The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

CHAP. III. Of the supputation of the Greeks.

THe olde Greekes did account as wee doe nowe, by the yeres of our Lord, the first Olimpias, the second, the third, the fourth, and so forth.

Some holde that Olimpias is the space of fiue yeeres, but if thou wilt not be deceiued therin (gentle reader) reckon it but for the space of foure yeares. The supputation of the Greeks by the Olimpiads is of all writers deemed true; and therefore albeit before their Olympiads euerie one wrote as pleased himselfe, yet after their Olympiads, wee ought greatly to re∣spect their account.

Africanus writeth that the first Olimpias was in the first yere of Ioatham king of Iuda, and so it should be in the age of the world 3251. others dissent fro that computation & affirme

it to bee in the time of Ioas; and then it chanced in the age of the world 3130. which supputation seemeth not so probable, and therefore with Affricanus, Eusebius, and others, I imi∣tate the former: but in reckoning the time of Iotham and Io∣as, I dissent from them both as is alreadie shewed.