The Examination.
THis Maxim follows the former, and is read in the same places we have al∣ready quoted, and we bring it in to shew, how gross the ignorance or the inadver∣tency of the Jews, and that it is no wonder if they do so grosly mistake in other mat∣ters, less clear then this is.
Upon the Hypothesis we have already overthrown, they do build this assertion, that an old man, because of his peevish∣ness caused by age, and other natural in∣dispositions, cannot have the faculty of Prophesie, sith it requires a jovial and cheerful man.
But we could bring them Daniel, though they endeavour to blot out his name