Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

341 ,1 Chainof `rinci lese finde an hard task; but fuppofe it pro- ved yet in point of right Efau as ha- ving fold his birth-right became fer- vant to him that bought it. For in this refped it is Paid to Cain the elder Gzn,4..-° brother concerning .Abel, Unto thee119(111 be his defire, and thoupalt rule over him. 2. In point of fad, time was when Efau became a very humble fuppliant to 7acob for a mefs of pottage. Feed me, Gen.i,Ñ.3o. I pray thee, with thatfame redpottage, for I amfaint. Now The borrower, faith So- ProY1 2.7. lomon, is a !errant to the lender. How much more he that craves tohim that giveth ? Befides if the word ¡erne be taken in a large fence, Efau ferved 7a- cob wel-nigh all his life long and brought him much nearer to God by vexing him. Nonobfequendo, fed perle- quendo, as one faith not by obeying, but by oppohng. Which put me in mindeof that Rory in Bromiarduus con- cerning an apprentice that had ferved an hardmailer, by whom he hadbeen often fore beaten. Thelé blows the Lord

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