The Scriptures harmony

Sixthly, because we must then admit that it was no wonder that Abraham should beget a child at 100 years old; whereas the Scriptures record it for an extraordinary act of Gods power, beyond the course of nature. Shall a child (saith Abraham) be ¹borne unto him that is an hundred years old? Therefore ²Sarah laughed within her self, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Abraham's age (as well as her own) was the cause of Sarah's laughter. And Saint Paul saith, there sprang even of one and him as good as ³dead, so many as the Stars of the sky in multitude. ⟨p. 6⟩Nay more, He considered not his own body now dead, when he was about 100 years old. ⁴Whence it is clear, that Abraham's strength of nature was in his hundred year quite spent, his body was unable to beget children; and therefore the wonder was wrought on him, as well as on Sarah.

Sixthly, because we must then admit that it was no wonder that Abraham should beget a child at 100 yeeres old; whereas the Scriptures record it for an extraordinary act of Gods power, beyond the course of nature. Shall a child (saith Abraham) be ¹borne unto hm that is an hundred yeeres old? Therefore ²Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Abraham's age (as well as her owne) was the cause of Sarah's laughter. And Saint Paul saith, there sprang even of one and him as good as ³dead, so many as the Starres of the skie in multitude. ⟨p. 6⟩