Chap. II. 



^AMERICA. 



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I 



Is contradi&cd. 



Greek, and Hebrew agree 



Alfo the Helrew and l* 

 tin. 



The third Proof they offer us, is borrow'd from the fimilitude and likenefs Third tcftimony. That 

 of the (phenician and American Languages : Comtozus fets down forne Words, vi^. from X'p*«««««w! ri be- 

 the fhenicians call'd a Mountain, Abila • Blood, £Jow 5 a Mother, ^wec/; . a aulct eirLan6Ua§eagrCM 

 Maid, Hellotia ; Water, Hewi, and Jam : With the firft agrees the American Anth- 

 /*. with the fecond, Holedonch ^ with the third, Mam ; with the fourth, HeU 

 lotie> y with the fifth, Ame, andjW. But thofe that will thus corrupt the 

 Words, may as well make the unfeemlieft Comparifons. it is certain, that the 

 Thenicians and fome of the Americans call a Cup Afar, and Red Wine, Belafa . 

 Bat does it therefore follow by this, that the one is extracted from the other i 

 How many Names do fignifie all one, amongft People that never had any 

 Converfation together ? This proceeds only from meer accident . Or elle if 

 forrie Words of one, found like the fame Words us'd in a remote Countrey, 

 and be of one fignification, muft they therefore be derived from one another > 

 Then upon neceffity the Greeks , Latins , and Germans had their Original from the 

 Hebrews, or the Latins from the Greeks, or the Germans from the Latins, or the 

 Perfians from the Germans ; or, on the contrary, the laft owe their Extract to 

 the firft; I willasaTeftimony, and to give you a Pattern, pick out a few 

 from a greater number. 



How little difference is there in many Words between the Greek and 

 Hebrew ? The Hebrews call a Church-Congregation Sanhedrim ,fthe Greeks 

 Xwi^eAov ; the Greeks for I adVife y ufe 7r«0s» , the other HJlfi > the Hebrews call 

 ; Wife-men Zophei, the other xt<poi : And lefs difference there is between Sympho- 

 niab and X^<powa, A welUfet Lejfon $ or Tfanterin and *<*£!$ &qv> A Spiritual Hymn: 

 And who alfo will not find a near refemblance in the confonating of divers 

 Latin and Hebrew Words ? For there is little difference betwixt Mefurah and 

 Menfura y a Meafure . Shekar and Saccarus, a fweet Moijiure ; Levya and Le&m y a 

 Lionefs, Sabbeca and Sambuca, a Chopping* board ; <Pefa and Tajfus, a Pace. 



Then ftarting over the Greek and Latin, the Teutonicks would likewife pro* 

 duce many Words which have the fame found and fignification with the He- 

 brew 5 as Chobel,a Qable 5 Ethmol and Etmael, Watching 5 Sothim and Sotten, Fools • the t^™ Nation* 

 Hebrew Arets, is in Dutch, Aerde, or as we in Englijh,Eard Lands ; <Pbert and £W, a 

 Horfe ; LeVyd/; and Leeulo,a Lion 5 SW and Scbadea, Damages ; i^//e and Kjijfen,m 

 our Dialeft the very fame,/Q//e 5 SUf« and Schenken, agiVmg, whence we derive 

 ouxEnglifr Sktnker, from ferving of Drink ; Bel and Beeld, an Image . for 2?/ 

 properly fignifies Lord, perhaps becaufe the Images of Heroes or Lords were 

 worfliipp'd by them, or elfe becaufe ]S[inus firft ere&ed an Image for his Fa- 

 ther Belus, or Bel, to be worfliipp'd. 



It would make a large Volume it fclf, to reckon up the Confonancies of 

 the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and their fcatterings among all Languages where 

 ever their Empire fpread, the one being indeed borrowed from the other, as 

 all Languages that deal or have any converge together : For not only the 

 Words, with fome fmall Alterations of Letters, fignifie the fame in both Lan- 

 guages ; but alfo without the leaft alteration. Both Greeks and Latins exprefs Gree^La ttHTotf&ics 

 I do, by Ago - y the Number Eight, by Otlo • an Arm, by Brachium or Brachion, in ^m.mu,,, 

 Bnglijh, Branches, and Braces ; 1 eat, by Edo ; a Cup, by <Phiale 3 . a Curtain, by Cor- c ' 5s6>7 ' 11 ' 

 Una , or Qortine ; Merry, by Hilans, or Hxlaros ; a ratling TSioife or Sound, by Clango- y 

 a Camel, by Camelus y or Camtlos 5 4 Z(wee, by Gmu y or Goww ; a Bowl or C/w//ce, by 

 Ci/ix j * Afo«/e, by Af«J ; Deceit y by So/«*, or Dolos 5 a Hb«/*, by Domus y or 2)o- 

 woj 5 I wry, by Fero, otfhero ; the Pronoun I, Ego . <* L/m, by Zeo, or A*W . 

 F/*x, by Li/iaw, or Linon • <a Mother, by Mirer, or Afettr j now, by mkmc, or www ; 



Likewife the' Teuton, ck* 

 the great Language of Ger- 

 mnny, Briuin , the low- 



