The court of the Gentiles: or A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish church in order to a demonstration, of 1. The perfection of Gods vvord, and church light. 2: The imperfection of natures light, and mischief of vain pholosophie. 3. The right use of human learning, and especially sound philosophie. / By T.G.

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Title: The court of the Gentiles: or A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish church in order to a demonstration, of 1. The perfection of Gods vvord, and church light. 2: The imperfection of natures light, and mischief of vain pholosophie. 3. The right use of human learning, and especially sound philosophie. / By T.G.
Author: Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.
Publication: Oxon :: Printed by Hen: Hall for Tho: Gilbert,; 1660.
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§. 5. * 1.1 Bochart, in his preface to Phaleg about the begin∣ning, speaks fully to this purpose, thus:

Also the Ethnick writers in many things agree with Moses. To search this mat∣ter a little at the bottom; the fame of the Floud wherein a few only remaining, the rest of men perished, was diffused amongst all Nations. The Hieropolitans (in Lucian Dea Syra) frame a large Historie thereof, and that drawn out of their own Archives, every way parallel to Moses's Narration; ex∣cepting that, in stead of Noah, the name Deucalion is substi∣tuted. Plutarch makes mention of a Dove sent forth out of the Ark &c. * 1.2 The same Abydenus. From whom also we learne, that the Ark rested in Armenia; and that the Reliques thereof are yet extant there: which is also taught by Berosus and Poly∣histor, and Nicholas Damascenus. Epiphanius also affirmes, that they were to be seen in his time &c.

The like Bochart in in his phaleg. lib. 1. cap. 4. Also Vossius Isago: Chronolog. dissert. 4. cap. 2. and 3. And Grotius, Annotat. in lib. 1. de Verit. Relig: &c. where we have many concurring Testimonies of the most Ancients, touching the universal Floud and its tradi∣tional notices amongst the Pagans. So Berosus make mention of the Floud and Ark wherein Noah was preserved: and Alexander the Polyhistorian the preservation of Animals in the Ark. Martinius (Histor: Sinic: lib. 1. pag. 12) tells us, that there is great mention of the Floud amongst the Sinicke writers &c.

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* 1.1

Pagan Asser∣tions touching the Floud

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* 1.2

Abydenus, Be∣rosus, Polyhi∣stor, Damasce∣nus &c. of Noahs Floud

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