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Show L he fecond Booke of the firkt part G6 1 ab70. year old,thenmult Abraha fie firft fethis Foote in Canaan, {ccing Terah mutt be to. 1zssmake 205 :thetrue AgHOL Tera hb: WHICH IS ¢ ture before remembred. For he entted }A at 7 mere) he had J/aae.at 109.proued,bygh Forme Paces. ; . Moreouen, if érabam wore thecldeft fonne of Terah 0) nt yeareo his age: then.then,ha had Tergbli till //eae had beene 35... yearc yvhich muft a y mach, ue becned 49. bot ngborn e in Mele 2 etcin foftered cot ‘Vis 7 AU lefie we fhouldeither deny cred tto S.Se vho faith that tbr Mefopotamia after his Fathers death: or elfe beleeu the interp crator,whoimhis Céronologts ant optics faith it was about! t Greck word, were may betran{ported by the Latine /ub,afwel l by sham 5 lethe hough po elfewhere it maybe,yet caqnot it be fo inthisplace. She ee ken;to fay that thofe things were done about Terabsdeath, whicl fore. Wheretore fuppofing 4by abanto haue been borne we mutt giuethofe times andplacesof birth to Aé from Dai thet y.ears y 1po-be - left Heraw, was the yeare of the World 2082: z the yeare of Ufmse/s rahim birch vast ornenit ,and wasto be offered vponthe mountaine Moriah thetei 1, 39. miles from Befabexywhere Abraham then-inhabited :and that three Angels firof allappe aréd to Abr baiwia the valley‘of A¢amrenoman doubteth. ; } And thereforeit cannotbée thar any of Abrabams fonnes were borne in A4-/sp0te wia-snor while Terab lined; norin leffe than ten yeares after Tevahs death :andthen confequently was:not Abraham the eldeft fonne of Terah, nor bornei n the yo, veare of Terabsages : Thirdly,whereas.44yahaar.came into Canaan at 75+ if Terzh had begotten himat 70. thenthad Terehlitted bur-145.for70-and'75 .make 145. which muftali o haue beénethe fulkage of Terah:butTerehlined 205.yeares ; and therefore was not Abraba m borneit 0 the go-yeareof Tred. Fourthly;the ages of Lot.and sarabmakeit manifelt, that Haramwa s the elder,if not the eldett brother of abraha m s for Sarah or Yeahya ager: #/aa¢ being borne when Abraham was 100,and nred but ten Weeres of dbrahamms -Sarah go.yeerés old. ; Isfolloweth then, eoeR Saram : ims nee and aftérward,e iaed melins videtur dicendum, quod Abrahamfait oltimd natu;ofte, be, Mitre bus filg3 Thare,tamen nomitaturprin, propter ciss dignit atem: & quia ponendu: erat cabae Sirpis oO generattontsfequentis : quiaprim facta cf ei repromi[sio cxpreffa de Chrifto focnt fapra didlum ef? de Sem,c¢./f therefore (faith Lyta) Haran was younzer than A bras ham himfelfe,itfollowerh that he was not ten yeeres old when he becat Sarah: Andtherefore it feemeth better to be[aid,that Abrahamwz werthelefehe is named firft for his dignitic, the [4/2 borne ofthe three fonnes of Thare, nez both becaufe hee ws tobe ordained head ofthe Hocke andgeneration followingand becan/e thepro mife 10% before st %faid of Sem. V2? ) of Chiift was firi# made unto him oh Login §. VII. : Aeoncl ufionten ofthis difpute,make moting the Authors which|bor thetimes allancien t floriesoxthebothfid withable, mere es: an adrhonirion,that they dnprob nine yeares ; Which mebthioe sidiculousrn ine AndthatI/éahwas Sarah; Rab:Solomon affirmeths both names, fiith he, beating: they? fame fignificationy and siames of-principality .Againe;to what endiwasthe yvor'dl/oah or tifhcehinfertedinthis place, if Sarzahwere notmeant there by : For,to fpeake of any thing fupeifuous,it.isnot vfed in Gods. Rooke: and if Yeabha ftorysichad beenebutanidlenametono purpoferemembred.. d not belonged tathe .. > 2 Nowific had beenetrue:(as thé fe of the. contrary Opinion affirme) that 4/0/és had ne-refirest of Nahor and! tarde, who were notwithftandine the eatents of Bethndl al Revecessthe ip obAbraha Sor I Afveas calleda man:whens Aérabam was but S3ayearsiolds Andif Zot were of a ee aay ham,an d Haran were Fatherto Lot,Sarah.and Milsals trahite ne PAC nile oft datighvers,aitd: Vzhor the othe', Sarahalfobeing within.ten ene. 1d. 15 Abrab mayiappcare tocuiery reafonable man(not obttin teand eo, asda eldeft fonneof Ferab;atidnar Abrahdy, + whoalfodied fra ee ieee, i Prine 2. ue AIK s ee ehe ; .; " BS UGaNS SER O} sestencth apaintt the opinio n of Abraha ms elde . S ACe OG; cee is:dra areume the ace f . ‘ w Dg §argu whowwas but.Loi:ve ment rommthe yooSerthaa Asnahe i rzhim felfest yrahis but 10-yea swords areageot fate Sarah, = $f bewhowas WH eis " Junior 1D 1 202 S¢ deta Wavan fait ¢ aha, in the rz0.'yeere of Terahs lifes and not in the 70. yeere. For Abraha m departing Chatran after Terah died,according to S.Stepheay andthat iourney by Abran Aes 7.4, 20 44m performed when he was 75.yecres old ; thefe two numbers added make 20 5-yeers the fullage of Terah: fe¢ing that when Tevah died; then'Abraham entted Crtace. Forges. myfelfe, Uhaue no other end herein than to manifeft the truth of the Worlds Story: T reuerence the iudgemients ofthe Fathers: but [know ey were miftakem in particulars: Saint Adgw/fline was doubtfulland could not decermine this controu erfie. For whatfox euer is botr6wed from himout ofhis fixteenth Booke deCinit ate Det, cap.t5. the fame may be anfwered out ofhimfelfe in his fueand twentieth queftio n vpon Gen. But Saint Auguftine herein followed lofephus and Ifidor: and Beda followe d S. Auguftine. And it Wasolit of'a foolifh pride and vanitie, thatthe Hebrewes and lofepus {ought to make A. brabam the firt borne : as if God had had refpeé tothe eldeft in nature. 30 together with Nicholas Dawa/cenis(thinking therebyto'glorifiethe LewifhSo did lofephus Nation make Abraham aking,entitling Sarah by the name of Queene Sarab: and {aid that. Abraham was followed with 31 8.Captaines,of which euery one hadani nfinitemultitude ynder hifn, rrécentos 3 fables argue that lofephus is notto bee beleeued; but with difcreete refer= uations ; This account oftimes, allowing no more than 292 -yeeres from the Floudto i4éyzham, is vpheld by manyof the i) motherofI/rackard of Ghriff swhat reaard thenhadi mols ae Yeah in this place, werefhee not senah > but otherwifeanidle name of rks om ie he ing chi fislhorJ ahr soe «i. : Theage aloof beta Z of difproueth sie elderth Haraawas thé eldeft fonne of Terah, and not Abraham: and that Abraham was borne offodécem prefectos habuit: quorumfing And that'Phara0 invading him with a great Armié, ulis infinite multitude parebat. tooke/from him his Wife Sa rah : Such that if. Abraham had been the elder brother-of Haran. Fraran mult hane begotten Sarzhat nine yeats old: for grantin g that Haraz was borne but one yeare after Abraheeasand Sarah within ten yeares, as old as. abrahans,.then -ofnecetity mut Horan beget her,when he hadliued but 4 Abraham,/equitur quid non hakebat decem anwos quando genuit T therefore agreeth with the Scriptures, ‘with Nature, ‘Time; ‘and Reafon, that in Worlds yeare2094. which maketh 1o.yearesdifference. And that J/tec\ Ca#taan gine: of the Hiftorie ifthe World, ‘ , will warrant;; For Abrahamihadno childrenin /7 of Ghsldei notin Haray ' yearesafterhis arriuall into Cazean., Forthe yeare of Terahs death, Cwa'r2.§:7, (0 Hebrews. But how fhould wevalue the Opinion offuch Chronologers, as take Amyaphelfor Nimrod? Surely, if their iudgement in fuch matters 40 Were worthyto be regarded, it would haue appearedin fetting downe the fucceffion of the Perfiaz Kings,voder whomtheylined, whofe Hiftorie was notfo farre remote in time,as thefe antiquities,nor wanting the light ofmanygoodw riters:Yet groffely have theyerred therein;&,fo familiar are their miftakings in all things oflike nature,thatiye feldom find their opinion rehearfed without the confutation treading onthe heeles of it. They of the Romane religion are alfo generally on the fame fidesit being a thing vfirallamongthem,to maintaine whatfo euerthey haue beené formerly knowne to hold and beleeue.Contrariwife,ofthe more ancient, Theedoret,and fome following him: of. later times Berea/dus, Codoman, Peucer, Caluin, luninsBex 4, Brought on, Doi. Gibbons, and Moore,with diuers ofthe Proteffantshold Abraham to haue beene borne in the 130. oyecte ofhis Father Terah. From thefe (as ina cafenot concerning any point in Religie on)diuers of the fame Religion,and thofe neuertheleffe good Author s, as Bucholcerus, Chitrens, Funtlins and others,are very auerfe heerein, efpecially lofephus his Sethus Celuifins,proclaiming Ber ealdus an Arch-heretike in Chron ologie,aScaligér with nd condem: ning this opinion of his.as poyfonous. Contrariwife, nus Tornichus a Prick of the Congregation ofSaint Pea/,a iudicious,diligent.anduguiti d free Writer;whole Avvales are newly fet forth,very earneftly defendsthe opinion,which alleadging Beroa/dus, norany Prote/ent writer, as beeingT haue already delinered;not perhaps vawillingto owe oe to heretik ; es, Formy felfe thankes c I doe neither itt ifli the contrary Opinio miflike ini n, becaufe : R commonly |