The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.

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Title: The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.
Publication: London :: Printed for W. Hensman, and Tho. Fox ...,; 1685.
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The Resolution.

IF you act in every occasion ac∣cording to Reason, you will not suffer your self to be lead away by the Insinuations of Detractors; but (as you are indowed with a dis∣cerning Spirit) you will put a dif∣ference betwixt the Deeds and Say∣ings of every one. By which means you will be out of danger of being circumvented, accomplishing your de∣sires in every Design which you shall lay with assured Judgment; never∣theless you must imagin, that the skill of ordering every Affair, the carry∣ing it on, and the event of it, is the Work of the Divine Power. To the other.