The Hijlor 'y of Life and Death. 



licick, Eloquent, Charitable, and che Example of Patience. £/* the Prieft liVed Nine- 

 ty eight yeares, A. corpulent Man , Calme of difpofition , and Indulgent to his chil- 

 dren. But £liz,£tu the Prophet, may feem to havedied , when he was above an hun- 

 dred yeares old ; For he is found to have lived after the Ajfumptionui Elias , fixty 

 ycarcs; And at the time of thuzAjfumption, he was ot thole yeares > that the Boycs 

 mocked him,by the name ot Bald~head:A Man vehement,aud fevere, and of an Auftcre 

 life,anda Contemner of Riches. Alio Jfaiah the P rophet feemeth to have been. an 

 Hundred yeares old,For he is* found, to have exerciied the Function of a Prophet , Se- 

 ventie yeares together ; The yeares, both of his Beginning to Prophefie , and of his 

 Death, being uncertain: A Man of an Admirable Eloquence,An Evangelical Prophet- 

 Full of the Promiles of God,of the New Teftament>asa Bottle with fweet Wine. 



Tobias the Elder, lived an Hundred fifcy eight yeares : The younger , an Hundred 

 twenty feven : Mercifull Men , and great Ahraes-Giverr. It leemes, in the time of the 

 Captivity, many of the Jewes ^ho returned out of Babylon, were of great yeares : See- 

 ing they could remember both Temples (there being no leffethan Seventy yeares be- 

 twixt themj ) And wept for the unlikeneffe of Them. Many ages after that, in the 

 Time of our Saviour^ lived old Simeon, to the age of Ninetie yeares : A Devout Man, 

 and full , both of Hope, and Expectation. Into the fame time alio , fell Anna the Pro- 

 phetejfe, who could not poflibly belelfe than an Hundred yeares old: For fhe had 

 been feven years a Wife ; about eighty four yeares a Widow ; Befides the yeares of her 

 Virginitie ; And the time that fhe lived after her Prophefie of our Saviour. She was 

 an Holy Woman : AnJ,paffed her dayes in FaStings and Prayers. 



The Long Lives of Men, mentioned in Heathen Anthors , have no great certainty 

 in ThemrBoth for the Intermixture of Fables , whereunto thofe kind of Relations were 

 very prone, and for their falSc Calculation of yeares. Certainly, of the Egyptians, we 

 finde nothing of Moment in thofe workes that are extant, as touching Lono Life : For 

 their Kings, which reigned longeft, did not exceed fifty, cr five and fifty yeares, which 

 is no great matter ; Seeing many at this day , attaine to thofe yeares. Bat the Arca- 

 dian Kings , are fabuloufly reported to have lived very long. Surely, that Countrey 

 was Mountainous, Full of Flocks of Sheep , and brought forth molt wholfome Food* 

 Notwithstanding, feeing Pan was their God , we may conceive, that all Things about 

 them were Panicks, and vaine,and Subject to Fables. 



2VW*,King of the Romans lived eo eighty yeares : A Man peaceable , Contempla- 

 tive,and much devouted to Religion. il/<irc^ V derim Corvinutfavi an hundred yeares 

 c©mpleat : There being betwixt his firft and Sixth Confnlftip,Voxty fix yeares ; A Man 

 Valorous, A.ffable ) Popular,and alwayes Fortunate. 



Solon of Athens, the Law-giver , and one of the feven Vftfe-men , lived above eighty 

 yeares : A Man of an High Courage , but Popular, and affected to his Count rey: Alio 

 Learnedjgivcn to Pkafures,ahd a foft kind of Life. Epimenldes the Cretian is repeated 

 to have lived an hundred fifty feven yeares • I he Matter is mixt with a Prodigious Re- 

 lation : For fifty feven of thofe yeares, he is Said to have flept in a Cave. Hal'fe an Age 

 after, Xemphon the filophonian,iiv ed an hundred and two yeares, or rather more : For 

 at the Age of Twenty five yeares he left his Country ; Seventy feven compleat yeares 

 he travelled : And after that returned : But how long he lived after Ins returne,appears 

 not: A Man, no lefle wandering in Mind,than in Body : For his Name was changed, 

 for the Madneffe of his Opinions , from Xenophanes to Xenomanes : A man no doubt, 

 of a vali Coneeit,andthat minded nothing but Infinitum. 



Anacreon , the Poet , lived eighty yeares, and fomewhat better : a man Lafcivious, 

 Voluptuous, and given to Drinke. Pindarm, the Theban , lived to eighty yeares: a 

 Poet of an high Fancie , Singular in his Conceits, and a great Adorer of the Gods. So- 

 phocles the Athenian , attained to the like Age : A lofty Tragick Poet , given over 

 wholly to Wnting,aud Neglectfull of his Family. 



Artaxerxes, King oiTerfia, lived ninety four years : A Man of a Dull wit,Averfe 

 to the Difpatch of BuSinefl'e , DsSirous of glory , but rather of Eafe. At the f ame time 

 lived AgejilatHy King ot Sparta, to eighty four years of Age : a moderate Prince: As 

 being a Phylofopher amorgtt Kings. Bin notwithstanding Ambitious > and a Warner; 

 And no lefl'e Stout in Warre than in Bufinefle. 



Gorgius,dvz Sicilian, was an hundred and eight yeares old : A Rhetorician, and a 

 great BoaSter of his Faculty : One that taught Youth for profit .• He had Seen many 



Countries: 



