Of HISTORY; and the ORIGINAL of NATIONS and KINGDOMS.

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ISTORIOGRAPHY is the Hiftoriography,
Art or Method of writing History. Hiftory, and
Hiftoriology
Hiftory is a Narration or Relation defined.

of Things, Actions, and Events,
juft as they happen'd or were
tranfacted, in an orderly Man-

And Hiftoriology is the Doctrine or Knowledge of History in general, as a Science taught and learnt.

THE World (the grand Theatre of Action) had The World and its Original as related by Mofes; who alfo at Mankind bad their Original the fame Time gives us the Hiftory of the Ori- from God, acgin of Man, and all other Things, which he cording to Mopofitively affures us were the Effects of God's fes's Hiftory. wonderful and omnific Power. The facred Wri

tings therefore are the first and most authentic Hiftory in being.

BUT abftracting from their unquestionable Arguments Authority, we may prove the Truth of their proving the Truth of the Hiftory of the Original of Mankind, &c. by the Mofaical Hifollowing indubitable Arguments. (1.) The Tra- ftory. dition of all Ages and Nations afcribes the Original of Mankind to Creation, or to Parents who were not begotten in the common Way, but created. (2.) Obfervation proves the Increase of People daily exceeds their Decrease; and that Nations double their People in about 360 Years or fooner.. (3.) The

The chief Heads of the Mofaical Hiftory.

(3.) The gradual, flow and late Inventions of Arts and Sciences confirm it; they all having had their Rife within the Compafs of 5 or 6000 Years. (4.) The obfcure Original of Nations, and the late Inftitutions of Laws or Governments, of War, &c. plainly prove the fame. (5.) The Plantations of moft Parts of the World, and the Difcovery of the greatest Part of the Earth, is of late Date.

THE Mofaical History then being of undoubted Truth, we may fafely depend on its Account of the State and Events of the first or antediluvian Ages of the World, for that only is the Source of all our Knowledge of that Kind. The Hiftory of the Antediluvian World may be comThe Creation prifed under the following Heads. (1.) The of the World. Formation of the Earth out of a Chaos, the Creation of Light, and, in fhort, the whole Structure Of Men and and beautiful Order of the Solar Syftem. (2.) The all Creatures. Formation of Man, and Woman, and all other Creatures by the immediate Power of God. Man's original (3.) The original State of the first Man and Woman, Adam and Eve, viz. corporeal Nakednefs; perfect Rectitude of Mind; the Rule of their Conduct; the Place of their Dwelling; their Employment, &c. (4.) Their Defection from this original State of perfect Blifs, by tranf greffing the divine Command, the Rule of their Conduct. (5.) Their Degradation, and Subjection

State.

The Fall.

The Effects thereof. to a fervile and miferable State of Life thereupon. Birth of Abel (6.) The Birth of Cain and Abel; and the Murand Cain, &c. der of Abel by Cain; and the Confequences thereThe Genealogy of. (7.) The Birth of Seth, and the Genealogy of the Patri- of the Patriarchs from Adam to Noab; with the archs. Inventors of Mechanic Arts and Trades. (8.) The Corruption The univerfal Corruption of Mankind at the Time of the old of Noah, the Threatning of the Flood, their Impenitence and Incorrigibleness, the Building of the

World.

Ark

Ark by Noah, and (9.) The total Destruction of The Deluge. the World by the threaten'd Deluge or Flood of Waters, with the miraculous Manner thereof.

(10.) Laftly, The Prefervation of Noah and his The PrefervaFamily, with fome of every Sort of terrestrial tion of Noah, Animals and Fowls in the Ark, for the Řeple- &c. nishing the World anew. Thefe great Events are all diftinctly related by the Divine Hiftorian, in a Style perfectly Sublime and full of Energy.

THE Earth being again render'd habitable, The Earth reNoah turns out all Kinds of Creatures into the peopled and filent, wild, and defolate Earth, there to pro- replenished. pagate their Species, and ftore it as before; while Himfelf and Family (the only Remains of the great Shipwreck of human Kind) betook themfelves to the Cultivation of the Earth afresh, and repeopled it with Inhabitants, in the following Manner.

THE three Sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, The Sons of and Japhet; and it is faid, that by the Defcen- Noah. dants of Japhet were the Iles of the Gentiles divided, or inhabited. By the Iles of the Gentiles, the Learned fay, is to be understood the Countries of Leffer Afia, and of Europe. Of the Sons The Sons of of Japhet, the Family only of Gomer and Ja- Japhet. van are mention'd. From Gomer, the antient Gomer, Galatians were call'd Gomerites; and another where feated. People of this part of Afia call'd Cimmerii: Moreover the Etymology of Gomer and Phrygia

are alike, and Phrygia did antiently extend over

a great Part of North Afia; wherefore Gomer of Gomer's fettled there. The firft of Gomer's Sons is Afb- Sons. kenaz, and in Bithynia there was the Afcanian Ashkenaz Bay, Lake, and River, and in Troas a City fettled in Biand Province both called Afcania, and on the thynia. Coaft the Afcanian Isles. Alfo Afcanius was the Name of Kings and great Men in those Parts; from all which (and more that might be faid)

Riphat fituated in Paphlagonia on the Euxine Coaft.

The Situation

'tis evident Ashkenaz first fettled in Bithynia and the North-western Part of Afia.

RIPHAT, the fecond Son of Gomer, probably feated his Family in the Parts adjoining Eastward to the Plantations of Ashkenaz on the Euxine Coast; for antiently the Inhabitants of Paphlagonia were call'd Riphateans from Riphat. There was also a River call'd Rhebeus. Alfo Pliny here places a People call'd Riphai, and another call'd Arimphai; all which are evidently deriv'd from Riphat.

THE third and laft Son of Gomer is Togarmah, of Togarmah. whofe Family was feated in the remaining moft Eafterly Part of the Nation of Gomer, on the Euxine. This feems evident from Ezek. xxxviii. 6. and xxvii. 14. and the Trocini of Strabo, who dwelt in the Confines of Pontus and Cappadocia ; and by Cicero call'd the Trogmi, and Trocmeni by Stephanus, and ftill plainer by the Council of Chalcedon, Trocmades or Tragmades.

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The Colonies of THESE Families of Gomer foon grew very Gomer plant numerous, and fent divers Colonies into feveral Germany, Parts of Europe. The first fettled at the Lake Mæotis, and fo gave the Name of Bofpborus Cimmerius to the Streight between it and the Euxine Sea. These in time fpreading by new Colonies along the Danube, fettled in the Country call'd from thence Germany, whofe antient Inhabitants were the Cimbri, fo call'd of the Cimmerians. The Germans call themselves Germen, which is nearly the fame as Gemren or Gomren; and the Jews to this Day call them nothing but Ashkenazim, or Afhkenazites..

and France,

FROM Germany they afterwards fpread themfelves into Gaul or France, where they were originally call'd Gomerites, then by the Greeks Galate, and at laft Gauls. Alfo Appian affures

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