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the Death of Alexander M* out of 5;/^^^i!f/^i ; adding his owd 
amendments thereunto. 
Thefe matters being difpatched by him, and thereby the 
paffage fmoothed for our Author's further progrefs , he gives us 
the courfe of Succeffion in the Line of the Jervifi High Priefts 
from Jaddna^ to the excinftion of the High Priefthood it felf : 
In the doing of which, he fettles the Scheme of Herod's LSvi^, 
asa thing very ufefulfortheunderflandingof the Booksof the 
NewTeTiament,and for thefixingof his Intended Scheme. 
After that our Author hath foUow'd his defign down along 
. the courfe of Succeffion amongfl the People of the Jervs^ as far 
as was needful, and even poffible for him , unto the Deftruflion 
of JerujalemnwdtT^itus^ which he places in the Year of the 
JulianPcY. ^jS^yC^r.Chr.vulg.io 9 He returns to the Point 
of Time whence this Line began to be drawn, which was a for- 
mer deftruftion of City and Temple under JSiehchAdftezar^Jn. 
]ul. Per4 4i25. From whence he continues his Line upwards, 
as high as the Creation, by the direflion of the H.Scripture, in 
agreement with other approved Reckonings , to be met with in 
Forrain Writers. And this Line he divides into thefe fcur Spa- 
ces : I. From the conflagration of the Temple laft mentioned, 
unto the firft Eredlion.of the fame by. Solomon. 2. From the 
Building of the fame, unto the Deliverance of the Ifraelites out 
of is^gypt* 3. From thence to the Birth of Mraham. 4. From 
this to Noahs Flood, ^nd fo to the Creation: Noting, upon oc- 
. jcafionj the feeming Difference between the Scriptures ^ Jofepbus^ 
. zxid Julius Jfricams , and mafterly reconciling them ; though 
the Difference between the ejJVf^prit and ihe Septuagi^t, in the 
Years of the Genitureof the Patriarchs^ be, in his Judgment 
. as well as in that of others, irreconciieable. And here,he takes 
occafion to intimate the defign of the Offending Party; exa- 
mining and refcllirg the Charge againft the LXXII 5 ^nd affert- 
ing,that the Numbers which have in our Booksof the LXXII 
^generally fpeaking) are the very fame with thofe which were 
of the Septuaginis defcription ; and proving it hy Jul. Jfrica* 
ms^ Eufebtus^ Demtrius^ and others ; and acknowledging Jo- 
fephus to be an unreprovable Witnefs of the truth of thefe 
Numbers, and alledging Dr. If* foffifiSy as a Learned vindex of 
him. To which he adds, that the reckoning by thefe Numbers 
. hath been the conftam Reckoning of all Chriftian Churches for 
the 
