115 / 186
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.
And
Efau –
~lid, ·
I have enorrgh,
my
Brother,
keep
th~t
tbou
hv1j t
to
th'Y
fe~f,
Gen ..
3
3·
9·
22
7·
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
A
pofile feems
to
hint,
IJeaft
tP;erc.be any
prophane P
erfoJt,
a·r
Efau,
w!n
f or
one
n'tprfl'L
of' meat fold his Birthright
;
as
i
C
he
fhould
Jay,
left there be
any
Perfon
arnongfi:
yotr;·
that
!hall
cafi; o!f
aH
th?fe bleffed begin-
-·
-·-
.
·
n1ngs - _.