Our Lordes famile and many other poinctes depending upon it opened against a Iew, Rabbi David Farar: who disputed many houres, with hope to overthrow the gospel, opened in Ebrew explication of Christianitie; that instructed, Rabbi Abraham Ruben. With a Greke epistle to the Geneveans. By H. Broughton.

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Title: Our Lordes famile and many other poinctes depending upon it opened against a Iew, Rabbi David Farar: who disputed many houres, with hope to overthrow the gospel, opened in Ebrew explication of Christianitie; that instructed, Rabbi Abraham Ruben. With a Greke epistle to the Geneveans. By H. Broughton.
Author: Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
Publication: Printed at Amsterdam :: [s.n.],; in the yere 1608.
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Subject terms: Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- Early works to 1800.; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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Of Abrahams glory.

Abraham is often commended vnto vs; vvhose commen∣dation all his children by faith should gladly knovv & publish. He left the field of the Chaldeans being nere Babel, in the most propre Mesopotamia nere the meting of the tvvo rivers Ti∣gris & Euphrates; & stayd at Charan till he make many Sou∣les; & his father died there, aged 205. yeres. heauy by yeres, who toke his journey for Chanaan, & had not broken off, but by heauy yeres, & death: then was Abraham 75. by Moyses text: by S. stephans note vpon it; by the Greke Philo; whose (wordes I haue cited in the Concent in Latin:) & by sundry Ebrewes in Midras Rabba. And reason wold tell vs that Thara was dead before God promised Abraham that Christ should come of him: Otherwise as he took journey tovvard Chanaan; he had not stayd in Charan but by vveakenes.