N T HISTORY. 



thirry o: . I> r they whofc defign it is to 



know what has mlly happened, will give but 

 credit to n'.\ t!u!e ahtions, as they will not 

 believe i: p'jfiibl- nation, which knew not 



tlv: i tag t'rr.c after the reign 



of Cha;' ' . be able to trace their 



> the time of" the deluge , or that they 

 could, bv any monuments whatever, be able to 

 dtduce their hiilory from that period, without 

 interruption, down to modern times, that is to 

 ninth ccn'.ury : they will therefore be per- 

 luaded that all thole ancient hiftories and chro- 

 nicles, in verie and prole, on which their autho- 

 rities are founded, are nothing more than a mafs 

 of I -ritten by impollors and vifionaries 



two or three thouiand years after the facls are 

 luppofed to have happened, and confequ 

 that they knew n > m->re of the matter than we 

 \Yi:iu)i:t : irt'ier inquiry 



C into iheic : 



the modern hiilory of Penmark, whk'h L'< 



til Goteric, Godfrey. 



Gotilae, is more 'id lefs uncertain. It in- 



cludes the r< .five kings, during 965 



years, t ,ir ^ot to the prelent 



o that t ; count one hundred 



and thirteen ! : in Denmark, 



from i);\n I. x t<> I V. who now fo worthily 



throne. The in-: f C hriili- 



anity in: . under Eric I. and the fixty- 



fcventh ! t'oout th- h in this 



Jad y abounds with rernar! 



'II. events. 



