Samson and 20. under Eli. Eli Judge and Priest 40 yeeres 1 Sam. 4. v. 18. Observe here that from the death of Joshua unto Broughtons Advertisement pag 65. 67. Samuel are 339. yeeres whereof the times of oppression and afflictions of Israel were 111. yeeres which added together according to the Jewes manner of speaking make 450. yeeres And therefore Saint Paul saith that God gave the Israelites Judges Acts 13. v. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi after a sort 450. yeeres Samuel and Saul 40 yeeres See Expositours upon Acts 13. v. 21. 1 Sam. 6. v. 1. C. 7. v. 2. 15. C. 8. v. 1. 5. C. 11. v. 7. C. 27. v. 1. 7. To wit Samuel alone about 27. yeers with Saul about 10. yeers Saul after Samuels death about 3. yeers David reigned 40 yeeres and 6 moneths 2 Sam 2 v. 11. C. 5 v. 4. 5. 1 K. 2. v. 11. 1 Chr. 3 v 4. c. 29. v. 26. 27. 1. King 6. v. 1. 2 Chr. 3. v. 2. Solomon having reigned 3 yeeres and 6 moneths in the end of the foure hundred and fourscore yeere after Israel came out of Egypt in the second moneth of the Legall yeere began to lay the foundation of the Temple which was finished in the seven yeeres and sixe moneths As appeares 1 King 6. vers 1. 37. 38. But the sixe moneths are there left So 2 Sam. 5. v. 5. comp with 1 K. 2. v. 11. So 2 King 24. v. 8. compared with 2 Chr. 36. v. 9. So Gen. 5. v. 32 compared with C. 11. v. 10. out as the Scriptures oftentimes do imperfect numbers The said times accompted are 480 yeeres Which are mentioned 1 King 6. vers 1. From the laying of the foundation of Solomon's Temple unto the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon are 430. yeeres and 10. dayes FOR Solomon after the laying of the foundation of 1 K. 11. v. 42. 2 Chr. 9. v. 30. the Temple reigned 36 yeeres and 6 moneths Presently after the death of Solomon upon the 1 K. 12. v. 1. 4. 11. 19 20 21. 2 Chr. 10 v. 1. 11. 19. c. 11 v. 1. 12. Josh 15. v. 63. c. 18. v. 11. 28. 1 K. 11. v. 13. 32. c. 12. v. 20. 2 K. 17 v. 18. rough answer of his sonne Rehoboam ten Tribes rebelled and made Jeroboam King over Israel but the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin followed the house of David which because they had their possessions mixed are sometimes accounted as one Tribe Kings of Iudah Rehoboam 1 King 14. v. 21. 2 Chr. 12. v. 13. 17 yeeres Abijah 3 yeeres 1 K. 15. v. 2 2 Chr. 13. v. 2. Asa 41 yeeres 1 King 15. v. 10. 2. Chr. 16. v. 13. Iehoshaphat 1 King 22. v. 42. 2 Chr. 20. v. 31. 25 yeeres He is stiled King of 2. Chr. 21. v. 2. Israel because the right of the Crowne of Israel was in him for Israel rebelled against C. 10. v. 19. the house of David and also because God is called the God C. 15. v. 13. of Israel therefore the Kingdome and Verse 17. C. 12. v. 1. C. 21. v. 4. people of Iudah where and by whom God was chiefely worshipped are somtimes called Israel Iehoram alias 2 King 8. v. 17. 23. 2 Chr. 21. v. 5. 20. Ioram 8 yeeres Note that the beginning of his reigne is in the Scriptures accompted either from the time he first reigned in his fathers presence and so he 2 K. 8. v. 16 Where in the Original it is In the fifth yeere of Joram the son of Ahab King of Israel and of Jehoshaph King of Judah began to reigne in the fifth yeere of Jehoshaphat at the age of 32. yeeres Or from the time he first reigned in his fathers absence and so he began to reigne neere the end of the 18. yeere of Iehoshaphat 2 Chr. 18. v. 2 when Iehoshaphat went down to see Ahab in 2 K. 1. v. 17. the beginning of the second yeer after Iehoram King of Israel began to reigne Or from the time he first reigned after his fathers death and so he began to reigne at the age of 52. yeeres in the fifth yeere of Ioram King of Israel 2 Ch. 8. v. 16. and he reigned eight yeeres Ahaziah alias 2 K. 8. v. 26. 2 Chr. 21. v. 17. c. 22. v. 2. 6. Iehoahaz alias Azariah 1 yeere He was 22. yeeres Ludovic Lavater in Paralip 22. v. 2. old when he began to reign with his father and was 42. yeeres old when he began to reign alone after his fathers death Athaliah the 2 King 11. v. 3. 4 2 Chr. 22. v. 12. Queene 6 yeeres She was slaine in Compare 2 King 10. v. 36. with c. 13. v. 1. c. 11 v. 2 4. with v 24. the beginning of the seventh yeere of her reigne Ioash alias Iehoash 2 K. 12. v. 1 2 Chr. 24. v. 1. 40 yeeres Amaziah 2 K. 14 v. 2 2 Chr. 25. v. 1. 29 yeeres Vzziah alias 2 K. 15. v. 2. 2 Chr. 26. v. 3. Azariah 52. yeers Iotham 2 K. 15. v. 33 2 Chr. 27. v. 1. 8. 16 yeeres Ahaz 2 K. 16. v. 2. 2 Chr. 28. vers 1. 16 yeeres Hezekiah 2 K. 18. v. 2. 2 Chr. 29. vers 1. 29 yeeres Kings of Israel Ieroboam 21. yeers 1 King 14. v. 20. Nadab 1. yeere C 15. v. 25. Baasha 23. yeeres Verse 33. He began to reigne in the beginning of the third of Asa Elah 1. yeere C. 16. v. 8. Zimri 7. dayes Verse 15. Omri 11. yeeres Verse 23. He began to reigne in the beginning of Verse 15. 16. 23. the 27. of Asa though he was not fully confirmed till the death of Tibni in the 31. of Asa Ahab 21. yeeres Verse 29 In the end of his C. 20. v. 1. 22. 26. C. 22. v. 1. 2. 4. 29. 34. 37. 17. and of his 18. yeere he smote Benhadad King of Syria Afterwards they continued three yeeres without warre but in the third yeer Iehoshaphat leaving his sonne Iehoram King in his absence came to visit him And in the end of that yeere Ahab with Iehoshaphat went against Ramoth Gilead and was there slaine Ahaziah 2. yeers 1 King 22. v. 51. Jehoram alias Ioram * * 2 King 9. v. 14. 15. yeers He began to reigne C. 3. v. 1. neere the end of the 19. but in the 18. Vers 24. 25. C. 6. v. 8. 23 compleat of Iehoshaphat but he was not confirmed in his Kingdome till he overcame the rebelling Moabites and sent away the Syrians which was three yeeres after And then he reigned 12. yeeres Neere the end of 2 King 8 v. 16. his sixth yeere but in the fifth compleat Iehoram King of Iudah after his fathers death began to reigne And in the end of his Verse 25. C. 9. v. 29. 11. yeere or in the
beginning of his 12. after he was confirmed in the Kingdome Ahaziah King of Iudah began to reigne Iehu 28. yeeres C. 10 v. 36 Iehoahaz 16. yeers C. 13. v. 1. He began to reign in the beginning of the 23. yeere of Ioash King of Iudah Note That the last yeere of Ieroboam Nadab Baasha Elah Omri Ahab and Iehoahaz is not accompted because they were slain or died in the beginning of the yeere as may appear by comparing with the yeers of the Kings of Iudah Ioash 16. yeeres 2 King 13. v. 10. He began to reigne neere the end of the 28. but in the 27. compleat of Joash King of Judah Ieroboam 41. yeers C. 14. v. 23 In the beginning of C. 15. v. 1. his 16. but in his 27. yeere accompting the 11. yeeres which Jeroboam reigned with his father began Azariah King of Judah to reigne From the beginning of the 27. of Azariah Compare c. 14 v. 23. with c. 15. vers 8. King of Iudah to the end of the 38. was 1â— yeeres there was a Vacancy in the Kingdome of Israel Zachariah Verse d. 6. moneths He began to reign in the very end of the 38. of Azariah Shallum 1. moneth Menahem 10. yeeres and Verse 13. 5. moneths Pekahiah 2. yeeres Compare v. 17. with vers 23. Pâ—kâ—h 20. yeeres He began to reign in the beginning 2 King 15. vers 27. of the 52. of Azariah Hoshea 19. yeeres He began to reign in the beginning of the fourth yeer Verse 30. of Ahaz K. of Iudah which was the beginning of the 20. after Iotham began And in the end of the 13. but in the 12. compleat of Ahaz Hoshea C. 17. v. 1. was confirmed in his Kingd After which he reigned 9 yeers In the end of the third of Hoshea began Hezekiah to reign C. 18. v. 1. In the beginning of the 4. of Hezekiah which was the beginning Ver. 9. 10. C. 17 v. 6. of the 7. of Hoshea Shalmaneser King of Assyria came up against Samaria and at the end of 3. yeers which was in the end of the 6. of Hezek and of the ninth of Hoshea Samaria was taken Here began the Captivity of Israel Ver. 18. 21 23 24. Note that Israel was then carried away into Assyria 1 K. 17. v. 6. c. 18. v. 11. and placed in Halath and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the Cities of the Medes but 46. yeeres after they were driven thence dispersed and so broken that they were not a people As Isaiah foretold in the third yeere of Ahaz King of Iudah which Isa 7. v. 1. 8. was three score and five yeeres before it came to passe Manasseh 55 yeeres 2 K. 22. v. 1. 2 Chr. 33 v. 1. Amon 2 yeeres 2 K. 21 v 19. 2 Chr. 34 v. 21 Iosiah 31 yeeres 2 K. 21. v 1. 2 Chr. 33. v. 1. Iehoahaz alias Iohanan alias Shallum 2 K. 23. v 31. 1 Chr. 3. v 15. 2 Chr. 36. v 2. Jer. 22. v. 11. Comp. 2 Chr. 36. v. 2. with v 5. 3 moneths He is called the first borne because he first succeeded in the Kingdome but his brother Iehoiakim was the elder by two yeeres Iehoiakim alias Ioakim alias Eliakim 2 K. 23. v 34. 36 1 Chr. 3. v. 15. 2 Chr. 36. v. 4 5 11 yeeres Under Pharaoh Nechoh he reigned eight yeeres 2 K. 23. v 34. 35 c. 24. v. 1. Dan. 1. v. 1 2. Joseph Antiqu. l. 10. â— â— and under Nebuchadnez zar three yeeres but in the said third yeere which was the eleventh yeere of his reigne in Ierusalem he rebelled and the Lord gave him into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 2 K. 24. v. 8. Iehoiachin alias Ieconiah alias Coniah 1 Chr. 3. v. 16. 2 Chr. 36. v. 9. Jer. 22. v 24. c. 37. v. 1. 3 moneths and 10 dayes To wit three moneths and ten dayes alone after his Comment vulg in 2 Chr. 36. v. 9. fathers death being then at the age of eighteene But with his father he reigned ten yeeres before and began his reigne at eight yeeres old Note that the Scriptures expresse Iehoiachins Jer. 52. v. 28. Captivity to be in the seventh yeere compleat of Nebuchadnezzars reigne or when the seventh yeere was 2 Chr. 36. v. 10 expired or in the beginning of his eighth yeere All 2 K. 24. v. 12. which point at one and the same time From his Captivity the Prophet Ezekiel takes his Ezek. 1. v. 2. c. 8. 20. 24. 26. 29. 31. 32. 40. v. 1. Ezek. 1. v. 1 2. 2 K. 22. v. 3 8. accompt The fifth yeere of his Captivity was the thirtieth yeere after the finding of the booke of the Law in the eighteenth of King Iosiah Zedekiah alias Mattaniah 11 yeers 2 K. 24. v. 17. 18. 2 Chr 36 v. 11. Jer. 52. v. 1. Jer. 37 v. 1. Jun. Trem. in 1 Chr. 3. v. 16. He is called the sonne of Ieconiah not by nature for he was his Unkle but by succession in the government So Ahab was sonne to Baasha 1 King 20. v. 34. Broughtons Advertisement pag. 51. 59. 61. compared with c. 15. v. 19 20. So Salathiel was sonne to Jeconiah 1 Chr. 3. v. 17. Matth. 1. v. 12. From the revolt of Ieroboam unto the siege of Ierusalem in the ninth yeere of Zedekiah are 390. 2 K. 25. v. â— yeers which were the yeeres of the iniquity of the house Ezek. 4. v. 5. of Israel for some of the Israelites who were mixed with the Tribe of Judah remained untill this time In the end of his reigne Jerusalem was taken 2 K. 25. v. 2. 3. 8. Here began the Captivity of Judah 2 K. 25. v. 4. to v. 22. 2 Chron. 36. v. 17. to v. 21. Jer. 1. v. 3. c. 52. v. 27. commonly called the Captivity of Babylon with the utter destruction of Ierusalem The said times accompted are 430 yeeres and 10 dayes Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah alias the 70 yeeres Captivity began in the third yeere of Iehoiakim First because the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim was the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar How then could Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 25 v. 1. come up in the third of Iehoiakim And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Iehoiakim is contrary to the Text alleadged and also against reason For what man can imagine that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crowne raise immediately a mighty host subdue all Syria march afterwards with an Joseph Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. Army into Iudea which is neere 400. miles from Babylon the very sight whereof caused Iehoiakim to become his servant and all this to be done in the very 2 K. 24. v. 1. end of the third of Iehoiakim Secondly because it is grounded upon nothing but figments and falsities As that
sirnamed Ahasuerus hindered the building of the Temple who See Broughtons consent of Scripture Anno Mun. 3560. And Mr. Mores Tables is generally acknowledged to be the finisher * Joseph Antiqu l. 11 c. 4. Func fol. 65. Bucholz pag. 34 Sir W Ral Hist l. 3. c. 5. Sect. 3. Ezra 4. v. 6. therof and whose great favour and liberality unto the Jewes is not onely set forth in the Book ef Esther but also in prophane histories And though it be true that in the beginning of the reigne of Ahasuerus they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem yet this accusation was so farre from hindering the building of the Temple that it procured from Darius alias Ahasuerus a Decree for the speedy finishing thereof C. 6. v 1. unto v. 13. That Artaxerxes mentioned in the seventh of Ezra was the same Darius mentioned before in the Broughtens Advertisement and Consent sixth chapter in whose reigne the Temple was finished But this cannot be For Ezra ending his story of Darius in the sixth chapter begins his seventh thus Now after these things in the reigne of Artaxerxes King of Persia c. Which words shew plainly that he spake of another King and of things done long after Darius Besides in the seventh yeere of Artaxerxes Ezra had Commission to set Magistrates Ezra 7. v. 8. 25. and Iudges over the people which could not be the next yeere after the finishing of the Temple unlesse we will suppose that Zerubbabel the Governour and Hag. 1. v. 1. Zech 4. v. 6. Ieshua the High-Priest and the other Magistrates did all die together on a sudden as soon as the Temple was finished That Xerxes hindered the building of the Temple Broughtons Advertisement pag. 12. 13. That Artaxerxes Longimanus was brother to Xerxes whom all Histories with one consent declare to be his sonne That he reigned but 36. yeeres that Artaxerxes Mores Tables Mnemon reigned 11. yeeres with his father and 10. alone and infinite such like absurdities Neither can they excuse themselves because of the diversity of Writers touching the time of these Kings For the best and soundest Writers doe not differ and that which is and hath from time to time beene generally received must be taken for truth But Vincent Ler. contra Haeres c. 3. these follow none at all and cannot so much as find one pur-blind Author to countenance their inventions And therefore they doe cautiously omit the particular accompt of Daniels 70. weeks An Object But Mr. More tels us that Daniels 70. weeks must needs begin at the very end of their 70. yeeres captivity Mores Tables pag. 94 95. or else the analogie of their 70. yeeres captivity and 7. times 70. yeeres liberty could not stand and also the comfort were not so forcibly brought by the Angel if there were any meane time betweene the end of their captivity and the beginning of their liberty Resolved To resolve this we must know that An analogy is a proportion similitude or resemblance which one thing hath unto another Now that any intervenient time can destroy an analogie is a meere paradoxe For in matter of proportion and similitude neither time nor place are considerable Betweene the Paschall Exod. 12. v. 3. 21. Luke 23. v. 33. Lamb in the first Passeover and the passion of Christ the Lamb of God there was a true analogy yet there interceded 1552. yeeres Betweene the lifting up of the Serpent in the Wildernesse and the lifting up of the Sonne of man there was a true Numb 21. v. 9. John 3. v. 14. analogy yet there interceded 1512. yeeres Betweene Jonas his being three dayes and three nights Jona 1. v. 17. Matth. 12. v. 40 in the Whales belly and the Sonne of man his being three dayes and three nights in the heart of the earth there was a true analogy yet there interceded about 820. yeers Between Christs suffering and the signes now administred in the Lords supper there is a true analogy yet the time since He suffered is more then 1600. yeeres Therefore it is manifest that the analogy betweene Judah's 70. yeeres Captivity and Daniel's 70. weekes may well stand though the weeks doe not immediately begin in the end of the Captivity Nor does any meane time betweene the Jewes Captivity and their liberty diminish the comfort thereof more then the 46. yeeres till the Israelites were peaceably possessed of the Land of Canaan diminished their comfort of being freed from Egypt the house of bondage From the commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem againe unto the death and passion of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST are 490. yeeres FOR It is expressely declared unto Daniel that from Dan. 9 v. 25. the going forth of the Commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah The Prince shall be 7 weeks so long it was before the Reformation could be fully perfected Religion established and 62 weeks which make 69. weeks and Verse 26. 27. after 62. weeks in the week following which added to the said 69. maketh full 70. weeks shall Messiah So Numb 14. v. 34. So Ezek. 4. v. 5 6. So Dan. 10. v 13 So Revel 2. v. 10. be cut off and He shall confirme the Covenant c. Now accompting each day for a yeere as the Scriptures doe frequently 70. weeks do amount unto 490 yeeres The full time from the Creation of Adam unto the death and passion Which Ezek. might happily intend by 4000 Cubites c. 47. v. 3 4 5. of our Lord and Saviour IESUS CHRIST is 4000 yeeres and 10 dayes A particular proofe of the times from the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon unto the death and passion of our blessed Saviour IESUS CHRIST whereby the former computation as also many places of the Scriptures are cleared The first Monarch of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar reigned 45 yeeres Comp. 2 K. 24. v 12. with c. 25 v. 27. Jer. 25. v. 1. He began to reigne in the end of the fourth yeere of Jehoiakim King of Judah In the beginning of his tenth yeere which was 2 K. 24. v 7. Dan. 2. v. 1. 28. 36. Joseph Antiqu. l. 10 c 7 11. the second yeere of his reigne after he vanquished Pharaoh Nechoh Daniel told and expounded his dreame The Captivity of the Jewes began in the beginning 2 K. 25 v. 8. Jer. 52 v. 12. 27 of the nineteenth yeere of his reigne or as it is Ier. 52. v. 29. in the end of the eighteenth yeere From the finding of the booke of the Law in the 2 K. 22. v. 3. 8. 18. of Iosiah unto the last carrying away of the Jewes into Captivity in the three and twentieth yeere Jer. 52. v. 30. of Nebuchadnezzar are 40. yeeres which was the Ezek 4. v. 6. time of the iniquity of the house of Iudah Evilmerodach reigned 30 yeeres Melancthon l. 2. Chron. de 1. Monarch
pag. 165. Sleidan l. 1. Belshazzar in the beginning of his foureteenth yeere was slaine so that he reigned but 13 yeeres compleat Of these three Ieremiah speaks c. 27. v. 6 7. Note that when Cyrus the Persian overcame Astyages King of the Medes whom Daniel Dan. 9. v. 1. calleth Ahasuerus Darius alias Cyaxares sonne of the said Astyages took upon him the Kingdome but finding his souldiers to forsake him and having Joseph Antiqu. l 10. c 12. Xenoph de instit Cyri. l. 1. 8. no issue male he forthwith gave his daughter in marriage unto the said Cyrus sonne of Cambyses the Persian and Mandana the sister of Darius and joyned him in the government who was prosperous in Dan. 5. v. 2. 30. Ezra 1. v. 1. Isa 45. v. 1. warres took Babylon where he slew Belshazzar in his drunkennesse delivered the Jewes from Captivity subdued many Nations and was The first Monarch of Persia Darius reigned with Cyrus 1 yeere after Xenoph. l. 8. Sleid. l. 1. Belshazzar was slaine Of this Darius speaketh Ezra c. 6. v. 14. and Dan. c. 6. v. 1. And of their joynt-reigne v. 28. c. 8. v. 3. Isa 21. v. 2. 9. In respect of which joynt-reigne Darius is said to Dan. 5 v. 30. 31 Jer. 51. v. 11. Isa 13. v. 17. Melancthon l 2. chron de 2. Monarch pag. 10. Sr. W. R. Hist l. 3. c. 3. Sect. 5. Dan. 9. v. 1. take the Kingdome of the Chaldeans or Babylon though indeed Cyrus was onely in that action and Darius was by him made King over the Realme of the Chaldeans Cyrus after Darius his death 15 yeeres The building of the Temple went forward two yeeres but from the beginning of the third yeere Ezra 4. v. 24. Dan. 10. v. 1 2. 4. 13. of Cyrus accompting from Darius his death Cambyses withstood it and caused it to cease 21. yeeres which was untill he himselfe died Allowing therefore eight yeeres unto him with Smerdis the Mage it is plaine that he hindered the building in his fathers absence 13. yeeres Whereunto adding those two yeeres when it went forward the time of Cyrus his reigne after Darius was 15. yeeres Cambyses when his father Cyrus invaded Scythia Herodot l. 3. Grimston Estat in the Chron. of Persia Sect. 1. 6 was appointed King according to the custome of the Persians which was to leave the nearest in bloud to rule in the Kings absence In which Expedition Cyrus was at length slaine and then Cambyses reigned alone 7 yeers and 5 moneths Ezra calleth him Artaxerxes alias Artahshashte Ezra 4. v. 7. 11. 23. which was then a generall name unto the Kings of Persia as Pharaoh to the Kings of Egypt Caesar to the Roman Emperors and at this day Sophi to the Persian Beda de 6. aetat mundi Constant Phryg fol. 162. Buchol pag. 33. Isaacs fol. 132. Euseb chr fol. 53. D. Melancth l. 2. Chron. de 2. Monarch p. 3. Aelian hist l. 12. c. 43. Grimst l. d. Sect. 8. Smerdis the Mage reigned 7 moneths which time is usually added to Cambyses Darius sonne to Hystaspes King by election sirnamed Artaxerxes Ahasuerus reigned 36 yeeres Of whom Ezra 4. v. 5 6. where he is called Ahasuerus v. â—4 c. 5. v. 7. c. 6. v. 14. where he is called Artaxerxes v. 15. 22. where he is called King of Assyria Hag. 1. v. 1. Zech. 1. v. 1. c. 7. v. 1. He was the husband of Queen Esther alias Hadassah Esth 2. v. 7. Func Chron. fol. 65. Esth 1. v. 1. compared with 1 Esdras 2. v. the last and c. 3. v. 1 2. Xerxes sonne to Darius in the fifth yeere of his Of whom Dan. 11. v. 2. reigne went with an innumerable host against the Grecians but after many battels in the end of his Herodot l. 7. 15 yeere was utterly overthrowne both at Sea and Land and brought into such contempt that presently Bucholz pag. 36. 38. upon his returne into Asia he joyned his son Longimanus in the government wholly giving himselfe Vict Strigel Schol hist in Melancth l. 2. Chron. unto lust and cruelty and sixe yeeres after was slaine by his Unkle Artabanus His last sixe yeeres are the same with his sons and therefore not to be accompted Hist x Ctesiae Persicis Euseb chr f. 56. Melancth l d. pag 4. Christoph Helvic fol. 17. Artaxerxes sirnamed Longimanus 40 yeeres Of whom Ezra 7. v. 7. Neh. 2. v. â— c. 5. v. 14. c. 13. v. 6. In the end of his seventh yeere he gave Ezra his Func Comment in Chronol l. 2. Bucholz p. 40. Neh 2. v. 1. 8. 13 c. 4. v. 1. 3. 7. 8. 13. to v. the last Commission and then began Daniels 70. weeks And in his twentieth yeere he gave Nchemiah Commission to repaire some houses and to build the wals of Jerusalem which accordingly was executed although as it was foretold to Daniel the Dan. 9. v. 25. street was built againe and the wall even in troublesome times Xerxes Hist ex Ctesiae Persicis Christ Helvic fol. 18. Isaacs Chron. fol. 140. sons to Artaxerxes reigned severally 9 moneths Sogdian alias Secundian Darius Nothus 19 yeeres Sleidan l. 1. Grimst l. d. Sect. 1. 12. Bucholz pag. 43 Artaxerxes Mnemon 40 yeeres Euseb Chron. fol. 57. Melancth l. d. pag 4. Darius Artaxerxes sirnamed Ochus Metasthenes Aelian hist l. 2. c. 17. Melancth l. d. ib. Func Chr. f 73. Sleidan l. 1. Grimst l. d. Sect. 1. 13. 26 yeeres Arsames alias Arsaces alias Arses Beda l. d. Metasthenes Func Chr. f 74. Helv. ib. Grimst l. d. Sect. 1. 13. 4 yeeres Darius whose first name was Colomannus Beda l. d. Metasthenes Func Chr. f. 74 Helvic ib. Grimst l. d. Sect. 1. 13. 14. alias Codomannus reigned 6 yeeres Of whom Neh. 12. v. 22. Joseph Antiqu. lib. 11. cap. 7. This Darius was in three battels vanquished 1 Mac. 1. v. 1. Joseph Antiqu. l. 11 c. ult Aelian hist l. 8. c. 7. l. 12. c. 43. Justin l. 11 Sleidan l. 1. Grimst l. d. Sect. 14. by Alexander the Great An Object One Argument Mr. Broughton brings wherewith as he conceives he disproveth al computations but his owne and it is drawne from the ages of Zerubbabel Jeshua Mordecai Ezra and Nehemiah which See Broughtons consent of Scripture saith he must be stretched beyond all likelihood if the Kingdome of Persia continued above 130. yeeres Resolved As to Zerubbabel Jeremiah tels us That Jehoiakim alias Jeconiah was brought forth of prison in Jer. 52. v. 31. 33 34. the 37. yeere of his Captivity which was the 26. yeere of the Captivity of Judah and did eate continually before the King of Babylon untill the day of his death which admit to be two yeeres after then were 28. yeeres of Judah's Captivity passed Salathiel alias Matth 1. v. 12. 1 Chr. 3. v. 18
by the Preterpluperfect Tense Dixerat enim So Beza annot in Act. 7. Vatahl in a. locum And Vatablus a learned Hebrician confirmes it Hebraicè per futurum legitur quod pro praeterito perfecto ponitur perfectum pro plusquam perfecto Lege Actor caput 7. in principio Vertendum igitur I am verò dixerat Dominus And as Gods promise so Abraham's departure out of Haran was also before Terah's death Neither doth the relation of it after the death of Terah any way hinder For the Scriptures do frequently Judg. 10. v. 5. 6. 8. So c. 13 v. 24. c. 15. v. 20. compared with c. 13. v. 1. So Num. 9. v. 1. compared with c. 1. v. 1. So Ezek. 26. v. 1. comp with c. 26. v. 1. Gen. 25. 1. Gen. 2. v. 3. 22. c. 3. comp with c. 1. v. 27. So Jer. 26. v. 1. compared with c 25. v. 1. So c. 49. v. 34. compared with 2. 39. v. 1. So Dan. 7. v. 1. comp with c. 5 v. 30. in Story place that after which was done before in time As we know that the eighteene yeeres wherein the Philistines and Ammonites oppressed Israel were in the daies of Jair the Judge yet it is said And Jair died and was buried in Camon And the children of Israel c. where the story of the oppression is placed after Jairs death So Abraham's taking another wife is mentioned after the death of Sarah which was long before her death in her time So the relation of the making of woman and the fall of man followes after the seventh day yet we know that both were created on the sixth day The Prophets especially Jeremiah Daniel afford many such examples Fourthly because it cannot be inferred out of Saint Stephens words that Abraham departed not out of Haran till his fathers death for he saith from thence when his father was dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God transplanted him that is fully and absolutely removed him into this Land tam animo quam corpore Flac. Illyr Gloss in Act. 7. v. 4. Vide Genebrard Chronol l. 1. which indeed could not be before his fathers death because of the duty and naturall affection which he did and ought to beare unto his Father So that he departed thence at 75. yeeres old as Moses saith but was not transplanted thence till his fathers death as Saint Stephen saith at which time Abraham was 135. yeeres old Fifthly because the Scriptures set downe precisely that Terah lived 70. yeeres and begat Abraham Gen. 11. v. 16. Nahor and Haran Now if the 70. yeeres be not referred to Abraham then they are inserted ambiguously and to no purpose Ambiguously because it cannot be determined whether they belong to Nahor or Haran And to no purpose because what matter is it to the continuance of the Church which was the scope of Moses in that Chapter to mention how old Terah was when he begat Nahor or Haran who were Idolaters and not of the Church Sixthly because we must then admit that it was no wonder that Abraham should beget a child at 100 yeeres old whereas the Scriptures record it for an extraordinary act of Gods power beyond the course of nature Shall a child saith Abraham be Gen. 17. v. 17. borne unto hm that is an hundred yeeres old Therefore C. 18. v. 11. 12. Sarah laughed within her selfe saying After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure my lord being old also Abraham's age as well as her owne was the cause of Sarah's laughter And Saint Paul saith there sprang even of one and him as good as Heb. 11. v. 12. dead so many as the Starres of the skie in multitude Nay more He considered not his owne body now dead when he was about 100 yeeres old Rom. 4 v. 19. Whence it is cleere that Abraham's strength of nature was in his hundreth yeere quite spent his body was unable to beget children and therefore the wonder was wrought on him as well as on Sarah But in truth I cannot see how they should account this a wonder who give Abraham a wife and sixe sonnes of her after Sarah's death the eldest of whom should we suppose that Abraham begat him Gen. 17. v. 17. compared with C. 23. v. 1. the same day that Sarah died must be begotten in the 137 yeere of Abraham's age and if some may be credited all six were begotten in lesse then foure Sr. W. R. Hist l. 1. c. 1. Sect. 4. yeeres Sed ex uno absurdo mille sequuntur Seventhly because the best Writers and Chronologers affirme That Terah begat Abraham at 70. yeeres old As Joseph Ant. l. 1. c. 7. Euseb Chron. fol. 6. August quaest 25. in Gen. Beda de 6. aetat mundi Func fol. 20. Bucholz pag. 4. Calvis pag. 35. Hen. Buntingus fol. 22. Christ Helvic fol. 3. Isaacs fol. 30. Neverthelesse Abraham was not the eldest but the younger sonne of Terah and is placed first because Compare Gen. 11. v. 29. with C. 17. v. 17. of his excellency and dignity Abraham departed from Ur of the Chaldees when he was 70. yeeres old His departure was immediately after Gods Covenant with him Acts 7. v. 2 3 4. which is implyed Gen. 11. v. 31. and c. 12. v. 1. Now Gods Covenant was when Abraham was 70. yeeres old For from the Covenant to the Law were 430. yeeres but from the 75. of Abraham to the Law were but Gal. 3. v. 17. 425. yeeres Therefore the Covenant and so his departure out of Ur must be five yeeres before which was in his 70. yeere The said times accompted are 362 yeeres From Abraham's departing from Vr of the Chaldees unto the departing of the children of Israel out of Egypt are 430. yeeres FOR Abraham going forth from Ur of the Chaldees Gen. 11. v. 31. c. 12 v. 4 5. Beza in Act. 7. v. 2. 4. 6. came unto Haran alias Charran in Mesopotamia where he dwelt 5 yeeres and so leaving his father Terah was 75. yeeres old when he departed thence into the land of Canaan Note that as in the loines of Adam all men sinned Rom. 5. v. 12. Heb. 7. v. 9. 10. and as in the loines of Abraham the Levites paid tithes So the children of Israel in Abraham went forth from Gen. 12. v. 6. 9. 10. Ur of the Chaldees towards Egypt and passed thorow the land of Canaan journeying still towards the South untill they came into Egypt Isaac was borne unto Abraham when he was 100. C. 21. v. 5. yeeres old and in the 25 yeere after his departure out of Haran Isaac was 60 yeeres old when Rebekah bare C. 25. v. 26. Jacob. Iacob alias Israel went into Egypt with all Gen. 32. v. 28. C. 47. v. 9. his family when he was 130 yeeres old The children of Israel were in Egypt 210 Joseph ben Gorion de Stat. Macca Et Hebr. plerique omnes quibus
THE SCRIPTVRES HARMONY By E. F. Esq HEB DDIM HEB DDIEV LONDON Printed by Richard Cotes for William Hope and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Unicorne in Cornhill 1643. TO THE READER MAny and various are the opinions of Writers concerning the continuance of the world before Christ insomuch that it is grown into a Proverb (a) Chronologi non magis congruunt quam horologia Victorin Strigel Prolegom in Chron. Melancth Chronologers agree like Clocks (b) Vix duos reperire liceaâ— qui omnibus in lâ—cis inter sâ— conveniant Func Epist dedicat Scarce two of one mind throughout The chiefe and maine ground of these differences is because most neglecting the Word of God are drawne away with Fables humane traditions and uncertaine authorities whereby they (c) Vide Sleidan de 4 sum Imper. l. 1. Genebrard Chronograph l. 1. Chemnit Harm Evangel c. 8. Eustach Phys parte secunda disput 1. quaest 5. exceed the just and true number some forty yeeres some one hundred some one thousand nay some two thousand yeeres and upwards Others who seeme much to follow the Scriptures and Hebrew expositours unto whom (d) Lyra annotat in Gen. c. 15. v. 13. without all peradventure we ought in this point to subscribe doe indeed (e) In accompting Terahs age when Abraham was born and the time of the promise to Abraham and the Captivity of Judah c. renounce them when there is small cause to suspect them of falshood and embrace them when we know they seeke by all meanes to obscure the truth As (f) Beroaldus Chron. l. 3. c. 7. H. Broughtons Consent Rollec in Dan. Rob. Pont. pag. 17. Mores Tables pag. 62. in beginning Daniel's 70. weekes from the first yeere of King Cyrus which Aben Ezra a malicious Rabbi affirmed not that he did so beleeve for then he must have confessed that the Messiah was come because he himselfe (g) He perfected his Comment on Daniel Anno Dom. 1126. saw more then thrice 70. weekes finished but that he might confound the Christians accompt and render them ridiculous both to the Greeks and Persians (h) Hebraeorum Commentatores miris modis regum Persarum Historiam dilacerarunt Io. Func comment in Chron. l. 2. His designe is by this computation made frustrate All Scriptures seemingly jarring in point of time are here reconciled many places cleared especially in the Books of the Judges Kings Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel Prophecies are shewed in their due time to be accomplished Christ Iesus is proved be the true Messiah and (i) Gal. 4. v. 4 5. in the fulnesse of time to have redeemed them that were under the Law The honour and (k) Chronologia seu temporis exordium cum ordinata ejus serie distincta numeris progressione est proprium Ecclesiae decus quia ex sola Scriptura Sacra recte cognoscitur Polan Syntag-Theol l. 5. c. 15. comelinesse of Gods Church is here presented and a necessary (l) Nulla historia lucem habet sine temporum serie Vict. Strigel proleg in Melancth Chronologia alter historiae oculus Polan ibid. help as well in remembring as understanding of the Scriptures is administred To thee be the use To God be the glory Farewell THE SCRIPTVRES HARMONY Containing A briefe plaine and perfect computation of the yeeres and times from the Creation of Adam unto the death and passion of our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ according to the Scriptures As followeth FRom the Creation of ADAM unto the ceasing of NOAH'S Flood are 1656. yeeres FOR Adam was 130 yeeres old when he begat Seth. Gen. 5. vers 3. Seth at 105 yeeres begat Enos Verse 6. Enos at 90 yeeres begat Cainan Verse 9. Cainan at 70 yeeres begat Mahalaleel Verse 12. Mahalaleel at 65 yeeres begat Jared Verse 15. Iared at 162 yeeres begat Enoch Verse 18. Enoch at 65 yeeres begat Methuselah Verse 21. Methuselah at 187 yeeres begat Lamech Verse 25. Lamech at 182 yeeres begat Noah Verse 28. 29. Noah was 600 yeeres old when the Flood was upon Ch. 7. ver 6. the earth THE waters of the Flood began in the sixe C. 7. v. 10. 11. C. 8. v. 13. hundred yeere of Noah's life in the second moneth the seventeenth day of the moneth and were dried up in the sixe hundred and one yeere in the first moneth the first day of the moneth So that the Flood continued ten moneths and thirteene dayes which being the same with the sixe hundreth yeer of Noah are not to be accompted The said times accompted are 1656 yeeres From the ceasing of NOAH 's Flood unto ABRAHAMS departing from VR of the Chaldees are 362. yeeres FOR Shem Noah's sonne begat Arphaxad 2 yeeres after Ch. 11. vers 10. the Flood Arphaxad at 35 yeeres begat Salah Verse 12. Salah at 30 yeeres begat Eber. Verse 14. Eber at 34 yeeres begat Peleg Verse 16. Peleg at 30 yeeres begat Reu. Verse 18. Reu at 32 yeeres begat Serug Verse 20. Serug at 30 yeeres begat Nahor Verse 22. Nahor at 29 yeeres begat Terah Gen. 11. v. 24. Terah at 70 yeeres begat Abraham Verse 26. Reasons why it cannot be admitted that TERAH begat ABRAHAM at 130. yeeres old FIrst because we must then grant that there were two promises made by God unto Abraham The one before his departure out of Ur of the Chaldees The other after Terah's death before his departure out of Haran Which is a meere conceit and cannot be proved out of the Scriptures For Saint Stephen by repeating the words of Moses Get thee out Acts 7. v. 2. 3 4 Gen. 12. v. 1. of thy Countrey c. shewes plainly that Moses and he did both speake of one and the same promise which he expressely saith was made in Mesopotamia containing at that time the land of the Chaldees before Abraham dwelt in Charran And indeed had Saint Stephen at that time spoken any thing differing from Moses though by divine revelation yet he Sr. W. Ral. Hist l. 1. c. 1. Sect. 3. had offered the Jewes his accusers too great an occasion of scandalizing him and the Gospel of Christ Secondly because we must then admit that Moses who so punctually and largely has set downe the life of Abraham did leave out and not at all mention the first and chiefe promise made by God unto Abraham which would savour of no lesse impiety then improbability Thirdly because the last and best English Translations render not the words of Moses thus Terah Gen. 12. v. 1. died in Haran And the Lord saith or then the Lord said but Now the Lord had said unto Abraham in the Preterpluperfect Tense shewing that the Lord had made this promise before Terah's death and as Saint Stephen saith in the land of the Chaldees Junius and Tremelius translate it
potissimum in Chronicis credendum Lyra in Gen. 15 v. 13. Beza in Act. 7. v. 6. yeeres Which was by their father Jacob Prophetically implied in this word Descend yee or Get you downe the letters whereof in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie 210. Gen. 42. v. 2. These 210. yeeres may be thus set forth in particular Kohath with his father Levi came into Egypt Gen 46. v. 8. 11 Exod. 6. v. 18. unto whom Amram was borne about 60. yeeres after Amram was 70. yeeres old when Moses was C. 2. v. 1. 2. 10. C. 6. v. 20. Epiphan l. Ancorat borne unto him Moses was 80. yeeres old when he conducted Compare Num. 10. v. 11. 12. c. 13. v. 26. with Deut. 2. v. 14. c. 34. v. 7. the children of Israel out of Egypt The time of the ten plagues of Egypt is the same with the latter part of the eightieth yeere of Moses Exod. 7. vers 7. And it is necessarily concluded Exod. 7. v. 19. to c. 12. v. 29. from those many testimonies of Moses his being in the Wildernesse 40. yeeres Wherefore Saint Stephen Joseph Antiqu. l. 2 c. 6. Acts 7. v. 30. did not there intend a full and compleat expiration of 40. yeeres as he did before verse 23. The said times accompted are 430 yeers which are mentioned Exod. 12. v. 40. 41. But when the Scriptures speak of 400. yeeres as Beza annot in Acts 7. v 6. Gen. 15. vers 13. and Acts 7. vers 6. The accompt is to be taken from the birth of Isaac From the departing of the children of Israel out of Egypt unto the laying of the foundation of Solomons Temple are 480. yeeres FOR Moses remained in the Wildernesse 40 yeeres Deut. 2. v. 7. Psal 95. v. 10. Amos 5 v. 25. Acts 7. v. 36. 42. c. 13. v. 18. From the Covenant that God made with Abraham saying IN THEE SHAL Gen. 12. v. 3. Acts 3. v. 25. Gal. 3. v. 8. ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED upon which he departed from Ur of the Chaldees unto the giving of the Law Exod. 19 v. 1. 18 c. 20. v. 1 in Mount Sinai are 430. yeeres and almost three moneths But the Apostle Gal. 3. v. 17. leaveth out the moneths as an imperfect number Ioshua in the 7 yeere after the death of Moses Comp Deut. 2. v. 7. 14. with Josh 14. v. 7. 10. divided the Land of Canaan and after that governed 10 yeeres which the Scriptures call a long time in respect of Joshua's age and may Josh 13. v. 1 c. 23. v. 1. be proved by deducting the evident and certaine numbers out of the 480. yeeres mentioned 1 King 6. vers 1. Othniel judged Israel 40 yeeres Judg. 3. v. 11. Under whose government Israel served the Lord Josh 24. v. 31. Judg 2. v. 7 10. all the dayes * Which were 17. yeeres according to the Hebrewes others say 20. C. 3. v. 6 7 8 9 10. of the Elders who had seene the great workes of the Lord But when the Elders were dead they fell to Idolatry and much wickednesse till at last the Lord sold them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim King of Mesopotamia by whom being eight yeeres grievously oppressed they cried unto the Lord and the spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel their Judge and he delivered them Note that when the Scriptures say the Land had Judg 3. v. 11. rest 40. yeeres and Othniel died it is not to be understood that the Land was in peace 40 yeeres together under Othniel but that the Land had rest or peace unto the end of 40. yeeres from the decease of Joshua Or untill the fortieth yeere of Othniels Ad annum quadâ—agesâ—inum Jâ—n Trem. government But in what yeere before the fortieth the peace began the Scriptures expresse not So understand Judg. 3. v. 30. c. 5. v. 31. c. 8. v. 28. Ehud with the Vacancy 80 yeeres Judg. 3. v. 15. 30. Eglon K. of Moab oppressed Israel 18 yeers Neer the C. 3. v. 14. end of which oppression as some suppose but more Levi ben Gerson Func fol 35 Calvis pag. 241 probably neere the end of Ehuds Judgeship when through long peace and plenty God the giver of all goodnesse was forgotten the execution of justice wholly neglected and every man did that which was Judg. c. 17 18 19 20. 21. right in his owne eyes were those dayes wherein the Scriptures say There was no King in Israel Shamgar was a deliverer but no Judge for the C. 3. v. 31. Scriptures neither mention that he judged nor that the Land had rest in his daies Deborah 40 yeeres C. 5. v 31. The 20. yeeres wherein Jabin King of Canaan C. 4. v. 2. 3 4. mightily oppressed Israel were at that time when Deborah judged Gideon alias Ierubbaal 40 yeeres C. 6 v. 32. C. 8. v. 28. Presently after the death of Deborah Midian oppressed C 6. v. 11. to the 33. Israel and though Gideon a mighty man of valour was in the first yeere of their oppression otherwise there could not be forty yeeres in his C 8. v. 28. daies by the Lord in speciall manner called to the government and had the Lords promise that he should save Israel from the hands of the Midianites yet untill the seven yeeres oppression which God C. 6. v. 1. 34. C. 7. v. 9. 22 23 had appointed were finished and untill the spirit of the Lord came upon him he did not deliver them Abimelech 3 yeeres C. 9. v. 22. Tola 23 yeeres C. 10. v. 1 2. Iair 22 yeeres Verse 3. In the end of the fourth yeere of Jair the Philistines C. 10. v. 7 8. C. 11. v. 29. and Ammonites began to vexe and oppresse Israel which they continued 18. yeeres untill the Lord raised up Jephthah to deliver them Iephthah judged Israel 6 yeeres C. 12. v. 7. About 34. yeeres after that Sihon King of the Num. 21. v. 24 25 26. c. 22. v. 2. compared with c. 33. v. 38. 48. Amorites had fought against the predecessor of Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab and had taken all his Land even unto Arnon Israel smote Sihon and all his people and possessed his Countrey which was in the last yeere of Moses From whence unto Jephthah were but 266. yeeres current yet by adding the yeeres of their owne possession unto Sihon's whose right they had by the Law of Conquest Jephthah did justly say that they had dwelt in or Judg. 11. v. 26. possessed those Countries three hundred yeeres Ibzan 7 yeeres C. 12. v. 8. 9. Elon 10 yeeres Verse 11. Abdon 8 yeeres Verse 13. 14. Samson 20 yeeres C. 16. v. 31. The Lord delivered Israel into the hand of the Philistines C. 13. v 1. 5. C. 15. v. 20. 40. yeeres Whereof 20. were fulfilled under
Jehoiakim was See Broughtons consent of Scriptures Mores Tables carried to Babylon and sent home againe * Read Jer. 22. v. 18. 19. That Daniel and the rest were carried away Captives in the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar That Jehoiakim rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth yeere of his reigne That Nebuchadnezzar came not against him till five yeeres after That the Chaldean Kingdome continued but 70. yeeres Which they seeke to wrest from the words of Jeremiah but in vaine Jer. 25. for though in the fourth of Jehoiakim he prophesieth of the just continuance of the Chaldean Kingdome untill the end of the 70. yeeres Captivity yet he saith not that the 70. yeeres Captivity began in the fourth of Jehoiakim for the Scriptures declare that they began not till the end of the reigne of Zedekiah which was eighteene yeeres after the said prophecy Thirdly because the Captivity of Jehoiakim as also of his sonne was but a particular Captivity of some few though I grant many Nobles were then carried away But the Captivity of Judah or the 70. yeeres Captivity was not the Captivity of a few or only of the chief but of the whole Land of Judah of Prince and people with the utter destruction of Jerusalem in the end of the reigne of Zedekiah Of this Captivity it is said So Iudah 2 K. 25. v. 21. was carried away out of their Land And Jehozadak 1 Chr. 6. v. 15. compared with 2 K. 25 v. 18. the sonne of Seraiah went into Captivity when the Lord carried away Iudah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar Thus Iudah was carried away Captive out Jer. 52. v. 27. of his owne Land And the word of the Lord came unto Jer. 1. v. 1 2. Jeremiah in the dayes of Iehoiakim unto the end of eleventh yeer of Zedekiah unto the carrying away Ierusalem Captive in the fifth moneth What words can plainer expresse the time when the Captivity of Iudah began Them that had escaped from the sword carryed 2 Chr 36. v. 20. 21. he away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons untill the reigne of the Kingdome of Persia to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah untill the Land had enjoyed her Sabbaths for as long as shee lay desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfill three score and tenne yeeres See here the 70. yeeres desolation must be fulfilled from this Captivity in the end of Zedekiah Fourthly because if Jehoiakim were carried away captive in his third yeere then must Jeconiah's Captivity be in the ninth yeere of Nebuchadnezzar For â— Chr. 36. v. 59. Jehoiakim reigned eight yeeres after that and his sonne Ieconiah three moneths and ten dayes But this is contrary to the Scriptures which say directly that Nebuchadnezzar tooke Iehoiachin alias Ieconiah 2 K. 24. v. 12. in the eighth yeere of his reigne And Ieremiah saies in the seventh yeere Jer. 52. v. 28. Fifthly because in the last chapter of Ieremiah where the severall Captivities are reckoned up there Jer. 52. v. 28 29 30. is no notice taken of the Captivity of Iehoiakim nor of the Captives at that time carried to Babylon being none but a few children chosen out of certaine of the children of Israel and of the Kings seed Dan. 1. v. 3. 4 and of the Princes such as had ability in them to stand in the Kings Palace and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans Whereas the Captivity of Zedekiah is there and also in the 39. Chapter and in the latter booke of the Kings and Chronicles largely related as being the grand and most remarkable Captivity The Captivity of Iudah From the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon unto the Commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem againe are 152. yeeres FOR 2 Chr. 36. v. 21 Jer 25. v. 11 c. 29. v. 10. Dan. 9. v. 2. The Captivity continued 70 yeeres The next yeere after being the first yeere of King Cyrus Israel returned from Captivity Ezra 1. v. 1 They began to build the Temple in the second Ezra 3. v. 8. yeere of the said Cyrus And it was finished in 29 yeeres after which was the sixth yeere of King Darius the son of Hystaspes C. 6. v. 15. Of this Temple it was prophecied that the glory thereof should be greater then of the former which was Hag. 2. v 9. not in respect of the beauty in building but because of the presence of the Messiah our Saviour who John 18. v 20. should teach therein Artaxerxes in the end of his seventh yeer which Ezra 7. v. 8. 11 was 52 yeeres after the finishing of the Temple sent Ezra and gave him Commission to restore and to build Jerusalem againe Here began the 70. weeks revealed by the Angel Gabriel unto Daniel Dan. 9. v. 21. 24 The said times accompted are 152 yeeres Reasons why it cannot be admitted that Daniels 70. weeks should be accompted from the first yeere of King Cyrus The one is because the Angel saith expressely that the 70. weeks must be accompted from the going forth of the Commandement to restore and Dan. 9. v. 25. to build Jerusalem which Commandement was not given forth by Cyrus for the Commission of Cyrus twice rehearsed by Ezra was onely Ezra 1. 6. to build the Temple And though it be also true that Cyrus gave Commandement to build Jerusalem yet Esa 44. v. 28. c. 45. v. 13. he gave not Commandement to restore Jerusalem Whereas that Commandement which the Angel spake of was both to restore and to build Jerusalem This was given forth by Artaxerxes in the seventh Ezra 7. v. 11. yeere of his reigne As may be seene by the tenour of Ezra his Commission For Ierusalem was then restored when the Lawes were taught and Religion established and it was then built when Magistrates and Iudges were set therein Without Religion Ierusalem could not be restored without Magistrates it could not be called a City To settle both these Ezra onely received authority and had Commandement The other reason is because the Assertors of this opinion when they come to particulars doe grossely rend in sunder all Histories especially of the Persian Monarchy and are forced to build on their own phansies As That Cyrus after he took Bahel Broughtons Advertisement of corruption pag. 11. See Mr. Mores Tables reigned but three yeeres Cambyses after his fathers death foure But Mr. More will have it that Cambyses reigned with his father sixe yeeres and one after his fathers death Both alike true For if Cyrus and Cambyses reigned so short a time how could Cambyses the Prince of the Kingdome of Persia withstand Dan. 10. v. 13. compared with v. 1. the building of the Temple 21. yeeres as the Scriptures affirme and are so understood even by Mr. Broughton himselfe Broughton ibid. That Darius the sonne of Hystaspes
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Shealtiel was the sonne of Jeconiah by succession Salathiel begat Pedaiah Pedaiah begat Zerubbabel Now admit that Salathiel immediately after he succeeded Jeconiah begat Pedaiah and that Pedaiah at 24. yeeres also begat Zerubbabel which probably was not sooner then was Zerubbabel 18. yeeres old in the first yeer of King Cyrus and 48. when the Temple was finished in the reigne of Darius Hystaspes As to Jeshua He was the sonne of Jozadak alias Ezra 3. v. 2. 1 Chr. 6. v. 14 15. 2 K 25 v. 18. 21 Jehozadak the sonne of Seraiah the chiefe Priest who was slaine by Nebuchadnezzar Now admit that Jehozadak was ten yeeres old when he was carried into Captivity and that 30. yeeres after he begat Jeshua then was Jeshua 40. yeeres old in the first yeere of Cyrus and 70. when the Temple was finished As to Mordecai Admit that he was five yeeres Esth 2. v. 6. old when he was carried away Captive with Jeconiah then was he 122. yeeres old in the 12. yeere C. 3. v. 7. of Ahasuerus when the two daies of Purim were by the Decree of Queene Esther made feastivall after C. 9. v. 1. 32. which should he live eight yeeres he then died at the age of 130. which was not unlikely in those 2 Chr. 24. v. 15 times As to Ezra Admit that he was five yeeres old when his father Seraiah the chiefe Priest was slaine then was he 170. yeeres old in the 20. of Artaxerxes Longimanus when he read and instructed the people in Neh. 2. v. 1 c. 8. v. 3. 13. the words of the Law after which should he live ten yeers though peradventure he lived not one yeer he then died at the age of Isaac 180. yeers old And what unlikelihood is there but that God for the good of Gen. 35. v. 28. his Church might as well preserve Ezra unto this age as he did Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar to a far Moses Aegyptius in suo Misna ut citatur l. 2. chr Genebr greater whom the Jewes affirme to have lived 300. yeeres Nor will it further extend the age of Ezra to shew that Ezra went into the Chamber of Johanan and that he wrote the Books of the Chronicles in Johanan's time For Johanan alias Ionathan was the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliashib the sonne of Ioiakim Neh. 12 v. v. 10 11. the sonne of Ieshua Now admit each of these to be begotten in the thirtieth yeere of their fathers age observing what we spake before concerning Ieshua then was Iohanan borne in the fifth yeere of Artaxerxes Longimanus and so Ezra might very well in the beginning of Artaxerxes his eighth yeere go into the chamber of Iohanan who was then about Ezra 10. v. 6. three yeeres old And what hinders but that he might write the sonnes of Levi the chief of the fathers Neh. 12. v. 23. in the Booke of the Chronicles even untill the dayes of Iohanan seeing he lived in the 20. of Artaxerxes at which time Iohanan was 15. yeeres old But if Mr. Broughton may prevaile the said Priests shall be much more forward in procreation For he will allow but 87. yeeres from the Captivity of Zedekiah See Broughtons consent of Scripture unto the 7. of Artaxerxes Whence it follows that though ten yeeres be granted to Iehozadak at the time of Captivity yet every one of them must begin to beget children before 19. yeeres old otherwise Iohanan could not be borne when Ezra came to Ierusalem True it is Nehemiah saith that the Levites and Priests were recorded unto the reigne of Darius but by Neh. 12. v. 22. whom this was done he tels not it is plaine not by Ezra for he wrote but untill the dayes of Iohanan 1 Chr. 9. compared with Neh. 11. And though Nehemiah concludes these were in the daies of Joiakim and in the dayes of Nehemiah the Governour and of Ezra the Priest the Scribe yet it C. 12. v. 26. cannot be understood that they were all of them in every one of their daies for that is impossible but that all of them were in all their daies some in the daies of Joiakim some in the dayes of Ezra some in the daies of Nehemiah As to the age of Nehemiah Admit that he was 25. yeeres old when he came to Jerusalem and lived unto the end of the Persian Monarchy he was then Neh. 2. v. 11. 130. yeeres old when he died which is nothing unlikely Func fol 74. Thus we have the continuance of the Persian Kingdome unto 210. yeeres and probably the ages of Zerubbabel Ieshua Mordecai Ezra and Nehemiah without the diminution of the one or stretching of the other beyond reason The first Monarch of Grecia Alexander the Great after the full overthrow Justin l. 11. Bacholz pag. 53. of Darius reigned 7 yeeres Upon his death-bed he parted his Kingdome among 1 Mac. 1. v. 6. 9. Dan. 11. v. 5. to the 30. his servants such as were honourable who all after his death put Crownes upon themselves and soone fell into warres one against another Of whom the chiefest were foure Seleucus King of Syria Joseph Antiqu. l. 12. c 1. Justin l. 13. Sleidan l. 1. Dan. 7. v. 6 c. 8. v. 8. 21 22. c. 11. v. 3 4. Ptolomeus of Egypt Antigonus of Asia the lesse and Cassander of Macedon And of these the two former excelled in power between whom what leagues and conflicts should be Daniel foretold under the names of The King of the North and the King Dan. 11. of the South For Syria lieth Northward and Egypt Southward from Judea The whole chapter is paraphrased by Joseph Hall Bishop of Exceter Note That the Grecian Kingdome Func fol. 75. Bucholz pag. 56 so often mentioned in the Books of the Maccabees began 13 yeeres compleat after the death of Alexander the Great Antiochus sirnamed Epiphanes sonne of Dan. 8. v. 23. c 11. v. 21. 1 Mac. 1. v. 10. 2 Mac. 4. v. 7. Joseph Antiqu. l. 12 c. 5. Antiochus King of Syria a King of fierce countenance a vile person that wicked root after his brother Seleucus was dead began to reigne in the end of the 137 yeere of the Grecian Kingdome On the eighth day of the fifth moneth in the 141. Dan. 8. v. 11 12 13. 1 Mac. 1. v. 13 14. 15. 21. to the end of the ch c. 2. v. 6. to the 16. Joseph Antiqu. l. 12. c. 7 8. yeere the transgression of desolation began and the daily sacrifice decaied by the grosse idolatry of those who with the licence of Antiochus joyned themselves to the Heathen and were sold to do mischief And in the 143. yeere he took Jerusalem polluted the Sanctuary hindered and afterwards forbad the daily Sacrifice and compelled the Jewes to all manner of ambition Whom Mattathias the Priest for 1 Mac. 2. v. 1. 19 to the 48. v. 66. 70.
King And in respect of his Mark 6. v. 14. 26. Luke 9. v. 7. c. 13. v. 32. power and greatnesse it is that the Scriptures place him before his elder brother Philip. Our Saviour Iesus Christ was crucified when Ioseph Antiqu. l. 17. c. 13. l. 18. c. 3. schol illustr Func Chr. fol. 91. 92. Herod the Tetrarch had governed 29 yeeres and about 3 moneths And in the eighteenth yeere about the beginning Euseb Ch. f. 71. Beda l. d. Genebr chr l. 2. Baron Annal. Eccles f. 101. 169. Gualterius Tom. 2. Ioseph Antiq. l. 18. c. 3. of the fourth moneth of Tiberius Caesar who succeeded Augustus having reigned 57. yeere And in the seventh yeere of Pontius Pilate Governour Func Chr. f. 92. Isaacs pag. 184. of Iudea The age therefore of our Saviour Ignat. ad Trall Niceph. Hist Eccles l. 1. sub finem Polan Syntag. Theol. l. 6. c. 18. Baron Annal. Eccles 169. Gordon Lesinor Chr. Tom. 2. Apparat. c. 4. was 33. yeeres and about three moneths And may be thus set forth in particular Upon the expiration of the 30. yeere of His age Luke 3. v 21. 22 23. comp with Numb 4. v. 23. 30. 47. Matth. 4. v. 12. 17. Mark 1. v. 14. Chemnit Harm Evangel c. 17. c 22. Ioseph Antiqu. l. 3. c. 10. Scalig. de emendat temp l. 6. Chemnit Harm Evang. Prolog c. 3. Levit. 23. v. 5. 6 10. 11. comp with Deut. 16. v. 1. 9 10. Genebr l. 2. Chemnit Harm Evangel c. 45. He was baptized and entred into His Ministery though He did not publikely shew Himselfe till Iohn was cast into prison which was almost a yeer after Neither can any inconvenience follow from the season of the yeere that Christ should then go into the river Iordan to be baptized For in Iudea there is very little winter and that onely in October and the beginning of November And the Scriptures tell us that on the second day after the Passeover which was the 16. day of the moneth Abib alias Nisan and is with us the 27. of March a sheafe of the first fruits of Harvest was offered The first Passeover after His Baptisme was about the end of three moneths Iohn 2. v. 13. 23. The second Passeover is expressed Iohn c. 5. v. 1. where the word Feast by way of eminency is put for the Passeover which was the chiefest feast of the Jewes So Matth. 27. v. 15. So Iohn 4. v. 45. compared with c. 2. v. 23. So c. 11. v. 56. So c. 12. v. 1 2. So c. 13. v. 1. 29. The third Passeover Iohn 6. v. 4. The fourth Passeover Iohn 13. v. 1. On the Eve Mark 15. v. 42. John 19. v. 31. 42. August de Trin. l. 4. c. 5. whereof Our Saviour was crucified which the Jewes call the Preparation day And was the 25. day of March on which day He was also conceived in the wombe From whence these particulars are manifest 1. That from the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon unto the first of King Cyrus are 70. yeeres from thence unto the end of the 7. of Artaxerxes Longimanus are 82. yeeres which added together make 152. yeeres And from thence unto the death and passion of Our Saviour are 490. yeeres or as the Angel informed Daniel 70. weeks In the end of Dan. 9. v. 24. which last yeere of the said 490. Our Saviour was crucified 2. That neere the midst of the last week of the said 70. Our Saviour entering into His Ministery began Dan. 9. v. 27. John 4. v. 23. Matt. 27. v. 51. Mark 15. v. 38 to cause the Sacrifice and the Oblation to cease but by His death He did utterly abolish them which was signified when the vaile of the Temple rent in twaine 3. That neere the 25. day of December and most August in Psal 132. de Trin. lib 4. 2. Chrysost in c. Lucae 1 v. 29. Niceph. Hist Eccles l. 1. c. 12. Paul Oros l. 7. c. 7. Genebr l. 2. Baron Apparat. ad Annal. Eccles sub finem Chemnit Harim Evangel c. 8. Gordon Lesinor Chr. Tom 2. in apparat probably on that day Our Saviour was borne Lastly That from the Creation of Adam unto the birth of Our Saviour are 3966. yeeres 9. moneths and 10. daies Unto which 9. moneths and 10. daies adding the 5. dayes before the Creation of Adam Gen. 1. v. 23. Exod. 12. v. 2. compared with c. 13. v. 4. Beda de ratione Temp. c. 28. 40. Polan Synt. Theol. l. 5. c. 7. and then accompting 9. moneths and 15. dayes from the 25. of December backwards It is evident that the world began on the 10. day of March when the Sun entereth into Aries and makes the Equinoctial Soli Sapienti DEO sit laus gloria in omne aevum Amen FINIS Imprimatur Joseph Caryl