By, lyinVftnci .Thqii4inn,fotne tine t,Enti &co. rity oi:nte, and foundnefs of do, *tine. xABox of precioas 10r 'Fifthly, No floud of natural affe6tion ihall hinder Ahern in the way of their obedience. When .God comrnaridedi '.Abrahani to offer up.1fade as a,Barnt-Offering, he goes abollt it readily, and never acquaints S'arch with it, left The fhould I have hindered hire in his obedience, and he goes-three dayes journey to effe61 it, Gen. $z. compared with Heb. I g,.,°I7,I 8, T 9. When God commands, Abraham will not (tick at it, though it be to offer up a Son,a natural Son,and not an adop ted fon ; an only Son, and not one of many ; a .Son of the Tree-woman, and not of the Bond woman ; , a Son of his old age.; a Son of thePromife ; a Son in whom all the Na- tions of the earth fhould be bieffed ; a Son of his love and delight ; a Son that made the good nold man laugh and be merry ; (44:x fignifies laughter) a SOn that was grown up to fome years, witnes tfic Wood of the Burnt offering _that he laid upon him,.Gen. 112: 6, 7. And this was,the commenda- tion of Levi, Dent. 33. 8, 9. And of Levi he faid,let thy Thom rains and thy ,f,x'r ow he with thy holy one, (Urirn and,Thurnmirn, fignify liglot and perfeaion accordingto their heft derivati, on in the Hzbrew tnngne, and they are here put in the plu. ,ral number, lights and perfoaions, tomote theplenty as well as the excellency orldwine Gnaces) whom ,thorn dig. prove at Maffah, And with rthom thou didif firive at,the,waters of .Meribah. F ho faid onto, his. Father and to bis,Mother, 1 have not fien him, neitherdid he acknowledg his Brethrennzr knew his own children. This relates to thatiltroical f'46-1 of the Levites, Exod, 3 2. 26. 29. when at the commandment of biofes they flew their idolatrous Brethren 62,1 had Worfhpped the Golden Calf, not fparing thofe that were moft neareti al? yed to them, but didexecute Godsjudgm!,nts upon Parents, Brethren and Children,,as if they bad been meet f:trangers to them the Levites were fo impartial in _Gods cause, as not. to acknow- ledg either Father orMOtnn, B10.4-,er or Children 'againfl his Command. .,Nvnral ;Ire flrong, but fuperna. natal abed nrongern Snm,,'.,!,ave well obferved that the M rt.ion.M.'.:':}'i rents of many children (as £ ger s''i%Y, Sts, Gisefl- 01-offered with molt ala. 41. - Sixthlyz
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