx 2 4 18   4244 3535 2 3 5 19   4245 3536 3  4 6 20  4246 3537 4  178 7 7 m Artabanus after Xerxes seven moneths 4247 3538 5  2 8 1 Artaxerxes 42. In this yeer befor ethe seventh of Artaxerxes was ended Ezra having obtained a Commission from the King who now began to reign alone beginneth his journey to Jerusalem on the first day of the first moneth Ezr. 7.9  4248 3539 6  3 9 2  4249 3540 7 1 4 10 3  4250 3541 1  179 11 4  Y. Of the Julian Peiod Yerrs of the World Rests Iuhilees Olympiads Persians A perfect tAble for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4251 3542 2  2 12 5   4252 3543 3  3 13 6   4253 3544 4  4 14 7   4254 3545 5  180 15 8   4255 3546 6  2 16 9   4256 3547 7 2 3 17 10   4257 3548 1  4 18 11   4258 3549 2  181 19 12  In this yeer on the sixt day of October which was the 10th day fo the seventh moneth the Sun being then in 7th d. of Libra the first yeer of DAniels Weeks began For in Dan. 9.25 the Angel sheweth that they were to begin from the executionof the Decree of build again Jerusalem which was not till the twentieth yeer of ARtaxerxes Longimanus when God stirred up Hanani with certain other men of Judah to goe up to Shushan to Nehemiah who related unto him the wofull condition Jerusalem still was in he thereupon after he had fasted and prayed besought the King's leave and favour that he might goe and build the City which was granted From hence herefore even from the beginning of the these mens journey to Shusban the precise accompt of these Weeks beginenth which hereupon casteth the just middle of the last week into the yeer of the Julian Period 4746. and layeth it exactly on the thrid day of April For form the sixt of October in this yeer when the Sun was in the seventh degree of Libra to the thir dof October in the yeer of the Julian Period 4745. when the Sun was also in the seventh degree of Libra were 486. yeers to which adde 182. dayes and so we come to the third of April in the yeer of the same Period 4746 in which yeer and on which very day our Saviour suffered 4259 3550 3  2 20 13   4260 3551 4  3 21 14   4261 3552 5  4 22 15   4262 3553 6  182 23 16   4263 3554 7 3 2 24 17   4264 3555 1  3 25 18   4265 3556 2  4 26 19   4266 3557 3
reigned there is as followeth The latter Kings of Tyre out of Josephus exactly accounted and fixed in their right times  years of their reigne The years of the Julian Period when they began to reigne 1. Ithobalus 19 4123 2. Baal 10 4142 3. Ecnibalus M. 2. 4152 4. Chelbes M. 10. 4152 5. Abharus M. 3. 4153 6. Mytgonus 6 4153 7. Gerastus 6 4153 8. Belatorus 1 4159 9. Merbalus 4 4160 10. Iromus 20 4164 This is the lift By which it appeareth that Tyrus began to be besieged in the year of the Julian Period 4129. three years after the destruction of Ierusalem and a little more then 13 yeares before the Conquest of Egypt For this we are to note that about the Summer time of the year of the Iulian Period 4142. Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt not many Moneths after Tyrus was taken Ezek. 29.17 18 19 20. This was the Six and thirtieth yeare of his reigne or five and thirtieth yeare ending being also the beginning of the first yeare of his absolute Monarchie before which time he had his dream of the foure Monarchies For that dream could not be in the second year of his absolute MOnarchie after he had conquered Egypt because Tyrus as we have seen was first conquered Egypt given him for his wages but Daniel was famous before Tyrus was taken and yet his wisdome not knowne till the expounding of this dreame Ezek. 28.3 and Dan. 2. In the second year therefore of Daniels service with the King he expounded this dream For though it be said In the reigne of Nebuchadnezzar yet are not those words to be joyned with the former in the second yeare as appeareth saith one by the Hebrew distinction rebiah set over the word shetaim Second but to shew that it was not in the Second yeare of Cyrus For in the last words of Daniels first Chapter it is said that Daniel was to the first yeare of King Cyrus Now therefore least any should thinke that this was done in the second of Cyrus direct mention is made of the reigne of Nebuchadnezzar This I thought good to touch at by the way in regard of that mistake which is among many who account the time of this dream to be in the second year after the conquest of Egypt More like it is that in these times Nebuchadnezzar set up his golden Image was famous for his stately buildings had his dreame of the Tree and twelve Moneths after began to be madde which I take to be about the end of the eight and thirtieth year of his reign For in that year I account that the first year of his madnesse began which lasted seven years at the end wherof he was restored and died soon after For if his death had not been soon after the end of his madnesse it is thought he would have restored the Jews out of Captivity But because it was not he that must do this it is like God took him away and kept them still in Captivity untill the first yeare of Cyrus And thus we have the right time also of the conquest of Egypt The King that reigned there then was Apries or as he is called by the Prophet Hophra Ier. 44.30 in whose two and twentieth yeare I thinke it probable that Amasis rebelled against him which thereupon perhaps was the cause why Diodorus saith he reigned but 22 years whereas in Herodotus we finde that he reigned twenty five And indeed it is not unlike but that Egypt was sore shaken before Nebuchadnezzar came to conquer it which therefore helped him to effect that he came for the sooner with the greater ease For what with the calamity of the Cyrenian warre and what with the rebellion of Amasis thereupon the strength and arme of Egypt was greatly broken and so faire a way made for Nebuchadnezzar to come and conquer it as that he might quickly and with much ease performe the worke the businesse in a manner being done to his hand before he came which agrees well to the speech and phrase of the Prophet who saith that this Country was given to him as his wages for that great service which he caused his Army to serve against Tyrus Ezek. 29.18.19 And note after all this that Egypt was not restored untill the end of 40 yeares from hence Ezek. 29.13 Ier. 46.26 And if so then shall Amasis have but five yeares reigne after he revolted from the Babylonian by whom as is very probable he was intrusted with the Lieutenantship of the Country as a reward for his rebellion against his naturall Prince in regard that he thereby helped Nebuchadnezzar there to fix his throne For it is without question that Amasis was neither 44 nor 55 yeares together King of Egypt after Apries though Herodotus and Diodore tell us so The truth is the Priests of Egypt would not mention any thing of Nebuchadnezzars reigning there but did notably delude Herodotus and Diodorus with lyes coyned upon a vaine-glorious purpose of hiding their owne disgrace and bondage and so these two being strangers to that which Nebuchadnezzar did there because they wanted the helpe of holy Scripture rested satisfied with any thing though false that the lying Priests would tell them But as for us we know the contrary and may not smother that which the word of God relateth For thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Behold I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid and he shall spread his royall Pavilion over them Ier. 43.10 But now see the list of them that reigned A List of the latter Kings of Egypt out of Herodotus and fixed in their right times  Years of their reigne The years of the Iulian Per. when they began to reign 1. Psammiricus 54 4041 2. Pharaoh Necho 17 4095 3. Psammis 6 4112 4. Apries 25 4118 ☜ CHAP. XI Of the number of Kings that reigned in Babylon during the time of the Captivity THe fragments of Berosus and Megasthenes in accounting more Kings then three during the time of the Captivity agree so ill with the Scripture as I know not how to build upon them For they tell us of Nebuchadnezzar Evilmerodach Naragalrasar Labosardach and Nabonidus whereas in Scripture we find no more named then Nebuchadnezzar Evilmerodach and Belshazzar And as no more named so no more to be named nor reckoned for Kings of Babylon during these times For in Scripture this we find This whole Land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these Nations shall serve the King of Babylon 70 years And it shall come to passe when 70 years are accomplished that I will punish the King of Babylon and that Nation saith the Lord Jer. 25.11 12. And againe All Nations shall serve him and his son and his sons son untill the very time of his Land come and then many Nations and great Kings shall serve themselves of him Ier. 27.7 And when
the Julian Period 3427. which thereupon directs us to the beginning of his reigne in the year of the same Period 3396. And that it was so long before that expedition is mentioned by Eusebius out of Apollodorus in libro de temporibus But you will say when and in what year was that Expedition I answer it was in the end of the reigne of Laomedon and in the beginning of the reigne of Priamus as Helvicus hath well observed Now Priamus we know reigned but till the destruction of Troy which was destroyed in the year of the Iulian Period 3530. 408. years before the beginning of the Olympiads of Iphitus Diod. lib. 14. and 432 before Rome was built Priamus therefore must needs begin to reigne in the year of the Iulian Period 3490 for he reigned forty years and no more as Bucholcerus out of Archilochus hath recorded And if Priamus began to reign then it will follow that then also was the expedition of the Argonauts how else could it be in the end of the reigne of Laomedon and beginning of Priamus as Helvicus saith it was And thus we have the beginning and ending of the Kingdome of Argos rightly fixed and consequently the beginning of the Kingdome of Mycenae but how long Perseus reigned is still unknowne Probable it is that he and his sonne Stethlenus had together sixty six years Eurystheus 45. Atreus and Thyestes six Agamemnon 18. Aegystus six Orestes 70. Tisamenus Penthilus and Cometes three these ended in the year of the Iulian Period 3610. at that descent of the Heraclidae which was foure score years after the fall of Troy Know also that the Olympiads of Hercules began 442. years before those of Iphitus as is reckoned by Clemens out of an old ancient Chronologer after which he lived not above nine years as is very probable and therefore dyed in the year of the Iulian Period 3505. upon whose death his children are banished by Eurystheus for feare they should deprive him of his Kingdome But by this feare he wrought himselfe a mischiefe for hereupon it came to passe that by two years after they came against him and destroyed him as already hath been said But now see a Catalogue of these in their right times as near as in all probability can be gathered Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A Catalogue of the Kings of Mycenae probably fixed in their right times 3396 Ferseus and Stethlenus 66. 3426. Euristhous 45. 3507. Atrius and Thyestes 6. 3513. Agamemnon 18. 3531. Aegystus 6. 3537. Orestes 70. 3607. Tisamenus Penthilus and Cometes 3. 3610. In this year was the descent of the Heraclidae foure score years after the fall of Troy Now also ended the Kingdome of Sycionia For as most Authours say upon this returne of the posterity of Hercules the Kingdome of Mycenae was changed to Lacedemon and was under the government of Euristhenes whilst that of Sycion was translated unto Corinth and was under the government of Alethes both these beginning much about one and the same time Of which more shall be spoken afterward CHAP. VI. Of the Kingdome and Kings of Athens the first whereof was Cecrops THis Kingdome of Athens was scituated also in Greece as well as those of Sycion Argos and Mycenae already mentioned The * The first I meane in this knowne Dinastie first King was Cecrops from the beginning of whose reigne to the death of Codrus were 490 years as Gaffarell sheweth from the testimony of those who have read no lesse from the Characters of the Stars Eusebius wanteth three years of this number the reason whereof I take to be because he accounts no time of Interregnum between Pandion and Aegeus of which I shall speake more by and by In the meane time I begin with Cecrops who reigned fifty years and began in the year of the Iulian Period 3154. It is reported that he was of a double shape his upper part like a man and his lower part like a beast but this is a fable For he was indeed called * Id est A duobus natur is constants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but it was because he spake two languages saith Eusebius as well the language of the Greecians as the language of the Egyptians among whom he was borne and from whom he came Or else being taller then other men he was as if he had the proportion of two men Or finally he was called Diphyes because he taught the people civility and did also institute a strict observance of the matrimoniall band and society taking order that women should be deprived of that licensious liberty which formerly was a little too common among them this therefore made some say that he was man in his upper parts but his lower were feminine as Ludovicus Vives noteth When he began to repaire the City where he reigned called afterward Athens an Olive tree grew sodenly up in one place and a fountain burst as sodenly out in another Which prodigies drave the King to Delphos to know the Oracles minde whose answer was that the Olive tree signified Minerva and the fountain Neptune and that the City might be called after which of these the people pleased Hereupon Cecrops gathered all the people of both sexes together to make their Election the men being for Neptune Aug. De. tivit Dei li. 18. c. 9. and the women for Minerva now it so fell out that the women had the most voices who thereupon named the City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is as Saint Austine saith Minerva Neptune being displeased herewith spoyled the Country by * This was through the power of the Divell by whom also their Oracles spake inundation And the people to pacifie him punished the women by enacting three lawes against them First that thenceforth no woman should be admitted to any consultation Secondly that none after that time should be named after the name of their mother And thirdly that none of their families should be named Athenae Ludovicus Vives saith there were three Cities of this name The first this in Achaia The second in the I le of Euboea And the third in Laconia The next King after Ceerops was Cranaus Deucaliens Flood he reigned nineyeares and was Sonne in Law to Cecrops Deucalions Flood was in his time as Varro saith and as the Marmora Arundelliana cast it in the fourth yeare of his reigne which by my account falleth into the yeare of the Julian Period 3207. and after the Flood of Ogyges 257. years This Flood was in Thessalie where Deucalion then was King For we are to note that he reigned in Thessalie neare the mount of Pernasus But it extended farther then so For it wasted Italy Greece and the Island of Atalanta and yet that in Ogyges time is said to be greater Prometheus foretold of this Deluge Deucalion thereupon * He also invented the wearing of Rings on the fourth finger as saith Eusebius provided himselfe a kind of Vessel called
as I have already mentioned Mnestheus was the next King of Athens who attained the Kingdome through the faction of Helen's bretheren who expelled Theseus and made him King This Mnestheus reigned twenty foure years and dyed but a little before Aeneas came into Italie as Ludovicus Vives noteth Demophoon reigned next but was none of his Son For Demophoon was the Son of Theseus and Phaedra who upon the death of Mnestheus recovered his Fathers Kingdome and reigned in it thirty three years This was he who for his neglect caused faire Phillis to hang her selfe Oxintes succeeded Demophoon and reigned after him twelve years His successour was Aphidas who reigned one year After Aphidas was Timoetes who reigned eight years Then after him was Melanthus who reigned 37. years The next after him was Codrus who reigned 21. years and was the seventeenth and last King of Athens For the next that governed here after Codrus were the Archontes perpetui after them the Archontes decennales and last of all the Archontes annui The Archontes perpetui were for terme of life and did in their successions reigne 316. years after the death of Codrus The Archontes decennales had ten years a peece and did reigne each after other untill seventy years were ended The Archontes annui were no other then yearly officers whos 's first beginning was in the year of the Iulian Period 4030 which was the first year of the 24. Olympiad and is an account commended much by Master Selden in his Marmora Arundelliana who in that book placeth the first of these annuall officers in the very same year I shall not need to set downe the particular names of these untill I come to shew you them in their right times which shall be now in the following Catalogues Years of the Iulian Period when they beg A perfect List or Catalogue of the Athenian Kings ex Eusebio 3154. Cecrops 50. 3204. Cranaus 9. 3213. Amphyction 10. 3223. Ericthonius 50. 3273. Pandion 40. 3313. Ericthius 50. 3363. Cecrops secundus 40. 3403. Pandion the second 25. 3428. An Interregnum of two years began now 3430. The end of the Interregnum and beginning of Aegeus whose time of reign was 48. years 3478. Theseus 30. 3508. Mnestheus 24. 3532. Demophoon 33. 3565. Oxintes 12. 3577. Aphydas 1. 3578. Timoetes 8. 3586. Metanthus 37. 3623. Codrus 21. 3644.  In this year was the death of Codrus just foure hundred and ninety yeares fince Cecrops the first began to reigne This was the last King of Athens who for the good of his Country put himselfe into a disguise that he might be slame For when the Kings of Peloponnesus who descended from Hercules warred upon Athens it was told them by the Oracle that they should conquer if they killed not the Atheman King hereupon they concealed as much as they could the answer of the Oracle and withall gave a strict charge that none should touch Codrus But the Athenians hearing of this Oracle Codrus being desirous of glory and the good of his Country disguised himselfe went into the Camp of his Enemies and falling to brable with the Souldiers was flaine from whence * Aug de civit dei lib. 18. c. 19 came that saying of Virgill Aut jurgia Godri Now after this the Athenians would have no more Kings which was not out of any inconvenience found in the rule of Soveraignty but in honour of Codrus as saith a learned Knight Sir Walter Raleigh lib. 2 cap. 17. Sect. 10. in his History of the World And indeed it might very well be so for after Codrus had thus delivered his Country the Athenians * Aug. lib. 18. cap. 19. de civit dei sacrificed to him as a God and would as I said have after him no more Kings for feare I think they should not be so good as he For his worth was able to Eclipse theirs if at any time they failed of what was required Howbeit the Government was still in a manner Regall for between Kings and the Archontes perpetui was little or no difference save onely in the name For the Princes that followed after Codrus without regall name governed Athens during the time of their life and so in effect were Kings although they were called Archonts The first of these was Medon from whom all else in the same Dynastie were called Medontidae of which as followeth Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A perfect List or Catalogue of the Archonts of Athens called Archontes perpetui ex Eusebio 3644. Medon 20. 3664. Agasâ—us 36. 3700. Archippus 19. 3719. Tersippus 41. 3760. Phorbas 31. 3791. Mezades 30. 3821. Diognetus 28. 3849. Pheredus 19. 3868. Ariphron 20. In his time Sardanapalus began to reig 3888. Tespiâ—us or Thesphorus 27. In his time Sardanapalus lost his Kingdome as saith Eusebius 3915. Agamnestor 20. 3935. Aeschilus 23. 3958. Alemenon 2. 3960. Here was the end of this Dynastie  Archontes decennales 3960. Carops 10 3970. Aesimides 10. 3980. Elidicus 10. 3990. Hippomenes 10. 4000. Leocrates 10. 4010. Absander 10. 4020. Erixias 10. 4030.  Here the Archontes decennales ended and the Archontes annui began therein agreeing to that which Master Selden commendeth in his Marmora Arundelliana who placeth the first of these Annuall officers in the very same year as I said before CHAP. VII Of the Kings that reigned in the Kingdome of Troy before the Greeks destroyed it THe first of these Kings with whom I begin was Dardanus the son in Law of Teucer he began to reigne in the year of the Julian Period 3234 and as Eusebius saith reigned 63. years His Kingdome was in Phrygia the lesse and Asia the lesser The chiefe City was Troy which he built and called it after his owne name Dardania Of Tros it came to be called Troy and of Ilus Ilium Ericthonius succeeded Dardanus and reigned after him 46. yeares Euseb Homer and Diodorus say that he was extreamly rich and that he had 30000 Mares and their Colts continually feeding in his Pastures Tros succeeded Ericthonius and reigned after him 61. Euseb He altered the name of Dardania and turned it to Troy from whom the people also were called Trojans Ilus was the next King he would that the City should be called Ilium and so was Howbeit it lost not the name of Troy but it was known by both names The time of his reigne here was 50 yeares Laomedon succeeded Illus and reigned after him thirty six yeares Ral. After Laomedon was King Priamus who reigned not 52. but 40. years according to the best and truest account taken by Bucholcerus out of Archilochus So that all the times of these Kings was 296. yeares And now see their List rightly fixed Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Troy before it was destroyed all of them fixed in their right times 3234. Dardanus 63. 3297. Fricthonius 46. 3343. Tros 61. 3404. Ilus 50. 3454. Laomedon 36. 3490. Priamus 40 3530.
Gurginius 3.  4535. Merian 2.  * He was buried at Ikaldown or as we now call it Jekelton in Cambridgesheir For so I find it in a very old Chronicle of England * He built Cambride and Grantham * He built the Towne of Pickering Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg The continuation of the former List or Catalogue of the British Kings   4537. Bladunc 2.  4539. Capb 1.  4540. Ovinus 2.  4542. Cicill 2.  4544. Bledgebred 20.  4564. Archemall 14.  4578. Eldelus 4.  4582. Rodianus 32.  4614. Hertir or Redarius 5.  4619. Samulius 2.  4621. Penisellus 3.  4624. Pyrrhus 6.  4630. Caporus 7.  4637. Dinellus 3.  4640. Helius * 1. * The Isle of Eley was named after his name and the town thereof built by him 4641. Lud 11.  4652. Cassibelan 19.  4659. In this year being the eighth of Cassibelan Cesar came first against Britaine but was repulsed and made no Conquest here till the next yeare   4660. This was that next the ninth of Cassibelan the 699. of Rome and the third yeare of the 181. Olympiad it was also the 4660. yeare of the Julian Period and yeare oâ— the World 3951. And now had the Britaines reigned 1055. yeares current when Cesar made this conquest   4671. Theomantius reigned next 23.  4694. Cymbeline 35. In his time Christ was born 4729. Guiderius 28. He denied to pay the Romans their tribute whereupon the Emperour Claudius raised a great Army and came against him in the yeare of our Lord 43. * He is said by some to rule 60. yeares and that the yeares of the Kings before him ever since the death of Elidure are uncertain in his time Cherry-Trees was first planted in this Iland as Master Isâ—â—cson writeth in his Chronology pag. 171. The next after Guiderius was Arviragus he reigned 28. yeares and began in the yeare of the Julian Period 4757. In the last yeare but one of his reigne Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus the sonne of Vespasian even in the year of the Julian Period 4783. And thus I have prosecuted this History of the British Kings thus farre and listed them in their right times and order as neare as I can and have as you see taken my first Rise from the arrivall of their first King Brutus who comming out of France came into this Land then called Albion and found no other Inhabitants in it but some Gyants which dwelled in Moutaines and Caves these were vanquished by him and his men the chiefest whereof was Corin one of Brutes strongest Champions by whom the Gyant Gogmagog was slaine But if this Island were once a Continent to France as Verstegan proveth in his * chap 4. restitution of decayed Antiquities then I do suppose the most ancient name thereof was Samothea Afterward being made an Island by the Sea eating through that little Isthmus or neck of Land between Dover and Calice it was called Albion from Albion a Son of Neptune as some have said by whom and whose posterity it was inhabited untill Brute made conquest of it which as is commonly accounted was in the year before Christ 1108. And there I have fixed it even in the yeare of the Iulian Period 3606. and yeare of the World by my account 2897. CHAP. XI Containing the Dynasties of severall other Kingdomes THe Kingdomes which next offer themselves to be considered are the Kingdomee of Lacedemon and Corinth which began at the last descent of the Heraclidae fourscore yeares after the destruction of Troy as before in the end of the fifth Chapter was shewed Some begin them both in one yeare whilst others make a yeares difference which I doe beleeve ariseth from this that Automenes is sometimes reckoned for the last King of Corinth and sometimes for the first Annuall Officer after the end of the second Dynastie But I for my part shall reckon Automenes for the * and so Eusebius also reckons last King after whom were Annuall Officers or Princes for 124. yeares as is accounted by Helvicus in his Chronologie At the end of which yeares Cypselus began to reigne and reigned 28. yeares Some say that he was a Tyrant but by Sir Walter Raleigh in his History of the World lib. 2. cap. 28. Sect. 5. he is mentioned not as a Tyrant but as a quiet Prince who notwithstanding by expelling the race of the Bachidae made himselfe Lord of Corinth After Cypselus was Periander who was indeed a Tyrant and reigned 44. yeares according to Aristotle dying in the fourth year of the 48. Olympiad as saith Laertius The death therefore of this Tyrant and end of the Kingdome of Corinth fell into the yeare of the Julian Period 4129. for then was the fourth yeare of the 48. Olympiad And as for the beginning of it that must be in the yeare of the same Period 3610. foure score yeares after the fall of Troy as already hath been said See now the List Years of the Iulian Period when they beg A List of the Kings of Corinth ex Euseb all fixed in their right times  3610. Athletes or Alethes 35. Dynastie 1. 3645. Ixion 37. Dynastie 1. 3682. Agilaus 37. Dynastie 1. 3719. Pryminas 35. Dynastie 1. Years of the Iulian Period when they beg The Dynastie of the Bachidae in Corinth ex Eusebio  3754. Bachis 35. Dynastie 2 3789. Agelas 30. Dynastie 2 3819. Eudemus 25. Dynastie 2 3844. Aristemedes 35. Dynastie 2 3879. Egemnon 16. Dynastie 2 3895. Alexander 25. Dynastie 2 3920. Phelesteus 12. Dynastie 2 3932. Automenes 1. Dynastie 2 3933. Annuall Officers began and continued one hundred twenty foure yeares  4057. Cypselus 28. 4085. Periander 44. 4129. The death of Periander and fourth year of the forty eight Olympiad  Years of the Iulian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Lacedemonian Kings taken out of Eusebius and fitted to their right times  3610. Euristheus 42. 3652. Agis 1. 3653. Archestratus 35. 3688. Labotes 37. 3725. Doristus 29. 3754. Agesilaus 44. 3798. Archelaus 60. 3858. Telechus 40. 3898. Alcamenes 37. 3935. Here was the end of this List or Catalogue in in which were seven Kings and they among them reigned 325. yeare  The next that I shall mention The reigns of the Lydians were the Kings of Lydia and the time of their Dynasties the first of which I must passe over as not knowing how to reckon it The second began in the yeare of the Julian Period 3492. and lasted as saith Herodotus 505. yeares even till the beginning of Gyges but we want a continued Series of the Kings for the space of 426. yeares even till the first yeare of Ardysus who reigned 36. yeares Alyattes 14. Meles 12. Candaules 17. After Candaules the third Dynastie began and had in it 170 * not compleat but current years divided among five Kings
fortunate in the enlarging of it they said of him that he was a second Ninus the time of whose reigne is gathered out of Castor aforesaid in the Greeke Chronicle of Eusebius to be nine yeares His Successor I take to be the same who in the Scripture is called Phul and came in the dayes of Menahem and invaded the land of Israel 2 Kin. 15.19 and 1 Chr. 5.26 How long he reigned is not expressed any where that I know except it be in the Writings of Annius where we find 48. yeares mentioned for the time of his reigne Tiglath pilezer succeeded him and according to the said Author reigned 25. years Salmanasar 17. Senacharib 7. How I should contradict this Author for the reigns of these four Kings I cannot see except it be in the reigne of Phul who if the rest be right must have but 43. because after Senacharibs army was slain by the Angel and that he thereupon went streight way home with shame to his owne Country he lived not fully fifty five dayes For before 55. dayes were ended he was slain by his own Sons Adramelech and Sharezer as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god Tob. 1.21 and Esa 37.38 If any further helpe could be had from other Authors I would not be beholding to Annius for thus much but because it cannot it wil I hope be no harm to take aime from him so farre as he thwarts no other To the next King namely Esarhaddon or as he is otherwise written Asarhaddon he giveth ten years but there I leave him For it is extreamely probable that he had a longer time then so thirty yeares in Niniveh and after that twelve yeares more in Babilon In all 42. with some odde moneths over above For at the end of the eight years of Interregnum that were in Babilon the King that began to reigne there was Assaradinus as Ptolomy calleth him in his Mathematical Canon of the Kings of Babilon who in all probability was this Assarhaddon the Sonne of Senacharib formerly mentioned And now see the List Yeares of the Julian whē they began to reigne A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Assyria after Sardanapalus 3893. Ninus junior 19. 3912. Phul 43. 3955. Tiglath pileser 25. 3980. Salmanassar 17. 3997. Senacharib 7. 4004. Esarhaddon 30. 4034. Here as is probable this King Esarhaddon beto reign in Babilon after he had been King of Assyria 30. years But the first of them in Babilon whose years of reign stand upon record since the Death of Sardanapalus was Nabonassar and with him Ptolomy begins his Mathematicall Canon before mentioned Howbeit by what we find elswhere it may be gathered that there were Kings of Babilon after Sardanapalus before the Aera of this King Nabonassar took beginning as in Eusebius his Chronicle may be seen in the beginning of the reigne of Arbaces For first having shewed how the Empire of the Assyrians was shattered in pieces by the fall of this Epicurious King he saith that the Medes brought it home to themselves that is they purchased hereby their ancient Liberty which with reference to the opinion of Herodotus before mentioned he sheweth to be so great that it was as if they had no Princes to reigne over them untill the time of Dioces and yet he setteth down four that reigned before him But they by slacking too much the reins of Soveraignty did more hurt to the generall estate of Media then the pleasure of freedome which it enjoyed could recompence For hereupon it came to passe that the Assyrians encroached upon their Dominions and got away some towns from them which they held still in the dayes of Salmanassar when the ten Tribes were carried away captive as the holy Scriptures beare us witnesse in 2 Kin. 18.11 and elsewhere Then secondly the Chaldeans also prevailed and had saith Eusebius successions of Kings And so had other Nations too who were now governed by their own proper Kings as wel as they By which it appeareth that there were Kings of Babylon before Nabonassar for the time from the death of Sardanapalus to the beginning of his reigne was 74 years But who they were that reigned in that space excepting Belesis or Belochus who was contemporary with Arbaces is altogether unknowne Probable it is that a new race of Kings began in Nabonassar or that he was some excellent restorer of Astronomie and thereupon had the honour of an account of times to be instituted and observed in memory of him ever after which began on the six and twentieth day of February in the year of the Julian Period 3967 when the year of the World was 3258. And as for the Kings you have them before in the first Part even in the latter end of the seventh Chapter page 50. The reignes also of the Kings of Persia The Kings of Persia from the beginning of Cyrus to the end of the last Darius be likewise there in the seventh Section of the eighth Chapter I shall not need therefore to set them downe againe here in this place but come next to the Kings of Mecedon These reigned 485 years from the beginning of Cranaus The Kings of Mecedon to the death of Alexander Magnus as Saint Austin rightly reckoneth in his twelfth booke and tenth Chapte Decivitate Dei This Cranaus began in the year of the Julian Period 3905. and reigned twenty eight years of whom and his Successours in the following List Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Macedon fixed in their right times 3905. Cranaus 28. 3933. Coenus 12. 3945. Tyrimas 38. 3983. Perdiccas the first 51. 4034. Archeus 38. Yeares of the Iulian Period whē they beg The continuation of the former List or Catalogue of the Kings of Macedon 4072. Philippus 38. 4110. Aeropus 26. 4136. Alcetas 29. 4165. Amyntas the first 50. 4215. Alexander dives 43. 4258. Perdiccas the second 41. 4299. Archelaus 16. 4315. Orestes 00. 4315. Aeropas tutour to Orestes 6. 4321. Pausanias 1. 4322. Amyntas primo 1. 4323. Argeus 2. 4325. Amyntas again 21. 4346. Alexander 1. 4347. Alorites 3. 4350. Prediccas 4. 4354. Philip the Father of Alexander 24. 4378. Alexander magnus 12. 4390. Here Alexander dyed even in the first year of the hundreth and fourteenth Olympiad And note that Perdiccas the second had a longer reign then is commonly given him for he was alive in the sixtenth yeare of the Peloponnesian Warre and could not therefore have lesse then forty one yeares which number is given him by Nicomedes Acanthius as he is cited by Master Selden in his Marmora Arundelliana When he had reigned about twenty seven yeares viz. about the third or fourth yeare of the Peloponnesian War Sitalces King of Thrace came against him with a purpose to have made Philip the sonne of Amyntas King but by the care of Perdicccas a Peace was made and so Perdiccas kept his Kingdome still Note also that at the death of Alexander
magnus the Grecian Monarchie was divided and came at last to be in foure chiefe darts viz. Syria Macedon Egypt and Asia the lesse as before in the first Part may be seene CHAP. XII Of the Kings and other Governours of Rome from the foundation thereof by Romulus to the Destruction of Hierusalem by Titus I Shewed before in the end of the ninth Chapter of this second Part that when Romulus began to reigne the foundation of Rome was laid viz. in the yeare of the Julian Period 3962. at the Summer time whereof the first year of the seventh Olympiad began 432. yeares after the Destruction of Troy This was in the yeare of the World 3253. the sixth year of Jotham King of Judah and the seventh of Paka King of Israel before which time that which now began to be a City was but an ordinary Village The first Government whereof was by Kings which lasted 244. yeares as in the following Catalogue may be seene Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A Catalogue of the Kings of Rome fixing them all in their right places 3962. Romulus 37. 3999. An Interregnum 1. 4000. Numa Pompilius 43. 4043. Tullus Hostilius 32. 4075. Ancus Martius 24. 4099. Tarquinius Priscus 38. 4137. Servius Tullius 44. 4181. Tarquinius Superbus 25. 4206. Here was the end of the Goverment by Kings The next Government was of Consuls who began in the year of the Julian Period 4206. There were other alterations afterward but that which was most eminent was the Government of Emperours The first whereof in some sort was Julius Cesar by whom the Brittains were made tributary in the ninth of Cassibelan but not till Augustus was Rome fully brought under the command of one Soveraigne Imperiall Monarch He therefore properly was the first Emperour whose death did so much greive the people that they wished either that he had never been borne or else that he had never dyed Tiberius succeeded him and began in the Julian Period 4727. after his Predecessour forementioned had reigned 57. years five moneths and foure dayes for Cesar was slaine in the Senate house receiving there three and twenty wounds in the year of the Julian Period 4670. on the fifteenth day of March and Tiberius began on the nineteenth day of August when Augustus dyed even in the year of the said Period 4727 aforesaid not long before that Eclipse of the Moon which Tacitus mentions This Tiberius dyed on the sixteenth day of March in the year of the Julian Period 4750 after he had reigned 22 years six moneths and 28 dayes His successour was Caligula who reigned three years ten moneths and nine dayes He was so prodigall that he spent an hundred Millions of money in three years He deflowred his three fisters and one of their daughters and was also so cruell that he wished all the people of Rome to have had but one neck that he might cut it off at one blow Finally he dyed being slaine by Cassius Cherea and Sabinus the Tribune on the 24 day of January in the year of the Julian Period 4754. His Unckle Claudius succeeded him and reighed thirteene years eight moneths and ten dayes In his time was that Famine which Agabus foretold Acts 11.28 He commanded all Jewes to depart from Rome Asts 18.2 And made Felix Governour of Judea who was made to tremble in the presence of his Minion Drausilla at Saint Pauls Sermon of Temperance and Judgement to come Acts 24.24 25. Simon Magus lived in his time and so played his pranks in Rome that he got to be honoured as a God After Claudius that cruell monster Nero began to reigne in the year of the Julian Period 4767 on the thirteenth day of October at which time the aforesaid Emperour dyed being poysoned by his wife Agrippina through the helpe of a Physician whose name was Xenophon This Nero was a most notorious wicked man he reigned thirteen years seven moneths and 28. dayes dying by his owne hand on the ninth of June in the year of the Julian Period 1681 one year and 20 dayes before Vespasion was made Emperour Galba succeeded in the year aforesaid whose whole time was but seven moneths and eight dayes He was slain by Otho who after three moneths and foure dayes killed himselfe being overcome by Vitellius who also after nine moneths is slain and Vesprtian thereupon sole Emperour In the second year of whose reigne that stately City and Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus the gallant and brave son of this Emperour in the year of the Julian Period 4783 as more at large in my first Part and last Chapter I have declared to which I now send you For here I intend no more but shall put an end now even to this Part also giving thanks unto God who hath brought me unto it Laus Deo FINIS Errata PAge 5. for evolvendo read revolvendo page 9. line 24. for be the best read be in the best p. 12. l. 27. read excerptis p. 14. l. 21. r. course of the Sun p. 15. l. 1. f. no other r. no moneth p. 16 l. 2. for twentieth r. two and tweitieth and l. 4. f. been r. but p. 17. l. 4. r. spoken of p 25. cap 5. f. October r. Aprill p 29. f. a Quartaine r. that a quartaine p. 31. l. 8. for of the Rest r. of Rest p. 33. l. 3. r. enough p. 36. l. 18. r. is concluded p. 37. l. 1. f. to r. in l. 14. f. on r. of p 38 l. 1. r. had not been l. 27. f. to r. on f. a Sabbath r. Sabbath l. 34. r. as I said l. 37. r. as we are pag. 39. l. 11. r. on Ararat p. 40. lin 32. for thirteenth read thirtieth page 42. line 42. for Egypt read out of Egypt page 49. line 9. for to read not page 70. line 13. r. of the Chaldees and l. 20. f. 57 r. 75. p. 71 l. 23 r. was his house p. 72 l. 3 r. goe on p. 75 l. 17 f. sed r. blessed p. 76 l. 27 r. which was 137 p. 77 l. 17 r. how to account p. 83 lin 36 r. Danites p. 91 l. 14 r. Jehoahaz 3 months In the Table of the Kings of Judah in Joash his reign f. the seventeenth of Jehu r. the seventh p. 108 l. 37 r. Zacharia p. 110 l. 32 r. Zorobabel p. 112 l. 24 r. as Ezra sheweth c. 4. An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Year of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The twelfe Moneth MARCH The twelfth Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. Â Â 1 12 Â A Â 2 13 Â B On this day a third Dove is sent and she returns no more howbeit Noah did not open the covering of the Ark untill the first day of the next Moneth Gen. 8.12 13. 3 14 Â C 4 15 Â D 5 16 Â E 6 17 Â F Â 7 18 Â G Â 8 19 Â A Â 9 20 Â B Â 10 21 Â C The first day of the Week 11 22