_Armenians_ from all past ages, down to this very day. _Japhet_, the father of the _Europeans_, and from him _Jon_, or, as they formerly pronounced it, _Javon_ of the _Greeks_, and _Hammon_ of the _Africans_, are names to be seen in _Moses_, and _Josephus_ and others observe the like footsteps in the names of other places and nations. And which of the poets is it, in which we do not find mention made of the attempt to climb the heavens? _Diodoris Siculus_, _Strabo_, _Tacitus_, _Pliny_, _Solinus_, speak of the burning of _Sodom_. _Herodotus_, _Diodorus_, _Strabo_, _Philo Biblius_, testify the ancient custom of Circumcision, which is confirmed by those nations descended from _Abraham_, not only _Hebrews_, but also _Idumæans_, _Ismaelites_, and others. The history of _Abraham_, _Isaac_, _Jacob_, and _Joseph_, agreeable with _Moses_, was extant of old in _Philo Biblius_ out of _Sanchoniathon_, in _Berosus_, _Hecatæus_, _Damascenus_, _Artapanus_, _Eupolemus_, _Demetrius_, and partly in the ancient writers of the Orphic Verses; and something of it is still extant in _Justin_, out of _Trogus Pompeius_. By almost all which, is related also the history of _Moses_, and his principal acts. The Orphic Verses expressly mention his being taken out of the water, and the two tables that were given him by God. To these we may add _Polemon_; and several things about his coming out of _Egypt_, from the _Egyptian_ writers, _Menetho_, _Lysimachus_, _Chæremon_. Neither can any prudent man think it at all credible, that _Moses_, who had so many enemies, not only of the _Egyptians_, but also of many other nations, as the _Idumæans_, _Arabians_, and _Phœnicians_, would venture to relate any thing concerning the creation of the world, or the original of things, which could be confuted by more ancient writings, or was contradictory to the ancient and received opinions: or that he would relate any thing of matters in his own time, that could be confuted by the testimony of many persons then alive, _Diodorus Siculus_, _Strabo_, and _Pliny_, _Tacitus_, and after them _Dionysius Longinus_ (concerning loftiness of Speech) make mention of _Moses_. Besides the _Talmudists_, _Pliny_ and _Apuleius_, speak of _Jamnes_ and _Mambres_, who resisted _Moses_ in _Egypt_. Some things there are in other writings, and many things amongst the _Pythagoreans_, about the Law and Rites given by _Moses_, _Strabo_ and _Justin_, out of _Trogus_, remarkably testify concerning the religion and righteousness of the ancient _Jews_; so that there seems to be no need of mentioning what is found, or has formerly been found of _Joshua_ and others, agreeable to the _Hebrew_ books; seeing, that whoever gives credit to _Moses_ (which it is a shame for any one to refuse) cannot but believe those famous miracles done by the hand of God; which is the principal thing here aimed at. Now that the miracles