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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04357	The wonders of the world: or, Choice observations and passages, concerning the beginning, continuation, and endings, of kingdomes and commonwealths. With an exact division of the several ages of the world ... the opinions of divers great emperours and kings ... together with the miserable death that befel Pontius Pilate ... a work very profitable and necessary for all. / Written originally in Spanish, translated into French, and now made English, by that pious and learned gentleman Joshua Baildon.; Silva de varia leción. English	Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?; Baildon, Joshua.	1656 (1656)	Wing M1957; ESTC R215366	95,994	143

than that which we reckon by the course of the Sun which is three hundred sixtie five daies and six hours yet this difference shall not make us doubtfull or uncertain of the lives of our ancient Fathers for this is but a small matter in nine hundred or a thousand years to fail twenty or thirtie the Lunarie moneth not accomplishing thirtie daies By this authoritie then we are certain that the nine hundred and thirtie years that Adam lived and the nine hundred years of others were the same as the hundred and seventie five of Abraham and the seventie or eightie that men live now in these daies he that shall beleeve otherwise is in an errour There is likewise another consideration to be noted alledged by St. Augustine to this purpose which is Put the case that the Scripture makes not mention that Adam and his had other children before those which are there named yet it is to be beleeved that before and after they had many in condition at younger years than the Scripture makes mention they could have children and to make thereof a more ample proof when it is said that Cain had built a Town Jos 1 lib. de Antiq. the first that was in the World whereof Iosephus speaks saying That it had Towers and that it was walled round and that he named it after his sons name Henoc which was newly born unto him It is very unlikely that there was then in the World but three or four men onely yet the Scripture makes no mention of any more because to build such a Town would require the help of a great number of men albeit the text names but the principal and chief that built it as appears when is said That their sons and their daughters begat others which are not named We see the holy Evangelists have done the like in their Evangelical History for St. Matthew treating of the linage of Christ according to the flesh begins at Abraham and willing to reckon even unto David saith Abraham begat Isaac using no words of Ishmael a little after Isaac begat Iacob speaking nothing of Esau although he were the first-born because having an intention to come by degrees even to David which was not of the Line of Ishmael he reckons neither Ishmael nor Esau Afterwards Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren and yet Iudas was not the eldest In such manner treating of the generation he reckons those by the which he might descend to David A sufficient proof to incite the contrary part to believe that Moses did the like in his history and that our first Parents had other children then those which are named and declared in the holy Scripture CHAP. III. That the sign of the Crosse was in estimation before our Saviour Christ was crucified LOng time before our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ suffered upon the Crosse the sign of the Crosse was in esteem as a Prognostick sign and fatall especially by the Egyptians and Arabians The Egyptians engraved it upon the brest of their Idoll Serapis which they adored for their God But better to declare how this figure came in such veneration You must understand that the ancient Arabes most skilfull in the knowledge of the heavens and the force of the Stars made for divers causes Images and Figures graven in Stone Mettals Rings and other things observing thereby certain points and certain days amongst which signs this of the crosse was by them most esteemed attributing thereunto more virtue and efficacy than any of the others and esteemed reverently of it in their houses and other private places Now let us set a part the respect that we may have of it In that thereupon was made our Redemption as Facinus writes and let us consider this figure of the Crosse by it self in contemplation of Geometry it will be found an excellent and perfect figure because it conteins equal length and breadth It is composed of two streight lines equall the joining whereof taken at the Center to the extreamest of each end makes a perfect round it conteins in it four streight corners and therefore in it are the greatest effects of the Stars because they have the greatest force and virtue then when they are in their extreamest and corners of the East West North and South and so seated form by the splendor that they give the figure of a crosse all which things are considerable Besides it is not amisse to note the reasons why the Egyptians esteemed it amongst their other notes and figures and what they signified by it But I will speak first of some of the Figures and Hieroglifiques of Egypt and their significations Before the Egyptians had letters they writ their conceptions by Figures Characters and Ciphers of divers things as Trees Birds and Beasts or by some of their particular members in which they were so cunning and accustomed that they quickly learned to know what every thing signified by the great experience which they had made which the children learned from their Parents and one from another by succession Cornelius Tacitus Strabo Diodorus and Plinie in many places gives reasons hereof First by the Figure of a vulture they understood nature because say they of this sort of bird is found no Male as Amian Marcellin writes Lib. 4● By the Sparrow-hawk or Falcon they signified any thing that was done with great diligence because of the readinesse and swiftnesse of these Birds The Honey Bee signified a King because a King ought to have sweetnesse and a sting By the Serpent Basilisk holding his tale in his mouth they understood the revolution of the year because it ends where it began The head of a Wolf shewed the Time past because this beast hath no remembrance The head of a Lion the time present because of his strength and power The head of a Dog licking and made sharp to signifie the time future for alwaies we cherish him and use him kindly in hope The Ox signified the earth because of the great pains this beast taketh Justice was signified in the Stork because it is said this bird susteins and nourishes the old ones in their age in acknowledgment to have been bred and brought up by them in the nest They demonstrated Envy by an Eel because it accompanies not with other fish The bountifull man was declared by the right hand open and on the contrary the covetuous man by the left hand shut The Crocodile which is a very noisome beast signified the malicious man The eye open did denote a man observing justice By the Ear they understood memory To shew a man of great memory they painted a Hare having his ears open and so discoursing of all things they practised these Figures as though they had been to them written letters Now let us return to our purpose of the Crosse It is strange that amongst so many signs and figures this was the most evident and known figure or character yea even to be placed upon the breast