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the truth of alltbefe principles: i. That in the fame c/Em 
there are different hypothcfes; 2. That the different marks 
of the Time, of the invention of ytrmilloh ^ which depend 
from thofe different hypothcfes, fignifieoneand the fame Time; 
3. That the difference, which is fouod between Varro and 
Brau^henes as to theOIympick year?, is the Ome with ihar, 
which would be there found, if both of them had continued to 
reckon by the Years^of Tr^j^, which is a certain TfcchAumW 
the Event propofed 2 4-. That Varro only adds two ytars^o the 
Years of Rome^ becaufc heeftablifliesthee/^Mof if^^^n^upon 
that of Troyy according to the Ihortcfl hypot! em.. 
To learn eafily the praflice of thefe Principles ; after the 
explication' given of the Origin of the fs^r a of A»tioch (of 
which no Author hath made^any meneron btf or t Eujetiusy) of 
thec^r^ of Sp4i» , and of the Vulgar z^ra , which are the 
ChriSim^MrA's^ to which the Tnccrtainty of the Interval from 
£3P<?^f/// unto the Building of the Temple hach given place ; 
this Author fubjayns fix Rules , in which he colleas and ex- 
p!a5n?j what concerns, in Chronology, the H^^rm/, Greeks j 
KomMS ^ BAbjflortians and Perfmm- He likcwife examine?, 
what concerns the Egyptians upon the occafion of the Eclipfe 
noted by Jofephus , Ub. \ 7. f. 8. of the Jewjb Jmiquhies ; 
where he very handfomly explains their Year, and what was 
thtix ScthUqne period* He alfj largely treats of the Epochs 
of ±t Nativity $f purLcrd , as well as of the Time of the 
Reign and Death of Her^dy to wtora he afligns forty years for 
bisReign,&c. ^ oT ^ 
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