Page:A commentary upon the first book of Moses called Genesis (IA cuponfi00patr).pdf/14

1



Hat wrote this and the Four following Books hath been  contantly believed, both by Jews, Chritians, and Heathens, that none, I think, denied it, till Aben Ezra (a Jewih Doctor, who lived not much above five hundred Years ago) raied ome Doubts about it, in his Notes upon the Firt of Deuteronomy, out of XII Paages in thee Books themelves: Which he pretended could not be his, but the Words of a later Author. But when I meet with thoe places, I hall make it appear, that all uch Exceptions are very frivolous, and ought not to hake our belief of this Truth, That thee Five Books were penned by and no Body ele.

The firt is called, becaue it contains the Hitory of the Creation of the World, with  Rh