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 16, 2024.
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by the Natura∣lists.
THe waters of Egypt, turned into blood, or rather the blood which before was water, did continue in that place seven whole days; one of the seven was to be a day of Sabbath, according to the antient Ordinance of God. But he was not pleased, that in all that week the Egyptians should have one day of rest. For the necessity occasioned by that pro∣digious blood, which had taken the place of the water, forced them to dig the ground to find drink; that labour con∣tinued seven whole days, so that there was no Sabbath for them, Exod. 7.24, 25. Besides, the Sabbath was a day of rejoycing, but that whole week was sad to the Egyptians: They had taken from the Hebrews the liberty of the Sabbath, compelling them to work without inter∣mission or distinction of days; God, for one week, paid them in the same coyn. And had they been men of judgment, they might have acknowledg'd, that God would not permit them to observe the Sabbath day, because they caused it to be violated.
But as for the seven days of that cor∣ruption of waters, although it was super∣natural,
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it doth also bring into our re∣membrance the natural cause of an effect which the Naturalists do observe. The water, say they, which hath been seven times corrupted, and seven times purifi'd, doth never putrefie again. Wonderfull is that revolution, which being come to the seventh time, doth ever afterwards rest, as if arrived to its Sabbath. Not that the number of seven hath this vertue, but so it is, that God hath so ordained, that such a revolution should cease when it should come to that number. And even this al∣so is a memorial of the seventh day, wherein all the works of God were com∣pleted.