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NOTES* 409sacrifices, because his Gothic system could not stand withoutthem. But the true point of astonishment is, that the man whocan thus deliberately deny the creation of the zcorld, the deluge^and consequently the whole system of revelation,should havethe consummate impudence, or rather folly, to charge Mr. Tolandwith infidelity, and disrespect to the sacred records.Havingthus sicallowed the ddnge, which impeded his Gothic career^and modelled the creation to his own purpose, let us now attendto the result. The Sct/ihians, (Goths) says he, (ibidem, p. 187.)whom the dawn of his tori/ discocers in present Persia, under theirking Tanaus, attack Vexores, king of Egypt, and conquer Asia^(Justin) 1500 years before Ninus, or about 3660 before Christ.By this means he makes the Scythians conquer Asia in the 344thyear of the world, and exactly 586 years (according to scripturechronology) before the death of Adam. Mr. Pinkarton washere in a great strait.records.He must either credit Justin or the sacredIf the latter, neither he, nor his favourite Goths, couldsurmount the barrier of the deluge.But there was another ob*stacie in the way, viz. scripture chronology. Concerning it, hesays, (ibidem, page 186.)—Ancient chronology has been ruinedby attempting toforce it to scripture, which is surely no canon ofchronology. But undent chronology ought only to be estimatedfrom ancient authors, and kept quite apart from scriptural chromnology. The date of the creation, Sfc. can never be decided, eitherfrom scripture or otherwise, and such speculations are futile.Orthodox and immaculate christian!!! No wonder that thyrighteous spirit was grieved with Toland's infidelity, and thatthou exclaimest most bitterly against it.But who is this mightyHeathen Goliah, before whom the whole system of revealed religionmust fall ? It is the weak, the foolish, the fabulous Justin,the unprincipled abridger of Trogus Pompeius, who is, with thegreatestgood reason, suspected of destroying the original, thathe might give currency to his own fictions.The reader is desiredto remark that Pinkarton expressly says, (in the passagealready quoted) that the Scythians under their king Tanaus, at»tack Vexores, king of Egypt, and conquer Aiia^ &c, and gives