The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The fift section, of Abraham.

Abraham was borne 352. yeares after the floud, in the yeare of the world 2008. the promise was made to Abraham 427. [ 2008] yeeres after the floud, which was 75. yeares after his birth: hee was commanded to goe out of his countrey 423. yeares after the floud. Abrahams father (Terah) died, when Abra∣ham was but 75. yeares olde. Terah was 205. yeares old, [ 2079] when he died, Genes. 11, verse 32. Abraham died when hee was 175 yeares olde, Genesis 25. verse 7. At the death of his father Terah, he was but 75. yeeres old, Genesis 12.4. Gen. 11. verse 26, 32. In which age of 75. yeeres Abraham depar∣ted out of Haran, Genesis 12. verse 4.

The first difficultie.

It seemeth by the twelfth chapter of Genesis, that GOD spake to Abraham after the death of his father Thare or Te∣rah, when he was in Haran. And it is euident by Genes. 11. that God spake vnto him when hee was in Chaldea. I an∣swere,

that God spake to Abraham when he was in Chaldea his natiue countrey, from whence hee went with his father to Haran, where he abode by reason of his fathers infirmitie, vn∣till his death. After the death of his father, hee went from Ha∣ran with Sarai his wife, to Canaan the land of promise, accor∣dingly as God had commanded him: which resolution will be cleare, if we ioyne the beginning of the 12. chapter, with the latter end of the eleuenth.

The second difficultie.

Saint Steuen saith in the seauenth of the Actes, that Meso∣potamia was Abrahams natiue country, from whence he went to Charran. Therefore it cannot be, that Chaldea was his countrey. I answere, that Chaldea was his country, and that his countrey was indifferently called, either Mesopotamia, or Chaldea. Which I prooue by two reasons. First, because Plinius lib. 6. cap 26. saith, that Chaldea is a citie in Mesopo∣tamia. Secondly, because S. Steuen, Acts 7. verse 4. confir∣meth the same: neither doth any graue writer denie, but that Mesopotamia ioyneth to Chaldea; and so Chaldea being in the confines of Mesopotamia, may not vnfitly bee taken for the same.

The third difficultie.

It is said in the 11. of Genesis, that when Abraham went from Vr of the Chaldees, he dwelt in Haran: but in the 7. of the Acts it is said, that when he went out of Chaldea, he dwelt in Charran; so it seemeth, that either holy Moses, or S. Ste∣uen must vtter an vntruth. I answere, that that word which Moses in Genesis calleth Charran, is also called Charran by S. Steuen in the Acts; although the Latine vulgata editio, and other vulgar translations tearme it Haran. The reason hereof is this, because the first letter of that worde in Hebrew (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,) is of diuers pronounced diuersly. See the second chapter aforegoing, in the end of the second age.

The fourth difficultie.

This is a great difficultie, and worthie to be well obserued. The doubt standeth thus. Moses saith, Genes. 11. verse 26. that Terah begat Abraham when he was 70. yeeres olde. In the same place he saith, that Terah died when he was 205. yeeres old: in the twelfth of Genesis hee saith, that Abraham was 75. yeeres old, when he departed out of Haran or Char∣ran; for all is one (as is already saide:) so that by this recko∣ning, we must want 60. yeares of Terahs age: for albeit the scripture say, that Terah liued 205. yeeres; yet by the compu∣tation already made, we cannot finde more then 145. yeeres. I answer first, that this difficultie hath troubled many learned men. Some thinke, that God would conceale the 60. yeeres, that so the end of the world might be kept secret from vs. O∣thers thinke that Abraham stayed those 60. yeeres, with his father at Charran. I answere secondly, that Terah was 105 yeeres olde, when he begat Abraham. Neither is holy writ re∣pugnant, to this my answere. For although it say, that Te∣rah was 70. yeeres old when he begat Abraham, Nachor, and Haran; yet doth it not deny him to haue beene more, but doth connotate the lesse by the more, by the vsuall figure synechdo∣che; very frequent in the holy scriptures. See the second chap∣ter aforegoing, and the obiection made in the second age.