would conduce much to finde out their descent, and helpe exceedingly towards their Conversion; and if it be said, the Jewes were ever tenacious of their Lan∣guage, which Pref. to Chal∣dean Diction.Elias Levita saith, they changed not in Aegypt, but if they be now in America, all in a man∣ner is lost. 'Tis fit then to consider, that in all Na∣tions, in two or three Ages there is a great alteration in their Tongues; the words of the League between the Carthaginians and Romans in fifty yeares space, sayth Bodin. Meth p. 494.Polybius, were so uncouth, and little knowne, that they could scarce bee understood; and Syst. Phys.Keckerman sheweth, (r) that the German language in almost as short a time received the like mutation, and our Saxon An∣cestors translated the Bible into English as the Tongue then was, but of such antique Words and Writing, that few men now can read and understand it, which waxing old, and hard, it was againe Translated into newer words, saith Arch-Bishop Pref. to the old English Bible.Cranmer, and many even of those words are now strange and neasie to us; in such suddaine Change of Language universally, wee need not wonder, that so little impression of the He∣brew Tongue remaines among them, if the Indians be Jewish; but wee may marvaile rather, that after so many yeares of most grosse and cursed blindnesse, and having no commerce, nor converse with other Nati∣ons, that any the least similitude thereof should be left.0