CHAP. X. : : ,"s pyſterity, 1. Sons of Japhet, 2-====5, Of Ham, 2-14. 4100S m_ perth, the firſt Sa and tyrant ; he reigns in Babel, Ofc. 10. Aſber builas Nineveh, Q&nc. 11. Sons of Canaan, 15. Their border, 19. Of Shem, 21-----3I. | | , T- His FrRaSs, though it may ſeem to ſome unprofitable, conſiſting almoſt wholly of Genealogies, yet hath indee great and manifold uſes. 1. To ſhew the true Original of the ſeve- ral Nations ; about which all other Authors write idely, urge and falſly, and thereby to manifeſt the Providence of God in n e Government of the World and Church, and the Truth and Aurho- rity of the Holy Scriptures. 2. To diſcover and diſtinguiſh —_ all other Nations, that People or Nation in which God's Churc! was to be, and from which Chriſt was to come. 3. That Noah s$ Propheſy concerning his three Sons might be better underſtood, and the accompliſhment of it made evident. 4. To explain divers prophetical Predi&ions and other paſſages of Scripture, as will ap- pear in the ſequel. For the better underſtanding of Tryon 5 compare with it 1 Chron: 1. from verſe 4. to 24. And conli ” theſe three things. 1- In the ſearch of theſe Genealogies,we mu avoid both Careleſneſs for the reaſons now mentioned, and exceſ- five Curioſity about every particular Pe:ſon here named, and the People ſprung from him ; which is neither neceſſary, nor profi- table, no: indecd poſſible now to find out, by reaſon of the great changes of names through length of time, loſs of ancient Records, differences of Languages, extin&tion of Families, conqueſt and ditru&tion of Nations, and other Cauſes. It may f tice that di- vers of them, and thoſe the moſt eminent, are evident and dif- cernable ar this day, as will appear in the progreſs, by which we may and ought to preſume the Truth of the reft, whoſe Names
Chap. the Father of the Macedonians, and Italians too, as may be gathered from hence, becauſe. both their Countries are called by the Name of Chittim ; Macedonia, 1 Mac: 1: 1.and 8, 5. and Italy, Numb: 24: 24. Dan: 11:30. See alfo 1/a: 23. 1. Jer: 2: 10, - Beſides that” there are - other Eyidences in prophane Writers that the 1a/ians came from the Grec:ans, p Called allo Rhodanim, 1 Chron: 1: G6. See Riphath in the former verſe. His Poſterity is uncertain. Moſt probably he was ſeared near his Brethren in ſome part of Grecce. And the Greeks {
' to have worſhipped him under the Name of Jupi:2y Dodoneus,whole famous Oracle was in the City Dodona. |
5 By theſe were the iiles q of the gentiles divided 7 in their lands ; every one after his cougue s, after their families z, in their nations.
q Not Iftes properly fo called : For why ſhould they, having their choice, forſake the Continent for Iflands,and thereby cut oft them= ſelves from their Brethren ? And where h:d they Ships to trantporr tiem ? But the word J/es here and elſewhere fignifies all thoſe Countries that had the Sea between them and 5udca, as ir doth Iſa: 11, 10, Its and 40: 15. Jer: 2.10. and 25: 22. Exh: 27. 3- Zepha. 2: 17. And J/ss are here put for the Inhabitants, as the word Earth and Land are commonly uſed. r This diviſion of the + World among them being a work of great weight, was doubt eſs managed wirh great Care and Confultation,and the advice of their Heads and Governours, and above all by the wiſe and ſpecial P:o- vidence of God, which at this time did particularly determine the bounds of their ſeveral Habitations, as it is Recorded, 4#s 17: 26. s (4.e.) According to their ſeveral languages, into which they were divided at Babel. By which it appears that this diviſion, though mentioned before, was not executed till after the confu- ſion of Languages at Babel. t Here obſerve the Wiſe and Gracious Providence of God mixed with this judgment, that God diſtributed the Languages according to the diffeience of Families and Nations, that each ſeveral Nation, and all the Families, or Brarches of that Nation ſhould have one and the ſame Language ; whereby both Union and Love were preſerved among themſelves, and the ſeve- ral Nations were diſtinguiſhed one from another ; which-was very fit and neceſſary for many Reaſons : As that the Church of God,
which was confined ro the Hebrew Nation, might neither be | mixed with, nor infef&ed by the Idolatrous Nations ; and that 't
; might be evident to the Wor!d, that the Meſſias was boin of the ; Seed of Abraham according to God's promiſe, &c.
are loſt in the publick Confuſions of the World in former Ages, of whom I ſhall therefore be ſilent, and only ſpeak of the p.incip»1 Perſons, and that briefly. 2. The ſame people which were origi-
nally ſeared in one place, did oft rimes ſhift rheir places, or at leaſt |
ſenr © th Colonies ; and that ſometimes inio places far diſtant from their Brethren, as appears from the ancient and famous Ex- pedition; mentioned in Sacred and Prophane Story. So you muſt nor wonder if you meet with the ſame People in divers Countries. 3. InGeneral,the World «as divided into three Parts, whereof the more: Erſtern parts were allotted to Shem and his ITue, the more Sourhern paits to Ham,and the more Northern parts of it to Japheth.
OW theſe are the generations of the ſons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth : and unto them were {ons born after the flood-
2 * The ſons of Japheth @ : Gomer and Magog c, and Madai «d, and Javan e, and Tubalf, and Meihech g, and Tiras þ,
2 Whoſe Portion was at firſt Aſa the leſs, and afterwards by de- grees all Ezrop:, and the Northern parts of Aſia. This is he ſo much celebrared among the Greeks, by the name of 7apetrs. Whoſe Poſterity are reckoned among the Northern People, Ezek. 38: 6. and were ſeated ia tie Northern parts of the lefſer 4/2, and afterwards about Thracia ; and from him were called Gomar:, and by an eaſy change Cimbri, or Cimmerii, c The Father of the Sythians, as may be gathered from Ezek: 38: 2, 3, 15. and 39: 3, 6. 4
Whoſe poſterity, whereſoever they were firſt placed, in Macedonza, |