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A06118	A true chronologie of the times of the Persian monarchie, and after to the destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes Wherein by the way briefly is handled the day of Christ his birth: with a declaration of the angel Gabriels message to Daniel in the end of his 9. chap. against the friuolous conceits of Matthew Beroald. Written by Edvvard Liuelie, reader of the holie tongue in Cambridge.	Lively, Edward, 1545?-1605.	1597 (1597)	STC 16609; ESTC S108759	129,093	343

Maioraltie at Athens being the first of the 75. Olympiad as hath been sufficiently alreadie declared by the testimonies of Diodorus Siculus Dionysius Halicarnassaeus Diogenes Laertius and Suidas what doth it else but make further proofe of the same Herodotus his meaning against Scaliger But what shall we then say to the eclipse of the Sunne mentioned by Herodotus which as Scaliger writeth prooueth that warre to haue been sooner by one yeare H. Bunting dissolueth this doubt by acknowledging that eclips to haue happened in the spring time of that yeare wherein Xerxes went to Sardes which Herodotus by some error as he thinketh transposed to the yeare following when Xerxes went from Sardes into Greece an easie slip in Historie Now to come to Thucidides whereas hee writeth that the tenth yeare after the Persians ouerthrow at Marathon they came againe with a huge armie to subdue Greece he meaneth that yeare to be the tenth wherein Xerxes hauing gathered his armie together marched to Sardes which was the very beginning of that warre for that was the first leading of his armie against the Grecians and in that yeare he made a bridge from Asia to Europe for the passage of his armie ouer and digged downe the hill Atho to make the seas meete for his Ships to passe through and sent his Ambassadors into Greece to demaunde land and water which was a kinde of proclayming warre against such as refused to be subiect vnto him These things all were done in the tenth yeare after the Marathon fight and in the next which was the first of the 75. Olympiad were Xerxes his battailes fought at Thermopylae and other places of Greece being the eleuenth from that Marathon warre euen so acknowledged by Scaliger himselfe in that booke in the chapter of the Persians ouerthrowe at Marathon howsoeuer after he seemeth to be of another opinion and to make it the tenth not vnderstanding Thucidides aright Yea but Eratosthenes Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch three excellent writers referred the passage of Xerxes into Greece to the first yeare of the 75. Olympiad and so his battaile at Thermopylae to the second yeare thereof Eratosthenes indeede I graunt reckoning from the first Olympiad to Xerxes passing into Greece 297. yeares reacheth to the beginning of the second yeare of the 75. Olympiad and goeth a yeare further then other Yet so as if any thing be here amisse it is mended in his next account from Xerxes to the Peloponnesian warre the distance whereof he maketh 48. yeares which with the former 297. are in all 345. from the first Olympiad to the first summer of the Peloponnesian warre which is a most perfect reckoning receiued and agreed on so there is no great matter of difference Now touching Diodorus Siculus his words are so manifest against that assertion of Scaliger as maketh me meruaile that he should be so deceiued in mistaking them First the worde which he vseth is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he warred or led his armie being much more large then he passed ouer Againe hauing described the yeare by the number of the Olympiad 75. the first yeare thereof and the chiefe officer of Athens Callias and the Romane Consuls he setteth downe for that yeare so described the battailes of Xerxes at Thermopylae at Artemysium at Salamis and his flying out of Greece and the leauing of Mardonius there with a great hoast And in the second yeare of that Olympiad being the yeare of Xantippus his Maioraltie at Athens he placeth the victory of Pausanias against Mardonius at Plateae and the departure of Xerxes from Sardes to Susa after the ouerthrow of his forces by sea and by land so that there is no doubt at all by Diodorus Siculus but that Xerxes his fighting at Thermopylae happened in the first yere of the 75. Olympiad according to the testimonies and consent of auncient Historiographers before declared As for Plutarch howsoeuer that is gathered of his wordes in one place there cited by Scaliger yet otherwhere he sheweth himselfe of another minde For in the life of Aristides the battell at Plateae which happened the very next yeare after Xerxes his discomfiture hee referreth to the second of that Olymp. that by the iudgement of Scaliger himselfe so expounding the place in his first booke treating of the Theban period If then the next yeare after Xerxes inuading Greece be the second of the 75. Olympiad by Plutarch needes must the yeare of Xerxes fighting in Greece by him bee the first which is agreeable to others Chronologie and the verie trueth The same Plutarch in the life of Numa maketh some doubt of the Olympick reckoning beeing committed to writing in regard of the beginning thereof verie late by Hyppias of Elis without any sure ground whereunto of necessitie we must yeeld credit This obiection is answered by Temporarius in his Chronologie that though it were graunted that Hyppias erred in setting downe the true and exact time of the first Olympiad yet that hindereth the true Chronologie and order of times following nothing at all which is very true for set the case that that Olympiad which Hyppias made the 40. in number was not so much but onely the 30. and so the first 40. yeares short at the least of his account It is not a pin matter The order and account of the times comming after for all that may be most perfect and sure without missing one minute which I wil declare by a familiar example The yeare wherein our gracious Queene began her happie raigne according to the computation of the Church of England was the 1558. of our Lorde but in truth the 1558. this yere by our account 1597. is in very indeed by exact reckoning 1598. The cause wherof was the errour of Dionysius called Paruus Abbas who was the first inuenter of this account supposing Christs birth to haue beene later by one yeare then indeede it was and so making that the first of our Lorde which was the second as is confessed and acknowledged of the best learned and most skilfull Chronologers of our age This error in the first yeare of Christ is no let at all to the exact reckoning of all the yeres following For there is the same distance of yeares from the 1558. to the 1597. by the vsuall account which is from the 1559 to the 1598. by the true account Yet to speake my minde howsoeuer Dionysius missed in the reckoning of the yeares of Christ I hold it out of controuersie that Hippias erred not vnto whose time the memory of the Olympiads had beene preserued from foure yeares to foure yeares from the beginning thereof in times of knowledge places of fame where was great concourse of people keeping the account therof not in their mindes onely but also in writinges as is most like And whether hee erred or no for the Persian times and after it is no matter as I haue declared before seeing the error in the first is constant in all the rest if any error

thought the verie same and vnderstoode the same world which ended at the comming of Messias to raigne in a new world by the Gospell and for this cause those times betweene the preaching of Christ and Ierusalem destroyed were called the last dayes in the second chapter of the Actes of the Apostles the 17. verse In the last dayes saith God I will powre of my spirit vpon all flesh and in the beginning of the Epistle to the Hebrewes In these last dayes God hath spoken vnto vs by his son These last dayes are all one with the end of the worlde spoken of by the blessed Apostle Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians the tenth Chapter eleuenth verse calling that time the ends of the world These things saith he were writtē to admonish vs vpon whome the ends of the world are come and in the Epistle to the Hebrewes the ninth chapter and twentie sixe verse Now in the end of the world hath Christ appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe That which R. Nehemias said of wickednesse to be multiplied against the comming of Christ is it not in plaine wordes verified by Christ himselfe in the verie same twenty foure Chapter of Mathew the twelft verse giuing this for one token of his comming and the desolation of Ierusalem to be at hand that iniquitie should abound and charitie wax cold If any here demaund how the second comming of Christ can be with any reason referred to the destruction of Ierusalem seeing that it is euident by that verie same twentie foure chapter of Mathew that the comming of Christ to iudgement at the latter day is there described by the suddennes therof by his appearing in the clouds the gathering of the elect with the sound of a trumpet by the doome of the iudge declared in the next chapter where the same argument is continued Come yee blessed of my father inherit yee the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world depart yee cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuel his angels I answere that the second cōming of Christ containeth his whole raigne iurisdiction and iudgement in the Citie of God the heauenly Ierusalem by the gospel preached frō the desolation of the outward earthly Ierusalem when it begun to the end of the world at the resurrection of all flesh so that the destruction of Ierusalem and the latter doome being both included within the time of Christs second comming there is no let but that the comming of Christ may be referred to both to one in regard of the beginning to the other in regard of the end and consummation thereof And this is the cause that Christ there speaking of his second comming blendeth these two together the desolation of Ierusalem and his last iudgement because both pertained to one and the same kingdome of Christ And hereof it is that respecting the beginning of that kingdome in the destruction of Ierusalem wherein hee first appeared a rauenging iudge hee saith that that generation should not passe till all those thinges were fulfilled All one with that in the end of the sixteene chapter of the same Gospel Verily I say vnto you some of them that stand here shall not taste of death till they haue seene the sonne of man come in his kingdome What time was there more fit for an other comming of Christ to fall vnto within one generation from those wordes by him vttered a little before his death then this what time more agreeable to that which after his resurrection hee spake of Iohns tarrying till he came then the downefall of the Iewes estate and the vtter desolation of their Citie common wealth which that Euangelist liued to see It is not vnlike or disagreeing to reason that then should begin the spirituall raigne of Christ ouer all Nations by the preaching of the Gospell when the doctrine of the law with all the ceremonies thereof were vtterly abolished That then shuld begin the heauenly kingdome of Christ whē the earthly kingdom of the Iewes and all their law gouernment was first extinct That then should begin the inward subiection of Gods newe people the elect amongst the Gentiles and the spirituall seruice of GOD when the Iewes outward worship had ceased That then should begin the spirituall Sion and new Ierusalem from heauen when the earthly Sion and olde Ierusalem had no more being According to the saying of Esay the Prophet in his second chapter It shall come to passe in the last daies that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be prepared in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted aboue the hils and all nations shall flow vnto it And many people shall goe and say Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs his wayes and we will walke in his paths for the Law shall goe forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem Where by the high mountaine of the Lords house and the names of Sion and Ierusalem is vnderstoode not any certaine earthly place or materiall citie but the Church of Christ ruled and guided by the preaching of the Gospell Which the Apostle in the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Galathians calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is high Ierusalem or Ierusalem which is aboue Alluding to the former prophesie of Esay and opposing the high Ierusalem to the earthly and materiall Ierusalem which begot children of bondage by the law like Agar and mount Sinai there called the new Ierusalem or Ierusalem that now is For as there were two kinds of Iewes spoken of by Paul in his Epistle to the Romanes the second chapter one visible the other secret so there were two Ierusalems one outward by the visible ceremonies of the Law the other in ward by the spirituall graces of the Gospell which is Christ his Church termed the heauenly Ierusalem in the Epistle to the Hebrewes the twelfth chapter and 22. verse This heauenly Ierusalem then begun when the earthly Ierusalem was brought to an end being destroyed by the Romane armie and consumed by fire and the Iewes led captiue and dispersed abroad The preaching of the gospel begun long before the destruction of Ierusalem I confesse euen by Christ himselfe while he liued and continewed after by the apostles for the space of 40. yeares All this is true Yet so as withall the outward and ciuill gouernement of the Iewes common wealth with their ceremoniall seruice and law worship remayned still all that while in the holy citie and temple of God And therefore that preaching of Christ and his apostles so long before seemed rather a preparation to this kingdome of Christ then any perfect beginning thereof According to that manner of preaching vsed by Christ and followed of his apostles Mat. 4.17 Mat. 10.7 repent for the kingdome of God is at hand Meaning that Christ in