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An Apology in Brief Assertions

Published: 1592
Length: 22,048 words
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Divisions: 75

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An apologie in briefe assertions defending that our Lord died in the time properly foretold to Daniel For satisfaction of some students in both vniuersities. H. Broughton.

London Printed by VVilliam Kearney dwelling within Creeple-gate 1592.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

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DedicationTo the right noble Lord, Sir Peregrine Bertye Knight, Lord of VVilloughby and Eresby.
Author to the readerThe Autor to the Reader.
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ExegesisA DEFENCE OF I. CALVIN, our notes vpon the Geneua Bible, Emmamanuel Tremelius, Matthew Beroaldus, Henrie…
ObjectionsObiections of aduerſaries.
AnswersAnſwers.
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SectionFor the Perſians 130. yeres.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
ObjectionAn other obiection in Wolphius vpon Nehemias.
AnswerAnſwer.
ObjectionA third obiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionOf Ezra.
ObjectionObiection againſt that Eſra ſhould be properly ſonne to Saraias.
AnswerAnſwer.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionFor the ſpace betwixt Cyrus and Aggai, prophecying: that it is nothing neere 107.
ObjectionsObiections.
AnswerAnſwer.
ObjectionObiection againſt Cedrenus. He is of as great authoritie as Legenda aurea. Anſwer.
SectionOf Anaxandrides and Leonidas.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionOf Polycrates.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionOf Epimenides in Laertius.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionOther ſucceſſions of liues.
SectionOf Apryes, Amaſis, Pythagoras, Lyſis, and Epaminondas.
SectionOf Cyrus.
SectionOf Greekes nullitie.
ObjectionAn obiection from Thucidides.
AnswerAnſwer.
SectionThucidides condemnation of Greekes.
SectionPauſanias testimonie.
SectionPlutarchs testimonie.
SectionContinuall diſagreements.
SectionA kinde of helpe.
SectionAgainst Eratosthenes account.
SectionOf Olympiades, Romes antiquitie and Chaldeans.
Section
SectionOF THE OLYMPIA, by Phlegon, freeman of Adrianus Caeſar.
SectionOf Darius Hyſtaſpis.
SectionOf the Olympiade 75. ioyned to Xerxes warre.
SectionCyrus, in particularitie ſpecially conferred with Olympiades, diſagreeing extreamely.
SectionA Cataloge of further impoſſibilities in Olympike reckonynges.
SectionThe cauſes of differing by Olympiades, ſundry games, and ſundry game-rulers
SectionOf ſundry game: rulers.
SectionNor marke the cart before the horſe in… Pauſanias reckonyng.
SectionPlutarch of Hippias.
SectionHow Plato ſetteth out Hippias.
SectionOf the authoritie of others of Elis, citizens to Hippias.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwere to Xenophons Olympiade 93.
SectionOf Solons age, and Philip Macedons, to be of the lyke diſtaunce by Heathen, as Iakim and Iaddue are caſt…
SectionOf Romes Chronicle noted in latine A. V. C. anni vrbis conditae: the yeares ſince the Citie was built.
SectionExtremities in ſhortnes.
SectionOf Iakim, Solon Piſiſtratus, Tarquinius ſuperbus, and Cyrus chyldhood, touching the ſame tymes.
SectionA digresſion vpon occasion of the aduerſaries phraſe.
SectionCauſes why Romane teſtimonies ſhoulde be rather loathed, then honoured, to controll all antiquitie for holy…
SectionHow the common table of Archontes, though forged, yet was exquiſitely honored of the Antichriſtian…
SectionOf the Chaldeans.
SectionHow an aduerſary doth cite this agaynst the proprietie of Scripture.
AnswerAnſwere.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwere.
ObjectionObiection.
AnswerAnſwere.
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ErrataThe amending of faults eſcaped.

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