8 F Sabbath day  15 1 9 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day  16 2 10 A  17 3 11 B  18 4 12 C  19 5 13 D  20 6 14 E  21 7 15 F Sabbath day  22 1 16 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day  23 2 17 A  24 3 18 B  25 4 19 C  26 5 20 D  27 6 21 E  28 7 22 F Sabbath day  29 1 23 G Dies Dominicus The Lords day  30 2 24 A  FINIS Laus Deo CALVMVS MENSVRANS The Measuring Reed OR The Standard of Time CONTAINING The chiefe and principall Kingdomes of the WORLD both before and after CHRIST to the Destruction of JERVSALEM by the ROMANS Wherein the names of the KINGS and years of their reignes are noted and set down in their right times with other things well worthy of Observation The second PART By JOHN SWAN Remember the dayes of old consider the years of many generations Deut. 32.7 I have considered the dayes of old the years of ancient times Psa 77.5 LONDON Printed for John Williams at the signe of the Crowne in St. Pauls Churchyard 1653. The Contents of the Second PART CHAP. I. OF Peleg and Jocktan the two Sonnes of Heber and of Nimrod the beginning of whose Kingdome was at the building of Babel from whence he went into the Land of Assyria and founded Niniveh c. Page 1. CHAP. II. Of Ninus and his Successors p. 7. CHAP. III. Of the Kingdome of Egypt and of the Kings that reigned there p. 15 CHAP. IV. Of the Kingdome of Sycionia and of the Kings that reigned there p. 24. CHAP. V. Of the Kingdome and Kings of the Argives and of the Mycenae that succeeded them p. 34. CHAP. VI. Of the Kingdome and Kings of Athens the first whereof was Cecrops p. 45. CHAP. VII Of the Kings that reigned in the Kiagdome of Troy before the Greekes destroyed it p. 54. CHAP. VIII Of the Kingdome of the Aborigines p. 55. CHAP. IX Of the Kings of Italy after Latinus p. 56. CHAP. X. Of the British Kings that reigned in England from Brute to the time of Julius Caesar and after p. 59 CHAP. XI Containyng the Dynasties of severall other Kingdomes p. 64. CHAP. XII Of the Kings and other Governours of Rome from the founddation thereof by Romulus to the Destruction of Hierusalem by Titus p. 75. CALAMVS MENSVRANS OR The Measuring REED The second Part. CHAP. I. Of Peleg and Jocktan the two Sons of Heber and of Nimrod the beginning of whose Kingdome was at the building of Babel from whence he went into the Land of Assyria and founded Niniveh c. OF Heber it is said in Gen. 10.25 And unto Heber were borne two Sonnes the name of the one was Peleg for in his dayes was the Earth divided and his brothers name was Jocktan Now this Jocktan had thirteene sonnes men growne at the confusion of Tongues as the verses following make apparent and therefore that division of the Earth which was made at the birth of Peleg if the text be so to be understood as that there must be a division then could not be the same with that which was at the confusion of Tongues for Heber was but 34. yeares old when Peleg was borne Gen. 11.16 and Jocktan though he were borne before could not be old enough to have any of his Sons either born or if borne of age sufficient at their Vncles birth to be Conductors of Colonies from Babel to other Countries The confusion of Tongues was therefore long after the birth of Peleg and yet at the time of his birth there might be a division made of the Earth by Noah who when he saw his Sonnes and their Children begin to increase might take in hand to divide the Earth among them appointing to the head of each Family his place and portion but they loath to breake company and not willing to separate themselves each from other departed away together from the East where the Arke rested to the Land of Shinar where they found a Plain that pleased them and for a time they dwelled there Gen. 11.1 2. This time of their dwelling there before they began to build the Tower of Babel might end about fourteen yeeres after the birth of Peleg for so long time I find between his birth and the beginning of of the Chaldaean date which at the time when Alexander the great took Babylon as was observed by Calisthenes the Philosopher then present was running on in the yeare thereof 1903. which was also the yeare of the Julian Period 4484. out of which if we take 1902. compleat the beginning of the said date will be in the year of the Julian Period 2482. There therefore upon this ground I justly fix it and doe there also for the reasons aforesaid concerning Jocktan and his Sonnes place the beginning of that Tower whose top they intended should reach unto Heaven Perhaps they might begin the City before but not the Tower This Tower as Michael Glycas saith was forty yeares in building which will therefore make the confusion of Tongues to be 54. yeares after the birth of Peleg by which time the very yongest of Jocktans Sons might be of age sufficient to conduct a Colonie from thence according to the division of his Tongue This I find to be 155. yeares after the Flood was ended in the yeare of the World 1813. and in the year of the Julian Period 2522. And now had Nimrod reigned forty yeares from the beginning of the Chaldaean Date or at least had been a mighty man among them that built this City and Tower of Babel for so long a time The Scripture saith he began to be a mighty one in the Earth Gen. 10.8 thereby declaring that he was the first who had others under him Which if he began to have when the Nations first began to build the City and Tower of Babel as we find in Josephus then had he more under his command at that time then when Languages were confounded And for that cause perhaps it was that afterwards he ranged further like a mighty Hunter to inlarge his Dominions For after he had builded and gotten to himselfe Babel Erech Accad and Chalne in the Land of Shinar he went out of that Land saith Moses into Assiria and builded Niniveh and the City Rehâ—both and Chalah and Resen between Niniveh and Chalah Gen. 10.11.12 Some I know read that text otherwise as thus Out of that Land went Ashur and builded Niniveh Concluding hereupon that Ashur of Sems race being wearied with Nimrods cruelty went out of Shinar into another Country which he called after his owne name and there built Niniveh with the three other Cities aforesaid But of this there is little probability more like it is that Nimrod as I said before having gotten Babel Erech Accad and Chalne in the Land of Shinar was not therewithall content but coveting more and larger territories advanced
July the third on the 27. day of October the fourth and the last on the 25. day of January by which I meane that there the fourth or last Quarter of the yeare began and was not ended till the 23. day of April next after was finished And why they be not still on those dayes is because the Equinoctiall and Solstitiall points have anticipated and not kept their places on those dayes and Moneths they were at the first which anticipation is not in regard of any errour or irregularity that is in the motion of the Sun but because the Julian year agreeth not thereunto but is a little longer then of right it should be For the true Solar year in the meane measure thereof doth not consist of 365. dayes and full six hours but rather of 365. dayes five hours 48 minutes 39 seconds and 41 thirds By which length of the Tropicall year we finde in one year an anticipation of eleven minutes twenty seconds and nineteen thirds which though it be at the first but a little will neverthelesse in many years amount to the number of no few dayes as we see it doth For by the end of 127 years will be twenty four hours gained with thirteen thirds thereby declaring that the day of the Vernall Equinox in the beginning of the World even till 95 years were ended was in the common years on the 23 day of Aprill though it be now on the tenth day of March and the Autumnall Equinox on the 27 day of October though it be now on the 13 day of September Thus I say it was in the common years though in the Bissextile one day sooner And why I allow but ninty five years at the first for the alteration of a day is not because twenty four houres are gained in that time but because the time of the first Equinox was at the * At wch time the first day of the World began reaching the very evening of the 2 c. day evening of the 23 day And therefore though at the first ninty five years will bring the Equinox to a new day according to the Julian account which begins the day from Midnight yet afterwards we must not reckon that these Tekupha's change their places so as to be on a new day after the same account till the end of the 127 years after I conclude therefore this rule observed that the Tekupha's change their places one day by the end of 127 years and must be therefore set either backward or forward according to the time propounded wherein we seek them which the late Jews not observing have them now not in their right places although by them they still divide the year into four Quarters But of this enough onely let me adde a Table therein to shew how much the anticipation commeth to in any year desired from one to six thousand And after that another Table for the more ready finding the particular day of either Equinox A Table by which may be found how much the Equinoctiall anticipateth in any year desired from one to six thousand Years Dayes Houres Minutes Seconds Thirds 1 0 0 11 20 19 2 0 0 22 40 38 3 0 0 34 0 57 4 0 0 45 21 16 5 0 0 56 41 35 6 0 1 8 1 54 7 0 1 19 22 13 8 0 1 30 42 32 9 0 1 42 2 51 10 0 1 53 23 10 20 0 3 46 46 20 30 0 5 40 9 30 40 0 7 33 32 40 50 0 9 26 55 50 60 0 11 20 19 0 70 0 13 13 42 10 80 0 15 7 5 20 90 0 17 0 28 30 100 0 18 53 51 40 120 0 22 40 38 0 127 1 0 0 0 13 200 1 13 47 43 20 300 2 8 41 35 0 400 3 3 35 26 40 500 3 22 29 18 20 600 4 17 23 10 0 700 5 12 17 1 40 800 6 7 10 53 20 900 7 2 4 45 0 1000 7 20 58 36 40 2000 15 17 57 13 20 3000 23 14 55 50 0 4000 31 11 53 26 40 5000 39 8 52 3 20 6000 47 5 50 40 0 Another TABLE more readily to finde the day of either Equinox by knowing either the year of the WORLD year of the Julian Period or common year of CHRIST Year of the World Year of the Julian Period Vernall Equinox Autumnall Equinox Yeare of Christ 1 710 Aprill 23 October 27 0 96 805 Aprill 22 October 26 0 223 932 Aprill 21 October 25 0 350 1059 Aprill 20 October 24 0 477 1186 Aprill 19 October 23 0 604 1313 Aprill 18 October 22 0 731 1440 Aprill 17 October 21 0 858 1567 Aprill 16 October 20 0 985 1694 Aprill 15 October 19 0 1112 1821 Aprill 14 October 18 0 1239 1948 Aprill 13 October 17 0 1366 2075 Aprill 12 October 16 0 1493 2202 Aprill 11 October 15 0 1620 2329 Aprill 10 October 14 0 1747 2456 Aprill 9 October 13 0 1874 2583 Aprill 8 October 12 0 2001 2710 Aprill 7 October 11 0 2128 2837 Aprill 6 October 10 0 2255 2964 Aprill 5 October 9 0 2382 3091 Aprill 4 October 8 0 2509 3218 Aprill 3 October 7 0 2636 3345 Aprill 2 October 6 0 2763 3472 Aprill 1 October 5 0 2890 3599 March 31 October 4 0 3017 3726 March 30 October 3 0 3144 3853 March 29 October 2 0 3271 3980 March 28 October 1 0 3398 4107 March 27 Septemb. 31 0 3525 4234 March 26 Septem 29 0 3652 4361 March 25 Septem 28 0 3779 4488 March 24 Septem 27 0 3906 4615 March 23 Septem 26 0 4033 4742 March 22 Septem 25 29 4160 4869 March 21 Septem 24 156 4287 4996 March 20 Septem 23 283 4414 5123 March 19 Septem 22 410 4541 5250 March 18 Septem 21 537 4668 5377 March 17 Septem 20 664 4795 5504 March 16 Septem 19 791 4922 5631 March 15 Septem 18 918 5049 5758 March 14 Septem 17 1045 5176 5885 March 13 Septem 16 1172 5303 6012 March 12 Septem 15 1299 5430 6139 March 11 Septem 14 1426 5557 6266 March 10 Septem 13 1553 5684 6393 March 9 Septem 12 1680 CHAP. V. Of the Periods of Time by which the Yeares of the World may be truly reckoned As also of the Jubilees how to account them where also to begin and end them THe first Period is from the beginning of the Creation in the latter end of October to the end of Noah's Flood and containeth the number of 1657. yeares compleat the full end not being till the yeare 1658. was begun The second is from the end of the said Flood when Noah came out of the Arke to the promise made to Abraham at the time of his departure from Charran into Canaan and is a Period of * Which in adding the Periods together must be added to 1658 and not to 1657. 427. yeares almost ended The third is from the promise at Abrahams departure from Charran to the comming of the Israelites out of Egypt and doth containe
speak therefore of the divine institution of naturall dayes we are to say that the evening as well as the morning is pertinent to one and the same day but make not up the whole day for the whole day naturally is that which we call in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is a day of day and night together And therefore in that phrase of Moses the Evening and the Morning were the first Day is a Synecdoche by which the beginning of the night and of the day is put for the whole night and day a◠by that before pointed at in Leviticus may be seen for there the day is reckoned from even to even as being that which if we respect the progresse of the Worlds Creation naturally and indeed is a true day although the artificiall day be but from the Sun-rising to the setting thereof This being premised I take the beginning of the Creation to be according to the Julian account on the twenty three day of Aprill at evening so that the first day of the World was not ended till the evening of the twenty fourth day The second day was after the same manner Aprill the twenty five The third Aprill the twenty six The fourth Aprill the twenty seventh On which day the Sun Moon and Stars were made and set in the firmament of Heaven The Sun probably in that part thereof which we now call the fourth degree of Aries The fifth day was Aprill the twenty eight The sixth Aprill the twenty nine that being the very day when the Sun and Moon were first of all in Conjunction which was therefore the first day of the moneth and might well by Adam be accounted so because it was also the very first day that ever he saw Of Adam and his fall Now that on this Day Adam sell divers of the Learned both Jews and Christians think but it is a Tenet scarcely probable not onely in regard of the multitude and variety of things don on the day that he was made both before and after his Creation but also because this sixth day concluded by Moses with these words And God beheld all that he had made and loe it was exceeding good So the Evening and the Morning were the sixth day Gen. 1.31 More like it is that Adam fell on the twelf day of May toward * Gen. 3.8 Evening when the fourteenth day of the first moneth was ending and the fifteenth which was on the sixth day of the week ready to begin which time and day agree very well to the institution of the first Passeover Exod. 12. as also to the eating of the last Passeover and crucifying of Christ on the sixth day of the Week and fifteenth day of the moneth For on that day Christ dyed even as on that day 4037. years before Christ was promised to Adam who had fallen as it were the day before towards evening as already hath been said In this year the Cycle of the Sun was ten the Dominicall letter B. the Cycle of the Moon seven the Equinox at evening on the twenty three day of Aprill when the creation began and the New Moon or first day of the first moneth on the nine and twenty day of Aprill feria sexta which was the sixth day of the Week as hath been said and is exactly true according to Calculation Also to the year of the Julian Period 2366. The Flood when the Flood came the Cycle of the Sun was 14. the Dominicall letter D. and the Cycle of the Moon ten The Vernall Equinox was on the tenth of Aprill and the Autumnall on the fourteenth of October By which is gathered that the first day of the first moneth in this year of the Flood was on the twenty one day of Aprill feria tertia the beginning of every moneth ordinarily being according to the Phasis or first vision of the Moon which in the Land of Israel and the parts thereabout might for the most part be by eleven hours and thirty minutes after the time of the mean Conjunction And at no time could she be hid longer then 28. hours and 30. minu as the learned Jews have told us Now the first day on the first Moneth being on the 21 day of Aprill sheweth that the 17. day of the second Moneth when the Flood began was on the fifth of June feria sexta even on the same day of the weeke on which the Beasts and Man was made So that as on the sixth day of the week both Man and Beast were created in like manner on the very same day of week the Flood began by which they were destroyed Know also that this first Moneth or the first Moneth of this yeere had but 29. dayes The Second third fourth fifth and sixth had 30 dayes a peice The seventh 28. the last of which was on the 13 day of October The eighth had 30. The ninth 29. The tenth 30. The eleventh 29. And the twelfth 30. the last of which was on the tenth day of Aprill in the yeare of the Julian Period 2367. So that the 27 day of the second Moneth in the said yeare was on the same day that the Flood began in the yeare before even on the fifth of June which now was Sabbath day on the which Noah came out of the Arke and offered Sacrifice at the very time of a full year of dayes after the Flood began Gen. 8.14 The reason of which reckoning thus is this namely Note this it is no meane Character of a right time That though the Ancients even in the times of Noah and Abraham used to begin their Moneth à prima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from the 1. sight of the Moon yet if the Moon could not be seen by reason of clouds they then accounted 30 dayes for every such Moneth though to some of them there would have been but 29 if the first sight of the Moon had been hindred Now in such a wet cloudie time as we may certainly conceive it to be when the Flood came the Moon must needs be obscured and hid for many dayes not only the 40 dayes and nights when it rained continually but even to the end of the CL. on which if some raine had not fallen but that the skie had been clear without clouds there would in all probability have been an abatement of the waters before those 150. dayes were ended but no abatement was till then if the words be taken as they Originally signifie in Gen. 8.3 And now why the seventh Moneth here mentioned had but 28 dayes is because after the 150. dayes were ended the Aire began to be cleare insomuch that Noah knew when to begin the next Moneth by sight of the Moon upon which I believe it was that Berosus said Noah ordered the yeare to the course of the Sun and the Moneth to the course of the Moon For as Wolphius truly gathereth out of Gen. Wolph De Temp. lib. 1. pag. 21. 8.22 Noah
was not the first Author of the ancient yeare but the yeare being somewhat interrupted by the Flood was by him brought backe to the old ancient forme which he taught his posterity But now for the finding out of this eighth Moneth Noah I say knew when to begin it by the first sight of the Moon which at Babylon and the parts thereabouts was on the 14. day of October in the yeare of the Julian Period 2366 after which Noah was in the Arke untill the 27 day of the second Moneth and then came forth even to the fifth day of June which was a Sabbath day and a just Solar year after the Flood began And note that the day on which the Arke rested upon Mount Ararat was the second day of November in the yeare of the Julian Period 2366. for that was the seventeenth day of the seventh Moneth and the next after the last of CL. dayes that the Waters prevailed For I said before the waters prevailed 150. dayes of which the 40 dayes of the continuall rain were part else how could the Arke rest on the seventeenth day of the seventh Moneth we are sure enough it did Gen. 8.4 But it is objected Object that acording to this rule the Arke must rest the very day the waters began to abate which is not like both in regard that they were fifteene Cubits above the highest Mountaines and likewise in regard that it was above two Moneths after before the tops of the highest Mountaines appeared Answ Not so The tops of the Mountaines but not the tops of the highest Mountaines For the Mountaine tops appearing on the first day of the tenth Moneth were rather the tops of the Iower and inferiour Hils then of the highest Mountaines And for the ark resting on the Ararat two Moneths before to that I answer namely thus The Arke was a vast body and being so vast a body as it was it could not chuse but draw many Cubits of water Now suppose this proportion to be XI Cubits and so many it might well be And if XI then will it follow that the bottome of the Ark could never be more then foure Cubits from the tops of of the highest hils and in one day and lesse those 4 Cubits and more might easily be abated Nor may this seeme strange for though the depth from the tops of the highest Hils to the superficies of the Iower grounds were as great as 30 furlongs of which height they say Mount Tabor is yet by confidering in what time that space was dryed up and drawing the abatement into a proportion it will easily appeare that even to the first day may be allowed more by farre then foure Cubits See Doctor Willet on Genesis and there you shall find That some who have proportioned the full time of abatement which was from the seventeenth day of the seventh Moneth to the first day of the first Moneth with the space from the height to the highest Mountaines have allowed 37. Cubits and an halfe for every day But Igrant not every dayes abatement to be alike because the greatest compasse above must have the lesser abatement yet neverthelesse the first day might well have so much as would suffer the Arke to rest so soone as it did on the high Mountaines of Ararat upon which Moses saith it rested on the seventeenth day of the seventh Moneth CL. dayes after the beginning of the Flood What more concerns the Flood shall be handled afterward Terah dyed in the year of the Julian Period 2794 The Promise and as may be conjectured not many dayes before the Promise was made to Abraham who hereupon departed out of Haran from his Kindred and his Fathers house when he had almost finished the seventy fifth of his age even in the year of the World 2085. Now in this year the Cycle of the Sun was twenty two the Dominicall letter A. the Cycle of the Moon one and the Vernall Equinox Aprill the seventh By which is gathered that the first day of the first moneth called afterward Nisan was one the 31. day of March feria sexta The next moneth began Aprill the twenty nine feria septima The Promise might be then After which Abraham departed out of Haran on the third or fourth of May when the Sun was in the twenty six or twenty seventh degrees of Aries in which place it was 430. years after on the twenty nine or thirtieth of Aprill when Israel came out of Egypt as you shall see by and by in that which I am to mention next For in the next place the time of the comming out of Egypt is to be considered The Exodus or comming out of Egypt This was in the year of the Julian Period 3224. and in the year of the World 2515. In this year the Equinox was on the third day of Aprill feria septima The Cycle of the Sun was four the Dominicall letter C. and the Cycle of the Moon thirteen By which is gathered that the first day of Abib or Nisan was on the sixteenth day of Aprill feria sexta the Israelites therefore killed and eat the Passeover on the twenty ninth day of April which was the fourteenth day of the moneth feria quinta After midnight they are driven out of Egypt and sent away in haste and therefore their comming from thence is to be reckoned on the thirteenth day of Aprill which was the sixth day of the Week even as on the same day of the Week Christ purchased a better Redemption by the blood of the Crosse In all which I doe much admire at the wonderfull Providence of God in disposing of the times so exactly and harmoniously For as on the sixth day of the Week Man was made and Christ suffered So on the sixth day of the weeke Israel was delivered out of the Egyptian bondage on the very next day after the Passeover even as on the next day after the Passeover Christ our Passeover was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5.7 to free us from the bon dage of Sinne and Sathan In this year at this time the Sunne was in the 27. degree of Aries Abraham therefore by an exact account having received the promise went out of Haran on the fourth day of May 430. yeares before when the Sunne was also in the same point of Heaven that he was in now And why on the fourth of May rather then on the thirtieth of Aprill was in regard of the anticipation of the Equinoctiall which if we will reckon precisely is to be observed because as hath been shewed the Julian yeare agreeth not exactly to the course of the Sunne But to go on The History of the * Exod. 16.1 Manna doth also well accord to this viz. that the day of the comming out of Egypt should be on the fixth day of the weeke and in that is another sparke of Gods Providence witnesse the fifteenth day of the second Moneth Another Character of a right time which
by accounting nine and twenty dayes to the first Moneth fell into the seventh day of the weeke on which the Israelites murmured had Quailes at even and on the morrow morning Manna which they gathered six dayes but on the seventh day they found none Exod. 16.26 By which we see not onely the two and twentieth day of the second moneth was Sabbath day but also that the first Manna fell on the first day of the Week now called the Lords day in memory of our Saviours Resurrection and hath been the Christians Sabbath ever since and for the first moneth to have but 29 dayes Let this be remembred for it is a Rule to me in all the moneths in every year is more consentaneous to the motion of the Moon then to have 30 before the odd houres arise to a day which is not till the second moneth The first moneth therefore hath but 29 dayes though the second hath 30. For in one moneth according to the meane motion of the Moon from one Conjunction to another we have but 29 dayes 12 houres 44 minutes three seconds and 12 thirds I account therefore that the Israelites came out of Egypt when the nine and twentieth day of April was ending and the thirtieth beginning I account likewise that the first Manna fell on the thirtieth day of May feria prima and consequently that the nine and twentieth day of May and fifth of June were Sabbath dayes the one on the fifteenth day of the second moneth and the other on the two and twentieth That which I shall mention next is the year of the Julian Period 3703. The Temple founding and year of the World 2994. in which year King Salomon laid the foundation of the Temple on the second day of the second moneth The Cycle of the Sun was seven the Dominicall letter F. the Vernall Equinox upon the one and thirty day of March and the Cycle of the Moon seventeen By which is gathered that the first day of Nisan was on the last day of March feria prima and consequently that King Salomon began to build the Temple on the last day of Aprill which was the second day of the second moneth feria tertia for on the second day of the second moneth this great work was begun as may be seen in 2 Chronicles 3.2 This was the fourth year of King Salomon and after the comming out of Egypt the 480. not compleate but current For indeed there were but 479. years fully finished which with respect had to the place of the Sun at both times and the anticipation of the Equinoctiall from the comming of Egypt to this time of the Temple doth shew the end of their reckoning to be on the twenty six or twenty seventh day of Aprill three or four dayes and no more before the Temple was founded Thus then from the comming out of Egypt to the beginning of the building of the Temple were 479. years and about four dayes it was founded therefore in the 480. year after the comming out of Egypt as is mentioned in 1 Kings 6.1 The next that I shall mention is the year of the Julian Perion 3710. The Temple dedicated It was the eleventh year of King Salomon and year when the Temple was dedicated 1 Kings c. 6. ver 38. and Chap. 8.2 The Cycle of the Sun was 14. the Dominical letter D. the Cycle of the Moon five the Vernall Equinox March the 31. and the Autumnall Equinox October the fourth By which is gathered that the first day of the seventh moneth called Tisri was on the fifth day of October feria secunda and that the Dedication began Octob. the eleventh feria prima This was 3000. years after the Creation even in the year of the World 3001. The Kalender of which Moneth is as followeth TISRI October Tisri the seventh moneth An. Mundi 3001. anno Per. Jul. 3710. Cyclo ☉ 14. ☽ 5. In which Yeer and Moneth the Temple was dedicated 1 Kin. 8.2 1 5  E  2 6  F  3 7  G  4 8  A  5 9  B  6 10  C Sabbath-day  7 11  D 1. The first day of the Dedication 8 12  E 2. The second day 9 13  F 3. The third day 10 14  G 4. The fourth day This being the 10. day of the moneth was the Expiation day 11 15  A 5. The fifth day 12 16  B 6. The sixth day 13 17  C 7. ☜ The 7th d. of the Dedicat. which was also Sab. Day 14 18  D 8. The 8th d. on which was a solemn Assembly 2 Chr. 7.9 15 19  E 1. ¶ The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles Levit 23.24 16 20  F 2. The second day 17 21  G 3. The third day 18 22  A 4. The fourth day 19 23  B 5. The fift day 20 24  C 6. The sixt day of the Feast which was now Sabbath-day 21 25  D 7. The seventh day 22 26  E 8. The last and great day of the Feast 23 27  F On this day being the 23. of the moneth Salomon sendeth the People away 2 Chron. 7.10 24 28  G  25 29  A  26 30  B  27 31  C  28 1 Novemb. D  29 2 E  This seventh Month being ended there was nothing wanting to the Temple for the quite compleating of it whereupon it is as Codoman noteth that in 1 Kings 6.38 the Temple is said to be finished in the eighth Moneth in the eleventh year of King Salomon That is It was then finished in all the parts thereof and according to all the fashion and Ordinances of it both within and without Or as the marginall reading in our last translation expresseth It was then finished with all the appurtenances and with all the Ordinances therof Which is as Bucholcerus observeth It was dedicated saith he in the Moneth Ethanim and in the following Moneth Bul it was finished with all the Vtensils thereof All which considered we shall not need to drive the dedication into the twelfth yeare of King Salomon as some have done for if it were not dedicated till then it must necessarily follow that it lay void for a whole year together after it was finished which is very unlike Beside that this was the right year of the dedication I can further demonstrate by the courses of the Priests which served in the Temple till Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it for we may easily beleeve that in the first Sabbath of the dedication the course of Joarib began which we here see to be on the seventeenth day of October To which time if we add 224. Julian yeares in which space the courses returne to the same day againe we shall come to the year of the Julian Period 3934. on the seventeenth day of October After which we have 192. years more before we can come to the year
before the Flood The Flood as we have already seen began in the yeare of the world 1657. and continued a yeare so that it was not ended untill after the yeare of the World 1658. was begun for on the 27 day of the second Moneth was the full end thereof Two yeares after which Arphaxad was borne that is in the yeare of the world 1660. Gen. 11.10 To which yeare of the World add 35 the age of Arphaxad when Salah was borne so shall the birth of Salah be in the yeare of the world 1695 Gen. 11.12 To which add 30 the age of Salah when Heber was born so shall the birth of Heber be in the year of the world 1725. Gen. 11.14 To which add 34 the age of Heber when Peleg was born so shal the birth of Peleg be in the year of the world 1759. Gen. 11 16. To which add 30 the age of Peleg when Reu was borne so shall the birth of Reu be in the yeare of the world 1789 Gen. 11.18 To which add 32 the age of Reu when Serug was borne so shall the birth of Serug be in the year of the world 1821. Gen. 11.20 To which add 30 the age of Serug when Nahor was borne so shall the birth of Nahor be in the yeare of the world 1851. Gen. 11.22 To which add 29 the age of Nahor when Terah was borne so shall the birth of Terah be in the yeare of the world 1880. Gen. 11.24 To which add 130. the age of Terah when Abraham was borne so shall the birth of Abraham be in the yeare of world 2010. To which add 75 the age of Abraham soon after the death of Terah so shall we come to the yeare of the world 2085. and year of the Julian Period 2794 in which yeare about the beginning of May Abraham having received the promise departed out of Haran and was a Son of seventie five years old Gen. 12.4 that is he was going on in his Seventie and fifth yeare which not long after was accomplished ☟ the reckoning being here as before in the 600. yeare of Noah when the Flood began Quest The true time of Abrahams birth But why is it that Abraham is reckoned to be borne when his Father was 130. yeares old and not rather when he was seventie as the text seems to intimate Gen. 11.27 Answ Because Abraham who was a Sonne of * Gen. 12.4 75 yeares at his departure from Haran departed not thence untill his Father was dead as Saint Stephen witnesseth Act. 7.4 Now we know that his Father lived * Gen. 11.32 205. yeares from whence if we take 75 it will appeare that Abraham was not borne when Terah was Seventie as the text seemeth to intimate but when he was 130. because 75. taken out of 205 leaveth for the remainder 130. Secondly it is witnessed by the ancient testimony of the true not forged Philo who being a Jew was Ambassadour from his owne Nation to Caius Caligula witnessed I say by him that Abraham went not from Haran otherwise called Charran untill his Father was dead For it is not like saith he that any who have read the Law can be ignorant how Abraham removing from the Chaldean Land stayed in Charran and when his Father dyed there he removed also from that Land And againe He leaveth it being seventie five years old which Moses also saith in Gen. 12.4 This of Philo is a cleare testimony and well worthy of our serious acceptation for he was as ancient as the Protomartyr Stephen and understands Moses no other way then he had done Thirdly Rabbi Menasseh in his Conciliator declareth the same shewing there that their best learned Interpreters understand it so Fourthly The age of Abraham bring expressed when he came from Charran and not when he removed from Vr was for no reason but to guid us to the time his of birth by being joyned to the time of Terah's death who dyed in Charran and not in Vr Gen. 11.32 And further note that in Chaldea God appeares to Abraham and bids him Get thee out of thy Country and from thy kindred but maketh no mention of leaving his Fathers house for that he took along with him Gens 11.31 But when God cals him from Haran or Charran he then bids him depart from his Father house as well as he had done from his Country and kindred before for now he left his brother Nahor and all his Fathers house behinde him In the first Call Terah was alive to him is ascribed the conduct of that Journey from Vr to the Chaldees as if he had received the Call and had been the chiefe mover in the businesse but it is onely to shew his * Ioshua 24.2 Conversion and readinesse to goe with Abraham to whom God appeared whilst he was in Vr of the Chaldees Gen. 15.7 saying Get thee out of thy Country and from thy kindred Acts 7.2.3 See also Josh 24.2 But in the second Call Terah was dead and Abraham was 57 years old Gen. 12.1.4 Acts 7.4 And as he was 57 so his Father was 205. which sheweth still that Abraham was borne when Terah was 130. For the story in Genesis runs current and in a continuation this being the order of the words And the dayes of Terah were 205 years and he dyed in Charran and God said unto Ahraham Get thee from thy Fathers house and in thee all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed and Abraham was 75 years old when he departed from Charran To illustrate then the whole by way of paraphrase God in Vr of the Chaldees appeared to Abraham and said unto him Get thee out from thy kindred but take thy Fathers house with thee and goe to to a Land which I shall shew thee And when Abraham told Terah of his command Terah condescended and consented And Terah took Abraham and Lot and Sarai and they went away together from Vr to Haran and dwelt there And Terah dyed in Haran And then God saith to Abraham Get thee out of thy Country and from thy kindered and from thy Fathers house also now and goe into the Land that I shall shew thee that is into Canaan whether Abraham went so soon as he departed from Charran which was in the Land of Chaldea also and not far from Vr wherefore God againe called Abraham thence to goe into Canaan Gen. 12.1 And although there was a nearer way from Vr to Canaan than to goe By Charran as in the Maps of those Countries may be seen yet because the nearest way was most dangerous and troublesome God led them about by an inhabited and safe way providing so for their infirmities as he did the like afterwards for Abrahams children Exodus 13.11.18 Beside when Joshua saith Ioshua 24.2 Our fathers beyond the River worshipped strange Gods even Terah the Father of Abraham he maketh Moses more clear and manifest viz. that to Abraham in Vr God appeared by
and five moneths Herodot 4186 3477 7 6 1 63  44 2 4187 3478 1  2  45 3 4188 3479 2  3  6 4 Cambyses conquers Egypt and being absent from home hath his Kingdom governed by the Magoi of Persia when they had slain his brother 4189 3480 3  4  m 5 4190 3481 4  1 64  6  4191 3482 5  2  7  4192 3483 6  3  8  Magus seven moneths after Cambyses 4193 3484 7 7 4  1 ¶ Darius Hystaspis 34. Darius the son of Hystaspis 34 yeers 4194 3485 1 Jub xix 1 65  2  Haggai and Zachary Prophesie in this yeer and exhort to the building of the Temple 4195 3486 2 2  3   4196 3487 3 3  4   4197 3488 4  4  5   4198 3489 5  1 66  6  4199 3490 6  2  7  in this yeer before the sixt yeer of darius was ended the building of the temple was finished on the third day of the moneth adar ezra 6.15 4200 3491 7 1 3  8  4201 3492 1  4  9  4202 3493 2  1 67  10  4203 3494 3  2  11  4204 3495 4  3  12  4205 3496 5  4  13  4206 3497 6  1 68  14  4207 3498 7 2 2  15  4208 3499 1  3  16  4209 3500 2  4  17  4210 3501 3  1 69  18  Y. of the Julian Period Teers of the World Rests Jerbilees Olympis Persians A perfect Table for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4211 3502 4  2 19  4212 3503 5  3 20 ☽ In this yeer being the 246 of Nabonassar Ptolomy notes an Eclipse of the Moon which by the Julian Kalender was on the nineteenth of November It was as he also saith in the twentieth yeer of Darius Hystaspis  4213 3504 6  4 21   4214 3505 7 3 170 22   4215 3506 1  2 23   4216 3507 2  3 24   4217 3508 3  4 25  4218 3509 4  171 26  4219 3510 5  2 27  4220 3511 6  3 28  4221 3512 7 4 4 29  4222 3513 1  172 30  4223 3514 2  2 31 ☽ Here again Ptolomy notes another Eclipse of the ☽ in the 31 of Darius and yeer of Nabonassar 257. it was by the Julian Kalender April 25.  4224 3515 3  3 32   4225 3516 4  4 33   4226 3517 5  173 34 1 Xerxes 20. ¶ In this yeer Xerxes began to reign and reigned somewhat more then twenty yeers Diod. This King in the Book of Esther is called Ahasuerus as is supposed and thought to be the Husband of Esther Scalig.  4227 3518 6  2 ARTAXERXES from hence 49  2  4228 3519 7 5 3 3  4229 3520 1  4 4   4230 3521 2  174 5   4231 3522 3  2 6  4232 3523 4  3 7  4233 3524 5  4 8  In this yeer Xerxes began to move towards Greece  4234 3525 6  175 9  In this yeer he cometh into Greece with his huge Army and is quickly beaten home again Petav. lib. 13.  4235 3526 7 6 2 10   4236 3527 1  3 11   4237 3528 2  4 12  4238 3529 3  176 13  4239 3530 4  2 14  4240 3531 5  3 1 15  In this yeer about the sixt moneth Artaxerxes Longimanus began first of all to reign he reigned till the seventh yeer of the Peloponnesian War dying in the Winter time thereof and had therefore from hence 49 yeers of reign though from the death of Artabanus but 42 Ctes  4241 3532 6  4 2 16   4242 3533 7 7 177 3 17   4243 3534 1 Jub xx 2 4 18   4244 3535 2 3 5 19   4245 3536 3  4 6 20  4246 3537 4  178 7 7 m Artabanus after Xerxes seven moneths 4247 3538 5  2 8 1 Artaxerxes 42. In this yeer befor ethe seventh of Artaxerxes was ended Ezra having obtained a Commission from the King who now began to reign alone beginneth his journey to Jerusalem on the first day of the first moneth Ezr. 7.9  4248 3539 6  3 9 2  4249 3540 7 1 4 10 3  4250 3541 1  179 11 4  Y. Of the Julian Peiod Yerrs of the World Rests Iuhilees Olympiads Persians A perfect tAble for the better understanding of some of the former and following Passages 4251 3542 2  2 12 5   4252 3543 3  3 13 6   4253 3544 4  4 14 7   4254 3545 5  180 15 8   4255 3546 6  2 16 9   4256 3547 7 2 3 17 10   4257 3548 1  4 18 11   4258 3549 2  181 19 12  In this yeer on the sixt day of October which was the 10th day fo the seventh moneth the Sun being then in 7th d. of Libra the first yeer of DAniels Weeks began For in Dan. 9.25 the Angel sheweth that they were to begin from the executionof the Decree of build again Jerusalem which was not till the twentieth yeer of ARtaxerxes Longimanus when God stirred up Hanani with certain other men of Judah to goe up to Shushan to Nehemiah who related unto him the wofull condition Jerusalem still was in he thereupon after he had fasted and prayed besought the King's leave and favour that he might goe and build the City which was granted From hence herefore even from the beginning of the these mens journey to Shusban the precise accompt of these Weeks beginenth which hereupon casteth the just middle of the last week into the yeer of the Julian Period 4746. and layeth it exactly on the thrid day of April For form the sixt of October in this yeer when the Sun was in the seventh degree of Libra to the thir dof October in the yeer of the Julian Period 4745. when the Sun was also in the seventh degree of Libra were 486. yeers to which adde 182. dayes and so we come to the third of April in the yeer of the same Period 4746 in which yeer and on which very day our Saviour suffered 4259 3550 3  2 20 13   4260 3551 4  3 21 14   4261 3552 5  4 22 15   4262 3553 6  182 23 16   4263 3554 7 3 2 24 17   4264 3555 1  3 25 18   4265 3556 2  4 26 19   4266 3557 3
them may be gathered four severall years for the birth of Christ And as for the Modernes Dekerius and Petavius are for the one and fortieth Julian year Kepler for the fortieth and M. Antonius Capellus Franciscanus for the nine and thirtieth Scaliger goeth along with them who pitch upon that year when Lentulus and Messalinus were Consuls Bucholcerus followeth Epiphanius and Eusebius and so doe many others But that which is the latest taken up is the 48 Julian year three yeares latter then the common account and is mainely defended by Master Thomas Lydyat both in his book De Emendatione Temporum as also in another book written on purpose to confirme it Thus they But I for my part shall absolutely rely upon none of them for no authority without good ground can be sufficient And therefore my course herein shall be this that having already out of * Herodis imperium res ab eâ—gestas primus antiquâ—ssimus omnium qui quidem extant Josephus in historiam retulit reliqui eadem commâ—ntati postea sunt ex ejus fontibus rivulos suos duxerunt Et tamen incredibile est quantum ab authore ipso magistroque suâ— dissentiant ex quo intolerabiles quidam in historiam errores perturbationesque sunt infusae Petav. Doctr. Temp. lib. 11. cap. 1. Josephus found the true time of Herods death I shall next seek for the birth of Christ in some year before it as by Scripture I am directed And if in that I can have any of the Ancients to guide me I shall gladly embrace them otherwise not Or to make my way the more plaine I shall first note the year of Herod in which the Ancients say Christ was borne Secondly the year of Augustus and Thirdly the time of the generall taxing when all the world under the Roman Empire went to be taxed For as in Saint Matthew we read that he was borne in the dayes of Herod the King Mat. 2.1 So in Saint Luke we reade that it was in the dayes of Augustus when the Decree was gone forth that all the World should be taxed Luke 2.1 And for the first we have the testimony of Epiphanius and Severus Sulpitius expresly noting that the three and thirtieth year of Herod to be the time of our Saviours birth Which will be proved true if it be rightly taken For it might very well be his three and thirtieth year not from his first beginning to reigne but from the time that he Sosius took Jerusalem else should Christ be 36 years old when he was baptized which is certainely false Herod therefore could not be alive four years after the birth of Christ although Epiphanius as well as Sulpitius hath written so for they having an eye only to his 37 years mistook themselves in this particular thereupon have cast the years of Christ afterwards into wrong years of Archelaus and Antipas as is plainly manifest As for the second Tertullian and Saint Hierom point us to the 41 year of Augustus But from whence must this 41 year be accounted Saint Hierom joynes it with the 28 year of Augustus and yet seemes to compute both that 28 year and the 41 year from one time which is very absurd Tertullian accounts it from the death of Cleopatra not onely against the truth of the thing it selfe but also against his owne reckoning who writeth that after this Augustus lived fifteen years and yet reigned but 43 after Cleopatra From which confused contradictory accounts of theirs it well appeareth that albeit they found in some ancient Rolls publick Records of the Romans that there was a general taxing of the World by Augustus about such a year as bore the date of an one and 40th year yet from whence to derive the right head of their reckoning they were either carelesse or altogether ignorant I should therefore think that by this 41 year was meant the 41 Iulian year for with that the three and thirtieth year of Herod before mentioned doth exactly accord Jrenaeus more ancient then either of these affirmes it to be about the 41 year of Augustus For Natus est Dominus noster saith he circa primum quadragesimum annum Augusti imperii lib. 3. contra haeres cap. 25. And in this he is none of the worst Authours for Christ being born on the 25 day of December and in the 33 year of Herod was born in the latter end of the 41 Julian year and so near the beginning of the 41 year of Augustus from the death of Julius Cesar that there were but seven dayes wanting to make his birth fall fully into it I conclude therefore from hence that the first year of Christ was for the most part of it in the 41 year of Augustus and that Christ was born but seven dayes before that year took beginning For he was born in the 41 Iulian year on the 25 day of December that day being accknowledged and kept for the day of his Nativity throughout many ages long before our times as in the Chapter next following shall be shewed Come we then now to the third and last thing that I noted to be a directour to us in this particular I meane the time of the generall taxing when all the World under the Romane Empire went to be taxed In the searching after which this I finde viz. that in all the time of Augustus there were only three generall taxings and in one of those three it must neede be that Christ was born witnesse the words of Saint Luke saying There went out a Decree from Augustus that all the World should be taxed Luke 2.1 By which words it appeareth that we must not seek for Christs birth at the time of a particular taxing but at a such time as there was a generall taxing And that there were three such taxings in the dayes of Augustus is testified by Suetonius in the life of the said Emperour about the end of the seven and twentieth Chapter where he telleth us that Augustus made three general taxings Censum populi ter egit primum ac tertium cum Collega medium solus The first of these was too soone for the birth of Christ for it was as Dion sheweth lib. 52. lib. 53. when Cesar Augustus the fifth time and Sextus Apuleius were Consuls viz. in the seventeenth Julian year and year of the City 724 which was but the twelfth year of Herods reigne after his first beginning and 56 years before the fifteenth year of Tiberius And as for the last it was too late for when that began Herod had been sixteen years dead well nigh It followeth therefore that Christ must needs be born in the time of the middle taxing for if the first were too soon and the last too late then must the birth of our Saviour be for certaine in that which was between both Kepler referreth the beginning of it to the 36 Julian year when those incredible Conquests of Drusus Tiberius and L. Piso
of age If therefore the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have no relation to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then must it needes be taken in the sense aforesaid and the meaning of the whole text runne thus namely that Jesus beginning to prepare himselfe for his Office calling his Disciples and to go in and out among them was about thirty years of age being as was supposed the son of Joseph And thus I have shewed not only the year of Christs birth but also the year and day of his baptisme being baptized as the Church by tradition generally holdeth on the sixth day of January in the year of the Iulian Period 4742. and yeare of the World 4032. That which is next concernes the day of his birth in the searching after which the authorities of the Ancients will be considerable though for the yeare they were at odds and could helpe us little For when they speake of the yeare they delivered but matter of opinion but in this they speake matter of practise which is to be regarded before the private fancies of later times CHAP. XX. Of the day of Christs Birth that it was kept and on what day both among the Ancients and in the succeeding Ages IF the authority of Clement in the fifth book and 12 chapter of his Apostolicall Constitutions might passe for granted we should have a testimony as ancient as the very times of the Apostles to shew that then and in those dayes the Birth day of our Saviour was observed But because many learned men make question whether those Constitutions were ever any of his I shall rather alleage a testimony out of the first book and sixth chapter of the Centuriatours or Magdeburgenses wherein is said That the Apostles and other Christians as they used other things indifferent so also they freely used Feasts Which testimony ought the rather to be regarded because the Apostle Saint Paul himselfe hath said Christ our Passeover is Sacrificed for us therefore saith he let us keepe the Feast as is written in 1 Cor. 5.7 Which words doe confirme the testimony before mentioned and is also an evidence to convince them of errour who would have Christians keep no Feast dayes at all no not so much as a day in honour to Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World The Ancients were of another minde they therefore kept such a day And in the Greek or Easterne Church they called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth in English God's appearing And indeed when Christ was born God appeared to the World by the Nativity of his sonne Which is but what the Apostle sheweth for speaking to Timothy of the Incarnation of Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour thus he saith It was God manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3.16 And if God manifested in the flesh then may the day thereof in that respect be fitly called Theophania The Latine or Westerne Church called it Dies Nativitatis the day of the Nativity Dies natalis Domini vel Natalitia Domini The Birth day of our Lord agreeing therein to that of the Angel in Luke 2.10 Behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all people For unto you is borne this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. The newes then we see came first from heaven an Angel brought the first tidings of the Day by whom it was declared to be a day of great joy to all people And therefore to shew men what they should doe there was suddenly with the Angel a multitude of the Heavenly host praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men Luke 2.13.14 Which very Hymne was afterwards by Telesphorus who was Bishop of Rome in the year after Christ's Passion 107 ordained to be sung in the Church on the Eve alwayes of Christs Nativity Anno Dom. 140 as is noted by Calvisius ex Sigeberto And as may be seen also in a decretall Epistle of the Authours owne setting forth if that Epistle were any of his But whether it were or no it was ancient And so all things considered it well appeareth that though the singing of this Hymne was but then appointed to be used in the Church yet the Day on whose Eve it was appointed to be Sung was observed and kept before yea even in the times of the Apostles if Polydore Virgil may be credited lib. 6. cap. 6. Next after this is the undoubted testimony of Theophilus Anno Dom. 190 who was Bishop of Cesarea in Palestine about 157 years after Christs Passion and he speaking of this day saith We ought to celebrate the Birth day of our Lord on what day soever the eight Calends of January shall happen For proofe of which See the Magdeburgenses Centur. 2. cap. 6. See also Hospinian of the Original of Christian Feasts And know moreover that the eight Calends of January was alwayes on the XXV day of December in respect of the day of the Moneth although it varieth every year in respect of the day of the week Clemens of Alexandria was much about the same time with Theophilus Anno Dom. 195 and in him mention is made of some who being more curius then others perswaded themselves that Christ's Birth Day was either on the 25 day of the Egyptian moneth Pharmuth which answereth the most part of it to April or on the 25 of Phacon which answereth in like manner to May. For Sunt qui curiosius saith he natali Domini non solum annum sed etiam diem assignant In which words saying Sunt qui curiosius me thinks it is but as if he should barely relate the opinion of some whom the ordinary Day observed would not content for they being more curious then others search after another day and that must be either in the moneth Pharmuth or Phacon but in which of these they were at a stand Thus it may be in any thing else though never so certainly known for what is there which may not be either questioned or contradicted by such as are either ignorant wilfull or have an affectation of singularity Chemnitius saith well concerning the ground of this errour that it was because they reckoned the sixth Moneth in which the Angel was sent unto the Virgin Mary not from the Conception of John the Baptist but from the beginning of the Hebrew year which began from Nisan or March near the vernall Equinox from whence the sixth Moneth is * And this in regard of the account inclusively or exclusively taken either August or September and the ninth from thence either April or May. So that this being in all probability the ground of their errour Master Lydiat had little reason to close with them in it for the time of Christ's birth For the Angel Gabrel doth directly say This is the sixth Moneth not from the beginning of the year but with her who was called
begin his account at Ioarib without any proofe at all to warrant it is altogether as uncertain as at the first to begin them in March. For who knoweth but Iudas might restore them so as they began againe at the time when he restored them where they were interrupted and broken off by Anciochus and at whose Course that was is no where recorded by any Author Nor will the Kalender of the Courses set forth by Master Lightfoot in his Harmony of the foure Evangelists serve the turn For first it is but upon conjecture that he beginneth the first Course on the next Sabbath day after the Feast of Tabernacles Secondly by making the Courses keepe their constant round in such order as he accounts them he maketh the Course of Bilgah which was the fifteenth Course to be in that part of the fifth Month where should be the Course of Ioarib For when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the first Temple at Ierusalem it was as the Iewes beare witnesse the watch or Course of Ioarib Now the Course of Ioarib was not the fifteenth but the first Course 1 Chron. 24.7 Thirdly he makes the Course of Gamul in the end of the sixth Moneth to have but foure dayes which should have seven as well as the rest And last of all were his Kalender perfect it could be so but for one yeare because that day of the Moneth which is Sabbath day in this year will not be so in the next which together with the three weeks of the there great Feasts in which he telleth us there was no distinct course that served but all the Courses served indifferently together will make a great and manifest alteration every year It is therefore the best and only way to come to the knowledge of these Courses by accounting them backe from the time that the second Temple was destroyed by the Romans at which time was the weeke and Course of Ioarib as is witnessed by the Iews in their ancient Chronicle called Seder Olam rabba For seeing the Courses were interrupted often before the dayes of Iudas Maccabeus but never after till the destructiof the Temple by the Romans there can be no better way then to account back from thence And so doing I finde that Ioaribs Course in the fortieth Iulian yeare the yeare that the Baptist was conceived began on the fourteenth day of August which was the nine and twentieth day of the fifth Month feria septima And Ioaribs Course beginning then Abijah's Course to which Zacharias belonged must needes begin on the second day of October which was the nineteenth day of the 7th Moneth foria septima on the 8th of October was the last day of this Course at the night wherof or on the night after when the Sabbath was ended which we know was but from Even to Even the Baptist was conceved and born 258 dayes after viz. on the 24th day of Iune in the 41 Iulian year And note that this is the soonest time for a Child to be borne in a birth that is ordinary For in ordinary births and such this was Luke 157. carried on according to the course of Nature the continuance of the infant in the Mothers Womb dependeth much upon the place of the Moone at the time of the conception as they know who are any thing at all acquainted with Hermes his Trutina in which may be seen that as the shortest time is 258. dayes so the middle time is 273. dayes and the longest time is 288. dayes Now Christ's time of abode in the Virgins Womb was neither of the longest time nor of the shortest time Luke 1.36 but much about the middle time For in the sixth Moneth after the Baptists conception viz. five Moneths and nineteene dayes our Saviour Jesus Christ was conceived on the 25 day of March in the 41 Iulian year which in that year was the * And was also the Sabbath day seventeenth day of the first Moneth From whence to the * The day of his birth was on the second day of the weeke even as he himselfe was the second Person of the holy Trinity and as the second day of the weeke so the 27 day of the tenth Moneth Beroald in his Chrono lib. 3. cap. 8. day of his birth were 275. dayes compleat as many as are from the 25. of March to the 25 of December Saint Austin nameth 276 dayes which must be understood of so many dayes current for so long Christ remained in the Virgins Wombe as the Church saith he had it by tradition Aug. lib. 4. de Trin. cap. ult And as for that which Beroaldus hath further concerning the Indictions which began on the 24 of September and were instituted to beare account of the payment of tribute it is an argument very absurd For when Christ was born the Indictions were not known but were instituted above 300 years after at which time they were invented even in the seventh year of Constantine the great and in the year of the common Aera of Christ's birth 312. Why should they therefore be alleaged to shew the times of Christ's birth Because saith Beroaldus they concerned the Taxes and Tributes of the Empire and beginning on the 24 day of September they shew that to be the day of Christs birth when the decree went forth from Augustus that all the World should be taxed This is strange and more absurd still then before For if the issuing forth of Cesars Decree and our Savious birth were on one and the same day then must the Decree fly above a thousand miles in one day as far as from Rome to Nazareth And after that in the same day still Mary must travell with Joseph about 95 miles before she be delivered even as far as from Nazareth to Bethlehem By which cluster of absurdities all men may see that Beroaldus might have been better advised then to use this as an argument to prove Christs birth to be on the 24 day of September As weake also is that objection concerning the Shepherds keeping watch over their Flocks by night Luke 2.8 For the temperature of the Land of Canaan in the dead of Winter is nothing like the Winter in our cold Northerne Countries but warme enough for their Cattell to lye abroad and consequently for the Shepheards to keepe watch over their Floks by night For there in that Country they began their Harvest at Easter in the Moneth of Abib or Nisan Levit. 23.5.6.10 compared with Deut. 16.1.9.10 see also Josephus and Chemnit Har. Evang. Prolegom c. 3. as may be proved out of the Scriptures offering a sheafe of the first fruits thereof yearly on the second day after the Passeover This also Josephus sheweth in the third book of his Antiquities at the tenth Chapter and Chemnitius in the Prologomena to his Harmony Chapter the third Their Winter therefore must needs be far warmer then Winter is with us which even the situation of their Country both in respect of the Longitude
and they were these Giges 38. Ardis 49. Sadiattes 12. Halyattes 57. Croesus 14. Scaliger gathereth out of Sosicrates a Laconian Historiographer that Cyrus tooke Sardes and subdued Croesus 41. years after the death of Periander who thereupon setteth the end of Croesus his Kingdome in the first year of the 59. Olympiad the like doth Helvicus and some others And indeed the account would fit the turne well enough if all things else were correspondent but because they are not I must let it alone to them that like it For though from the fortieth yeare of Periander which was all the time that he reigned according to Laertius there be 41. years to the time that Cyrus subdued Croesus yet not so many from the end of his 44. at which time he dyed even in the fourth yeare of the 48. Olympiad as already hath been shewed I conclude therefore that when Croesus lost his Kingdome it was not the first year of the 59. Olympiad but rather and indeed the first year of the 58. Olympiad fourteenth year of his reign For we are not to account that last of his to be compleat but current when this calamity fell upon him and that it was also towards Winter in the yeare of the Julian Period 4166. Which being considered I would that the reigne of the Lydians be set one year higher then they be in the Table in the first Part next after the one hundred and nineteenth Page For there the conquest that Cyrus made of Croesus his Kingdome standeth against the year of the Julian Period 4167 whereas here I conclude it to be in the yeare of the same Period 4166. when the Soldiers were ready to take up their winter quarters But now see the List Years of the Iulian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Lydia rightly fixed 3918. Ardysus 36. 3954. Alyattes 14. 3968. Meles 12. 3980. Candaules 17. This is he who lost his Kingdome by shewing his naked Wife to Gyges 3997. Giges 38. 4035. Ardys 49. 4084. Sadiattes 12. 4096. Halyattes 57. 4153. Croesus 14. current Cyrus conquered him and his Kingdome in the first yeare of the 58. Olympiad teste Solino and that was in the yeare of the Julian Period 4166. as before was said He had a Sonne who never spake in all life till now but now seeing a Souldier goe about to kill his Father upon a suddaine passion he brake his Tongue-string cryed out and said Oh man take heed wilt thou kill Croesus And from that day to his death he could speake as well as other men Herodot The next to be mentioned according to their order or course of time be the Kings of the Medes The reigne of the Medes of whom I gave notice in the latter end of the second Chapter They reigned without any strict hand over their subjects untill the dayes of Dioces and that 's the reason why he is accounted by Herodotus as the first King Nor is this my opinion alone Hist World l. 2. c. 27. S. 5. but of Sir Walter Raleigh likewise in his History of the World saying this Dioces was the first that ruled the Medes in a strict forme commanding more absolutely then his Predecessors had done For they following the example of Arbaces had given to the people so much licence as caused every one to desire the wholesome severity of a more Lordly King Herein Dioces answered their desires to the full For he caused them to build for him a stately Palace he tooke unto him a Guard for the defence of his Person he seldome gave presence which also when he did it was with such austerity that no man durst presume to spit or cough in his fight By these and the like Ceremonies he bred in the people an awfull regard and highly upheld the Majestie which his Predecessors had almost letten fall through neglect of due comportments In execution of his royall office he did uprightly and severely administer justice keeping secret spies to informe him of all that was done in the Kingdome He cared not to enlarge the bounds of his Dominion by encroaching upon others but studied how to govern well his owne The difference found between this King and such as were before him seemes to have bred that opinion which Herodotus delivers that Dioces was the first who reigned in Media Thus that Knight Moreover this was he that built the great City of Echatane which now is called Tauris and therefore should in all likelihood be that King Arphaxad mentioned in the booke of Judith which even the course of time approveth But if he be Arphaxad who was it that was that great Nabuchodonosor which fought against him I answer this seemes to be Saosduchinus King of the Assirians about the beginning of whose twelfth year Dioces was slaine For so it is read in the first Chapter of the book of Judith translated into Latin out of the Caldee by St. Hierom as a worthy Author well observeth in his laborious and learned Annals of the old Testament In the Greeke indeeed we are one while directed to the twelfth yeare another while to the seventeenth year of this King but that unconstancie argues a defect in the Copie and so I leave it comming now to shew the course of succession among these Kings of Media who began at the death of Sardanapalus Yeares of the Iulian Period when they beg A Catalogue or List of the Kings of Media partly out of Eusebius and partly out of Herodotus 3893. Arbaces 28. 3921. Sosarmus 30. 3951. Medidus 40. 3991. Cardiceas 13. 4004. Dioces 53. 4057. Phraortes 22. 4079. Cyaxares 40. 4119. Astyages 35. 4154. Here was the end of Astyages and the beginning of the reigne of Cyaxares secundus who according to Xenophon was the son of Astyages and called in the sacred Prophecy of Daniel by the name of Darius Medus He was the Vncle of Cyrus as being Brother to his Mother which Xenophon also sheweth Moreover we are to note that in the booke of Tobit and Daniel Astyages the Father of this Cyaxares is called Ahasuerus or Assuerus as may be seen Dan. 9.1 and Tob. 14.17 Next after these we are to reckon the Kings of Assyria which reigned at Niniveh after the death of Sardanapalus Kings of Assyria after Sardanapalus as those before mentioned reigned in Media The first of them may be granted to be that King whom Castor in his Canon calleth Ninus secundus saying as his words sound in the Latine Initium Chronographiae fecimus a Nino eam deduximus usque ad Ninum qui successionis jure accèpit Regnum a Sardanapalo Thus he Now this name some thinke was given him for the better lucke sake namely as I conceive That as the ancient Ninus did at the first enlarge this Kingdome so as it came to be a great Monarchy in like manner the same was hoped for by them who gave this name to this King Or else because he was
fortunate in the enlarging of it they said of him that he was a second Ninus the time of whose reigne is gathered out of Castor aforesaid in the Greeke Chronicle of Eusebius to be nine yeares His Successor I take to be the same who in the Scripture is called Phul and came in the dayes of Menahem and invaded the land of Israel 2 Kin. 15.19 and 1 Chr. 5.26 How long he reigned is not expressed any where that I know except it be in the Writings of Annius where we find 48. yeares mentioned for the time of his reigne Tiglath pilezer succeeded him and according to the said Author reigned 25. years Salmanasar 17. Senacharib 7. How I should contradict this Author for the reigns of these four Kings I cannot see except it be in the reigne of Phul who if the rest be right must have but 43. because after Senacharibs army was slain by the Angel and that he thereupon went streight way home with shame to his owne Country he lived not fully fifty five dayes For before 55. dayes were ended he was slain by his own Sons Adramelech and Sharezer as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god Tob. 1.21 and Esa 37.38 If any further helpe could be had from other Authors I would not be beholding to Annius for thus much but because it cannot it wil I hope be no harm to take aime from him so farre as he thwarts no other To the next King namely Esarhaddon or as he is otherwise written Asarhaddon he giveth ten years but there I leave him For it is extreamely probable that he had a longer time then so thirty yeares in Niniveh and after that twelve yeares more in Babilon In all 42. with some odde moneths over above For at the end of the eight years of Interregnum that were in Babilon the King that began to reigne there was Assaradinus as Ptolomy calleth him in his Mathematical Canon of the Kings of Babilon who in all probability was this Assarhaddon the Sonne of Senacharib formerly mentioned And now see the List Yeares of the Julian whē they began to reigne A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Assyria after Sardanapalus 3893. Ninus junior 19. 3912. Phul 43. 3955. Tiglath pileser 25. 3980. Salmanassar 17. 3997. Senacharib 7. 4004. Esarhaddon 30. 4034. Here as is probable this King Esarhaddon beto reign in Babilon after he had been King of Assyria 30. years But the first of them in Babilon whose years of reign stand upon record since the Death of Sardanapalus was Nabonassar and with him Ptolomy begins his Mathematicall Canon before mentioned Howbeit by what we find elswhere it may be gathered that there were Kings of Babilon after Sardanapalus before the Aera of this King Nabonassar took beginning as in Eusebius his Chronicle may be seen in the beginning of the reigne of Arbaces For first having shewed how the Empire of the Assyrians was shattered in pieces by the fall of this Epicurious King he saith that the Medes brought it home to themselves that is they purchased hereby their ancient Liberty which with reference to the opinion of Herodotus before mentioned he sheweth to be so great that it was as if they had no Princes to reigne over them untill the time of Dioces and yet he setteth down four that reigned before him But they by slacking too much the reins of Soveraignty did more hurt to the generall estate of Media then the pleasure of freedome which it enjoyed could recompence For hereupon it came to passe that the Assyrians encroached upon their Dominions and got away some towns from them which they held still in the dayes of Salmanassar when the ten Tribes were carried away captive as the holy Scriptures beare us witnesse in 2 Kin. 18.11 and elsewhere Then secondly the Chaldeans also prevailed and had saith Eusebius successions of Kings And so had other Nations too who were now governed by their own proper Kings as wel as they By which it appeareth that there were Kings of Babylon before Nabonassar for the time from the death of Sardanapalus to the beginning of his reigne was 74 years But who they were that reigned in that space excepting Belesis or Belochus who was contemporary with Arbaces is altogether unknowne Probable it is that a new race of Kings began in Nabonassar or that he was some excellent restorer of Astronomie and thereupon had the honour of an account of times to be instituted and observed in memory of him ever after which began on the six and twentieth day of February in the year of the Julian Period 3967 when the year of the World was 3258. And as for the Kings you have them before in the first Part even in the latter end of the seventh Chapter page 50. The reignes also of the Kings of Persia The Kings of Persia from the beginning of Cyrus to the end of the last Darius be likewise there in the seventh Section of the eighth Chapter I shall not need therefore to set them downe againe here in this place but come next to the Kings of Mecedon These reigned 485 years from the beginning of Cranaus The Kings of Mecedon to the death of Alexander Magnus as Saint Austin rightly reckoneth in his twelfth booke and tenth Chapte Decivitate Dei This Cranaus began in the year of the Julian Period 3905. and reigned twenty eight years of whom and his Successours in the following List Yeares of the Julian Period when they beg A List or Catalogue of the Kings of Macedon fixed in their right times 3905. Cranaus 28. 3933. Coenus 12. 3945. Tyrimas 38. 3983. Perdiccas the first 51. 4034. Archeus 38. Yeares of the Iulian Period whē they beg The continuation of the former List or Catalogue of the Kings of Macedon 4072. Philippus 38. 4110. Aeropus 26. 4136. Alcetas 29. 4165. Amyntas the first 50. 4215. Alexander dives 43. 4258. Perdiccas the second 41. 4299. Archelaus 16. 4315. Orestes 00. 4315. Aeropas tutour to Orestes 6. 4321. Pausanias 1. 4322. Amyntas primo 1. 4323. Argeus 2. 4325. Amyntas again 21. 4346. Alexander 1. 4347. Alorites 3. 4350. Prediccas 4. 4354. Philip the Father of Alexander 24. 4378. Alexander magnus 12. 4390. Here Alexander dyed even in the first year of the hundreth and fourteenth Olympiad And note that Perdiccas the second had a longer reign then is commonly given him for he was alive in the sixtenth yeare of the Peloponnesian Warre and could not therefore have lesse then forty one yeares which number is given him by Nicomedes Acanthius as he is cited by Master Selden in his Marmora Arundelliana When he had reigned about twenty seven yeares viz. about the third or fourth yeare of the Peloponnesian War Sitalces King of Thrace came against him with a purpose to have made Philip the sonne of Amyntas King but by the care of Perdicccas a Peace was made and so Perdiccas kept his Kingdome still Note also that at the death of Alexander
 D  12 23  E  13 24  F  14 25  G  15 26  A  16 27  B  17 28  C The first day of the Week 18 29  D  19 30  E  20 31  F  21 1 April G The first day of APRIL 22 2 A  23 3  B  24 4  C The first day of the Week 25 5  D  26 6  E  27 7  F  28 8  G  29 9  A  30 10  B On this day was the Vernall Equinox In Part I. the first leaf of K. is fall put this leaf in its place An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The first Moneth APRIL The first Moneth Anno Mundi 1658. 1 11  C On the first day of this Moneth Noah removed the Covering of the Ark and looked and behold the face of the ground was dry Gen. 8.13 howbeit he commeth not out till God commanded him which was not untill the 27 th day of the next Moneth For though the Waters were dryed from off the Superficies of the Earth by this first day of the first Moneth yet the ground was still soft unfit for habitation and not dry enough to be trodden on by either Man or Beast untill the twenty seventh day of the second Moneth in this yeer of the World 1658. 2 12  D 3 13  E 4 14  F 5 15  G 6 16  A 7 17  B 8 18  C 9 19  D 10 20  E 11 21  F 12 22  G 13 23  A  14 24  B  15 25  C The first day of the Week 16 26  D  17 27  E  18 28  F  19 29  G  20 30  A  21 1 May B The first day of MAY. 22 2 C The first day of the Week 23 3 D  â—4 4 E  25 5 F  26 6 G  27 7 A  28 8 B  29 9 C The first day of the Week A Postscript to the Reader Gentle Reader I Am now come towards the conclusion or end of what at my first undertaking I intended for the close of which I have got together a few Characters Chronologicall Characters which now in the last place I present unto thee They are pertinent to what is before written in my Measuring Reed and will serve well to confirm the whole Fabricke of my foregoing computation And first I will begin with Adam of whom I have not much to say and yet if I might not be thought too curious I could shew wiâ—h very much ease and probability the very day as well as the yeare of his death He was not borne nor begotten but treated in the yeare of the Julian Period 710 on the 29 day of April Feria sexta when the Sun was in the sixth degree of Aries as I have elsewhere shewed from whence he lived as the Scripture telleth us 930 yeares Gen. 5.5 His Death must therefore be in the yeare of the same period 1640 at such time as the Sun was againe in the same point of Heaven as at the first when God created him which in this yeare of his death is found to be on the 22 day of April This 22 day in the yeare aforesaid was on the sixth day of the week when was also the 14 day of the first month Adam therefore dyed on the same day of the week on which he was made which was also the same day of the month on which I finde it probable that he fell To which the Testimony of Eutychius a learned Patriarch of Constantinople well agreeth for as hath been told us by that famous and illustrious Master Selden Adam died on the sixth day of the week and fourteenth day of that moneth which was nearest to the Vernall Equinox as learned Languius expounds that passage of his taken from Eutychius which is indeed an exposition very true For thus stands the words in Mr. Seldens Booke De Anno Judaico if they be set downe in English And Adam dyed on Friday on the fourteenth day of the Moonth which was the sixth day of the Moneth Nisan c. By which sixth day of Nisan he certainly meaneth the sixth day after the Sun entred into Aries at which time must be the fourteenth day of the Moone and sixth day of the week All which I finde to be exactly on the 22 day of April aforesaid in the yeere of the Julian Period 1640 which was therefore the very day and yeere of Adams death and very beginning of the yeare of the World 931. The further consideration of which is not onely a sure character of the precise time of the creation but also serveth to declare that the Ages of the Patriarches were full and compleat yeeres and that therefore Noah's Flood came not in the yeere of the World 1656 as the most account but in the yeere of the World 1657. for Methuselah must finish the yeeres of his life before it came as the signification of his name in the Hebrew sheweth which is He dyeth and the emission or Dart commeth In this yeere of the World being the yeere of the Julian Period 2366 the seventeenth day of the second moneth on which day the Flood began was also on the sixth day of the weeke which is a character likewise worth the marking For it clearely sheweth that as on the sixth day of the weeke God made both Man and Beast so on the same day of the week he sends a flood of Waters to destroy them And as this was on the sixth day of the week so when Noah came out of the Arke was the seventh day of the week in the yeere of the Julian Period 2367. on the fifth day of June which in that yeare was the 27 day of the second moneth and Sabbath day at which time Noah offered Sacrifice even at the very end of a full year of dayes after the flood began which adds still something for confirmation Another Character next after this confirming me yet more fully in a firm confidence of the truth of my accounts is taken from the time of the comming out of Egypt which I finde to be on the last day of Aprill in the yeare of the Julian Period 3224. which very day in that yeare was on the sixth day of the week even as on the same day of the week Christ purchased a better Redemption by the bloud of his crosse one thousand five hundred and two and twenty yeares after In all which I doe much admire at the wonderfull providence of God in disposing of the Times so exactly and harmoniously for as on the sixth day of the weeke Man was made and Christ suffered so on the sixth day of the weeke Israel was delivered out of the Egyptian bondage on the very next day after
of Nebuchadnezzar which is as followeth Nabonassar began in the year of the Julian Period 3967. and reigned 14 years Nadius two Chozirus and Porus five Ilulaeus five Mardokempadius 12. Arcianus five An Interregnum two Belithus three Apronadius six Regebelus one Mesessimordachus four An Interregnum eight Assaradinus 12 compleat or 13 current Saosduchaeus 20 his first was in the thirteenth or last of Assaradinus Then Chyniladanus 22 Nabopollassarus 21. And after him Nebuchadnezzar 43. He reigned as it were * Or one year and some odd moneths two years with his Father which with the 43 after him ammount to 44 and some odd moneths The rest of the Kings after Nebuchadnezzar untill Cyrus shall be mentioned afterwards Here therefore now is the end of this Chapter CHAP. VIII The Periods againe considered and all such doubts and scruples cleared as may arise concerning the just length of any of them together with Answers to certaine other Questions not impertinent SECT I. Of the time from the Creation to the end of the Flood THat the Flood came in the year of the World 1656. is granted by almost al Chronologers only some few have cast it into the year 1657. which I also take to be the right yeer and have so accounted it And that for these reasons First because it came not till Methuselah was dead who being born in the year of the World 688. as by the ages of the Patriarches well appeareth and living 969. years must needs be a live till the year of the World 1656. was ended The Flood therefore came not till the year of the World 1657. It is but a fabulous fancy to say that this Patriarch was alive and taken into Paradise for unlesse his abode were with Noah in the Ark the Waters of the Flood could not but drowne him But as his name in the Hebrew signifieth He dyeth and the Emission or Dart meaning the Flood cometh Secondly Noah was born as doth also well appear by the ages of the Patriarchs in the year of the World 1057. and lived 950 years he dyed not therefore till the year of the World 2007. was begun Out of which take 350. for so long Moses saith Noah lived after the Flood and there will remaine 1657. for the year when the Flood began And thirdly the Mathematicall calculations already mentioned agree well to that year But it is objected If the Flood came not in the year of the World 1656. how then could it come in the six hundredth year of Noah as Moses in Gen. 7.11 saith it did Well enough For though the Six hundreth year of Noah was not ended till after that Moneth in which the Flood began yet it might be ended within some short time after For though the years of the Patriarchs both when they begat their children and also when they themselves died were full and compleat yeares yet who can clearly prove that they were all born at one and the same time of the yeare It is therefore to be observed that Moses beginns not his account of their yeares from the punctuall day of their Nativity but rather from the beginning of the naturall yeare nearest and next after the day of their birth as learned Langius noteth Patet id saith he in Noacho Anno namque quo diluvium finitum est ineunte primo die primo mensis statim incipiti 601 Noachi cum tamen minime certum sit Noachum isto die aut tempore fuisse natum Lang. l 2. pag. 253. Reckon therefore thus viz. That Seth was borne to Adam when Adam was fully and compleatly 130. yeares old that is in the yeare of the world 131. Gen. 5.3 To which add 105. theage of Seth when Enos was borne and so will the birth of Enos be in the year of the world 236 Gen. 5.6 To which add 90. the age of Enos when Kenan was born so shall the birth of Kenan be in the yeare of the world 326. Gen 5.9 To which add 70 the age of Kenan when Mahalaleel was borne so shall the birth of Mahalaleel be in the yeare of the World 396. Gen. 5.12 To which add 65 the age of Mahalaleel when Jared was borne so shall the birth of Jared be in the year of the world 461. Gen. 5.15 To which add 162. the age of Jared when Henoch was born so shalll the birth of Henoch be in the yeare of the World 623. Gen. 5.18 To which add 65. the age of Henoch when Methuselah was born so shall the birth of Methuselah be in the yeare of the world 688. Gen. 5.21 To which adde 187. the age of Methuselah when Lamech was born so shall the birth of Lamech be in the yeare of the World 875. Gen. 5.25 To which add 182. the age of Lamech when Noah was borne so shall the birth of Noah be in the year of the world 1057. Gen. 5.29 To which add 600 years of Noah so shall the year of the world be 1657. in the begining whereof the six hundreth yeare of Noah was not quite finished as already hath been shewed And thus we see the year of the Flood to be in the yeare of the World 1657 which ended not untill the year 1658. was begun And now for the time of the yeare when it began Moses saith that it was in the second Moneth and seventeenth day of the Moneth when all the fountaines of the great Deepe and Windowes of Heaven were opened which second Moneth must be reckoned from the Spring and not from Autumne as in the second Chapter I have already proved Berosus the Chaldean agreeth thereunto saying that the Flood began on the fifteenth day of that Moneth which with them was called by the name of Desius which Moneth Desius is confessed by Scaliger in his Notes page 44. to agree to that which Moses calleth the second Moneth The lesse reason therfore had Scaliger to decline it only he might have held to this that though the Moneth were right yet the day was wrong for if Desius were alltogether the same with that which was the second Moneth among the Jewes then should not the day mentioned be the fifteenth but seventeenth Gen. 7.10 Or if the Moneth were not alltogether the same but must have a fixed time of beginning which Langius proveth to be on the 25 day of May then must the Flood begin not on the fifteenth day thereof but on thr twelfth which day of Desius I take to be the first day of the Flood in regard that in this year it agreeth both to the fifteenth day of the second Moneth mentioned by Moses as also to the fifth day of June when the Flood began But of this I shall need to say no more That which is next shall be an Hebrew and Iulian Kalender for the whole time of the Flood accounting the beginning thereof to be in the yeare of the Julian Period 2366. on the fifth day of June feria sexta An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Yeer
of the Vniversal Deluge or Flood beginning in the yeer of the Iulian Period 2366. and yeer of the World 1657. The Cycle of the Sun Wat 14. Teh Dominicall Letter D and the Cycle of the Moon 10. The first Moneth APRIL The first Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 21  F  2 22  G  3 23  A  4 24  B  5 25  C  6 26  D The first day fo the Week 7 27  E  8 28  F  9 29  G  10 30  A  11 1 May. B The first day of MAY. 12 2 C  13 3 D The first day of the Week 14 4 E  15 5 F  16 6 G  17 7 A  18 8 B  19 9 C  20 10 D The first day of the Week 21 11 E  22 12 F  23 13 G  24 14 A  25 15 B  26 16 C  27 17 D The first day of the Week 28 18 E  29 19 F  An Hebrew and Iluian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The second Month MAY. The second Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 20  G  2 21  A  3 22  B  4 23  C  5 24  D The First day of the Week 6 25  E The frist day of JUNE 7 26  F  8 27  G  9 28  A  10 29  B ¶ On this day the Flood began Gen. 7.11 It was the very same day of the Week on which Man was made which circumstance of time is worth the marking for as on the sxth day of the Week God made both Man ad Beast so on the same day of the Week he sends a Flood of Waters to destroy them 11 30  C  12 31  D  13 1 June E  14 2 F  15 3 G  16 4 A  17 5 B  18 6 C  19 7 D  20 8 E  21 9 F  22 10 G  23 11 A  24 12 B  25 13 C  26 14 D  27 15 E  28 16 F  29 17 G  30 18 A  An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Yeor of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The third Moneth JUNE The third Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 19  B  2 20  C  3 21  D The first day of the Week 4 22  E  5 23  F  6 24  G  7 25  A  8 26  B  9 27  C  10 28  D The first day of the Week 11 29  E  12 30  F  13 1 July G The first day of JULY  14 2  A  15 3  B  16 4  C  17 5  D The first day of the Week 18 6  E  19 7  F  20 8  G  21 9  A  22 10  B  23 11  C  24 12  D The first day of the Week 25 13  E  26 14  F * This was the last day of the forty dayes that it rained 27 15  G On this day the forty dayes that it rained were ended but the Waters are still to prevail untill these forty be 150. Gen. 7.24 Dies enim pluviarum hisce 190. diebus includendos esse ex eo patet quod Arca quievit die xvii Mensis septimi Calvis in Chronol 28 16  A  29 17  B  30 18  C  An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Food The fourth Month JULY The fourth Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 19  D The first day of the Week 2 20  E  3 21  F  4 22  G  5 23  A  6 24  B  7 25  C  8 26  D The first day of the Week 9 27  E  10 28  F  11 29  G  12 30  A  13 31  B  14 1 August C The first day of AUGUST 15 2 D The first day of Week 16 3  E  17 4  F  18 5  G  19 6  A  20 7  B  21 8  C  22 9  D The first day of the Week 23 10  E  24 11  F  25 12  G  26 13  A  27 14  B  28 15  C  29 16  D The first day of the Week 30 17  E  An Hebrew and Iulian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The fifth Month. AUGUST The fifth Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 18  F  2 19  G  3 20  A  4 21  B  5 22  C  6 23  D The first day of the Week 7 24  E  8 25  F  9 26  G  10 27  A  11 28  B  12 29  C  13 30  D The first day of the Week 14 31  E  15 1 September F This was the first day of SEPTEMBER 16 2 G  17 3 A  18 4 B  19 5 C  20 6 D The first day of the Week 21 7 E  22 8 F  23 9 G  24 10 A  25 11 B  26 12 C  27 13 D The first day of the Week 28 14 E  29 15 F  30 16 G  An Hebrew and Julian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The sixe Moneth SEPTEMBER The sixth Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 17  A  2 18  B  3 19  C  4 20  D The first day of the Week  5 21  E  6 22  F  7 23  G  8 24  A  9 25  B  10 26  C  11 27  D The first day of the Week  12 28  E  13 29  F  14 30  G  15 1 October A The first day of OCTOBER  16 2 B  17 3 C  18 4 D The first day of the Week  19 5 E  20 6 F  21 7 G  22 8 A  23 9 B  24 10 C  25 11 D The first day of the Week  26 12 E  27 13 F  28 14 G On this day was the Autumnall Equinox 29 15 A  30 16 B  An Hebrew and Iulian Calender for the Yeer of the Vniversall Deluge or Flood The seventh Month OCTOBER The seventh Moneth Anno Mundi 1657. 1 17  C  2 18  D The first day of the Week 3 19  E  4 20  F  5 21  G  6 22  A Â