More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…

But you greatly encourage me to a particular answer, by promising me, that [you will trouble me with no more but these few places] and that if I clear ⟨p. 58⟩these from your imputation of contradiction, you [will conclude] as I do, and suppose the other places reconcilable.

But you greatly encourage me to a particular answer, by promising me, that [you will trouble me with no more but these few places] and that if I clear ⟨p. 58⟩these from your imputation of contradiction, you [will conclude] as I do, and suppose the other places reconcileable.

First, Your first Case is of Mat. 1. 8, 9. Joram begat Uzziah, &c. Answ. Here are two difficulties to be resolved; First, whether Joram begat Uzziah, (called also Azarias.) Secondly, why Matthew leaveth out Ahazariah, Joas and Amaziah.

First, Your first Case is of Mat. 1. 8, 9. Joram begat Ozias, &c. Answ. Here are two difficulties to be resolved; First, whether Joram begat Ozias, (called also Azarias.) Secondly, why Matthew leaveth out Ahazariah, Joas and Amaziah.

And for the first is it not strange that you should number this with contradictions? Are we not all called the Children of Adam? and Abraham called the Father of all the Jews? Is there not a mediate as well as an immediate Generation and Progeny? Is not causa causae, causa cavsati? Did not your Great Grandfather beget you in causa, while he begat him who begat him, who begat you immediately? What more common among the Hebrews, than to call Posterity the Children of their Ancestors. Even Christ is called The son of David? And use is the master and expositor of words. And you were born too late, to teach either God or the World, in what sense to use words so many hundred years