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Show 186 L hefirst Booke of the first part youngelt 40.yeares after. Cuap, 1.945, Cuap.1.§.6. thould beget Abrabamwill they fay,may begathered from this fuppofed def}Paire of4. braham at one hundred yeares? For Sarah died was borne in the yeare2 109. and Abraham inthe yeare ofthe world 2 145:and dau didnot marty Keturah till Sarak was buried Srigentomlt- 64 ifwe deduétthe number of21 , 09. outof2145. there remaineth 36. And thereforeif his fuppofed wonder,when Abraham Was 137, Gadi 6sila begat5 fons 36.years aftert 34Cathe -veares old : it is not {trange that his Father Terah Perer. in Gen, Boez,0bed, (hould beget Abraham and Jefe, who liued fo many yeares and agesafter Abraham, at 1 30<Andif begat founesat 100. rr swe 'Dewin g VhGe i me b bes aihd peesUbsaitoeait) ieA buhatieomaayeneBene §. VI. Thatthe he wamimainz ofAbbrah raham fir oft hee three thre brethven. retores, G Gens L1.V. 26. doth doth noe prone that he was the eldei# stogether with diners reafe ns Prouing that Abraham was tot the elde#t fon ofTerah. reat canle,why in theflory ofAtraham histw o brethren fbould be Pefpected, ‘ I followeth now to.fpeake fomething to the obiedtion,which brings dbrahemsag e altogether in doubt, except wee allow him to be the eldcft fon of Terah, and borne when Terah was 70.ycars old. For: Abra hams age being made vacertaine,all fucee ding times are thereby without cany perfe ctrule or knowledge, Buc this propofition, That we cannot becer taine OfAbrahamsage, ynleffevvemake 0 himthe eldeft fonne,is falfe, For ; Terah died at' 205. {0as the'7 5. yeareof 4 which knowne, there can bee no ervou count of times fucceeding. Now r in the acto come tothe obiegtion, where it is Laid, had no refpect vnto Wachor and Hara n, becaufe they were out ofthe Chur That: Mo/és brabam onely,with whom God ch; but to.4eftablithed brabamwasthe 205 iyeare,of Terah: the Couenant, and of whom ded according tothe fieth,&c. Chri defcen-,, I anfwer,that Mofes for many great anid neceffary cate? fes had refjpect of Nachor and Haran . For the fucce ffion of fed by Abraham alone,but by the Gods Churchis. not witnel: iffaes ofwaher aud Haransvete they Raiiceconnd therwife. For Wabor was the Fatherof Bethwel,& Bethae] ofRebecea,the moth and Haran was the parent ofLot, Sarah erofJ/reel: ,and Milcah : and Sarah was mothert o Ufaae, and gtandmotherto Lacob: Atileah allo the wife ofaber, and mother of great grandmother ; and the age of Sargh the daughter of Haranis perhuel, was [actls efpecially noted,in that it pleafed Godto giue hera fona t 90-Ycars,and when by nature the could nothaue conceiued, And therefore,though it were notin regard of themf{elue s yet becaufe both Nahor and Abraham matried the matried Rebecca the grand-childedaughters of their brother Haran «and bécanfe ast ofNahor sand lacob, Lea, and Rachel, the daughters of Laban, the grand-childe alfo ofNa hor it vvas not fuper i fluous in Mofes to giue licht of es. And though fometime they Worf hipped ftrangegods,as itis i ey ftill continued Idolaters, Fortheybelee- uing their natial] Countrey, and Cityo f 7 CPsogt: Gemrgse, thenceall, except Haran, who died his Father Terahjere the befor y Lot, hisfonne, followed Abraham into e 44%; and Sarah che fier of, Lot, C4: Abraham m #r-al fo,who remained at Chat7ay,gaue hisfoanes daughters to aac, € kinfe-men hee him{clfe hauing alfo martied in his owne Fami ly,nor thinking it pleafine vnto God to mixe theme! felues With ft rangers and Idola ters, And that thefe mena of Abrabem, it canino way bedoubted. For when Laban t froark Elcced in the God had iene Se Dorant of Ak bm {tanding atthe Wel befidecherran,h einu ohis Fathers boulsin this manter: Come in,thou bleffidof Iehouah,ev amaniiveras touching Rebeces, then e. And when this feruant of Shoes demanded an{wered Laban and Bethel, and {aid - his thing# preceededof Tehouah: meaning,t harir ¢ true Godit fhould on fo-wh he acknowledged Gods prouiden erin ce, ife i Ollowin verfeiti F written: Tsk geetbat(he inay beth) Ataftersfons wife, ewen as Tehouah bethfai This thete oftenving, of i e ; 2° Fo.yeeres, andbegat Abraham,N itis plain wvhich was the yeare ofhis death, then e in the Scriptures,that when Terab was 205, vvas Abrahans 75+ Andif you aske, how. iudge oftimes, either preceding I,can or fucceeding , by knowing thatAbraham depar van at that age: I anfwer, That Saint ted Hs es hath told vs, that Abrahams depar lowed the death ofhis Father Terab:Steph tiire foland vwvhich Rached{tole from him;yet that he be Jecued in the true Godit cannotbe denied. For he acknowledgeth the God ofAb and of Naber,and he called Abrahams rahans feruant » bleffed of Iz no VAH, as afore Soas for my felfeT dare not laid, auow,that thefe men were ont of the Church, who; fure'T at, were notoutofthe faith. yeares,or neere it,it cannot be niamailed-at,th at Terah begat: dérahamat-1 30,and sabes othersatthefameage and feuen yearesaf ter, of the Hiftory of WIL: oe sh ofthe name ofIchowah, which isthe proper Namie ofthe titte God, isa figne thar they had the knowledge ofhim, oe Nowalthoughit be the opinion ofS.Chryf Oleafter, Mufeulus, Catuin, Mercer, and other oftome, and {omelater Writers, as Csictar, retained certaine Idols,or houfehold gods, s, that Labew was an Idolater, becaufe hee ; What {trangenefle then, that Terah being 13 O«yeares old i lace of the Scripture; Asd Tera h bined Ge, 11526, * Tothis I fay, that although Abraham in this verfe befirft named,yet the fame borne fonne ofTerah. Forit is no necef is no proofeat all that he was the eldeft & firftfary confequence, that the fir named in Scriptures wasthereforeeldeft in blou d and birth |. God to make efpeciall choice ofth , neither doth it appeare, that it pleafed firft-borne of Adem ; nort/aae OfAbe firft fonnes in natureand time: for seth was notthe 606; nor Dauid theeldeft of leffe ; norraham; nor Jacob ofifaacs norIndaand lofevh ofIax Salomon of Dawid :asis formerly retnembred, But itis written ofWoah : Noah wiss 500.7¢cres old, and Neah begat Shem , Ham, and Itofhis agehee began to beget the fir(t ofthofe three fonnes. For according to S. duguf line, fpeaking generally, Nec ° matinitatis, fed Significatiof attesdendus fin hiserdo Ang.au uture dignitatis:in quaexcelluit Abrabam: effsa The order Of matis Per Gent;2 uitie ts not hereto bee refpected, §. but wepreferred. And thereforc,as the fignification ofthe future dignity :inwhich Abrahang in the order phet : thewing thatat the 500.yeare ofthe fonnes ofNosh: (0 is it itis {aid, shat Terah lived 70.jeeres and begat Abrahams, Nahor, and Hara here; where late ere Terah beganto beget Sonnes, n: For it yas him{elfe being begotten by his Fath 29.as other his Anceftors vvere at 30. er wachor at Thelikealfo happened to woah : for Adam begat Seth at 130. Enofh Kena whereas n at 90. Kenan Mabalaleelat 70. Mahalalec! lered at 60. Noah wasyet 500, yeares old when he began to beget the firft of as aforefaid. histhree fonnes, And S. Augufline inthe place befor ecited rather inclineth tothe opinion that Aéraham was the y § eral' a; #°lency hee was worthily named if firft fierior fitgeneratus Abrabans: fed . His owne words are merit o excellentie, quai Scripturiavalde Prior fucrit mominatus, It might befa bommmendatur, ith he, that Abraham was begotten later: but was fir# wamed inregard of bus excellency, for whichin naming firft or laft proueth nothing who Scripture heeis much commended, So as the was firftor laft borne : cither in thofeiffil Noah, orin thefe of Terah : Neither es of hath ching his ele@ion or fpirituall bleffing God any refpe&t of the eldeft in nature, as tous ; for Mofe s name th firft the children of the pros mife,and the eldeft & firft in Gods fanour. Pietas ergo cl ip[a potius clei dinina, qua mitemfecum trahitpietatem,@> Dei ¢otimey ¢Ms, primas partes dat Semein liberis Nos, oe Abra+ ham ix liberis Thare : Piety,faith he, or rather diniue elechion » whic h doth euermore draw 5° with it or sfier #, piety and thefeare of God, gaue place andp recedency to Sem among thech aren ofNosh,and te Abraham ilamong thofz ofThare. For the reft ir is manifeft,that Abraham cntre d Canaan in the 75.yeare ofhis age. And if was in Canaan that Hagar bare him J/macl,when Abrahayy hadlined 86.yc at Gerar (the South border of Canaa ares. [twas Gen.11,4; n) that Sarah bate I/aac, when Abrabamhad COMM Gon, 646, Med 100, yeares. It was from the valley ofAtemrein Cana an that Abraham rofe out, whenhe refcued Let and overthre and itis as manifer that hee part w Amraphel:and he had then but the age of 83.years; ed from Haranafter his Father Terah was dead. But ifaa 1% Tera |