A70035:201
The Scriptures harmony
The Scriptures harmony by E.F., Esq.
London: printed by Richard Cotes for William Hope, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As to Ezra. Admit that he was five years old when his father Seraiah the chief Priest was slain, then was he 170. years old in the 20. of Artaxerxes Longimanus, when he read and instructed the people in 1the words of the Law: after which, should he live ten years (though peradventure he lived not one year) he then died at the age of Isaac 180. years old. And what unlikelihood is there but that God for the good of 2his Church might as well preserve Ezra unto this age, as he did Phinehas the son of Eleazar to a far 3greater, whom the Jews affirm to have lived 300. years?
As to Ezra. Admit that he was five yeeres old when his father Seraiah the chiefe Priest was slaine, then was he 170. yeeres old in the 20. of Artaxerxes Longimanus, when he read and instructed the people in 1the words of the Law: after which, should he live ten yeers (though peradventure he lived not one yeer) he then died at the age of Isaac 180. yeers old. And what unlikelihood is there but that God for the good of 2his Church might as well preserve Ezra unto this age, as he did Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar to a far 3greater, whom the Jewes affirme to have lived 300. yeeres?
- 1Neh. 2. v. 1 &c. 8. v. 3. 13.
- 2Gen. 35. v. 28.
- 3Moses Aegyptius in suo Misna, ut citatur l. 2. chr. Genebr.