zi^ The 3\(^tural Hi [lory 
iemptcres^ poVidi^ amentes, inertes^ inhvf^itales^mmanes In which 
veryaftyet^ think he proves nothing, but that mod of thofe 
Epithets rather belong to himfiJf. 
2 1. If it be obje^red thzt Jofeph did not fo far patrizare^ but 
that hefpake Honorably of fome of the Englifi^ fuch as Wcttm, 
Savil^ Camden^ ^ Reynolds'^: it niufi: be anfwered. That thefe 
touched not the oppk of his eye^ nor endeavored the ruin of 
his great Viana^ the Julian Period^ of which he conceited him- 
felf the Inventor : which yet fince by an indifferent, and that a 
competent ji^dge^ is given to Robert Lorringe an Englifi BifF op of 
Hereford^ who lived "^oo years before Scaligers invention \ 'Tis 
true, he fitted it to Chronological ufes ; but whil'ft in the midit 
of his glorious attempts, behold him fljaken by meek, and modeil 
Lydiat^ the happy Inventor of a more accurjt period^ whereby 
hefo difturbed and confounded all his fupputations^ that (if we 
may believe the moft Learned of the Age) he laid his angry Rival 
flat upon his back. 
2 2. And fo much concerning the Lydiatean Period^ of which, 
bec<iufe fo much already in Print, I (liall not add more, only in 
what years of as many of than^ as have already been (which pof- 
fibly may not be unacceptable to the Reader') the moft confiderable^ 
/Era's of the world have happen'd. 
Tears of the World, Tears of the Lydiatean Periods. 
The Flood, 
Birth of Ifaac. 
Exodus. 
The Temple. 
Etnpire f?/Nebuchadn. 
Empire of Cyrus. 
Empire of Alexander? 
the Great. 3 
Empire of Jul. C^far. 
Baptifm of Chrift. 
The Dionyfianje^jr of} 
our Lord^ 1620. 3 
The year of our Lord^\(>j(>. 5680. 
" Jul.C^far. S al. Voef-c^i.Uh. -^.cap. 16- ^ JofScalig-Eptftot lit. 3. Eftft. 232. ' JSid. lih./^. Eplfi. 
446 . Ifi Trafat. in A.males Jac. Vjjbri 'h Archie^. Armaehau. 
23. If 
1657. 
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21 09. 
333- 
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2509. 
141. 
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2988. 
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404. 
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481. 
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