A

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF SUCH

REMARKABLE PARTICULARS

AS ARE CONTAINED IN

THE BOOK OF GENESIS;

And the Times whereof are either in the said Book expressly mentioned, or else are plainly deducible from what is mentioned therein.

OF

THE FOLLOWING TABLE.

IT being a method long since received among us Christians, to reckon our years from the nativity or birth of CHRIST, and consequently the number of years from the birth of Christ, according to the common computation, being well known among us; hence nothing can give us a clearer notion of the time, wherein happened the occurrences related in the history of the Old Testament, than acquainting us, how many years before the birth of Christ the same happened. For this reason, to the years of the world set down in the following table, I have adjoined also the number of years before Christ, respectively answering thereunto.

By this means may be easily known, how many years ago, even from this present time, any particular mentioned in the Table fell out, namely, by adding the year before Christ, set down by the side of the said particular in the Table, to the present year of Christ.

For instance, the creation is reckoned 3949 years 3949 1710 before Christ; therefore 3949 added to 1710 shews that the world was created 5659 years ago, from 5659 this present time.

In reckoning the first year of the world, or the creation, to be three thousand nine hundred forty-nine years, before the common year of Christ's nativity; I follow the opinion most generally received, which makes the common epoch

of Christ to fall in with A. M. 3950. In a late edition of our English Bible, I find the creation computed to be four thousand and four years, before the common epoch of Christ, so that the difference is about fifty years.

As A. D. or A. C. does in short denote the year of our Lord, or of Christ; so A. M. denotes the year of the world, or from the Creation.