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.
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- 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.
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- Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.
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- London :: Printed and to be sold by Thomas Malthus ...,
- 1682.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38607.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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And since the division of the Tribes, till the ten Tribes were carried into Assyria, there were twelve Genera∣tions.
BRethren, though many in number, are yet accounted but for one genera∣tion, because all in one and the same de∣gree of descent. And thus the twelve Pa∣triarchs, from whom the twelve Tribes descended, were the twelfth generation after the Flood; this is their order, Ar∣phaxad, Sala, Heber, Phaleg, Ragau, Saruc, Nahor, Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Juda, and the other Patriarchs his brethren. In Arphaxad the Church be∣gan to be peopled after the Flood.
From Juda, he therein included, before the breach or revolt of the ten Tribes, there passed twelve Generations; Juda, Pharez, Esrom, Aram, Aminadab, Naason, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse, Da∣vid, Solomon.
Since the Apostacy of the ten Tribes, hapning at the beginning of the Reign of Rehoboam, Solomon's Successor, till the transmigration of Assyria, there passed twelve Generations, who were succes∣sively,
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so many Kings of Juda, named in the Story of the Old Testament: 1 Reho∣boam, 2 Abia, 3 Asa, 4 Jehosophat, 5 Joram, 6 Ahazia, 7 Joas, 8 Amazia, 9 Hazaria, 10 Jotham, 11 Ahaz, 12 Hezekia: In his time was the trans∣migration of the ten Tribes, and the twelve Tribes were reduced to two.
But in the New Testament we again find them twelve Tribunals, to judge them, and twelve Gates in the heavenly Jerusalem, &c.
Now, as many notable Revolutions have hapned from twelve to twelve Ge∣nerations, according to the number of the twelve Tribes of Israel, we shall yet see the same number in many periods of years.