An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
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- An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
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- Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
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- London :: Printed by B[ernard] A[lsop] and T[homas] F[awcet] for Anth: Vpphill, and are to be sold at the White-Lyon, in Pauls Church-yard,
- 1626.
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"An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11058.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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begat Arphaxad?
A. Fiue hundred yeares, euen till Isaac was fiftie yeares old, and so he saw ten gene∣rations after him, before he dyed. Then true it is, that he who honoureth his father, &c. his dayes shall be long in the land, &c. And although good Sem was vexed to see not on∣ly others, but also his owne posterity fall to idolatry, yet he is comforted before he dy∣eth to see the Church renued again in Abra∣ham and Isac, and no lesse comfort was it for Abraham and his sonne to enioy the society of old Sem, who saw the first world, the flood, the building of Babel, who questionlesse did instruct them with the knowledge of the true God, and of those things which he had both receiued of his father Noah, and which hee had seene by his owne experience.