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A95922	A compend of chronography: containing four thousand thirty yeers complet, from Adams creation to Christs birth. As an harbinger to two larger tomes, in pawn of the authors promiss: which he intends to perform, if God shal permit. / By Rob. Vilvain of Excester. Price at press 3 d.	Vilvain, Robert, 1575?-1663.	1654 (1654)	Wing V394; Thomason E897_8; ESTC R206719	25,178	38

A COMPEND OF CHRONOGRAPHY Containing Four thousand thirty yeers complet from Adams Creation to Christs Birth As an Harbinger to two larger Tomes in pawn of the Authors promiss which he intends to perform if God shal permit Tempus edax Rerum quae Tempus edit mala Res est Time al things doth devour or spil The thing which time mispends is il By ROB. VILVAIN of Excester Price at Press 3 d. LONDON Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne for the Author and are to be sold at his House in Thames street neer Baynards Castle An. Dom. 1654. A Prefatiuncle CHronography is a new term and the exact examen of Times from the beginning to Christs birth an unusual thing but both very proper or pertinent to imply the Authors intentions Which having succinctly signified shal suffice to giv a litle glimps of light in the dark crooked corners of this intricat Labyrinth enough to lead the wandring steps of Novice Chronologers in a right cours Adieu CHRONOGRAPHY CHRONOLOGY is a collation or Definitions coordination of things doon in time or applied therto of which kind are many learned works every wher extant Chronography a discussion or disquisition of Times themselfs which are severaly stated by som in certain peecemeal parcels but by none intirely together Times to omit Philosophers Physical partition into past Preamble present future are diversly divided 1. With Astronomers into yeers Solar and Lunar moneths of Peragration in 27. dais 8. hours wherin the Moon runs hir race through the Zodiac constitution in 28. dais or 4. weeks ordained for Mens affairs and Consecution in 29. dais 12. hours 44. minuts wherin the Moon at Conjuction overtakes the Sun weeks Diarian of 7. natural dais and Annarian of 7. Solar yeers dais natural of 24. equal hours and Artificial of 12. unequal from Sunrising to setting hours Equinoctial of 60. minuts and unequal according to the dimensions of Artificial dais minuts 60. in an hour and secunds or sections 60. in a minut which is not so pertinent to this purpose 2. With the Apostles into times of old reaching from the Creation to Christs coming and the last dais extending to the Worlds end which large exception sutes not with this intention 3. With Rabbi Elias into 3. Dischiliads that as the World was made in 6. dais so it shal dure 6000. yeers Becaus one 2 Pet. 3. 8. Ps 90. 4. day with the Lord is as 1000. yeers viz. 2000. before the Law of Circumcision commenced in Abraham caled void becaus few Kingdoms were erected and the Earth thinly Peopled 2000. under it which Christ fulfilled in the flesh and finished 2000. under the Messias or Gospel which none can prescribe or prefine but this distribution is too gross and untru 4. With learned Varro into Classic spaces viz. from the Worlds origin to Ogyges Flood which he cals Adyla uncertain or dubious from thence to the Olympiads stiled mythica or fabulous and the rest downward to al ages caled historical fiducious or veracious but this rather respects the quality then quantity of time 5. With the Fathers and Divines into several Ages grounded on set periods in sacred Scripture with som sort into six som into seven sections according to the dais of Creation suting best with my occasion but this design from the Creation to Christs birth shal be branched into ten such Stages or Stations trahit sua quemque voluntas For every Man abounds in his own sens and proponeth a method most complacently consonant to his own phansy or project The first Stage from Adams creation to the Floods inchoation 1 Stage includs 1656. Gen. ch 7. and 8. contains 1656 Solar yeers as appeers in the continuance therof so many months and dais as make up an intire yeer not Lunar of 30 dais only as som sensl●sly suppose for no Nation ever used such sav the old Egyptians nor they in Civil matters as Censorinus avers but their Priests in sacred mysticals to amplify a beleef of their antiquity among credulous People This period is proved by the Protopatriarchs generation of Sons For Adam lived 130. ful out so 't is meant of Gen 5 per totum al the rest and begot Seth he at 105. Enos he at 90. Cainan he at 70. Mahalaleel he at 65. Jared he at 162. Enoch he at 65. Michuselah he at 187. Lamech he at 182. Noah he at 600. entred the Arc in al 1656. The 72. Elders stiled septuagints or haply their Scribes exceed the said sum 706. yeers after the Greec Translation or 586. in the Latin which palpably prevaricats from Moses Hebrew Prototype yet most Antients folow them as reverend holy Men but the Man of God must be preferred to a million of Godly Men. He that wil be Truths Champion in Chronical compute tho a despicable Dwarf may not yeeld an inch to the greatest Giant no not in a difference of one yeers dimension Joseph Scaliger was singularly skild in most Sciences but self weening as best wits are and subject to errors In points of Chronography he is rather a troubler then amender of accompts as Salianus stiles him who to seem curious or censorious in mites contests about one yeer as Henry Hotspur with Owen Glendower about Trents torted turnings in their imaginary sortition or sharing of England that the Flood began A 1657. current becaus 't is said Noah was 600 complet Gen 7 6. when the waters were on the Earth yet the very words plainly purport the being not beginning of that Deluge yea 't is after cleered that in the 600. current of his life the fountains Ibid v. 11. of the great Deep broke up So the places are easily reconciled tho one mistaken Indeed the Fathers are said to liv so many yeers meaning complet and beget Children which Chronologers interpret of their Births and haply the fractions which they lived longer may somwhat exced the said sum For the holy Ghost is not scrupulous in such scantlings which being incertain we must reckon no more nor less then is expressed in the Genealogy Som stifly striv that al were born just at the yeers end which is most improbable that al should be born on the 6. day as Adam was created and so let it pass for an inconsiderable trifle scarsly to be conceived or credited For the od over-plus of moneths or dais may more safely be omitted or excluded and the precise sum of 1656. yeers indubitably received The secund from Noahs Flood to Abrams Birth includs 2 Stage 353. 353. yeers asserted by the Postpatriarchs begetting of Sons For the Deluge dured one yeer and Sem begot Arphaxad two Gen 8. 13. Gen. 11. 10. yeers after it ended he Salah at 35. he Eber at 30. he Peleg at 34. he Reu at 30. he Sarug at 32. he Nahor at 36. he Terah at 29. he Abram at 130. in al 353. The seventy translators or their transcribers not only ad 700. yeers to 7. of thos Patriarchs but insert

which sundry Rabins take to be the Covenant confirmed for one week but he expounds it of the new Gospel Covenant wherby many seing the manifold miseries of the City and Country foretold by Christ were converted more then any time els before For God warned the Saints saith Eusebius to fly from Jerusalem like Lot out of Sodom to Zoar into little Pella beyond Jordan that he might pour his vengeance more fiercely upon Unbeleevers If any ask to whom the Particle He shal make a Covenant can be referred sav to the Roman Ruler He saith 't is usual in Hebrew to understand a Person or Agent though not expressed before when a transitiv Verb hath an Impersonal notion viz. that before it be destroied a Covenant shal be made to the Faithful ther by such Ministers as God shal use In midst of that week the Legal Sacrifices ceased for at Vespasians coming the Rebel-Ringleaders abolished the custom of Sacrifices appointing the common People and Country Clowns to be Priests as Coblers Coopers Coachmen and Costermongers preach in Tubs during tumults contrary to Law yea they defiled the Temple and slu the Priests at the Altar so in fine no Oblation was offred as Josephus tels for ceasing of Sacrifices may apply both to this War and Christs death which abolished and accomplished al lawish oblations The sum is that by annointing the most Holy Christ is understood but by Messias twise mentioned the Jews Governors Nehemiah Agrippa are meant Wheras then 't is said 70 weeks are decreed to abolish sin and make attonement which Christ did within thos weeks as Tertullian saith the work of redemption was perfected under Tiberius within Daniels 70 weeks The Hebrews held their Messiah should reign at Jerusalems destruction according to an antient rule of R. Elias School that the World shal last 2000 yeers before the Law 2000 under it and 2000 under Messias which R. Leviben Gershom cals the Dan. 2. Dan. 7. fifth Kingdom being to succed the four foretold by Daniel For the Law with al Ceremonies ended when Titus razed the seat of divine worship and neither Place Priest nor People left to solennize Gods service R. Hami saith the Son of David shal not com so long as any Soveraignty remains in Israel R. Milo from R. Eliezer that Christ shal not com til al Judges and Magistrats be clean rid R. Moses Hadarson commenteth on Jacobs Prophecy that the Sanedrim shal not ceas til Shilo the Messias com which stood in ful authority with Gen. 49. 10. the Commonwealth til the last war For Josephus relats that the high Priest Ananus and seventy Judges condemned James our Lords Brother Bishop of Jerusalem when Albinus began the war Agrippa was expeld not long after the Sanedrim suppressed Priesthood made a mockery al authority turned to anarchy the City and Commonwealth becoming Acephalon without Head or Guid. Many seek the fulfilling of Jacobs prophecy at Christs Birth becaus Herod an Idumean alien swaied the Scepter but are deceived for the Jews Government by Priests and Elders dured stil tho subject to the Romans as before to Babylonians Persians and Syrians who substituted Herod under them Onchelos the Chaldee Paraphrast interprets it thus A Magistrat of Juda shal not depart nor a Scribe of his posterity til Christ com to whom the Kingdom pertains and al power shal be subdued to him Hence so many conterfets about the Temples downfal fained to be Messias yea divers Rabbins Judas Nehorai Nehemias took by tradition as tokens of Christs coming that much wickednes should abound good Men abhorred and Divinity Schools made Brothel houses which is Daniels overspreading of abominations This Josephus records to be at that Siege when al sins against nature were acted Laws cōtemned the Temple desiled Virgins deflowred Matrons ravished Houses rifled and al detestable crimes perpetrated or practised Thus Daniel and Josephus refer the reign of abominations to Jerusalems destruction which the Rabins apply to Christs coming To reconcile al Christs coming is duple 1. Personal in humility as Zechary Zech. 9 9. said Rejoice daughter of Sion be glad daughter of Jerusalem for lo thy King cometh lowly riding on an Ass and an Asses Fole 2. Powerful in principality wherof he self speaks That som Mat. 16. 28. ther should not see death til the Son of Man cam in his Kingdom which was verified in St. John with others of whom he said If I wil that he tary til I com what is that to thee Who lived John 21. v. 22. til Jerusalems desolation when Christ cam as a revenging Judg to punish his Persecutors which may be Meaphoricaly caled a coming tho divers Divines impute it to his Resurrection being an entrance into his Kingdom confirmed by sending down the Comforter yet not so proper as the other For Junius expounding Daniels words from going out of the Commandment to build Jerusalem unto Messiah shal be 7 weeks and 62 refers them to Christs coming in Daniels last week when Jerusalems desolation began becaus he shewed himself a severe Lord or Judg against the Jews and a gracious Prince or Head of the Church by benefit of the Gospel When Christ told his Disciples that not a stone should be left on a stone they asked Mat. 24 2. 3. when it should be and what sign of his coming and of the Worlds end Conjoining the Temples demolition Christs coming and the Worlds end but in St. Marc and Luke they Marc 13. 4. Luk 21. 7. only ask what time shal be of the Temples ruin Which argues that the Apostles held the old Hebrews opinion of the Temples eversion and Christs coming to concur when a change shal be of the old Churches overthrow and coming of Christs Kingdom who expected a new face of things by their Messias reign caling it the World to com As Rabins termed the time from Adam to Christ the first World and from it to the general Resurrection the last so the Disciples inquiring the sign of Christs coming and the Worlds end meant the new secund World of the Gospel Whence those times betwixt Christs preaching and Jerusalems perishing are caled the last dais and by St. Paul the Worlds end Yea Christ answering Acts 2. 17. Hebr. 1. v 2. their Quaere givs one token cited by R. Nehemias that wickednes shal multiply and Charity wax cold This secund coming 1 Cor. 10 v 11. Mat. 24. 12. contains his whol reign jurisdiction and judgment in Heavenly Jerusalem by the Gospel preached even from commencement of Earthly Jerusalems confusion to the general Resurrection both being expresly concluded under his secund coming one respecting the inchoation another the consummation of the self same Kingdom Thus al circumstances cohere wher he saith This generation shal not pass til al thes things be Mat. 24. 34. fulfilled and som shal not tast of death til they see the Son of Man com in his Kingdom which respects it beginning in Jerusalems fal