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A50872 A defence of Arch-bishop Usher against Dr. Cary and Dr. Isaac Vossius together with an introduction concerning the uncertainty of chronology ... / by John Milner. Milner, John, 1628-1702. 1694 (1694) Wing M2080; ESTC R26843 62,754 136

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late Chronologers Only it may not be amiss to represent how Scaliger is not only at variance with others but oftentimes also with himself and how his adversary Petavius is very unhappy in this respect as well as he is And in doing this I shall also confine my self to the time of the Assyrian Monarchy I begin with Scaliger Troy was taken An. 408 before the first Olympiad Scalig. de Emend temp l. 1. de Periodo Attica Edit 2. Troy was taken An. 406 before the first Olympiad Scaliger de Emend l. 5. de Ilii excidio Edit 1. The opinion that Troy was taken An. 407 before the first Olympiad is more certain by much Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de Ilii excidio Edit 2. Troy was taken An. Period Julian 3533 Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de Ilii excidio Edit 1. Troy was taken An. Per. Jul. 3531 Scalig. de Emend lib. 5. de Ilii excidio Edit 2. The first Olympiad was celebrated in the 36 th year of Azariah or Uzziah King of Judah Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Olympiadum Edit 2. The first Olympiad was in the 37 th year of Azariah Scalig. Animadv in Euseb. in An. 1241. The death of Nabopolassar was in An. Nabonassar 149 Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nebuchodonosor Edit 2. Nabopolassar dy'd in An. Nabonassar 152 Scalig. in Fragment p. 11. and in Canon Isagog l. 3. Nabopolassar reign'd only 19 years Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nebucbodon Edit 1. Nabopolassar reign'd 29 years complete and dy'd in the 30 of his reign Scalig. in Fragment p. 10 and 11. Nabopolassar dy'd in the beginning of the 29 year of his reign Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nabopolassar Edit 2. The beginning of Nebuchadnezzars reign was An. Per. Jul. 4107 Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nabuchodonosor Edit 1. The first year of Nebuchadnezzar was An. Per. Jul. 4106 Scal. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nabuchodon Edit 2. Nebuchadnezzar reign'd 7 years with his Father Scalig. de Emend l. 5. de initio Nebuchod Edit 2. Nabuchadnezzar reign'd almost 13 years with his Father Scalig. in Fragment p. 14. Nebuchadnezzars death was An. Nabonassar 185 Scaliger de Emend l. 5. de initio Nahuchod Edit 2. Nebuchadnezzar dy'd An. Nabonassar 183 Scalig. in Fragment p. 14. These are some instances of Scaligers uncertainty and inconstancy with which Petavius frequently upbraids him and had been the more excusable if he was not guilty of the like himself But his inconstancy will also appear by the following instances The Kingdom of the Sicyonians begun An. Per. Jul. 2548 Petav. de doctrina temporum l. 9. c. 16. The Kingdom of the Sicyonians begun An. Per. Jul. 2550 Petav. de doct temp l. 13. Inachus begun to reign An. Per. Jul. 2856 179 years after the birth of Abraham Petav. de doctr temp l. 9. c. 18. Inachus's reign begun An. Per. Jul. 2857. in the 6 th year after the death of Abraham i. e. 181 after his birth Petav. Rationar part 2. l. 2. c. 5. The 7 th year of Pygmalion was An. Per. Jul. 3822 Petav. de doctr temp l. 9. c. 62. The 7 th of Pygmalion was An. Per. Jul. 3825 Petav. Rationar part 2. l. 2. c. 13. The first Olympiad was An. 776 before the birth of Christ Petav. Rationar part 1. l. 2. c. 5. The first Olympiad was An. 777 before our Saviours birth Petav. Rationar part 2. l. 1. c. 11 and l. 3. c. 1 and 2. Nebucbadnezzar begun the siege of Tyre An. Per. Jul. 4122 Petav. Rationar part 2. l. 2. c. 13. The siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar begun An. Per. Jul. 4123 Petav. de doct temp l. 9. c. 63. To these we may add that Petavius makes one and the same year to answer to several years It is An. Per. Jul. 3961 in which he supposes Rome to have been built This answers to An. 752 before the birth of Christ so Petav. de doctr temp l. 9. c. 50. to An. 753 before Christ so in his Rationar part 1. l. 2. c. 7. to An. 754 before Christ so in Rationar part 2. l. 3. c. 2. Finally in the end of his Books de doct temp being about to give us the succession of the Kings in several Kingdoms he himself is pleased to acquaint us that he there gives an account of the beginning of the reigns of divers Kings somewhat different from that which he had given before in the Books themselves and this more especially in the Macedonian Kings We see then how wavering and unconstant these Learned men are in their Chronology and the great cause of their inconstancy is the uncertainty of it This uncertainty Petavius acknowledges as to the time of the creation of the World The number of the years from the Worlds creation to this time neither is certainly known nor can be without a Divine Revelation These are the words of Petavius de doct temp l. 9. c 2. which may be appli'd to many other Epocha's about which Chronologers dispute with very great earnestness I have inlarged the more upon this subject because of the great necessity and usefulness of mens being convinc'd of this uncertainty of Chronology of which we treat which will appear if we consider the many mischiefs which have been occasion'd by the want of such conviction From the want of this have proceeded many eager disputes about matters appertaining to Chronology and those manag'd with the greatest wrath and bitterness imaginable If Syncellus had been convinc'd of this uncertainty he would have been more favourable to Eusebius and not taken all occasions of reprehending him and that many times in very rude and unbecoming language Had others after him been throughly convinc'd of it and seriously consider'd it it would have prevented the heats between Scaliger and the German Divines and Scaliger would not have fallen so foul upon our M r Lydiat endeavouring to expose him and triumphing over him with the greatest scorn and contempt In like manner he treated all others that opposed him or only dissented from him inveighing against every one that did not fall down and worship every imagination of his not sparing either Ancient Writers or Modern but passing the severest censures upon both The consideration of this uncertainty might also have prevented the scuffles between Is. Vossius and his Countrymen that set themselves so fiercely against him Add hereto that if this uncertainty had been duly considered the World would not have been burthen'd with many tedious and voluminous writings such as Scaligers two Editions of his De emendatione Temporum and his Canones Isagog c. also Petavius's two Volumes De doctrina Temporum Finally for want of the consideration of this not a few have spent a great part of their life in the study of Chronology and many of them men of extraordinary parts and great diligence so that if the time and industry which they laid out upon