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Gods lov'd : And that the Greeh heard nothing of Aftro- 
)ogy from the jEthiofuns or JEgjptians 3 but Orpheus, the 
Son of Oleagrifs 2Lnd Calliope^ firft delivered thofe things to 
them, tho he did it not dearly and openly, but covered 
them under certain myftical Veils. 
In the fourth Chapter, and the five following, the 
Author treats of the fix Ages of the World, in this 
fourth he treats of the Golden Age, or the firlt Age 
from the beginning of the World. Here the Author 
lays , he thinks thole of the Learned Chriftians did 
well, who endeavour'd to induce the GcrjtiUs to a 
belief of the Scriptures, from the Writings of the Ge//- 
tiles themfelves , they containing a relation of many 
famous fafts , which are confirmed by the Scriptures:; 
Bat, he fays, if thofe Dofltors had began frpm the Genea-. 
logies of the ancient Pagan Kings, and fhesvn from the 
beginning, how thefe anfworr'd, Race by Race, to the Ge- 
nealogies of the Jem^ they would have made the Coeleftial 
Dodrine more clear to them ^ lince thence they might have 
coilefted, that he, to whom the fadi of. another was im- 
puted, liv'd at the fame time with him vyhofe taft it was. 
And becaufe as far as he knows, no man has throughly 
handled this, he here propofes to fbew, beginning with the 
firft Age after the Creation of the World, how, both their 
Anceftors, and other Pagans, with refpeft to Eofterity, 
from one Generation to another, have propagated piany 
things agreeing to Sacred Writ : For performing which, 
in his Accounts of the fecond, third and fourth Age, he 
has given lis three Chronological Tables. And in his Ac- 
count of the <jQlden 4g^ in this Chapter, he thinks it 
appears from the words of Hefiod, concerning that Age, 
joyn*d with the Folufpa^ and the Scriptures well confider/d, 
that their Anceftors were the firft known for Empire in the 
World, and for their Angular Wifdom, Juftice and For- 
titude. 
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