in fight was slaine himselfe This is the summe of Herodotus wherein the league betweene the Medes and Persians as two nations linked and confederate in one is cleane dashed and also Darius Medus or Cyaxares is quite wipt out beside the taking of Babylon in the day time and other diuersities Metasthenes differeth from both these for first hauing reckoned vp the kinges of Medes from Arbaces to Apanda in the same sort as Ctesias Guidius doth in Diodorus sixt booke who also addeth that Apanda was called Astyages of the Grecians he saith that Cyrus and Darius subdued him and raigned in Persia sixe yeares and after resigning the kingdome of Persia to Cambyses his sonne they made warre against Tamaris sixe yeares In the sixt yeare being called out by the Babilonians they slewe Baltassar reunited the Monarchie and translated it to the Persians where they raigned ioyntly two yeares and then Cyrus 22 alone whome succeeded Priscus Artaxerxes Assuerus 20 yeares being Darius sonne who reuenged the Tamarical faction Patruum which by deceite slewe his fathers brother Cyrus After him followed his sonne Darius Longiman Heere you see Metasthenes maketh Cyrus and Darius brethren and both Persians because after the subduing of the king of Medes they raigned in Persia and after the killing of Baltassar they reduced the Monarchie to the Persians as Diodorus maketh Cyrus for of Darius he maketh no mention king of Persians when he tooke Apanda Secondly he preferreth Cyrus as the elder and better in that his sonne Cambyses was made king of Persia before they had Babylon 3 He maketh them to haue sixe yeares warre with Tamaris before they slew Baltassar though Cyrus were not slaine there 4 That the kingdome of Persia was resigned to Cambyses six yeares before the taking of Babylon of whose issue and succession he speaketh nothing but affirmeth that Priscus the sonne of Darius succeeded Cyrus in Babylon 5 that the Babilonians rebelled against their king and sent for Cyrus and Darius to ayde them 6 Betweene Cyrus and Longiman he maketh but one king Priscus whereas the Greekes reckon three and that agreeably to Daniel to whome Chap. 10.1.2 the Angell sheweth that betweene Darius Medus and the rich king that should rayse all against the Graecians that is Xerxes there should be three kinges of Persia and he should be the fourth Those were Cyrus Cambyses Darius Histaspis and Xerxes of which three last Herodotus writeth of certaintie without intimation of any other reportes Philo in Breuiar li. 2. agreeth with Metasthenes but that he giueth an Epithet to Darius that died in Cyrus second yeare naming him Darius Histaspis and further addeth that the principall fautor of the Tamaricall faction was Artaxat who compelled the Assyrians Medes and Persians to reuolt from Priscus in so much that Priscus kept himselfe at Babylon but in the end be sudued Artaxat Thus you see the great oddes among writers in this article all which Clemens Schubertus laboureth and toyleth to reconcile together But I doubt he hath lost both oyle and toyle Yet that which he hath done perhaps may giue light to some other grounded Historician to effect some further matter The meane season for the order of the kinges or Emperours in the Persian Morarchie we are to followe Xenophon for Darius and Cyrus and Herodotus for the rest as most agreeable to holy Scripture And for the Confirmation of these two last articles and the iust Chronologie thereof I will take a course more certaine Virg. Georg 1. euen the course of the Sunne with the Moone Solem quisdi cere falsum Audeat obserued by Ptolomie and other of the most autentique humane writers And to tye their Chronologie to the Computation of the Scripture which ceaseth with the ende of the Captiuitie Ieremie the Prophet helpeth vs to a string or sinewe Cap. 25.1 where he coupleth the fourth yeare of Iehoiakim that is the 3398. yeare of the world with the first yeare of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon This verse of Ieremie is the very kay of Chronologie wherefore I will first shew how the Diuine and Humane Chronologie is locked together and after vnlocke and open it with this kay And first as we reckon the yeares of the kinges of Iuda after Ezechias for full and complete so we begin their raigns alike as we did his that is at the beginning of the vsuall yeare as shall appeare in the Table Wherefore Iehoiakims fourth began euen with the beginning of 3398. Againe Nabuchodonosors first yeare did not beginne euen with the first day of Iehoiakims fourth yeare but at the first day of the month Phamenòth being the seuenth month of the Chaldaeans which Phamenòth in that age began about or rather anone after the middle of Thamus which was the fourth month of the Hebrewes so that about three monthes and an halfe of Nabuchodonosors first concurred with Iehoiakims fift as appeareth Ier. 52.29 where one captiuitie or carying away of the Iewes is attributed to Nabuchodonosors seauenth yeare which could not be before Iehoijakims 11 yeare when Iehoiakim and the Nobles were caried away And so by this means Iehoiakim raigned not aboue two monthes of his 11. yeare not full so much I meane as was in Nabuchodonosors seuenth and then Iehoakim raigned three monthes who was taken in Nabuchodonosors eight yeare the beginning of which three monthes was in Nabuchodonosors seuenth the end in his eight so that Zedechias began in the beginning of the sixt month of the yeare of the world 3405. that is about the middle of the second month of Nabuchodonosors eight yeare and consequently the fourth month of the yeare 3416. the ninth day whereof the Citie was taken was the verie latter ende of Nabuchodonosors 18. yeare VVherefore Ieremie vers 29. referreth that Captiuitie to Nabuchodonosors 18 yeare with which 18 yeare he coupleth Zedechias 10. too Cap. 23.1 For they concurred a month and an halfe together Againe Cap. 25. vers 12. he placeth the burning Desolation of the Temple and Citie in the fift month the seuenth day of the month that is Nabuchodonosors 19 yeare For his 19 yeare began about the midde of the fourth month about a fortnight after the taking of the Citie And that fift month was the ending and expiring of Zedechias 11 yeare as Ieremie affirmeth plainly cap. 1.3 vnto the ending of the eleuēth yeare of Zedekiah euen to the carying away of Ierusalem captiue in the fift month And thus it is euident and manifest how the years of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and king of the Chaldaeans as he is called 2. Chron. 36.6 are locked and linked to the yeares of the kinges of Iuda according to the Computation of the raigne of Nabuchodonosor which is vsed in the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles and in Ieremie the Prophet Now for the vse hereof and opening of the Chronologie by this kay you must knowe that Ptolomie taketh the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or marke of his aera or Computation from the
beginning of a king of Babylon of the Chaldaeans whom he nameth Nabonassar Ptol. l. 4. ca. 6. 8. From whence he maketh the second of Mardocempad to be the 28. yeare and the fifth of Nabopolassar to be the 127. c. Who and when Nabonassar l. 5. c. 14. Mardocempad Nabopolassar were will appeare if we take some king that is certainely knowne and agreed vpon and thence proceeding backward finde out the other The next king that is knowne and agreed vpon Ptol. l. 5. ca. 14. is Cambyses the sonne of Cyrus whose seauenth yeare is Cambyses 225. then consequently Cambyses seauenth is the 99. yeare from Nabopolassars 5. To Cambyses 7 adde Cyrus 7. and the 70. yeares of captiuitie the first whereof was Nabuchodonosors 19. then 14 backward to Nabuchodonosors fift and all make 98. which is one too short Wherefore the Computation of Nabuchodonosors raigne in Ieremie and the bookes of Kinges beginneth later by a yeare than the aera and account of Ptolomies Nabopolassar Nowe if it can be shewed that Nabuchodonosors raigne began a yeare before that computation of Ieremie we may vndoubtedly affirme that Ptolomies Nabopolassar is Ieremies Nabuchodonosor And this will easily and euidently appeare by two sufficient witnesses Berosus the priest of the Chaldaeans and Daniel the Prophet brought vp in Chaldaea to the learning of the Chaldaeans First Berosus lib. 3. rerum Chaldaicharum hath these wordes recorded by Iosephus de antiqu Iud. lib. 10. Cap. 11. Nabuchodonosor the father hearing that his Lieuetenant whom he had set ouer Aegypt Syria and Phoenicia had reuolted from him and being vnable for sicknesse to goe against him in his own person made his sonne Nabuchodonosor Emperour or Generall of his armie and sent him against the Rebell who ioyning battle with him conquered him and recouered his countrie againe The meane season Nabuchodonosor the father died of his sicknesse in Babilon hauing raigned 21 yeares Nabuchodonosor hearing of his fathers death straight waies left some of his friendes to bring the captiue Iewes Syrians and Phoenicians together with the army and cariage to Babilonia and himselfe accompanied with a fewe sped him in all hast to Babilon thorow the wildernesse Where taking vpon him the gouernment of the kingdome which the Chaldaeans kept for him till he came he was made Lord of all his fathers Empyre And first of all he disposed the captiues in conuenient places in Babilonia and with the spoyles which he had got furnished and beautifyed the Temple of Belus Among this company of captiues Daniel was one Dan. 1. ver 1.2.3.4.5.6 and therefore none can tell the time better then he heare what he saith In the third yeare of Iehoiakim King of Iuda came Nabuchodonosor King of Babilon vnto Ierusalem and besieged it And the Lord gaue Iehoiakim King of Iuda into his hand with part of the vesse s of the house of God which he caried into the land of Shinar to the house of his God And the king spake to Ashphenaz the maister of his Eunuches to bring certaine of the children of Israel of the Kinges seede whom they might teach the learning tongue of the Chaldaeans among these were Daniel c. Ioyne to these 2. Reg. 25.2 2. Chr. 35. the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles and see the concent Two or three yeares before this Pharao Neco King of Aegypt went vp against the king of Assyria to the riuer Euphrates and besieged Carshemish whom Iosias as feodarie or confederate to the king of Assyria seeking to resist was slaine and the people of the land made Iehoahaz his sonne king of Iuda whom Neco taking imprisoned a while at Riblah and after caried him into Aegypt making Eliakim his brother whose name he turned into Iehoiakim king in his steede Yet the Iewes woulde not vouchsafe him the name of King while his brother Iehoahaz liued but onely the title of high Priest as he is called in the booke of Iudith For they still hoped for and earnestly expected the returne of Iehoahaz out of Aegypt as Ieremie sheweth plainely Cap. 22.11.12 and about this time as it is most probable Nabuchodonosors Lieuetenant seing Neco preuaile so mightily reuolted from his maister to him and betrayed all those countries into his handes which Berosus speaketh of Wherefore Nabuchodonosor sent his Captaine Holophernes against those Rebelles with a great power but what bad successe he had the booke of Iudith sheweth This voiage of Holophernes happened while Iehoahaz king of Iuda was captiue in Aegypt and his brother Iehoiakim raigned at home though the people did not vouchsafe the name of King his brother being aliue Holophernes being ouerthrowne â—eros Nabuchodonosor in the third yeare of Iehoiakim his brother being then dead in Aegypt beeing sicke himself made his sonne Viceroy sent him to reduce those countries into subiection againe and to reuenge the ouerthrow of Holophernes who in the same third yeare of Iehoiakim Dan. 1. besieged Ierusalem and in the beginning of the next yeare made Iehoiakim to yeeld 2. Reg. 24.3 and become his vassal and Tributarie And so pursuing the victorie passed thorow Syria and recouered Carchemish Ier. 46.2 giuing the armie of the king of Aegypt a great ouerthrowe there Then hearing of the death of his father he sped him into Babilon and became sole Monarch as Berosus saith Afterward Iehoiakim rebelling against him he made his second voyage into those countries wherein he tooke Ierusalem in his 7 yeare and recouered from the king of Aegypt whatsoeuer he held from Euphrates to Nilus 2. Chro. 36 6. 2. Reg. 24.9 Thus the storie recorded by diuerse in sundry parcels hangeth together Heere is all the oddes that Daniel beginneth Nabuchodonosors raigne in Iehoiakims third yeare when he was made Generall in his fathers sicknesse as Berosus saith with the title of King of Babilon Beda de rat temp nat retuÌ„ cap. 66. and Ieremie with the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles beginne it in Iehoiakims fourth yeare when his father being dead he beganne his sole Monarchie ouer the whole Empyre Iudaea and all which he had then newly subdued againe But doubtlesse Daniel being brought vp in Babilon in the learning and language of the Chaldaeans vsed the right computatioÌ„ of the Chaldaeans which Metasthenes followeth also attributing to Nabuchodonosors raigne 35 years and Ptolomie likewise following the obseruations and calculations of the Chaldaeans vseth the same And Nabuchodonosors 5 by all their accountes is but his 4. by Ieremies computation which is iust 99. yeares from Cambyses 7. as Ptolomie saith And therefore we conclude that Ptolomies Nabopolassar is that Nabuchodonosor which destroyed Ierusalem So likewise by Ptolomie this 5 of Nabopolassar is the 100. yeare from the second of Mardocempad draw these 100 yeares backe and the holy Scripture will lead you to the 25 yeare of Ezechias and 3302 of the worlde So that Mardocempads first was Ezechias 24. yeare the 3301. yeare
perceiuing the houreglasse to be almost runne out and seeing all these thinges knowe that he is neere euen at the doores Math. 24.23 and because wee know not when the time will be Let vs take heede watch and pray Mark 13.33 making our selues readie and euer waiting with all attendance to be caught vp in the cloudes to meete the Lord in the ayre 1. Thess 3.17 who hath said Reuel 22.20 Surely I will come quickly Yea come Lord Iesu Amen A Table coupling the yeares of the Kings of Iuda with the Kinges of Israel and them both with the yeares of the world taken out of the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles wherein the beginninges of their raignes are certainely recorded and also some middle yeares compared together as here is represented to the eie Juda. World Israel REhoboam the sonne of Solomon succeeded his father but at his Caronation the 10 Tribes reuolted from him and so he raigned ouer the tribe of Iuda onely 1. Reg. 12.16.17.20 the space of 17 years 1. reg 14.21 Rehoboam 3025 1 Ieroboam Ieroboam the son of Nebat was proclaimed king of Israel by the 10 tribes he raigned 22. yeares 1. Reg. 12. 14.20 The 15. day of this eight month Ieroboam ordained the solemne feast of his Golden Calues ca. 12.32 which was as solemnely kept and celebrated by the Israelites vers 30. Heere beganne the Iniquitie of Israel Ibidem Ezech. 4.  a    2 2 3026    17 17 3041 18   19 Abijam the sonne of Rehoboam began his raigne in Ieroboams 18. yeare and raigned three yeares 1. Reg. 15.1.2 Abijam 1 3042    20 2 3043    21 3 3044    1 Nadab Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began his raigne his father being aliue in the second yeare of Asa and raigned two yeares 1. Reg. 15.25 Asa the sonne of Abijam began in Ieroboams 20. yeare and raigned 41 years 1. Reg. 15.9.10 Asa 1     22   2 2 3045    Baasha Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab and killing him obtained the kingdome He began in the third yeare of Asa raigned 24. yeare 1. Reg. 15.27.28.33 3 3046    2 4 3047    24 20 3069 1 Ela Elah the sonne of Baasha began in the 26 of Asa and raigned two yeares 1. Reg. 16.8  3070  Iehosaphat the sonne of Asa began in Achabs 4 yeare and raigned 25 years 1. Reg. 22.41 27     2  3081 1 Zimri Omri Tibni Zimri Captaine of halfe Elahs Chariots slue Elah in the 27 yeare of Asa He raigned but 7 daies For Omri Generall of the host being the same day proclaimed king in the Campe subdued him in 7 daies Tibni was proclaimed king by another side against Omri But he died in the 31 yeare of Asa and so Omri raigned alone Jn the third yeare of his sole raigne he finished Samaria and remoued the Court thither so he raigned 6 yeares at Tirza and 6 at Samaria in all 12. 1. Reg. 16. Achab the sonne of Omri began in the 38 yeare of Asa and raigned 22 yeares 1. Reg. 16.29 Achab going the warre against the king of Assyria left his sonne Ahazia viceroy at home who began in Iehosaphats 17 yeare and raigned 2 years 1. reg 22.51 Ahaziah died in the beginning of his 2 yeare whom his brother Iehoram succeeded in Iehosaphats 18 yeare 2. Reg. 3.1 that is the second yeare of Iehoram of Iuda 2. Reg. 1.17 He raigned 12 yeares For his father was slaine in that warre 38    3082 12 Jn his 17 yeare he with Achab went to warre against the King of Assyria leauing his sonne Iehoram as Viceroy in his steade at home But returning safe out of the warre he receiued the kingdome againe till the third yeare of Iehoram king of Israel wherein Iehosaphat at the request of Iehoram going to warre against Moab placed his sonne Iehoram as viceroy againe and neuer after displaced him Heere began Iehorams raigne of 8 years viz. 4 with his father and 4 alone 2. Reg. 8.16 39     1 Achab  3083 2 40     3  3084  41     4 Iehosaphat 1 3099    19  3100  16     20 1 17  1 Ahaziah 1   IehoraÌ„ 3101    21   2 18   2 3102 1 Iehoram IehoraÌ„ 1 3106 5 7 3112 11 Ahaziah was made viceroy by reason of his fathers disease in his bowels 2. Reg. 9.20 His Father died in the beginning of his 8 yeare and so Ahaziah was proclaimed absolute king in the 12 yeare of Iehoram of Israel 2. Reg. 8.25 and anon after was slaine by Iehu Ahaziah viceroy    3113 12 8     Iehu Iehu the sonne of Iehosaphat the sonne of Nimsi being anoynted king of Israel slevv Iehoram king of Jsrael and Ahaziah king of Iuda 2. Reg. 9.6.24.27 He raigned 28 years Cap. 10.36 Ahaziah   Athaliah destroying all the rest of the blood royall saue Ioash that was hid from heâ— raigned after her sonne 6 yeares 2. Reg. 11.3 Athalia 1    3118 6 6   Ioash the son of Ahaziah began at the solemne feast Easter a little before Iehues 7 beganne for his 23 was begun before Iehues 28 was ended He raigned 40 yeares Cap. 12.2 Ioash 1 3119    7 2 3120    8 22 3140    28 23 3141 1 Iehoachaz Iehoachaz the sonne of Iehu began in the 23 yeare of Ioash and raigned 17 yeares 2. Reg. 13.1.2 Ioash the sonne of Iehoachaz was made viceroy of Israel because of the warre which the king of Syria made against them 2. Reg. 13.10 whereof he was the deliuerer vers 5. 25. he began in the 37 yeare of Ioash king of Iuda and raigned viceroy and absolute king 16. yeares 37 3155 15.1   Ioash 1 38 3156  Amaziah the sonne of Ioash was made viceroy of Iuda because of the warre which Chazael king of Syria made against Iuda 2. Reg. 12.17 14.1 He began in the 2 yeare of Ioash of Israel and raigned viceroy and absolute king 29 yeares Amaziah  16.2 15 3170 16   1 Ieroboam Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash began in the 15 yeare of Amaziah and raigned 41 yeares 2. Reg. 14.23 19 3171  29 3184    15 a Heere is a vacancie or Interregnum of 11. yeares in Iuda 3185    16  3196    27 Vzziah alâ—âs Azariah the sonne of Amaziah began in Ieroboams 27 year and raigned 52 yeares 2. Reg. 15.1 Vzziah 1    3210    41 15 Â
  3211    51 Heere is a vacancie or Interregnum almost of 23 yeares in Israel 16    3233  38    3234 1 Zacharias Zacharias the sonne of Ieroboam began in the end of the 38. yeare of Vzziah and raigned 6. monthes 39  Sallum Sallum killed Zacharias and raigned one month in Vzziahs 39. yeare 2. Reg. 15.8.13  3235 1 Menahem Menahem killed Sallum in the verie ende of Vzziahs 39. yeare and raigned 10. yeares vers 17. 40    3245  50  1 Pekahiah Pekahiah the sonne of Menahem began in the 50 yeare of Vzziah and raigned 2. yeares 2. Reg. 15.23  3246  51     2  3247  52    * The first Olympiad Game was kept and celebrated by Iphitus at the full moone of HecatoÌ„baeon that is the first month of the Athenians about the summer Solstice and hence the Computation of Iphitus and of the Olympiades are to be reckoned 1 Pekah Pekah the sonne of Remaliah kill ng Pekahiah began in the 52. yeare of Vzziah and raigned 20 yeares 2. Reg. 15.27 In his daies Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria tooke from him diuerse townes and caried away the tribes of Ruben Gad halfe the tribe of Menasses all Galilie and the whol tribe of Naphthalie captiue into Assyria 2. Reg. 15.29 1. Chron. 5.26 Iotham the sonne of Vzziah began a little before the beginning of Pekahs second yeare for Iothams 20 was begun before Pekahs 20 were ended but Pekahs second was Iothams first he raigned 16 yeares 2. Reg. 15.32 IothaÌ„ 1 3248    2 16 3263    17 Achaz the sonne of Iotham began in the 17. yeare of Pekah and raigned 16. yeares 2. Reg. 16.1 Achaz 1    3264 18 2   18    3265    16 3   19    3266    20 4   20    3267    1 Hoseas Hoseas the sonne of Elah killing Pekah began in Iothams 20. yeare 2. Reg. 15.30 He meaneth Achaz 4. yeare which woulde haue beene Iothams 20 had he liued so long yet he vseth his Computation being dead because he had made no meÌ„tion of Achaz before 5    3274  12  8   a Salmaneser king of Assyria tooke a voyage against Hoseas made him his vassal to hold that kingdome of him in Fee and for tribute in the 12 yeare of Achaz Here began a new stile and Computation of Hoseas which afterwarde is vsed 2. Reg. â—7 1  3275    1 Hoseas 13 * Merodac Baladan the sonne of Baladan taking the oppotunitie of Salmanesers absence busines in the great warres of Syria and Samaria reuolted from him and proclaimed himselfe king of Babilon From this first king and first beginning of the kingdome of Babilon Ptolomie taketh the Epoche and marke of his aera and Computation naming him Nabonassar   3276    2 14    3277  15  3 Ezechias began in the third yeare of Hoseas tributarie raigne a little before the feast of Easter and raigned 29 yeares 2. Reg. 18 1.2 He rebelled against the king of Assyria denying the tribute which Achaz vndertooke 2. Reg. 16.7 entering into league with the newe king of Babilon as it seemeth by the great kindnes betweene them afterward Merodac sending ambassadors with presentes to him and Ezechias shewing them all his treasure that they might see what forces he could make against the common enimie the king of Assyria Ezechias 3278    4 16   2 3279    5 b Hoseas incouraged by the example good successe of Merodac king of Babilon and Ezechias king of Iuda reuolted from Salmaneser and entred into league with So king of Aegypt 2. Reg. 17.4 3 3280  4 3281 6 c Salmaneser maketh his second voyage against Hoseas   7 d Samaria besieged three yeares 2. Reg. 18.9 5 3282    8 6 3283    9 e Samaria taken and Israel caried captiue into Assyria in the 6 yeare of Ezechias and the 9 of Hoseas vers 10. Heere ended the kingdome of Israel which had continued 259 yeares to this yeare of the world 3283 adde 23 more of Ezechias 55 of Manasses 2 of Amon 31 of Iosias and you come to the yeare of the world 3394 the next yeare is Iehoiakims first as heere followeth Iehoiakim was made king of Iuda by Pharao Neco king of Aegypt to hold it of him for tribute he raigned 11 yeares 2. Reg. 24.1 in the beginning of his 11 yeare he was taken by Nabuchodonosor 1 Iehoiakim 3395  2 3396  3 3397 a Nabuchodonosor the father being sicke Nabuchodonosor the greate was made viceroy of Babilon and went with great forces against the king of Aegypt other rebels which had reuolted from him in which voyage he besieged Ierusalem and made Iehoiakim to yeelde and become his vassal and tributarie 2. Reg. 24.3 Dan. 1.2.3 and gaue the armie of the king of Aegypt a great ouerthrovv at Carshemish Jer. 46.2 at this making of Nabuchodonosor viceroy in his fathers life time Daniel Ptolomie and Metasthenes begin his raigne that is in Iehoiakims third yeare by vvhich Computation he raigned 45 yeares 4 3398    1 Nabuchodonosor Nabuchodonosor the father being dead Nabuchodonosor the great vvas made absolute King Monarke of the vvhole Empyre Beros in Ioseph li. 10. ca. 10. vvhere Ieremie the bookes of Kings and Chronicles and Iosephus begin his raigne of 43 yeares complete besides the odde monthes He began in Iehoiakims 4 yeare Ier. 25.1 vvith the beginning of the 7 month of the Chaldaeans called Phamenòth vvhich began about the middle of Thamus the 4 month of the Hebrues 5 3399    2 10 3404 7 11 3405  Iehoiacin raigned three monthes and 10 daies which began in Nabuchodonosors 7 and ended in his 8.2 Reg. 24.10.11.12 2. Chro. 26.10 Ier. 52.28 Iehoiacin  8 Zedekiah began his raign in Nabuchodonosors 8 yeare in the 6 month of the vsual yeare of the Hebrues 2. Reg. 24.18 2. Chron. 36.11 Ier. 52.1 Zedekiah 1    3406  2  9  3407  3  10  3413  9     16 Ierusalem was besieged by Nabuchodonosor in the 10. day of the 10. month in Zedechiahs 9. yeare 2 Reg. 25.1 a    3414    17 The famine began to be extreme in the Citie 10    3415  11     18  3416  b The 9. day of the fourth month in Zedechiahs 11. yeare Ierusalem was taken ver 6. Ier. 52.6 which was in Nabuchodonosors 18. yeare Ier. 52.29     19 c The 7. day of the fifth month the temple and Citie was burnt which was in Nabuchodonosors 19. yeare 2. Reg. 25.11 and the verie end and expiring of Zedechias 11. yeare Ier. 1.3   〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
went from Vr for Canaan Gen. 11.31 he was not bid go from his father therefore his father and he both together left their auncient mansion and house of their auncetrie Againe Abraham was bid go frō his natiue soyle or land of his natiuitie and that was not Haran but Chaldaea and there Abraham beginneth his Peregrination euen from the land wherein he was borne Gen. 24.7 Thirdly they presse the order of the text Gen. 12.1 as though that calling of Abraham were after the death of Terah because it is placed after Whereas indeed it is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and reason of the iournie of Abraham from Vr toward Canaan which Moses had specially set downe Chap. 11. 31. without insinuating any cause of it and the 32. verse is inserted betweene by way of a Parenthesis The order and sence of the Story is this Then Terah tooke Abraham his sonne and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne Gen. 11.31 and Sara his daughter in law his sonne Abrahams wife and they departed together from Vr of the Chaldees to goe vnto the land of Chanaan and they came to Haran and they soiourned there at which Haran Terah died Because Terah died here this is interlaced 32. 12.1 2. 3. 4. being 205. yere old For the Lord had said vnto Abraham while hee was at Vr. Get thee out of thy countrie and from thy natiue soyle and from thy fathers house vnto the land which I will shew thee c. And Abram leauing Haran too now that his father was dead went as the Lord had said vnto him at Vr continuing his iournie toward Chanaan and Lot went with him and Abram was 75. yeare old when hee went from Haran The fift Article is cleare 1. Reg. 6.1 In the 480. yeare of the departing of the children of Israel out of the land of Egipt in the fourth yere in the month Ziu which is the second month of the raigne of Solomon ouer Israel he built the house of the Lord. The particulers of this space are counted thus vnder Moses 40 vnder Iosua 17 vnder the Iudges 199 Eli 40. Saul and Samuel 40 Dauid 40 Solomon 4. For Solomons fourth that 480. yeare runne together though the Temple were founded the second month of both those yeares as appeareth 1. Reg. 6.1.2 Chron. 3.2 The number of 450. yeres from the diuision of Canaan to Samuel Act 13.20 is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as most doe take it or an ouersight in writing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which indeede is pronus lapsus and soone done De Ciuit. Dei lib. 15. cap. 13. but this non casum redolet sedindustriam as Aug. saith of the like For it was the temeritie and ouerboldnes of an ignorant Corrector who to the sum of 339. yeres which is the time of the Iudges Eli added the 111 yeres of seruitude vnder forreners which amounteth to the iust summe of 450 not considering that the same yeares of seruitude were included in the yeares of the Iudges as not onlie the Iewes but also Eusebius Lyra and Hugo doe affirme See Mercator Demonst Temp. Chap 1. T. In the same Chapter of the Acts Vers 18. it is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and about the time of 40. yeares he suffered their manners in the wildernes where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is wel added to shew that forty years were not fully complete for there wanted about a month fifteene daies which were spent before their entrance into the Desert and before the vttering of their euill manners and murmuring against God because of the Desert Exod. 16.2 Wherefore H. Wolphius ouer reacheth too much who maketh the abode of the Israelits in the wildernes to be full 42. yeares that is as he saith one yeare on month and twentie dayes from their departing out of Egygt to their departing frō Sinay Numb 10.11 and thence to the returne of the spies ten or eleuen months to make vp full two yeres because the spies returned when grapes were ripe But there first he putteth six monthes too much For with Moses the first month is Abib the 14 day wherof they celebrated the Passeouer Cap. 9.3 and the 20 day of the next month they departed from Sina Cap. 10.11 and within foure or fiue monthes after they might haue ripe grapes which he maketh aboue 10. monthes after And then he beginneth the 40. yeares which after their turning back into the wildernes they wandred in it till all were dead the first of which 40 he beginneth with the third yeare of their departing out of Egipt De tempore Lib. 1. Cap. 6. For the defence of Wolphius account this may be saide God threatneth the wandring of 40 yeares in the wildernes after the returne of the Spies and that as a punishment to some of the Spies for discrediting discommending the land to the people for not beleeuing Iosua and Caleb and that also to be inflicted according to the number of the daies wherein the spies searched the land which were 40. Numb 14.33.34 and therefore they must not begin before the offence was cōmitted but at the next morrow whē they were turned back into the wildernesse as a punishmēt Vers 25. which was about one yere and halfe he saith two yeares after their departure out of Egipt This reason were great were it not that Moses counters doe controll the same For Moses affirmeth that Aaron died in the first day of the first moneth of the fourtieth yeare of their departing out of Egipt Num. 33.38 in the next six monthes they had diuers victories specially against Sehon and Og Num. 21. and did and indured those things which after are recorded in the booke of Numbers then in the first day of the 11. month of the same yeare Moses deliuered the repetition declaration of the law in Deuteronomie Deu. 1. 3.4 and anone after died and Iosua presently as the month of mourning was out led the people ouer Iordan That Moses died immediately after the reading of the law appeareth by his age for Deut. 31.1 it is saide that he was at the reading of the law 120. yeare old This day am I 120. yeare olde and Cap. 34.7 when he died he was but 120. yeare old Which was not full fortie yeares after their departing out of Egipt For a little before their departing when they went to Pharao Moses was 80. and Aaron 83. yeare old Exo. 7.10 That Iosua led the people ouer Iordan presently after Moses death appeareth by the ceassing of Manna The Israelites did eat Manna 40 yeares Exod 16.36 Manna began the 16. day of the second month of the first yeare Exod. 16.2 it ended and ceased the 16. day of the first month of Iosuas first yeare Ios 5 11. which is 40 years wanting one month Wherefore the punishment of 40 yeares wandring in the wildernes according to the 40 daies of searching the land must be vnderstood of the
owne which began 38 yeares before Christ and some kingdomes accounted by the raignes of their owne kinges all which are seene by the dates in the Tomes of Councels But the Church of Rome vsed a Computation from the passion of Christ as Beda sheweth li. de nat rerum Cap. 46. which also you may see in Hierome and Isidore and some vsed the Computation of Antioch as Eusebius Euagrius Cedrenus Nicesorus which began 48 yeares before Christ as Marianus Scotus sheweth Yea both Heathen and Christian vsed the Aera or account of Diocletian as you may see in Ambrose c. which began in the yeare of Christ 285 and also in former times the Computation of the Chaldaeans was much vsed as you may see in Ptolomie which began the 13 yeare after Alexanders death euen with the second yeare of the 117 Olympiad and at the next Vernal Aequinoctiall began the Computation of the Greekes vsed in the bookes of Maccabees and in Iosephus viz. at the crowning of Saleucus Nicanor and at the coronation of Ptolomaeus Philadelphus in the 26 yeare of the Greekes began the Aera of Dionysius much vsed by Ptolomie yet the Church and Emperours of the East vsed to Date by the yeares of the world according to Eusebius account as you may see in the councell of Basil where the Emperours Crisobol or letter patent is dated anno à mundi creatione 6944 and the Patriarch of Constantinople his letters are dated anno ab Adam seu mundi constitutione 6944 which was the yeare from the Natiuitie of Christ 1435 as both the said letters do testifie for they are both dated by the years of Christs Natiuitie likewise Marry now the Turkes vse their Computation which they call Alhigera beginning in the yeare of Christ 622 and the Persians vse their Iesdagert which began in the yeare of Christ 632. But in the yeare of Christ 532 Dionysius Exiguus instituting the Paschal Cicle and Golden number would not number and calculate the same by the Aera or Computation of wicked Diocletian the 10. persecutor of the Church which then was vsed thorow the whole Empyre but would cast and account it by the yeares of Christ beginning at his Incarnation as Beda sheweth Tom. 2 li. de nat rerum cap. 46. Which Aera or Computation was not vsed by the Emperors or Popes till long after For the first Emperour that vsed it in dating of his Actes proceedings Epistles was Carolus Crassus And afterward Eugenius IIII. at the aduise instance of Blondus his Register receiued it into the Popes Bulles and writtes as Paulus Forosemproniensis affirmeth in his Paulina parte 2. li. 13. Praeside Eugenio IIII adhortante Blondo Forliuiensi Pontificij collegij a secretis Notario in bullis atque rescriptis Pontificalibus annorum haec a Christi Incarnatione supputatio scribi primùm coepit when Eugenius IIII was Pope at the instance of Blondus of Forli Clarke of the Popes counsell this Computation of yeares from the Incarnation of Christ began first to be written in the Popes Bulles and Mandates Which I doe not take as though the Computation by the yeares of the Lord was then first brought into the Church as Gerardus Mercator and other take it or as though it were not vsed in the actes of the Church and in ecclesiasticall courtes and proceedings before that time but that then and by that meanes it began first to be vsed in the Bulles Mandates and writtes that were meere Papal and passed onely from the Pope For in writtes of that nature the yeare of the Lord was not mentioned at al before that time but onely the yeares of their owne coronation anno Pontificatus nostri c. For anone after Paulus Forosemproniensis addeth Sed notarij annos à natiuitate computare consueuerunt But all other notaries vsed to account the yeares from the Natiuitie And that is euident by the dates of all the Sessions of the councell of Constance which was before Eugenius which are all dated anno à Natiuitate Domini but the Popes Mandates and letters are only dated anno Pontificatus nostri So that the Computation of Dionysius was both vsed and also corrected before Eugenius IIII. The order whereof I will briefly set downe The computation from the Incarnation of Christ ordained by Dionysius was vsed till Decem. 25. 1351. At which time for speciall cause which is shewed pag. _____ it was decreed that the computatiō by the yeare of the Lord should begin not at the Incarnation or 25 of March as before it did but at the Natiuitie or 25 of December and yet the same number should be kept and obserued without alteration all the yeare thorow saue the first quarter Forsomuch they preuented the change and beginning of the new yeare writing 1352. after the said 25. of December which otherwise they should not haue done till the Incarnation or 25. day of March following The Act or Decree is recorded by Ierapha His quoque temporibus apud Perpinianum oppidum in curia generali 25 Decembris 1351 fuit determinatum in Catalonia ne Calendae à notarijs in chartis scriberentur nec ab Incarnatione annus Domini sed à Natiuitate inchoaretur And also at that time at Parpinnan in a generall Court Decemb. 25. 1351. it was decreed in Catalonia that the Calendes should not be vsed by Notaries in Chartes and that the year of the Lord should not begin at the incarnatiō but at the Natiuitie The practise hereof appeareth in the councell of Constance about 53 yeares after where all the Sessions and Actes are dated not by Calendes but by the daies of the month and by the yeares from the Natiuitie of the Lord and not from his incarnation Which yeare did alter chaunge not at the incarnation for the second session holden the second of March and the third holden the 25. of March that is the day of Christes Incarnation and the fourth holden the 30. of March and the fift holden the 6. of Aprill are all recorded in one and the same yeare 1415. But the yeare altered and changed vpon the verie day of the Natiuitie For the coronation of Martin V. is recorded to be vpon sunday the 21. day of Nouember anno à Natiuitate Domini 1417. Indictione 10. and vpon tuesday the 28 of December following was holden the 42 Session and there the yeare is altered both of the yeare of the Lord and also of the Indiction For it is dated anno a Natiuitate Domini 1418. indictione 11. Indeed printed copies haue there also 1417. but an auncient copie written by a Notarie at the very councell which Lucidus Samotheus affirmeth that he hath seene hath 1418. And it must needes be so first because the yeare of the Lord is there expressed which would not haue beene done vnlesse the yeare were chaunged For otherwise he would haue said anno indictione quibus suprà Secondly because the 22. and 29. of April following are there recorded