Iofeph. de ._ bello ludaieo.l. !;r._u. Mofes bls Selft-Jenyt~ll. . fucceffion of Prin&ts and1 Dr~kes ca~e from the loynes of E fo• '! thete reigned eight Kings in Eaom, befm e there was a King over the children of I{rttel; yea before the governmen~ of Mofts, and they fiourilhed till the daies of obttdiah no ldf~ then twelve hundred years, yea they lived to fee theruineofthe fecond Temple,aswefindeit rdated by ltJftphtis: whatfoever is common to wicked men, Gods enemies, furel y it bath no great e:xcdlency in it, neither fhould it - be in high dleeme with us. That is obfervable that we finde, Deut~z. 1 z. and v: z 2. 2 3. where the Lord would reach Ifraet not to infult upon their outward conquefis; he gives this reafon,becau!e · the1 were foch As hee hadgiven t8 Qtllers before them, who wa-e wi&ked. In S eir, faies the text,The Horims dwelt before time, and the fonnes of Efou poffeffed them, and deftroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their fiead,as ifrael did unto the land of his pofieffion:[tU I{rael ditl]lfraet had not yet poffdfed,but this is fpoke prophetically, as it was afterwards in the dayes.of lojhuA 5 as if God fhould fay,Thjs is a favour indeed towards
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