The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. VIII. From Verse 13. to the end.

NOW is begun a new year of the world; namely the year 1657. and on the first day of Tisri, the waters are clean gone from off the earth, and on the 27th day of Mar∣hesvan, the earth is clean dry, and Noah cometh that day out of the Ark. He staid a moneth and sixteen days after the waters were quite gone, that the earth which was moist, soft, and muddy, with so long a flood, might be hardned and dried: and thus hath he been in the Ark a just complete year of the sun.

His coming out was about the beginning of November, when winter was already come, and no provision then to be had for the beasts till the next spring, but what they had out of the Ark. Noah instantly after his coming out of the Ark buildeth an Altar, and offereth the odd clean beasts, that he had taken in of every kind for that purpose; and the Lord accepteth him, and promiseth never to destroy the world with water again: and thus as the old world, so also this new beginneth with Sacrifice.