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.

The Examination.

THis Bone in their Language is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say, a Wall-nut, or a

Hazle-nut; but I could never learn in what part of the body they place it, and I believe they themselves do not mark it; which nevertheless they ought to do, that a due regard might be had of so conside∣rable a Bone.

Much might be spoken on this Fable, we shall content our selves to mark it with two dashes of our Pen: 1 What Scripture, what Anatomy, what Expe∣rience hath told those Rabbins, that there is a bone in mans Body, which can never suffer corruption, or lose its natural form? 2 Grant it should be so; Doth the Resurrection of the whole body de∣pend on that bone? Suppose it be natu∣rally incorruptible, can that natural qua∣lity produce the Resurrection of the whole body? Shall the Resurrection, which is so wonderful a work, be wrought by the vertue of a bone, as the production of a Plant is by the seminal vertue of the seed. 3 We must know, that many of the Jews, and the most learned of them, have a strange opinion about that subject; for they hold, that there shall be no Resur∣rection, but onely for pious men; yea, and that the soul of the wicked pe∣risheth as the souls of beasts; so writeth their famous Rabbi, David Kimchi, upon the First Psalm. But their main design is to contradict the New Testament, which

teacheth, that the wicked shall also suffer after death. But if good men are to be raised by the vertue of a bone, which is in their body, have not the wicked such a bone also? why then shall they not also, by the vertue of it, be raised from the dead?