Vtit. ; r R0111.9. cleareda 2. That purpofe which dependethnot on wotkes,but on faithobey- ing him, that calling, that purpofe, comprehendeth notfuch is feekby theworksofthe Law falvation: But this isfuch,Ergo. Efakthe firft borne ishated ofGod. Efau is a type offuck as feekrighteoufneffe in theLaw : Ergos fuch as feek righteoufneffeinthe Law are.hatedof God. Iseobthe younger,was loved. Jacob was atypeofall who follow life by graceofcalling:Ego, all who thus follow life,are beloved of God. To anfwer which things briefly, the perfonsnamed are here to be confidered perfonally, and typically. Perfonally, becaufe elfe he doth not prove that Ifraelites the feedeofAbrah.vnmay be rejected. Typi- cally, becaufe they are heads ofall the chofenand rejected, both in the feedeofAbraham, and inthe Gentiles alfo. But that they are types here ofperfons qualified with zealeof the Law, or faith onChrift, this isa dreamewithout proofe, meerely prefumed, which before bath beene fufficiently refuted,and(hall be further touched,in t its whichfolloweth. First then, to the circumftances, why are wenot toiandupon them, feeingbetween types and things typified, there is fuch analogie ,as that thereby one doth lead us to the other a But he dothfee welithat there thingshere fet down in the types cannot Randwith that he woud have typified. How can Efsunow confrderedwithout workes,.good or evill, when he is rejected, be a type ofthofe who are rejected as !innersfor righreoufneflbby workes ofthe Law a Or how can Jacob, as he is con- fidered without faith, or any otherworke, when nowhe ischofen and called,bea type of fuchwho arenow chofen,when God dothfee beliefe with perfeverance in theme Againe this decreeeledting Jacob, did offer him grace above Efau ; but the decreeofCaving Jacob, ifhe would be- leeve and obey theheavenly calling, doth offer no leffeto Efau, or any other. Now his conceiving the Apoftle to explane his type in that parenthefis,is molt abfurd;doth the noteofa finallcaufe or event, that, or to the end, that his purpofedoth thus begin the accommodationof a type propoundedtit is an example not tobe feconded;nothingis more plaine then that it is added to note the end orevent of that manner e- ledtin, and reje hng,whichare here expreffed :and for the twoconclufi ons he doth argue from theft words ; The firft is true, but not athing here to be proved ; for the Apoftle had faid that, ergo, the word was true, notwithflanding°the multitude of Ifraelites were rejected; be- caufe that all Ifraelites were not that Ifrael , and all the feede ofAbra- hamwere not thofe children to whom the word belonged:This is then that which here is to beconcluded, that thofe whoare the feede ofA- braham,and Ifraelites in courfeofnature, were not that Ìfrael , and that feed , to whom the word fignifying Gods election and adoption belon- ged : the force of the argument therefore is in this, not that the decree is after eledìion,but that Jacob onely was in decree ofeleáion,andFps borne alike ofIfadewasnot. The
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