to the E PH E SI AN S. 43 the word obtrziued implies, and after prztimt w,ziti11g, and it is the very promife ~ of blelling, Iwtllbtefs tbn,ver. I). the things, orblelliilgs then promifedto Serm.!V. Abraham, conG!ledinthingsSpiritual, andfotheGe11tz/ts; aswellasthe Jews~ were capable of them, .even all of one and the fame blefiing. Thus alfo when .7aco6was blelfed by l(rzrzc, and with fova!l and great a dif– ference put both ~n Gods intention and !jarzc's apprehenGon between him and_ that of Eji111 in Ins blefiing of htm, wluch Efau was alfo fenGble of; and yet tf we read that whole legacy of blellings bequeathed to .7aco6, we find none but outward and earthly in the letter fpoken of. Gm 27.28,29. God give thu of: the 'Dew of Heaven, mtdthefat11efs of the Earth, and pinny of Cor11 and U IJlt. Let 'People ferve thee, andNations bow dow11 to thu; be Lord over thy Bre~ thrm midJet tby Mothers Sons bow down to thee. Curfed be every one that Cllrjt!h thee, mzdbteffidbe he, that bte{feth thee. f ea,if we compare herewith the blelling afterwards c!lated upon Ej(m, ver. 39, 40. Behutd, thy dweUi11g jhaU be the fat•zefs of the Earth, aud of the dew oj Heavm from above. And by thy Sword/hail thou Jive, and(bait ferve thy Brother·; and zt jbrzU come to pajs, whm thot~ fhait have the 'Dominzon, that tho11 jhatt break his Yoke from off thy 11eck. This is as to the point of Earthly blellings well mgh as full a portion as that of Jacobs was, fo as if that·the fpiritual blcfiings promifed in Chri!l the bleffed Seed had.not been typically and my!lically intended and fignified by and under thofe Earthly unto Jacob, it could not h·ave been collected by the Apoftle from the !lory of it; that ]acob iuherited the 6/ef/hJg, and that Efau was re– jet1ed, for all fuch earthly blellings he inherited as well as ."facob ;. nor had lfaac reafon fo bitter!y to lament that he had as it were nothing left ofblefiing to be!low upon Ejau.What fballl dofor thee;my So11?Nor could there be fuppofed any other ground, why,notwith!l:anding the equality ofthefe blellings for ought wa• vifible, the difference between them fhould yet be held up at fo high a difproportion. This therefore evidently argues that there was another fort of bleilings which were larent and hid, even a fub!lantial,Spiritual,inviGble kind of blefiings for ever more,whereofthefe things were but thefhadows,as that which put that difcrence, and fo the Apo!lle exprefty interprets it in the forecitedHe6.n.r 7.Tekuow th.Jt af– terward,when he would have inheritedthe6tejJi11g, he wtU rejeEltd or denyed, (mark ir,)rhat which."facob obtained is called the 6/ejJing,eminently fuch,or it was , chron. 4 .ro. the 6trJli11$ i11deed, which was in Jabe.z his eye under all thofe V :iiles;.the 6teffi1Jg evm /Jfefor evermort, as the Pfalmi!l fpeaks by way ofExpolition;Pfi 3 j-3.And indeed when Ifaac afterwards withfuch vehemedcy doubts it, I have 6/ejied him, Gto.•H3· yea, and he jhall be hle{frd; this imports a blelling indeed to have been contained and involved in that bltlling, and therein lfaacalfo fhewed that the fame blelling that was promifed to Abraham, (which was fpiritual,as I have fhewn,) was it that was made over by inheritance to Jaco6. The words of A6rahaiJ1s blelling have the fame emphatical duplication that we find in J.1co6s, i11 6/ef jing, 1wil/6/efs thee. Gen. 22. 17• Farther, the la!\ words in that blelling of Jaco6s, ver. zg. which are left out in E(au·s, manife!lly refer to the blefling made to Abraham; Curfed be every one that et~r(eth thee, a11d bit[fedbe he that bleffith thee; being part ofthe words that are ufed in A6raham's, Gm. 12. 2, ;. I will make thee a blelling, and I will blefs thee, and thou fhalt be a bleffing, and I wtll blefs them that blefs thee, and curfe them that curfe tlree. And in this like !\rain of outward blefiings, Mo(es afierwatds go<s .on; thus fpeaks the 91d Covenant, Bteffed art thot1 ilz thy ffore, B!rffid i11 thy BliSket, in tbe Field, \!le; and foon the contrary; the curfes, 'Dmt. z8. throughout. Now then, our Apo!lle he comes, and (as became the Gofpel · which is the new Spiri· tual Covenant e!lablifhed upon b<:tt~r promifes, fhadowed forth by thefe,he over– lo?ks all thefe thmgs; hts eye bemg l as the Gofpel intention is, ) not upon thmgs that are feen, but at the things which are not feen ; (or ihe things which are feen are temporal, (as all thefe are, ) but the thlngs which are not feen are eternal, andtherefore) mfread of things temporal and earthly, he writes and fcts down fpmtual and heavenly, infieadof blelfed art thou in the Fields; write do.wn bleOedart thou in the Alfemblies of tlte Saints, under the enjoyment of Spmtuul Ordmances, and Commu.nion ofSaints. There the Lordcommands,and Pf,/.Jjl"l~ commandwg commumcatcs the blrj]ing evm tJfefor ever more, ln!lead of blcfG 2 fed
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