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1st. That as Noah was the last of the antediluvian patri- 

 archs, so Hesiod, v. 137? states Saturn to have been the last 

 of the Gods produced by heaven and earth. So. Diodorus 

 also, Lib. 1. p. 32. ■ 



2dly. In the time of Noah there was but one language 

 upon earth, Genes, xi. So Plato in Polit. says, that in 

 Saturn's time all men spoke the same language. 



3dly. As only three of the sons of Noah, Japhet, Sem and 

 Cham, with their wives, were saved from the flood, though 

 it cannot be supposed that he had not many more, he being 

 then six hundred years old : so Hesiod, v. 459, says that 

 Saturn swallowed all his children except three, Zen, Possi- 

 deon, and Aides, that is, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, and 

 their wives. Here, Demetra, and Vesta, v. 453, that is, 

 Jutw, Ceres, and Vesta. 



4thly. As Noah foretold the flood,* so also did Saturn, 

 as Abydenus in his Assyrian History attests i-f and ordered 

 an ark to be constructed, in which birds and laud animals 

 were preserved. 



5thly. As Noah was the first planter of vineyards, (at 

 least after the flood,) so Saturn is sadd to have been the first 

 planter of vines.J 



6thly. Saturn is said to have enacted, that whoever saw 



the 



* Hebr. xi. 7, 1 Peter iii. 20, 2 Peter ii. 5. 



fEuseb. Lib. 9. p. 414, Alexander Polyhistor, apud CyriU. Lib. 1, Cantra, 

 Jiilianum. 

 X Aurel. Victor de Origine Roman. 



