| c 1787. | Reu, | c Heber consented not to the building of Babel. And therefore his family kept still their former language, which thenceforth for distinction sake, was called the Hebrew tongue. He lived to see Abraham’s father. And Noe, Sem, Arphaxad, Phaleg, & other most godly men lived some part of Abraham’s time, who was never corrupted in faith nor religion. | Nemrod the son of Chus, and nephew to Cham, about three score years after the flood, by force and subtlety drawing many followers, began a new sect of infidels. And afterwards was the principal author of building the tower of Babel. Where the tongues of the builders were confounded, & so they were separated into many nations, about 130. years after the flood. Gen. 10. v. 25. After Nemrod his son Belus reigned in Babylon, about the year of the world 1871. which was 215. years after the flood. And after him his son Ninus beginning to reign about the year 1936. set up idolatry, causing his father to be honoured as the great God, called Belus Iupiter: and his grand father Nemrod, otherwise called Saturnus, or Sator deorum, the father of Gods. | |