For the _Samaritans_; their account is different from these or any others; for they account from the Creation to the Deluge, but 1302 years; which cometh to pass upon the different account of the ages of the Patriarks set down when they begat children. For whereas the _Hebrew_, _Greek_ and _Latin_ texts account _Jared_ 162 when he begat _Enoch_, they account but 62, and so in others. Now the _Samaritans_ were no incompetent Judges of times and the Chronology thereof; for they embraced the five books of _Moses_, and as it seemeth, preserved the Text with far more integrity then the _Jews_; who as _Tertullian_, _Chrysostom_, and others observe, did several wayes corrupt the same, especially in passages concerning the prophesies of Christ; So that as _Jerom_ professeth, in his translation he was fain sometime to relieve himself by the _Samaritan_ Pentateuch; as amongst others in that Text, _Deuteronomy_ 27. _Maledictus omnis qui non permanserit in omnibus quæ scripta sunt in libro Legis._ From hence Saint _Paul_ [SN: Gal. 3.] inferreth there is no justification by the Law, and urgeth the Text according to the Septuagint. Now the Jews to afford a latitude unto themselves, in their copies expunged the word בל or Syncategorematical term _omnis_: wherein lieth the strength of the Law, and of the Apostles argument; but the _Samaritan_ Bible retained it right, and answerable unto what the Apostle had urged. As for Christians from whom we should expect the exactest and most concurring account, there is also in them a manifest disagreement, and such as is not easily reconciled. For first, the Latins accord not in their account: to omit the calculation of the Ancients, of _Austin_, _Bede_, and others, the Chronology of the Moderns doth manifestly dissent. _Josephus Scaliger_, whom _Helvicus_ seems to follow, accounts the Creation in 765 of the _Julian_ period; and from thence unto the Nativity of our Saviour alloweth 3947 years; but _Dionysius Petavius_ a learned Chronologer dissenteth from this compute almost 40 years; placing the Creation in the 730 of the _Julian_ period, and from thence unto the Incarnation accounteth 3983 years.