The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.

READER, This Work would be less defectuous, if I had therein inserted some Points contained in some of my former Treatises; but I haue forebore it, to avoid Repetitions: Yet take these few Heads of them.

In my Observations on the Creed.

HOW often the general Order of the world hath been inter∣rupted, since the Creation.

Notable Examples of the Providence of God, in the Fatalities of the Times, and Places, and other Cir∣cumstances.

From whence it comes, that among the publick scourges, those that pass through the hand of men, are frequenter, more general, and of a longer continu∣ance, then those which come immediately from the hand of God.

Of the wonderful Providence of God, permitting that the righteous men

should die by the hand of the wicked.

Why in the War, the People of God have oftentimes been beaten by their enemies, and why the Good Cause hath miscarried.

Why God hath never sent but one Angel, or two at the most, when he would destroy men, and often hath employed many, when he hath been pleased to pre∣serve but one man.

If man had continued in his original innocency, there had been never any mi∣racle but of one kind.

The first and the next cause of the abode of Jonas for three days in the belly of the Whale.

An Observation on the four general Judgments, mentioned in the Scriptures.

An admirable mystery seen in the se∣veral departing of the three first Men, whom God had taken out of the world.

A Catalogue of the actions which have been celebrated with sprinkling of blood, in the time of the Law.

The number of the persons composing the body of the universal Church, is not onely prefixed or defin'd, but also ruled by measures and proportions.

Why the most notable Periods of the Church, and many signal Mysteries, have had their beginnings in a Wildeness.

Some Examples of many great sinners,

re-established in their first estate.

Why Abraham is so highly praised, for believing that God was able to raise from the dead.

The first and the last of all Miracles.

Why Adam was not bodily translated into Heaven as well as Enoc.

In my Observations upon the Decalogue.

WHy 'tis never said that God hath re∣pented himself of any thing, but of what onely concerned men.

A comparing of two miraculous Wri∣tings reported in the holy Scripture.

How long the Tables of the Law con∣tinued. A consideration on that subject.

Degrees among the Nations, as to the love or hatred which God bears unto them.

A consideration of the times where∣in Atheism and Superstition generally reigned.

Why God, who often appeared in a visible form, would not shew himself in that manner when he published the Law.

The admirable proportions God doth hold in the dispensation of his judgments.

From whom the people are descended who go stark naked.

Wonderful Examples of divers sub∣jects, on whom God caused his mercy and his justice to be seen.

Why heretofore God took such a par∣ticular care of the Patriarchs and their children; nay, even of those who were wicked: and now he is not pleased to give such directions as he did then.

Why God employed but six days in creating the world, employed seven to overthrow the Walls of Jericho.

The reason of the number of fifteen years, added to the life of Hezekia.

The age of the Israelites, when they passed from the Wilderness to the Land of Promise.

The measures and proportions whereby the life of man was shortned from time to time, since the first Ages.

None of the Kings of Juda exceeded the age of seventy years.

A moral consideration on Samson's losing both his strength and his sight, and recovering the one and not the other.

One man onely, to whom God di∣vinely shewed the way how to make him∣self rich.

A Conjecture on the opinion of the Jews, touching the just price of sales.

Why Moses, who had wrought so great,

and such various Miracles, yet never raised any from the dead.

BEfore I proceed to the Mat∣ters of the New Testament, I thought it necessary to remove certain prejudicating Argu∣ments which the Jews make use of, to nullifie the authority of the Apostolical Writings. This I reserved to the ensuing Trea∣tise.