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An houreglasse contayning I a computation from the beginning of time to Christ by X. articles. II A confirmation of the same for the times controuersed before Christ: as also that there wanteth a yeare after Christ, in the vsuall computation. With other matters, offered to the iudgement of the learned, and vse of the studious in chronologie and historie. By Thomas Pie Doctor of Diuinitie.
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Pie, Thomas, 1560-1610.
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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
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