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334. Oftbe An‘cHa.1'si'iotus,0fr4R;1W.-4GHt
three great Epochas of the Deluge; thc DCPSYWYC Of fl‘? Clllldien "F If”?! but
of Egypt, and the Return of the few: from their Captivity in the 5.1% Year of
‘Cjrm ; which is the only certain Epocha of containing the facred with prophan;
Chronology. In this Volume he gives an exact Account ofzthe Reigns of the
kings of Ifrael and judab, with their Synchronifms ;; as alio the Succefiion of
the Babylonifb, Peifan and Maredoniaii Monarchy, with the C0nCU1’I'.Cnt Olymy
yiads and ]Era of Nabana‘%r, and the moft remarkable Eclipfes of the Sun -, as
they might any way be ferviceable in the Regulation of the Accounts of Time;
which he hath colleeted out of all Authors, both facred and prophane, with (in.
gular Indultry, Learning, and Judgment. . , r , M
A. D. 165.1. Followed the fecond Part of his Annals, beginning with Antiarbu;
Eplpbaliti, and continued to the Deitruftion of j‘erufalem, by Tim: Vejjarmmz.
in which he hath given an exact Account of the Macedonian Empire, under the
2Ifi'atiek and Egyptian Kings, reducing their Reigns to a more certain Calculation
than ever had been done before -, and reltoring feveral of them to their due
Places and Times, which had been omitted by other Writers of Chronological Hill
tory; as alfo, an Account of the Affairs of the Roman Empire, cfpecially in
the Eafl -, together with the Hlitory of the New Teftament, from the Birth of
St. ,'7olm Bapiifl, to the Year of Chrift, feventy three, out of the Holy Scriptures;
and the belt Greek and Roman Authors, who have written of thofe Times;
Thefe two Volumes may well be efteemed a Repolitory or Common-Place of
all antient I-Iiiitory. Cromwell having feized the Government, fent for the Pri-'
mate this Year, and received him with much outward Refpect; and aftera
great deal of canting Difcourfe, he civilly difmilied him, His pretence was to
confult with him about eilablifhing the Proteitant Intereit both at home and aa
broad. But he was too great an Enthuiiait to follow his‘ Advice; It is laid that
he fettled a Penfion on him at this time; but it is certain he promifed to.
make him :1 Leaf: of fome part of the Lands belonging to’ th'e Archbiihoprick of
drmriglz, for twenty oneYearsj, which the Primate was willing to accept of, confide-
ring it then of right belonged to him ; and if there fhould happen to be a. Reitora-A
tion, the Church could lofe nothing by the Grant. But this was never done.-:
About the beginning of Winter, he preached Mr. Selderfs Funeral Sermon in
which ‘lit gave him all the Elogies that fo great and learned a Man did deferirc ;l
ziind with grgalt lylodegty, told l11S Audience; that he looked on the deceafed as
hoingreat a cm at, tut liimfelf was fcarce worthy to carry his Books after
A. D. 1655. The hit Book of his, which was publilhed during his Life, was
this Year, under the Title -‘ De Grace? Septuaginta Interprelum -verjione Syiztzzgma - a
cum Lilzri Ejibem Editiaize Orz'gem'ca, et ‘Utter: Gram‘ alterzi, ex Arzmdeliam? Bib-'
Iiotbui mm: prinium in lucem pradut7d. - It muit be confeiied he held forne O i.
tiions in this Treatife peculiar to himfelf, of which learned Men have 1:15] '
doubted: Yet he endeavoured to eftablilh them with a wonderful fubtility of]W'Y
To this he added a Diflertation on Cailzmz, together with an Epiitle of hi; it
Lew‘ Cl’“PP’”a Am‘? 1552: Concerning the various readings in the Hebrew T t?
and another from William Eyre to him, wrote Anno 1607. About the ’:
of February, he went to R;gate, the Houfe of the Counteis of Pet Izml e
As foon as he came there he fet himfelt about linifhino his famed Ch” or0ugb.VA
which took him up molt of the Remainder of his I i-it Alth h “"‘holo8Ys.
and Mind were healthy and vigorous for a Man of his Years Gui. his Body
was extremely decayed, fo that he could fcatce fee to Write, biiitag 1;: aiigggxti
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