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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Are there not great diversity of opinions among Historians and Chronologers? do they give the same account of things? is there no diversity in their narrations? Do the Greek and Roman Historiographers, report the same things of the Emperors, great Generals, and men of War, whose lives and actions they transcribe, and transmit to future Ages and Generations? Do they fix the same Epochs, and Periods to the beginning and end of the four famous Empires that have succeeded each other in the world? Are they agreed in what year of the Julian period to fix the Creation, or how long it hath been existent? Longomontanus reckons it existent. 3964. Kepplerus 3993 years before the birth of our Lord. Ricciolus says in his Almagest that he hath proved in his Chronology that this duration of the world could not be extended farther than 4076, nor determined shorter than the year 3993, from the Nativity of our Lord; And the most probable year of the intermediate space betwixt these two periods he thinks is the year 4063. See And Tacquet. Astron. lib. 1. p. 46. This is enough to prove the variety, and uncertainty of Chronology, to which many more might be added, if it were to any purpose.
Are there not great diversity of opinions among Historians and Chronologers? do they give the same account of things? is there no diversity in their narrations? Do the Greek and Roman Historiographers, report the same things of the Emperours, great Generals, and men of War, whose lives and actions they transcribe, and transmit to future Ages and Generations? Do they fix the same Epoches, and Periods to the beginning and end of the four famous Empires that have succeeded each other in the world? Are they agreed in what year of the Julian period to fix the Creation, or how long it hath been existent? Longomontanus reckons it existent. 3964. Kepplerus 3993 years before the birth of our Lord. Ricciolus says in his Almagest that he hath proved in his Chronology that this duration of the world could not be extended farther than 4076, nor determined shorter than the year 3993, from the Nativity of our Lord; And the most probable year of the intermediate space betwixt these two periods he thinks is the year 4063. See And Tacquet. Astron. lib. 1. p. 46. This is enough to prove the variety, and uncertainty of Chronology, to which many more might be added, if it were to any purpose.