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A25805 The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.; Letter of Aristeas. Donne, John, 1572-1631. 1685 (1685) Wing A3682; ESTC R12295 60,349 222

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the Sacred Scriptures long before Writ●en of which they having heard some ●●ckling and received it as from hand to hand or drawn it from his Writings ●or heard it recounted by the Father to the Son and they from thei● A●cestors which were the Children a●d Successors of the three Sons of Noah who was the second Father of huma●● kind and restorer of the Nations of all the World all issuing from his Posterity after the universal Flood His three Sons as Holy Scripture hath acquainted us with where Shem Ham and Iaphet of whom are descended all the Earth And this before spoken is easily and sufficiently discovered in the Writings of the said Pagans by the proper Names of the said Children of Noah and of their Successors which of long time before these Writings and prophane Histories had been named by Moses For the Pagans testifie that the People had made of these Ancient Fathers● Idols and Gods As of Iaphet Iapetus they drew Iavan Ianus and Ion and because they were Names held in the Hebrew Letters or value of them they accommodated them to their Tongues and Letters and to make them more easie and glib in their accustomed Pronunciation came near but with al●eration And if we will go more high and weigh the old Times of the first Age which preceeded the Flood as we have it from that only History of Moses in the Holy Bible We shall easily perceive that the Pagan Poets and Writers have received even the Ancient Names and mingled them amongst their Fables and Dreams and drawn them from the Holy Scriptures And so it shall appear plainly that their false God Vulcan is not very hard to unmask that he was a mortal Man and one of the Sons of the other Lamech the prime Bigamist and corrupter of Marriage who descended of that accursed Race of Cain And this appears by the faculty of this Vulcan which was a Smith or forger of Armour And Moses declares him so and by his Name too for he is by him called Thu-vulcain and every one any thing skill'd in the Hebrew knows that if they leave the first Letter which is servile and put to form the Name according to the manner of the Hebrews it will appear mere Vulcain for their Letter Beth B. having not a prick in him is pronounced as our v Consonant And for the name of Vulcain's Wife by Moses call'd Nehama which signifieth Fair in their Language or as speak the Latines Venusta It is a plain course to discover vain Beauty or their so much celebrated unchast and wanton Venus A goodly Race and fair Family of that accursed murtherer Cain And here may we see some of the proper Gods and Idols of the poor Pagans amongst that Anthill of such and other ill stoln Names unhandsomely fetch'd from the Holy Scriptures with and by the subtilty of the Devil to the end that a wicked Troop of execrable Gyants violent oppressors of men Thieves and Adulterous desperates shaken off and damned by the Word of God of whom the first Apostate and Lyer Sathan made his counterfeit Gods and Idols the old Serpent expert and knowing in all malice that there was no better way for him to muffle and blind humane Judgement from the knowledge of the true God at first ingraven in the Souls of men but by this counterfeit device with Posterity But to pass farther in our begun purpose touching the fabulous Writings of the Pagan Poets we shall find that their Discourse in the best we can of it is but Corruptions of the Truth in the Holy Scriptures of God or things therein revealed turn'd by them into Dreams and prophane Narrations As we may see in that they writ of the Creation of the World and Government of the same of the Divine vertue that sustains and interiourly nourisheth all things of the Consumption of Heaven and Earth with Fire at the last Day and also of the Restoration of the World and of all things in such good order for all so many Confusions proceeding from Sin All which things they might obtain and by some dark means draw from the Books of Holy Scripture and Sacred Prophets translated out of Hebrew into other Languages or understand something by means of the dispersion of the People of Israel spread through all the Provinces of the Roman Empire and through all the Quarters of the World For the Iews had for the most part leave in all Places to hold their Synagogues and to have publick Lectures of their Law and Prophets When these Poets flatterers of men turn'd all that spoken of the Person of Christ the promised Redeemer and that then was expected falsely to apply them by flattery to their Princes false Gods and Idols But let us leave all those Juglers and Lyers that durst be so prophanely bold to corrupt the pure Verity of God's Word and speak we of the Gentiles Writings how long they came after Moses and Writ since he and that even they have given Testimony to him and his Divine Writings which may at least suffice to convince all Contradictors that Moses was in Nature and before them all We understand that his reckoning is a perpetual following all the years since the Creation of the World even unto his time as it is easie to gather by his Books and his account of the Years and Lives of the first Fathers from Adam unto the Patriarch Abraham and after from his Successors as from Father to Son to wit Isaac Iacob Levi Caath Amram and then Aaron and Moses himself Children of the said Amram And that he had express charge to Write to the very last the year since the Creation of the World 2513. and of his Life the 80. Year and hath continued his Holy Stories even to the year of his Death and of the World 2553. Now since that time● God hath always so provided for the advancement of his Glory and the edification of his Church that the perpetual History of her and the certain account of the years of the World hath been continued and still put in Writing by his Prophets As it is to be seen in the Holy Books that treat of and contain the Government of Ioshua and the Iudges then to Samuel and the Kings of the People unto the Transmigration into Babylon and of other Governours which have succeeded them after their return from thence And finally the Prophet Daniel hath declared the rest of the time that is The 490 years since the said Deliverance of the Jews and return from Babylon by the means of Cyrus King of Persia even to the Death and Resurrection of Christ the Redeemer promised to the Holy Fathers which is our Lord Iesus the eternal Son of God true God and true Man who appeared living after his Death and Resurrection to more than five hundred faithful Witnesses at one time besides his other manifestations and mounted visibly into Heaven in the year of the World 3961.
depend is the occasion of a multitude of Deaths when he executeth his Will with Fury and Passion and it is a detestable thing to extinguish the Lives of many out of an Affectation of Power For when Subjects conform themselves to the Will of the Prince humbly yielding and complying What Ground hath he to disquiet himself and to enter into Passion Moreover he must remember that God who Guideth and Governeth the Universal World is no way subject to Wrath nor heated with Passion whose Example the Prince ought to copy in his benign and gentle Disposition To the other Fortieth Question What thing is that which may well be foreseen by due Precaution The Resolution THat is to measure all things duly by the Line and Balance of right Reason and to conduct them to their intended End an Issue and to reject whatever is unprofitable and impertinent as contrary to right Reason in such sort as sounding the Intention in every Proceeding we come to the head of our Affairs by good Counsel But the Divine Vertue renders all Counsel assured and firm and Yours principally because you are given to the Exercise of Piety To the other One and fortieth Question What is it to play the Philosopher The Resolution THat is well and wisely to deliberate and consult all things that present themselves and happen to us and not to suffer our selves to be swayed by our irregular and fond Appetite but to despise all Vanities and Follies arising from filthy Lust and sordid Lucre and to be alwayes ready to the accomplishment of all good Works by as good and just Measures which to attain we ought to implore the Aid of God incessantly To the other Two and thirtieth Question What is the Royal Vertue of Hospitality The Resolution IT is to shew ones self not ingrateful but bountiful to all the World repaying with increase the good turns you have received from another in such sort as you may bear away the prize of Courtesie For God greatly exalteth the humble bearing great Favour and love to those that lessen and impoverish themselves liberally to raise the Vertue of others To the other Three and fortieth Question What Works are of most duration The Resolution HE is esteemed to do a lasting Work who hath brought to pass a weighty Business and worthy of Regard and when it is such as the Beholders durst not put their hands to it by reason of the Difficulty and Excellency of the Affair and that he nevertheless suffers none that have laboured in it to be unrewarded Not omitting likewise to feed with such as he hath obliged to engage therein with all Necessaries God having regard of all things in this World enriches men with variety of Gifts allotting to some health of Body and of Understanding and many such Goods Wherefore Great King you in the imitation of God ought to comfort the Afflicted and to convert their Calamities into Solace and Repose as being assured that whatever is done by Justice and Equity is most permanent and lasting To the other Four and fortieth Question What is the Fruit of Wisdom The Resolution THE Fruit of Wisdom is when we have committed nothing whereof our Conscience doth knowingly reproach us and when we have passed the Course of our Lives Sincerely For by such means Excellent King there is bred in our Minds a very great Satisfaction and an infinite joy with a pleasant Complacence For you Great King can never want hope in God conducting your Reign in true Piety and Religion These Answers heard all the Assistants expressed signs of great Approbation crowned with a chearful Applause Then the King graciously invited them to drink The Morning after when all the Company returned to the Table the King asked the rest in the following manner Five and fortieth Question What Course he should take never to be elated with Pride The Resolution YOU will never be swelled nor elated with Pride if you keep your self in an equality and moderation of Spirit that is to say if upon all Occasions you have this Maxim engraven in your Mind That you who bear rule over Men are no more then a Man yourself reflecting also with your self that God infatuateth the proud and arrogant and raiseth those who are lowly and humble To the other Six and fortieth Question What Counsellors he ought to have about him The Resolution THey should be your Counsellors Great King who have been long exercised and versed in your Affairs and such as you know bear you great Fidelity and Love and who know how to conform and suit themselves to your Condition the Light of God will discover those who are worthy such an Employment To the other Seven and fortieth Question What is most Necessary to a King The Resolution THE love of his Subjects for by that means he will make a Bond of indissoluble good will For the rest God accomplisheth that which one chuseth for the best To the other Eight and fortieth Question What is the end of a Speech or Oration in Pleading The Resolution IT consists after you have proposed your Intention in persuading that your cause is good confuting the Objections of your Adversary and shewing them to be inconsequent worthless and impertinent But the main end is to pursue duly the Point on every Occasion and not to stray with Locutions for the true persuasion is a thing addressed from God To the other Nine and fortieth Question How he should accommodate himself to divers People in one Kingdom The Resolution DOing and administring Justice to every one equally and by so doing you shall Govern and Rule them as you list for the rest God inspireth men with Power to discern the right of Kings To the other Fiftieth Question In what things are we constrained to be sorrowful The Resolution IN the Calamities and Adversities of our Friends and most when we see that such Calamities are of a long durance and inevitable and when they are therewith so attacked as to cause them to dye For in such Griefs there is no means how we can take off our Sorrow and if there were there is no possible hope of Remedy nor any profit to be found against such Accidents with which all humane kind are so grieved For to avoid wholly all Mischances is a business rather for a Divine Power then a Mortal To the other One and fiftieth Question In what thing a man deprives himself of Glory and Honour The Resolution WHen a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and Pride for then Vituperation comes upon him and privation of Honour follows him for God who is the Governour of Glory gives and takes it away as seemeth good to him To the other Two and fiftieth Question What kind of men he ought most to trust The Resolution TO those who bear you such love that neither Fear nor Avarice nor Ambition nor Covetousness nor hope of Lucre cannot at all have any Power to divert Nevertheless the shew of this Love