! -- • --- --'---<~-----~ ~ ~~=- ~ ---~--·--0 Commentarie'Vpon 0'""~"~ \ ! ! liuing llcriliccsvnco God (as Pmt!faith, Ram, A byo_nc man b_Idfcth anot~cr,is either prtu~te or : \ ! I ~.1 .) I befoechyo~J brethren, by rhe mer-ci~s of p1J~Izk5. Apn11ate6/ejJingtsthat, whereby one ~ ' f 1G~Jt{ rf..:!tj(J;Igi:t.! VpJMYbodi~Jft /iuingf-'crificc, pnuatC lll~ll '\\'hatiOCUCf he be in his pJacc, l I ho~r ttr.dacccpt.::b!cvnto God~wbit.·h z5yuurrcafoprayes to God for a blcfling vpon :mothcr.And , \ na~hfe-uir;cofG'od. · this is common to all men :.forcucry man n 1 ay ' Hcn.:c alfo l01nc gnhcr,tlu.t this f.1crificing blcffc another, that is., pray to God for a blcr:.. of lfoac '-"J.S a tignc and type of Chrifls facriftng vpon another; but efpcci:llly itbclonroedl ficc ,-pan th('croffc. For as lf!ac w2s facnficc? to P:1rcms thus to blcACtheir ch1ldrcnby p~ayand liucd,(o did (;hri!l;though he dtcd,yet roic ing to God for a bleffing vp6 thcm.And thcrcaglinc, aad now liocth i'or cucr: but bccn:fe it fore the C6mandcmem goesthus, HonrJtJ;· tby hath no ground in this place, though it be true fitther and ti:J] marher, that tluJ.1111lJ pro/on .. '!. rbi.' "'·hieh is ll.id ofboth,rhcrcforc 1will not Hand da;n rnthe Land which the Ll)rdrh; Godgitw h to vrgc the fame. thee, Exod. 20. I 2. Now Parentsprolong their And thusmuch ofthis third rc:~fon, ""·herby child-rens daycs by blcffing them; th-at is, by .AhrahttmJ fJirh is c6~cndcd, with the circumteaching and inHruCl:ing them in religion, and \ , fiances thrrcof: and confcqucnrly of31l t.hc exby prayiug vnro God for a blcffingvp6 them, · amplcs ofhclyAbrahams taith. B that he would bldfe them. Secondly, there is >publike kinde of [JJdling, which is done by the minift:er of God, in the name ofGod.And after this fort Me/cbifed<e/, hief{ed Ahraham, m heretiiT'nedJi"om theJlaugbter ofehe Kingt, Hcb, 7.1 .andwithoutaf!~ontntdiflitm, (faith ·the au– thor ofthis Epi!lle) the !ef{e w6/ej{edofthegrea– ter (v.t.) Further, rhefc publike kind of blef– ftngs arc oftwo forts; dthcr ordmarieor e.\"tra– ordinarie. An ordinariekinde of publikc blcf– fing is that, which is pronounced ,and vttcred out ofGods word by an ordinary minifier,vpO the people. Example ofthis we haue in d1c or– dinaric Pric'fisinthe oldt!Tclhmcnt; whofc duty was in the feruicc of Godto bldle the people, before their departing. And the forme ofbleffing_which they lhould vfe,is prefcribed Haacs Faith. V E R S E~O. 'Byfaith lfaac bleffidJaa.. cob& Ejau concerning things to conlze. I N the tbrc~formerverfcs, the holyGho!l harb p::tniwlarly commcndcd the faith of Abrah.mt:Now in this vcrii::, he proceedcs ro fH downc vnto vs the faith oflfaac parI ticub.rly alfO. \.Vherein we arc to matkc thcfc foure points: Pi rH, ablcfling \-\·herewith lfaac blc0-c<i13acob and E(au: Secondly, the ca11[e of thi::. blcffing, tbat is his f<titb: Thirdly, the par– tics bleffcd,which arc,Iacoband Efa.u:Fourrh– ly, the natllre and matter ofthis bleffiq.g: in the C vnto them byMofts, after this mam\er from the Lord: Thmjhall;e blefJ( the ciJi!d.~n oflfra- . Nwn. 6•11, e/ ,audp;:ontothem: TheLord6/ejfo.thu, and ende of thevcrfc; Coocerning things to come.Of thc(c in order. Firl1, for-the blctring. That we moy knowe the nature and qualitic·ofit.we muft fear'h out thekinds ot bldTings how many theybe. In Gods word we finde three kinds of blef. fings; I.\o\'hcrcby God blcjjerhman.Now,God blefferh man, by giuing vmo hitl~ gifts and be– ncfirscft:hcr tcmporall or fpirituall: and iO hce bldfcd all his creatures in the beginning,but e– fpcci•lly m3n. The 2. kinc\eof blcffing, is that, whereby man 6/ej{eth.God: and this, man doth by pray– jing G11d, and~tHing rh~111:.!1 VII to J;im, who Y the D Artthorofa/lh(e({V>gJ. So Paul foith, Bleffidbu I G•deHcn the Fath.:rofourLordlef"' Chrijf,whicb bath6lej[<d VJ•witba/1 f}iritHall blcjfingJ in hea– runly things in Chrifl: Eph.J. ~~beginning his e– pifilc, with this kind ofbldling,that is,byprai– jing God, And foZacharic >ft<nhe birth ofhis fonnc, and the rccciuing of his fight, hc fings vnto Cod thi> fong of prode, Blef{ed he the Lurd•f lf'ae/, Ldk. ·I. 68. t\131 is, proife •nd .d1ank~~iuingbe vnto the lord, &c. The tlmd kind ofblcffing,is that,whcrby one man doth blcllC ::mother: & vndcr this kind we rm11tl vndcr(h nd Itlus blcffiog in r.hisplace. ~.?w fu~~r_.,~hiskind of blc:fling, wherekfepe thu ,theLord mak.; hitfac~ tofbine vpotr. th.e, andbemercifoh'vnto thee: The Lord lift t>p !JU countenance vpon thee ,andgiue theepraa. Where we !Cc the man.ncr of the Pricft was to blcffe the people, not in his ownenanlc,but in the name ofGod ,{lrctching outhis hand ouer the heads ofthe people. · ·. Thiskinde of blcffingw•s then ordinarie: at>d yetfomewayfiguratiuc; figitifying. vnoo them the bleffings which Chrill Iefus the Mediator,God and man, lhould not only pro· nounce, but eucn giuc vnto the Chur.ch in the 11ewcTdtamCt: whichour Sauiour according... ly performed to his difciple~3t his Afcention. For the Story fait~; ~7hen he was rifcm ~gaine, he led them to Bethanfa fwhcre hcafcended ) ~ndhft vp hw handJ andhl<j{edthem; And 'S>int Paul<leclareth this bldling of Chrill more at brge, faying; EpheC 4.8. t 1. 11. ChriJf•fcew– ded on high, aad l:dcaptiHiti~ cnptiu~, and gaue gifts vntome.:fome to he Apojlles,fomrPropbw, and fome Ell~tngelifh, andfome Pajfor.rmtdua– cbers; for thegathering togetherof theSnjnrs .fOr the work! ofthe minifln·i~, and for the ~dificarion ofthcbodie of Chl'lj/. Where wee fee, that our Sauiour ChrHl: did not oncly pronounce a blcffingvpon his Church. bnt W3S alfo theall– thor thereof from God hisf.1ther. And :1s the I ,.~_;_ ____ ~~-----~~~-----------
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