A70035:9
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.
Many and various are the opinions of Writers concerning the continuance of the world before Christ: insomuch that it is grown into a Proverb; (a)Chronologers agree like Clocks. (b)Scarce two of one mind throughout.
MAny and various are the opinions of Writers concerning the continuance of the world before Christ: insomuch that it is grown into a Proverb; (a)Chronologers agree like Clocks. (b)Scarce two of one mind throughout.
- (a)Chronologi non magis congruunt, quam horologia. Victorin. Strigel. Prolegom. in Chron. Melancth.
- (b)Vix duos reperire licea•, qui omnibus in l•cis inter s• conveniant. Func. Epist. dedicat.
The chief and main ground of these differences is, because most, neglecting the Word of God, are drawn away with Fables, humane traditions, and uncertain authorities, whereby they (c)exceed the just and true number, some ⟨image 3⟩forty years, some one hundred, some one thousand, nay some two thousand years, and upwards. Others, who seem much to follow the Scriptures, and Hebrew expositors, (unto whom (d)