The Aegyptians abhominable lyings, to claime their wisdome the age of 100000. yeares. CHAP. 40.
IT▪ is therefore a monstrous absurdity to say, as some doe, that it is aboue 100000. yeares since Astronomie began in Egipt. What recordes haue they for this, that had their letters but two thousand yeares agoe (or little more) from Isis. Varro's authority is of worth here, agreeing herein with the holy Scriptures. For seeing it is not yet sixe thousand yeares from the first man Adam, how ridi∣culous are they that ouer-runne the truth such a multitude of yeares? whome shall wee beleeue in this, so soone as him that fore-told what now we see accor∣dingly effected? The dissonance of histories, giueth vs leaue to leane to such as doe accorde with our diuinitie. The cittizens of Babilon indeed, being diffused all the earth ouer, when they read two authors of like (and allowable) authority, differing in relations of the eldest memory, they know not which to beleeue. But we haue a diuine historie to vnder-shore vs, and wee know that what so euer seculer author he bee, famous or obscure, if hee contradict that, hee goeth farre •…•…ay from truth: But bee his words true or false, they are of no valew to the at∣•…•…ement of true felicitie.