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An exact abridgement of the general history of the world from the creation to the year 1685 / by the accurate pen of a learned historian.
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Ferrar, Richard.
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Mephra Mutesis It was to him Joseph interpreted the Dreams and who entertained Jacob. This Patriarch died under The Death of Jacob. The Death of Joseph Tomesis the second afterwards Joseph continued to Govern under Orus in whose Reign he Dyed Of the World 2305. before Christ 1689. The Successors of Orus are these who The Israelites Persecuted follow Ratotis Achancheres Armais and Ramesses the first Ramesses the second he began to oppose the Israelites and his Son continued it he was called Amenophes the Third Of the World 2369. before Ch. 1635. The Birth of Aaron and Moses Cecrops K 〈…〉 of Athens The Birth of Aaron and Moses Of the World 2430. before Ch. 1574 Cecrops brought a Collony from Aegypt into Greece and there founded the City of Athens of which he was the first King Of the World 2467. before Ch. 1537. The Arabians became Masters of Babilon Tâ—â— Arabians in Babylon and having drove out the Chaldeans and there establisht a new Dinasty of which Mardocentis was the first King Of the World 2494. before Ch. 1510. Amenophis the third continued to persecute the Israelites but God delivered them by the hand of Moses as it is Related in the Book of Exodus Of the World 2513. before Ch. 1491. The Fourth Age. THat which passed in the Wilderness is fully described in the Book of Moses As to profane History that remarks the conquests of Sesostris the Son The Conquests of Sesostris or Aegiptus of Amenophis the Third who past thro' Arabia into Persia and went even to India where he past over Caucasus and entred into Scythia and arrived at Thrace and so passing the Bosphorus travelled through Asia the lesser and Syria and came back into his Kingdom at the end of Nine Years which he had spent to make himself master of those Countrys which have been named Besides the name of Sesostris he had that of Egiphes whence his Kingdom took afterwards its Name He had a Brother called Armais whom at his Return he drove out of Aegypt because he had broke the Orders given him to observe in his Brothers Absence It was this Armais whom the Greeks called Danaus Armais or Danaus who being Expelled his Country came to Greece where he became master of the Kingdom of Argos of whom was The Danaids feigned the Fable of the Danaids Of the World 2522. before Ch. 1482. Busiris the Brother of Amenophis the Busiris Third Uncle of the two preceeding Princes succeeded his Nephew Sesostris who died without Children This is that Busiris so famous for his cruelty to Strangers Of the World 2530. before Ch. 1474. Hermes Tresmigestus At this time lived Hermes Tresmigestus the most famous Phylosopher and one of Sesostris his Privy Councellors Agenor Agenor the Son of Belus the Aegyptian past from the upper part of Aegypt into that part of Palestine which from the name of Phaenix his Son was called Phaenicia Phaenix Caelix his second Son gave the Caelix name to Caelicia Cadmus the third having Cadmus persued the Ravisher of his Sister Europa Europa and not being able to retrieve her stopt in Boetia at a City he called Thebes from Thebes the name of another Thebes of high Aegypt his native Country This Cadmus brought Greek Characters to the Greeks those Characters that they used since for Writing Of the World 2549. before Ch 1455. The Death of Aaron and Moses The death of Aaron and Moses was a Year after Of the World 2552. before Ch. 1452 Joshua brought the Israelites into the Joshua past the Jordan Land of Promise where Manna failing they began to Eat of the Fruits of the Earth The first Year after the sixth from The first Sabbatick Year their Entrance is the first Sabbatick Year by which they regulated their Years of Jubilee Of the World 2560. before Ch. 1444 The Death of Joshua Joshua dies after he had judged the People 26 Years Of the World 2591. bef Ch. 1413. Othoniel the Brother of Caleb Judged Of the World 2599. before Ch. 1405. The Judges of Israel Israel Of the World 2659. before Ch. 1345. after him Ehud to whom Samgar succeeded Of the World 2679. before Ch. 1325. Belus King of Assyria of the race of Assur drove the Arabs out of Babylon and united the two Kingdoms Of the World 2682. before Christ 1322. Deborah ana Baruc. Deborah judged Israel with Baruc. Of the World 2719. before Christ 1245. Belus the Assyrian The City of Niniveh Ninus the Sonnet and Successor of Belus gave the Name to the City Niniveh which was Built by Assur in the time of Nimrod Of the World 2737. before Ch. 1267. This Ninus conquered all the Country between Tygris and India among the Kings whom he subdu'd was the famous Zoroaster Zoroaster King of the Bactrians Of the World 2781. before Ch. 1223. Gideon judged Israel his Son Abimelec The Judge of Israel usurpt the Title of King which his Father had refused Ninus gave to his second Son Argon the Argon King of Lydia Kingdom of Lydia which he had conquered from the Descendants of Atys Son of Hercules After the Death of Ninus Semeramis Semeramis his Widow Reigned in his place under the name of Ninias their Son Tholac and Jair govern'd Israel successively Judges of Israel then Jephta whose History the Scripture fully relates in the 11th and 12th Chapters of Judges The taking of Troy by the Greeks The The Siege of Troy Kings of that place were Dardanus the Son of Jupiter and Electra the Daughter of Atlas then Erictonius Tros Ilus with The Trojan Kings his Brother Asaracus Ilus by the Daughter of Teucer Son of Scamander King of Creet had Laomedon Asaracus was Father to Capis and Tyton Laomedon Father of Priamus Priamus Father to Hector and Paris and Cassys Father to Anchyses Anchyses Father to Eneas Tyton Father to Memnon The chief of the Greeks who were present The chief of the Greeks at the Seige of Troy at the War were Agamemnon and Menelaus Brothers and Sons of Atreus The first was King of Argos and Missena The second of Spanea Thiestes their Grandfather Pelops who was Son of Tantalus and of Hippodamia the Daughter of Enomaus King of Peloponesus Ulisses Husband to Penelope and King of Ithaca Achilles the Son of Peleus and Thetis .. Peleus Son of Jachus King of Aegina Patroclus Kinsman and Friend to Achilles both of them Pupils to Chyron the two Ajaxes the first the Son of Telamon King of Salamis the other of Oclus King of Locris Diomedes King of Aetolia Palamedes King of Eubaea Hercules Castor and Pollux Brothers of Hellena born of Jupiter and Leda Orpheus and the young Hylas Friend of Hercules Jason Prince of the Argonauts The Arnauts he was the Son of Aeson King of Thessaly Jason was Husband to Medea who afterwards married Aegeus
Treves where Gratian his eldest Son then was this young Prince was saluted Emperor Augustus Titles his Father had bestowed on him in his Life-time The Army in Pannonia where the Father Gratian and Valentinian II. Emperors died gave the like Title to the second Son the young Valentinian His eldest Brother Gratian at first was displeased at it but at length he approved of it as well as Valens Uncle to these two Princes The Goths had possess'd themselves of those Countries bordering on Tanais The Huns who came out of Scythia as the others drove them out and forc'd them to make their Abode elsewhere So soon as they were entred into Thrace for that purpose Valens went against them to drive them out but he was overcome by them The Death of Valens in a Battle and being pursued was burnt in a Peasant's Cottage where he was retired From Christ 378. By his Death Gratian finding himself oppress'd with the Weight of Affairs discharg'd himself of half of it by associating Theodosius to the Empire He was Son Theodo 〈…〉 â—ssocâ—ated to the Empire to another Theodosius a Person of high Merit who had rendred considerable Services to the Empire under Valentinian and Valens The Son inheriting the good Qualities of his Father in a short time made himself famous by expelling the Goths from Thrace which they had miserably ravaged after their Victory over Valens From Christ 379. Macedonius Bishop of Constantinople denied Macedonius an Enemy to the Holy Ghost The first Council at Constantinople the Divinity of the Holy Ghost Theodosius a very Orthodox Prince caused a Council to be assembled at Constantinople where the Fathers condemned this Heresie and deposed Macedonius in the place of whom was put Nectarius a Person most worthy of that Dignity In that Council they declared That the Bishop of the second Rome should from that time be the next in Rank to the Bishop of the first and so by Consequence to take place of those of Alexandria and Antioch Maximus Governour of Great Britain The Revolt of Maximus had caused himself there to be proclaimed by the Army then past over into Gaul made himself Master of that Province surprized defeated and killed Gratian The Death of Gratian who had many excellent Qualities and no ill ones Conen Meriadec a British Prince had past Conen Meriadec a British King over the Sea with Maximus and setling himself with the Troops of his own Nation in the Maritime part of Gaul which was afterwards called Little Brittany where he erected a Monarchy almost for twelve Ages From Christ 383. The Death of Damasus Bishop of Rome Bishops of Rome which hapned in that Year did not put an end to the Schism of that Church For tho' Syricius was there chose in the place of Damasius Ursicinus still pretended that his Election was good From Christ 384. Maximus being Master of the Isle of Britain of Gaul and of Spain entred Italy with so great an Army that Valentinian not being in a Condition to make Head against him fled with his Mother Justina to Thessalonica where Theodosius then lay Maximus having likewise reduc'd Italy advanc'd towards Aquilia where he stay'd resolving to wait for Theodosius who was marching towards him to fight him Theodosius being arrived with his Army they fought in two Days two bloody Battles In the last of which Maximus was wholly routed and taken Prisoner Theodosius was willing to save his Life but the Soldiers judging him unworthy of that Favour killed him against the Emperor's Pleasure So that Valentinian was re-establish'd in Maximus overcome and killed the Western Empire which he peaceably enjoyed four Years at the end of which Arbogastus a Gaul one of his principal Commanders discontented because he had taken away some of his Commands caused him to be stifled in his Bed by the The Death of Valentinian II. Grooms of his Bed-Chamber whom he had corrupted to do it This Prince was but Twenty six Years old His Mother Justina being an Arrian had infected him with that Heresie but he renounced it after her Death Arbogastus had that great Power in the Army that he prevailed with the Soldiers Eugenus Tyrant with Arbogastus to proclaim Eugenius Emperor a Man of mean Extraction whom Fortune had raised to great Commands This was the Cause of another Civil War Theodosius spent two Years in making Preparations for it And all that time the Tyrants reigned in the West At length Theodosius march'd against them the Armies met and fought near to Aquilia The Tyrants being defeated Arbogastus killed himself Eugenius being Arbogastus and Eugeneus killed taken Prisoner suffered Death by the Executioner Theodosius did not long enjoy the Fruits of that great Victory which made him sole Master of the Empire He had been for some time troubled with a Dropsie his Disease increasing at Millan where he came after the Defeat of the Tyrants he fell extreamly ill and died in that City at Theodosius ' s Death the Age of Fifty having reigned sixteen Years There was but two things to be blamed in him That he made Laws to deprive Hereticks of their Estates and Liberties unless they would renounce their Errors The other was The Murthering of a great Number of Thessalonians to punish their Insolence who resisted his Power by a Sedition Being reprehended by St. Ambrose for that Cruelty he express'd so great a Repentance for it that his Contrition joyned with his other excellent Vertues may serve for a Pattern to all Christian Princes By his last Will and Testament he divided the Empire between his two Sons Arcadius and Honorius and accordingly Arcadius and Honorius Emperors the eldest took possession of the East the other of the West They were both disturb'd at first with the Revolt of Rufinus a Prefect of the Praetorian Bands who brought an Army of Barbarians into Thrace and of Gildon who plaid the Usurper in Africk but these Disorders were presently quelled by the death of the Traytors Theodosius held the first Oecumenical Council at Constantinople In his time lived St. Austin St Jerome and Claudian the Poet. Syricius Bishop of Rome died after he Bâ—shops of Rome had the Happiness to see the end of thaâ— Schism which the Election of Ursicinuâ— had caused in that Church Syricius was the first who declared against the Marriage of the Clergy From Christ 398. The last Year of this Age saw the rise The Revolt of Gainas and fall of the Revolter Gaianus who was by extraction a Barbarian His great Conduct and Experience in the trade of War had raised him to be General of Honorius his Army the services he had done for him made him pretend to have a Church in Constantinople for those of the Arriaâ— Sect of which he was a favourer which the Emperor refusing by the persuasion of St. John Chrisostom Bishop of Constantinople The disdain to be refused provok'd Caianus to Ravage