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That
purpofe
which dependethnot on wotkes,but on
faith
obey-
ing
him, that calling,
that
purpofe, comprehendeth
not
fuch
is
feek
by theworks
of
the Law falvation:
But this
is
fuch,Ergo.
Efak
the
firft
borne
is
hated
of
God.
Efau
is a
type
of
fuck
as feek
righteoufneffe
in
the
Law
:
Ergos
fuch
as
feek
righteoufneffeinthe Law are.hated
of God.
Iseobthe
younger,was loved.
Jacob
was
atype
of
all
who
follow
life
by graceofcalling:E
go,
all
who
thus follow life,are beloved
of
God.
To
anfwer which things briefly,
the perfons
named are here
to
be
confidered perfonally,
and
typically. Perfonally, becaufe
elfe he
doth
not prove
that
Ifraelites
the
feede
of
Abrah.vn
may be rejected.
Typi-
cally, becaufe they are heads
of
all
the chofen
and rejected,
both
in
the
feede
of
Abraham,
and
in
the Gentiles alfo.
But
that
they
are
types here
ofperfons qualified with zeale
of the Law, or
faith on
Chrift,
this
isa
dreame
without 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
we
not
toiand
upon
them,
feeing
between types
and things
typified,
there
is
fuch
analogie ,as
that
thereby
one
doth
lead
us
to the other
a
But
he
doth
fee
welithat
there
thingshere fet
down
in
the
types cannot
Rand
with that
he
woud
have
typified. How can E
fsu
now confrderedwithout workes,.good
or evill,
when he is rejected, be
a
type
of
thofe who are rejected
as
!inners
for
righreoufneflb
by
workes
of
the Law
a
Or how
can
Jacob, as
he
is con-
fidered
without faith, or
any
otherworke, when now
he
is
chofen and
called,be
a
type
of
fuch
who
are
now chofen,when
God doth
fee
beliefe
with perfeverance
in
theme
Againe this decree
eledting
Jacob,
did
offer
him
grace above
Efau
;
but the decree
of
Caving Jacob,
if
he would be-
leeve and obey
the
heavenly calling,
doth
offer no leffe
to
Efau,
or
any
other.
Now
his
conceiving
the
Apoftle
to
explane
his
type
in
that
parenthefis,is
molt abfurd;doth the note
of
a finallcaufe
or event,
that,
or to the end, that
his
purpofe
doth
thus begin
the accommodation
of
a
type propoundedtit
is
an
example
not to
be
feconded;nothingis more
plaine
then
that
it
is
added
to
note the
end
or
event
of that
manner
e-
ledtin,
and
reje
hng,which
are here expreffed :and
for the two
conclufi
ons he
doth
argue
from
theft
words
;
The
firft is
true, but not
a
thing
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
of
Abra-
ham
were
not thofe
children
to whom the word belonged:This
is
then
that
which here
is
to be
concluded,
that thofe who
are the feede
of
A-
braham,and Ifraelites
in
courfe
of
nature, 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,and
Fps
borne
alike
ofIfade
was
not.
The