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

But you in answer to that Objection, page 412. say, Nothing but ignorance maketh men think so; understand once the true meaning, and allow for the errors of Printers, Transcribers, and Translators; and there will no such thing be found.

But you neither tell me which are those errors, nor yet how I may know them.

1. Therefore I humbly pray you (in writing) to tell me, whether that which is written in the first Chapter of Matthews Gospel, verse 8, 9. where Matthew writes, that Joram begat Uzziah and Uzziah begat Joatham, be any error of the Transcribers, Translators or Printers, or the contrary to it, which is written in the second book of the Kings, and in the books of the Chronicles; if not, how may they be understood, for in those books it is written that Joram was Father to Ahaziah, and Ahaziah was Father to Joash, and Joash was Father to Amaziah, and Amaziah ⟨p. 3⟩was Father to Azariah, and A zariah was Father to Joatham; by the account of which Books, there is above an hundred Years between the death of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, and Joatham,

1. Therefore I humbly pray you (in writing) to tell me, whether that which is written in the first Chapter of Matthews Gospel, verse 8, 9. where Matthew writes, that Joram begat Ozias and Ozias begat Joatham, be any error of the Transcribers, Translators or Printers, or the contrary to it, which is written in the second book of the Kings, and in the books of the Chronicles; if not, how may they be understood, for in those books it is written that Joram was Father to Ahaziah, and Ahaziah was Father to Joash, and Joash was Father to Amaziah, and Amaziah ⟨p. 3⟩