to tbe Chief of Si~.s;ers. ' 105 Mind; but a thougJ1t confented to,_and f)ut . in praCtice like\tyife, and that too after fon1e deliberation: Gen. 2 )· S,econd1y, It was .a _. · publick ~nd ope_n Ac.'tion, even be~ore hi/s--– Brother 1f not b.etore 1nany n1ore; this male ' . .. his fin of a fa1~~1nore heinous Nature than otherwife it wo,tdd bave been. Thirdly, I-le continued to Jlig~t his Birth~right: He ·dtd · eat and drink> ,a)id , went his way; thus EfJU defpifed his B:irth~r;ight ; yea 1 twen ty years af-. ter he was found to defpife it Hill. AndEfau – ~lid, · I have enorrgh, my Brother, keep th~t tbou hv1j t to th'Yfe~f, Gen .. 33· 9· 227· Now a:s touching this, Th1tt Efau _(nrght ~place of Reptntan·ce: .thus l thought, ,' Fir 11,I'his was not for the Bt"rth- right, but the , ,Bhflinf!,this is clear frotn the A-poftle., and is. dil1inguifl1ed by Efau bit11felf, he hath takt:'n azvay m.y Birth-right (that is, formerly) and rnw he bath taken a1vay rny -~leffing aljo,Gen.27 .. 36.Secondly,Now this being thus confidered, ·· J -came again to the _t\poftlc, to fee \Vh~t mig}}t b~ the n1ind of God, in a New Te– ftament £tile a_nd fenfe concerning Efvuis fin; and fo far as 1 could conceive, this was the mind of God,That the Birt'hright,llgnified $-e-. ffneration, and the Blej]ing,the Eterllal.frJhe1:i– tance for fo the Apofile feems tohint, IJeaft tP;erc.be any prophane PerfoJt, a·r Efau, w!n f or one n'tprfl'Lof' meat fold his Birthright ; as i Che fhould Jay, left there be any Perfon arnongfi: yotr;·that !hall cafi; o!f aH th?fe bleffed begin- -· -·- . · n1ngs - _.
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