SECTION VIII.
From the return of the Jews out of Babel, to the death of Christ 490 years.
THIS is so plain in Dan. 9. in the seventy weeks, or seventy time seven years there mentioned, from the Commandment going forth from Cyrus to restore and build Hierusalem, to the cutting off of the Messias, that it needeth as little to confirm it, as to tell that seventy times seven is four hundred and ninety. For if the Angel speak not of a fixed and certain time in this sum, he nameth this sum to no purpose in the world, but he doth so clearly fix the time, the two termini of its extent, and some particular links of it as it passed, that nothing can be more clear, evident, and perspicuous. Now add these 490 years, which reach to the death of Christ, to the age of the world 3470. at the time when they began, and it resulteth, that our Saviour died in the year of the world 3960. Out of which subduct the two and thirty years of our Saviours life, and it ap∣peareth that he was born in the year of the world 3928. that year being then but newly begun, stilo veteri, or according to the account used from the beginning of the world, from Tisri or September: so that that year was his first year, and 3929 his second year, at* 1.1 the which the wise men came to visit him; 3930 his third year, and so 3960 half passed, or at Easter, his two and thirtieth and an half, at which age he died.
And now he that desireth to know the year of the world, which is now passing over us this year 1644 will find it to be 5572 years just now finished since the Creation, and the year 5573 of the worlds age, now newly begun this September at the Aequinox.