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| he Fiiftory of Life and Death. | rer | 
i litick, eloquent, charitable, and the Example of Patience. Elithe Prick lived ninety. | 
| eight years ; acorpulent man, calmot difpofition, and indulgent tohis children. Burt 
Elizeus the Prophet may fecin to have died when he was above an hundred years old; | 
for he is found to haye lived after the aff“mption of Elias fixty years ; and at the time | 
} of that affmption he was of thofe years, that the boys mocked kim by the name of | 
“| Bald-head : aman yehement and fevere, and of an-auftere life, anda contemner of | 
| riches. _ Alfo ifaiah the Prophet {eemeth to have been an hundred years old : forhe is 
| foundto have exercifed the Function ofa Prophet {eyenty years together, the years both | 
} of his beginning to prophefie and of his death being uncertain ; a man of an adinitable 
| eloquence, an Evangeli-al Prophet, full of the promiles of God of the New Teflament, 
! as aBottle with{wect Wine. “ cde 
_ Tobias the Elder livicd an hundred fifty eight years, the Younger, an hundred twen- 
ty feven : merciful met, and great alms-givers. Jt feems, in the time of the (ap- 
uvity, many of the jews who returned out of Babylon were of great yedrs, feeing they 
could remember both Temples, (there being no lefs than feventy years betwixtthem) 
and wept fer theunlikene fs of them. Many ages after that, inthe time of our Saviour, 
| lived old Stwscon, to the ageof ninety; a devoutman, and full both of hope and expe- 
ation. Into the fame time alfo fell nna the Prophete/s, who. could not poflibly be 
lefs than an hundred years old; for the had been {even years a wife, about eighty 
| four years a widow, befide's the years of her virginity,and the time that the lived atter 
her Prophecy of our Saviour : She was an holy woman, and pafféd her days in faftings 
and prayers. ; ieee eae 
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_ The long Lives of «Mex mentioned in Heathen Authors have no great certainty in 6. 
} them; both for the intermixture of Fables, whereunto thofe kind of relations were 
| very prone, and for their falfe calculation of years, Certainly of the Agyptians we 
find nothing of moment in thofe works that are extant as touching long rife, for their 
Kings which reigned longeft did not exceed fifty or five and fifty years, which’ is no 
great matter, feeing many at: this day attain to thofe years. But the Arcadiaz Kings 
ate fabulonfly reported to havelived very long. Surely that Country was Mountainous, 
full of flocks of Sheep, and brought forth moft wholfome me 3; notwithftanding, 
{eeing Paz was their god, we may conceive thatall things about them were Pazickand 
} vain, and fubje& to fables, | | Gee ae 
_ Nema King of the komams lived to eighty years: aman peaceable, contemplative, 
and much devoted to Religion. Marcus Valerius Corvinus faw.an hundred years 
complete, there being betwixt his firft and fixth Conful/bip forty fix years: a man ya- 
loroxs, affable,popular,and always fortunate. | 
Solon of eAthens, the Law giver, and one of the feven Wafe-menlived above eighty 
years: aman ofan high courage, but popular, and.afféGted to his Country ; ‘alfolearn- 
| ed, given to pleafures anda foft kind of life. Epimenides the Cretian 1s reported to 
| have lived an hundred fifty feven years: the matter is mix’d with a prodigious Relation; 
| for fifty fevenof thofe years he is faid to have flept ina Cave. “Half anage after Xeno. 
| phowthe Colophowan lived an hundred and two years, or rathermore: for atthe age of 
twenty five years helefthis Country, feventy feven complete years he travelled, and 
after that returned ; but howlong he lived after his return appears not ; a man nolefs 
wandring in mind than in body, for hisname was changed. for the madnefs of his opi- 
| nions from Xexophanes to Xewomanes : aman no doubt of a vaft conceit,and that minded 
; nothing but Jzfinitum. ae ee 
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e4nacreon the Poet livedeighty yearsand fomewhat better : a manlafcivious, yo- 9. 
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luptuous, and given to drink. Pindarus the Theban lived to cighty years: a Poet of 
an-bigh fancy, fingular in his conceits, and a great adorer of the gods. Sophocles the 
Athenian attained to thelikeage ; alofty Tragick Poet, given over wholly to Writing, 
and negle&ful of his Family. 
Artaxerxes King of Perfalived ninety four years: aman ofa dull wit, averfe tothe 
i difpatch of bufinefs, defirous of glory, but rather of eafe. Atthe fame time lived 4ge- 
filaus King of Sparta to eighty four yearsof age; a moderate Prince, as being a Ph:- 
lofop her among Kings; but notwit! itanding ambitious, and a Warriour,and no lefs ftout 
ia war than in bufinefs. . 
§» Gorgias the sicilian was an hundred and eight vears old 3; a Rhetiician, and a 
great boafter of his faculty, one that tanght Youth for profit: he had feem many 
: ; Countries,. | , 
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