The Scriptures harmony

Name: The Scriptures harmony
Author: Edward Fisher

The Scriptures harmony by E.F., Esq.

Edward Fisher fl. 1627–1655London: printed by Richard Cotes for William Hope, 1643

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The first Monarch of Persia.

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This Darius was in three battles vanquished ¹by Alexander the Great.

This Darius was in three battels vanquished ¹by Alexander the Great.

11 Mac. 1. v. 1. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 11 c. ult. Aelian hist. l. 8. c. 7. & l. 12. c. 43. Justin. l. 11 Sleidan. l. 1. Grimst. l. d. Sect. 14.

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An Object. One Argument Mr. Broughton brings, wherewith (as he conceives) he disproveth all computations but his own; and it is drawn from the ages of Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Mordecai, Ezra, and Nehemiah; which ¹(saith he) must be stretched beyond all likelihood, if the Kingdom of Persia continued above 130. years.

An Object. One Argument Mr. Broughton brings, wherewith (as he conceives) he disproveth al computations but his owne; and it is drawne from the ages of Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Mordecai, Ezra, and Nehemiah; which ¹(saith he) must be stretched beyond all likelihood, if the Kingdome of Persia continued above 130. yeeres.

1See Broughtons consent of Scripture.

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Resolved. As to Zerubbabel. Jeremiah tells us, That Jehoiakim, alias Jeconiah, was brought forth of prison in

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