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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Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Examinations, questions, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 2, 2024.
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Q. Why did the Patriarchs here named, •…•…∣staine so long from begetting children; as Noe, till he was 500. yeeres old, &c?
A. As they liued longer then wee, so they were not readie so soone to beget children, as we are: for now, when a man is thirtie, he is in the prime of his yeeres; but then, none was sayd to come to mans estate, till he had bin a hundred yeeres and more. Secondly, Moses drift here is not to set downe the names of all the sonnes of these Fathers, but of such as Abraham and the Israelites came; and therefore he omits those first borne, of whom Abraham came not, and
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•…•…peakes of the youngest: as Matthew, in descri∣bing Christs Genealogie, speaketh of Isaac, not of Ismael; of Iacob, not of Esau; of Iudas and Dauid, not of their elder brethren, because of them came not the Lord.
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