were referved to the holy Apoftolicall Chaire, even as by thefe Prefentes the fame is graunted unto you. And I do place you againe in Union and Communion with the faithfull Chriftians. And likewife I doe abfolve you of all your Sinnes and Offences and Exceffes which now you have confeffed unto me, and of thofe which you should confeffe, if they came to your Remembraunce, though fo it were that the Abfolution thereof did belong to the holy Apoftolical Chaire, as is aforefaid. I doe graunt unto you perfect Indulgence, Pardon, and Abfolution of all your Sinnes, which now or at any other Time you have confeffed, forgotten, or beene ignorant of, and of the Paines which you ought to fuffer for them in Purgatory: In nomine Patris, & filii, & Spiritus San&ti, Amen. In the Houre of Death the Confeffor fhall fay: and if God through his Mercie doe let you escape this Sickeneffe wherein now you be, then you fhal keepe this Indulgence or Pardon until the very Houre of your Death. The End of the Bull. CHRONOGRAPHIA: A Description of Time, from the Beginning of the World, unto the Yeare of our Lord 137. Wherein the feveral Histories, both of the Olde and New Testament, are briefly comprised, and placed in their due Order of Yeares: for the better Direction of the Reader. Collected out of fundry Authors, but for the greatest Part, abridged and tranflated out of Laurentius Codomannus, his Annales facræ Scripturæ. Deut. 4. 32. Enquire after the Times that are past: which were before thee, fince the Day that God created Man upon the Earth, &c. I Printed in the Yeare 1590. To the READER. F it fhal pleafe thee (gentle Reader) to accept in good Part this rude and unperfect Draught, which in fo great Shortnelle of Time, and Multitude of Bufineffe, I could prefent thee with all: Thou shalt give me Encouragement at my better Leafure, and some fitter Oportunitie, to finish the fame to thy further Benefit. In the meane Seafon my Hope is, it fhal not repent thee to have ben at fo fmal a Charge, or of fo little Labour, as wil fuffice to the diligent perufing of this Short Treatife. Which that thou mayeft read with the more Fruit: I thought good to admonish thee of these few Things. First, that where in in fo litle Roome all particular Hiftories of the Holy Bible could not be expreffed, thou maieft not unfitly place the Things not here fet downe, neare unto. thofe Stories that in this Treatife are annexed unto them. 2. What Times are certainely noted and defined in the Worde, thou shalt find confirmed by Places quoted to that Purpose. As for others that are onely probable and coniecturall, it fball fuffice, thou rest thine Opinion upon the Credite of mine Author, untill thou find fome better Argument for thy further Direction. 3. The Tables containing a Correspondence of Yeares, in the Lives of the Fathers, Judges, and Kings of Judah, and Ifrael, I have for Brevitie Sake omitted, hoping that thy Diligence in comparing the Times together as they are fet downe, will eafily supply that Want. 4. As for the Index I thought it Superfluous in fo fhort a Booke, befides. that the Margent briefly containing the Heads of al Things, may anfwere thy Defire in that Part. 5. Where thou findest A, M. in the Top of every Page understand the Yeare of the World, and where in the Margent thou findest A. Ch. understand the Yeare of our Lord. 6. In the first Page Equinoctium vernum, fignifieth, that Time of the Spring, wherein the Daies and Nights are of equall Length, Luminarium conjunctio, fignifieth the Meeting of the Sunne and Moone in ber Chaunge. 7. For the Title, A brief Chronicle of Holy Scripture, I gave it, because the greatest Part of the Stories herein remembred, are taken out of the Worde of God: yet it was necessary for the Continuance of the History and other Complement, that fome Thinges should be alledged out of the Apocrypha, Jofephus, and other Authors. 8. Where the Accompt of mine Author differetb fomewhat from others, that wrote before him, it neede neither to offend nor trouble thee, as derogating nothing from the Truth of the Storie. The Reasons of bis Difference he hath profoundly fet downe in a larger Volume, written for that Purpose: But because the fame is farre removed from the Capacitie of the Multitude, and confifteth most upon Aftronomicall Calculation, I thought it better to leave it wholy unto the learned, then here to trouble thee without Fruit. 9. If thou defireft to know what is the Distance of the prefent Yeare of our Lord 1589, from any particular of the ancient Storie, take from 5730, the Yeare of that Hiftorie, and the Number remaining is that thou requireft. To know how many Yeares before Chrift his Birth, any Thing hapned: take the Yeare of the Story thou feekeft from the Yeare wherin Christ was borne, and the Remainder is that thou deftreft. As, David was borne in the Year of the World, 3039. And Christ in the Yeare, 4141. take the first from the latter, there remaineth 1102: so many Yeares was David borne before Christ. 10. In alleaging the two Bookes of the Kinges I have written 1. Reg. and 2. Reg. 11. Where Places of Scripture are alleaged for the Birth of many Perfonages, if the fame be not there expreffed, understand that it is gathered from thence by Computation, which thou mayst easily difcerne. 12. In fo many Numbers, and of fo great a Varietie fcarce any Diligence could performe that nothing should be printed amiffe. It may please thee therefore gentle Reader to beare with fome fewe Efcapes, and patiently to amend where thou findeft a Fault. And so I bid. thee most bartely farewell in the Lord. This 12. of Februarie. 1590. A The Crea- Day. tion. Heaven and The Light. The Firma ment. Land, Sea, I A Description of Time, from the Beginning of the T HE first Day of the World was created Heaven and Earth, 'contayning a confused Maffe, whereof afterwardes all Thinges were made. This Day was our Sonday, or the Lordes Day, and as is thought, the 22. Daye of the Month of April. Then was created the Light, seperated from the Darknes, and called Day. Gen. 1. I. The fecond Day our Monday, was made the Firmament, and was called by the Name of Heavens. Gen. 1. 6. 3 The third Day our Tewsday, the Waters were feperated from covering the Earth, which at the Commaundement of God brought forth Graffe, Hearbs, and Trees, having their Seede and Fruit. Gen. 1. 9. Sunne, 4 Fish and Beaftes, &c. Man and Woman. Marryage. The fourth Day our Wendfday, were made and placed in the 5 The fifth Day, Thursday, were made the Fishes and Foules, 6 The fixth Day, our Friday, were created, first all Beafts and Things creping upon the Earth. Gen. 1. 20. fecondly Adam and Eve according to the Image of God. Gen. 1. 26. The fame Day Mariage was inftituted. Gen. 2. 7 The Sabboth. The Fall of The feventh Day, our Saterday, God having finished his Work The Creation of the Angels is most probably affigned unto A.M. Adam. A briefe Chronicle of Holy Scripture. made the fixt Day. Codomannus affigneth Adam's Fall unto the 19. Day of the World, which was the 14. of the firft Moneth, and the tenth of May. His Reafon is from the Analogie of the Paffover. Exod. 12. Some referre it unto the eight Day, in which Chrift rofe from the dead. The fame Day wherein they fell, they receaved the Promyfe of Grace in the Seede of the Woman, which should break the Serpents Head. Gen. 3. 15. In the End of the firft Yeare of the World was born Caijn and Abel (if they were Twinns.) If alfo theife were the firft of Adams Children, as fhould appeare by the Reafon of Caijn his Name, Gen. 4. 1. I. After this unto the Murder of Abell, the Familie of Adam was greatly multiplyed in both Sexes: And therfore the fame is moft fitly to be affigned unto the Yeare 129. or not much leffe. Gen. 4. About the Ende of this Yeare was borne Seth, in whom the 130 Seth, b Was borne Cenan, his Father Enofh being 90. Yeres old. Jared borne, when his Father Mahalaleel was of Age 65. Henoch the feventh from Adam was borne, his Father Jared Methufala was borne, the 65. Yeare of the Life of his Fa- Lamech borne, the 187. Yeare of his Father Metbufala. Adam died, Gen 5. 5. Henoch the feventh from Adam was rapt into Heaven, when Enofh died, having lyved 905. Yeares. Gen. 5. 11. Here 235 Enofh, b. Religion corrupted. 325 Cenan, b. 395 Mahaleleel, b. 460 Jared, b. 622 Henoch, b. 687 Methufala, b. 874 Lamech. 930 Adam d. 987 Henoch rapt. Noab. Japheth. Shem. The Floud. A.M. A briefe Chronicle of Holy Scripture. 1536 Here begin the 120 Yeares of the long Sufferance of God before the Floud. Gen. 6. 1. Pet. 3. 19. 1556 Japheth was borne when Noah was 500 Yeares old. Gen. 5. 32. and 10. 1558 Was borne Shem. Gen. 11. Cham the yongeft of Noab his Sonnes was borne after this, but what Yeare it is uncertaine, 1656 Metbufala dieth, only eight Daies, as it is thought, before the Floud. Gen. 5. 27. The 47 Day of this Yeare began the Floud, and continued one Yeare and tenne Dayes. 1657 The first Day of the first Moneth Noab removed the covering of the Arke. Gen. 8. 13. The 27. of the fecond Moneth, Noah with the reft came out of the Arke, buylt an Altar, and offered Sacrifice, and receaved the Covenant, Gen. 8. 18. Arphaxad. 1658 Arphaxad was borne, two Yeares after the Floud, his Father Sem being 100 Yeares old. Gen. 11. 10. Selah. Heber. Peleg. Regu. Serug. 1693 Sela was borne when Arphaxad was 35 Yeares old. Gen. 11. 12. II. 14. 1757 Peleg was borne, when Heber was 34 Yeares olde. Gen. 11. 16. At this Time Babell was buylt, and the Languages divided. Gen. 11. 7. 1787 Regu born, when Peleg was of 30 Yeres. Gen. 11. 10. Nimrod (called of the Heathen Saturnus Babylonius) began to raigne. 131 Yeare after the Floud. Gen. 10. 8. 1819 Serug borne, his Father Regu being 32 Yeares old. Gen. 11. 20. Jup. Belus. 1843 Jupiter Belus fucceeded his Father Nimrod, when he had raigned 56 Yeares, and raigned himselfe 62 Yeares. Nachor. Terach. Ninus. Haran. 1849 Nachor borne, when his Father Serug was 30 Yeares old. Gen. 11. 22. 1878 Terach was borne in the Yeare of his Father Nachors Age 29. Gen. 11. 24. 1905 Ninus, whofe Wife was Semiramis, began to raigne. He was the Sonne of Jupiter Belus, and the fixth from Noah. Noab called of the Heathen Ogyges: Cham called Saturnus Egiptius: Cus called Saturnus Ethiops: Nimrod called Saturnus Babylonius: Jupiter Belus: Ninus. 1948 Haran was borne, when Terah was 70 Yeares olde. Gen. II. 26. 1996 Peleg dieth of the Age of 239. Gen. 11. 19. 1997 Noah |