The Scriptures harmony

Reasons why it cannot be admitted that TERAH begat ABRAHAM at 130. years old.

Reasons why it cannot be admitted that TERAH begat ABRAHAM at 130. yeeres old.

First, because we must then grant, that there were two promises made by God unto Abraham; The ⟨p. 3⟩one before his departure out of Ur of the Chaldees; The other after Terah's death, before his departure out of Haran: Which is a mere conceit, and cannot be proved out of the Scriptures. For Saint Stephen by repeating the words of Moses, Get thee out ¹of thy Country, &c. shows plainly, that Moses and he did both speak of one and the same promise, which (he expressly saith) was made in Mesopotamia (containing at that time the land of the Chaldees) before Abraham dwelt in Charran. And indeed had Saint Stephen at that time spoken any thing differing from Moses (though by divine revelation, yet) he ²had offered the Jews, his accusers, too great an occasion of scandalizing him, and the Gospel of Christ.

FIrst, because we must then grant, that there were two promises made by God unto Abraham; The ⟨p. 3⟩one before his departure out of Ur of the Chaldees; The other after Terah's death, before his departure out of Haran: Which is a meere conceit, and cannot be proved out of the Scriptures. For Saint Stephen by repeating the words of Moses, Get thee out ¹