_SECT. 15._ You must know that all the ten Tribes were not carried away at the same time. _Pul_ the King of _Assyria_ (as I shew in the second part of my Reconciler) conquered, and carried away the Tribes of _Reuben_, _Gad_, and halfe _Manasseh_, in the reigne of _Peka_, as you may see in _1 Chron._ 5.26. and _Josephus in li._ 9. _c._ 11. _Tiglahpileser_ eight yeares after took _Ijon_, _Abel-beth-maachah_, _Hazor-Gilead_, _Galilee_, all the land of _Naphtali_, and he carryed away all the Captives into _Assyria_, in _2 King._ 15.29. At last _Shalmaneser_ King of _Assyria_, nine yeares after, in the reign of _Hoshea_ the Son of _Elah_, besieged _Samaria_ three yeares; which being taken, he carried away. _Hoshea_, with the rest of the Tribes, in _2 King._ 17.6. Of those three times the Prophet _Isaiah_ speakes, _Isa._ 9.1. saying, the first captivity was gentle, if you compare it with the last, which was grievous, and unsufferable, when the Kingdome and Monarchy of _Israel_ ceased. _SECT. 16._ The ten Tribes being conquered at severall times, we must thinke they were carried into severall places. As we beleeve they went to the _West-Indies_ by the strait of _Anian_, so we thinke that out of _Tartary_ they went to _China_, by that famous wall in the confines of both. Our argument to prove it, is taken from the authority of two Jesuites, who erected their Colledges in those Countries. _Nicholaus Trigantius_ a Dutch-man in his discourse of the Christian expedition under-taken by the Jesuites to _Sina_, saith, We finde that in former time the _Jewes_ came into these Kingdomes. And when that society had for some yeares seated it selfe in the Court of the _Pequinenses_, a certaine _Jew_ came to _P. Matthæus Riccius_; he was borne in _Chamfamfu_ the metropolis of the Province _Honan_, and was surnamed _Ogay_; and now being licensed to the degree of a Doctor, he went to _Pequin_. But when he read in a certaine Booke writ by a Doctor of _China_, concerning the _European_ affaires, That our fathers are not _Sarazens_, and know no God but the Lord of Heaven and Earth; and would perswade himselfe that ours did professe the Law of _Moses_, he went into the Church with _P. Matthæas Riccius_. On an Altar there was the effigies of the Virgin _Mary_, and the childe Jesus, whom St. _John_ his fore-runner worshipped with bended knees; now that day was the Holy-day of _John_ the Baptist. The _Jew_ thinking it was the effigies of _Rebecca_, and her two Sons, _Jacob_ and _Esau_, he bowed also to the Image, but with this Apology, that he worshipped no Images, but that he could not but honour these who were the Parents of our Nation. And he asking if the foure Evangelists on both sides of the Altar, were not foure of the twelve sons of _Jacob_; the Jesuite answered, Yes, thinking he had asked of the twelve Apostles. But afterward the _Jew_