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.

Elijah came not back again in∣to the world, till after John Baptist was gone out of it; and why?

WHen Elijah appeared at the Trans∣figuration, John Baptist was al∣ready deceased. The wisdom of God, all whose reasons we cannot know, would not permit that there should be two Eli∣jah's, at the same time, in the world; for John Baptist was also an Elijah: Not that they were incompatible, sith the one came in the spirit and vertue of the other. But, as its likely, because it should not seem, that the testimony given by John Baptist had been suggested to him by Elijah, as by the Master to his Disciple, and not im∣mediately

by the holy Ghost; whereas John Baptist was even more then a Pro∣phet. And 'twas very important that his testimony should be attributed to the im∣mediate calling of God, as since that of the Apostles was, Gal. 1.1.