34.® Clain o f Principles. Aph. 5. on and reprobation , 1 omanes 9. 10,1 r, 12, 13. Sohe. §. 5. The main exception which our advert ries hitherto have been wont to takeat this and the like expo- fitions, arifeth thus. Jacob and Efau are considerable in a double capacity, the one Perfonal, as theywere this and that individual member of mankinde; the other matriarchal, as they wereheads of feveral Nations, 7acob of the Ifraelites, Efate of the Edomites or Idumeans. They fuppofe we cannot fafely apply the oracle delivered to Pebecca unto their perlons, feeingMalachy long fince expounded it of their poflerity in thefe malach.r.1.3. words, Was not Efau Jacobs brother? faith theLord?yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Efáu, and laid his mountains and his heritage walk for the dragons of the wildernefs &c. My conceptions concerning this matter ( which as I would not impofe upon any far be fuch prefümption fromme fo I would have no Reader con--
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