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Author: Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
Title: An apologie in briefe assertions defending that our Lord died in the time properly foretold to Daniel For satisfaction of some students in both vniuersities. H. Broughton.
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Print source: An apologie in briefe assertions defending that our Lord died in the time properly foretold to Daniel For satisfaction of some students in both vniuersities. H. Broughton.
Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
London: Printed by VVilliam Kearney dwelling within Creeple-gate, 1592.
Subject terms:
Bible -- Chronology -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16955.0001.001
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To the right noble Lord, Sir Pe∣regrine Bertye Knight, Lord of VVilloughby and Eresby.
The Autor to the Reader.
A DEFENCE OF I. CALVIN, our notes vpon the Geneua Bible, Emma∣manuel Tremelius, Matthew Beroaldus, Henrie Wolphius, and Romists yeelding vnto them, Gil∣bert Genebrard, and others: for the beginning, ending, and certeintie of Daniels seauens, con∣teined in Gabriels speech, the key of the old Testament, by H. B. of the same opinion in Conc. Ser.
Obiections of aduersaries.
Answers.
THAT THERE WAS NO cause why 560. yeares should be imagined betwixt the deliuerance by Cyrus, and the death of our Sauiour.
For the whole time.
For the Persians 130. yeres.
Obiection.
Answer.
An other obiection in Wolphius vpon Nehemias.
Answer.
A third obiection.
Answer.
Of Ezra.
Obiection against that Esra should be properly sonne to Saraias.
Answer.
Obiection.
Answer.
For the space betwixt Cyrus and Aggai, prophe∣cying: that it is nothing neere 107.
Obiections.
Answer.
Obiection against Cedrenus. He is of as great authoritie as Legenda aurea. Answer.
Of Anaxandrides and Leonidas.
Obiection.
Answer.
Of Polycrates.
Obiection.
Answer.
Of Epimenides in Laertius.
Obiection.
Answer.
Other successions of liues.
Of Apryes, Amasis, Pythagoras, Lysis, and Epaminondas.
Of Cyrus.
Of Greekes nullitie.
An obiection from Thucidides.
Answer.
Thucidides condemnation of Greekes.
Pausanias testimonie.
Plutarchs testimonie.
Continuall disagreements.
A kinde of helpe.
Against Eratosthenes account.
Of Olympiades, Romes antiquitie and Chaldeans.
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OF THE OLYMPIA, by Phlegon, freeman of Adrianus Caesar.
Of Darius Hystaspis.
Of the Olympiade 75. ioyned to Xerxes warre.
Cyrus, in particularitie specially conferred with Olympiades, disagreeing extreamely.
A Cataloge of further impossibilities in Olympike reckonynges.
The causes of differing by Olympiades, sundry games, and sundry game-rulers
Of sundry game: rulers.
Nor marke the cart before the horse in Pausanias reckonyng.
Plutarch of Hippias.
How Plato setteth out Hippias.
Of the authoritie of others of Elis, citizens to Hippias.
Obiection.
Answere to Xenophons Olympiade 93.
Of Solons age, and Philip Macedons, to be of the lyke distaunce by Heathen, as Iakim and Iaddue are cast from scripture to be.
Of Romes Chronicle noted in latine A. V. C. anni vrbis conditae: the yeares since the Citie was built.
Extremities in shortnes.
Of Iakim, Solon Pisistratus, Tarquinius superbus, and Cyrus chyldhood, touching the same tymes.
A digression vpon occasion of the aduersaries phrase.
Causes why Romane testimonies shoulde be rather loathed, then honoured, to controll all anti∣quitie for holy prophetes.
How the common table of Archontes, though forged, yet was exquisitely honored of the Antichristian Phi∣losophers, not without suspition of malice.
Of the Chaldeans.
How an aduersary doth cite this agaynst the proprietie of Scripture.
Answere.
Obiection.
Answere.
Obiection.
Answere.
The amending of faults escaped.