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.

Of the ten Children of Job, and of the ten Righteous who might have hindred the de∣struction of Sodom: A great Question upon the Compari∣son of these two Examples.

FOr the sake of ten righteous (had they been found in Sodom) God would have spared that City, that was so abominable; but the ten children of Job were not spared, but perished under the ruines of one house: If they were righ∣teous, as the History doth not tax them of any enormity, 'tis strange that God, having offered to spare a whole City of abomina∣ble sinners, and that for the want of ten righteous, he should cause ten righteous men to perish in one Family alone: If we

say that the children of Iob were sinners, as Bildad seemeth to imply, Iob 8.4. we know he said as much of Iob himself, though falsly. But suppose Iob's children were wicked, could not ten wicked ones be spared for the life of one righteous man, especially since he was their father, as well as a thousand, or may be ten thou∣sand wicked ones in Sodom, could be spared for the sake of ten righteous? To the house of Job, where the head of the Family was righteous, God did not keep so favourable a proportion as he would have done to Sodom, had she had as many righteous as Job had children.

The reasons of this difference are above us, nevertheless we may say thereupon, that we ought not find strange, if the cor∣rections of those whom death transmit to heaven, are sometime sharper than the temporal punishments of those, who not∣withstanding go afterwards to everlasting fire, as those of Sodom, Jud. 7.