---- --------~------------ --------......... - ·-'-· m~tshith. the u.[hat-tothe He'br. I u; -~~ ~- ----- Pricfts in the olde Tdbmcnt h·ad-hn ·ordJnaric A win._e: that Wttfre rhe,·elfn!tocrdi~d, to l:eehtiF(!.i of/ kmd.c ofbldling tht pcoplc-:10 rlic tmni!lcr.:i of h!4Jing. Far·r'e bee it from vs t~creforc, ~0 open : GotHn the new TbfbiYicn·r,th'ey haiJt! the film:: our mour!is to curlC cithCr mt'll'or any of £.cltls J in .il,btl':lncc; for the-tiliniHcrs may:bl'dlC their crcaturcs:&:indccd,vilc and abominable is tbe pi'C'op'l'c C\.\'0 wayCs·::fttH,bypraying vnto God pratfifc oftnany,who cxercifc·thcir tongue.Sm (or them: Sccondly,b'Y, pronouncing~b!ctling Curling and ba1}ning, not 6ri~ly men, but.:t1I6 vp6n rhcn1, accord1·~t~ to Gods holy\vord. A Otbtr crc~tures:of God. But let fuch aS fe'!ltc forme of this blcJlinz~~··ce hauc frclm'the Apo..: God, both '}Came and praCtife rhc comrar\~. , 11lc S. PJul; v\'ho bidlhi the Corimhiaqs·::tftc.r Tile fccond pdint to bee Confidered, iS''thC ; rhis !Ot-t; Th.:grt:c~ of oHr Lerd fej';u C!:hr'iFf,anli caufcJofthis bl~ffing; to wi't, lfat!CJ faitnr;:'BJ I th< loi., of 6'od,and tiJe·rommunio"('oJlcllbwfaith Ifaac b!.)[<d !aacobandE13u. ' z.Cor.t!·'l· 1fhlp) of 1he holyGhdf /lewithyriUafl:.·· 1 ~:· Hcrcfidl \.\'"t n.rc to conilde·r,ht)W'if.Mcs f.1ith I Sccondly,3!1 cxt,ordinarie kind orb!'cOing blcffed fnaco/iand Ejau? ftlrrly thus: Hcc did I is,whC:u1 cxtraordinaric Prt?p~cr,o:'fcmant of m.ofi notably gather togat11Ct an the pro~ifcs ! God,Wnh {et downc and pronounce ablefling: E>fGod made to him; and to hi~ t\\0 childien; vnto any,:ind f0rctelleth their dhuefrbmG_od. w~1ich were fj>ccially thr<'c-:. Fidt, I will h~ethJ Thus did JVot-b blclfc:his two fonnnes ,~'Shem B Cf~d dnd theGodof thy{eede. a·.God had·prmi1i,• and laph•i, (Gcn.9. 15, l6, •7-Jand pronounl,cd, tliat'h<nndhi!ftedEjhM!dpo!fcfferbc /ar.d·bf ced .-curfe vpon wicked Canaan. This hce did, Cana.<n : >·That histwo childi·cn·Jhould"o'cc not as an ordin:uic father, but as a·nextrl9rdi:. · tWo mightie Nations, and chat tbee!dci-(fO!IM nar'y Prophet, nOt oncly praying for a bleRing ' feru~theyounger~ · :· .. _, · 1 ' vpo histwo Cons, bu~alf'? foretelling thhvhat · Now /foac'doth nor confider thefeblcffingi fhould be their conditioh or eA: ate afterward. . a-pare one ti-om :lnother, but hath tbem 3ll iq So in this place, w~c~~as.ffoac blej{eih·faCob& , mcmorie; and o'n 'the m :1U'(--tC_Cciuing·theh1 by Efou, it is·no priuarc bleffing, but a publike; ~ a liucly iaith}nc builds his bleffings;f~r,bY,filth yctiftdcedc, not an orditiarie publike hl~fJ\ng, i'n thefc :protn'lfcs, hec did1tCrraincly fore 7 fei: but exrraordinaric , by tellingvnto laacob and what Jl1ould bte the fil'tute •clt~tc'of his tv.to Efoubefore hand, what lhould be their parti- · fonnes,& accortlingly doth he pronounce paf~ cular e!latcs and conditiOnS,andwh:u bleffings ticular blcffings -vpon thcm •both:- · "~l,.' they Ihould hauc fromGod, both in this life, Bur1 it may bee thought, th:~t /jtraG'Oid;OO~ and in the life to come. ~Forwee mull not here blcffe his fonnes byfaith ;·for if v\•ec re:Jde,tflC" concciue of lfoa~, as anordin~ric father, but Hilloric in Gcndis,wc..fhall fce,tr-at he bldfcQ. as an holy Pani:JrchandPmphet of the Lord, thembycrrour,And W:asde-ceiued .thercin:fOr; and an extraordinary man;forefccing·and tOre- C' he was purpofetl to h~auC bleffc:d Ejirtt~·01}cl'} telling by the fj>irit ofprophecie 'tbeparticu- 'Yith the fpedall blcflu>g ;when as he ga&etlle lar dbcc ofhistwo fonnes; and alfo what parfame to Iaacobvnwittirigl}';"how then ceUTd h'~ ticular bldfings they & their poHcrity fi10uld doe this by faith? For the a~f~vering ofthis',,ve rccciuc: from God. muflconlidcrtwothingS:: Firll,it is trt.i.C ir::. The meaning then ofthefe words,Ifoac hf,[- deede , that lfoacwas blin_Jcd ouermuch \vitli fodl.rctJhaHdEfou, is this, thatl[4ac bceing a a fondaffcCl:ion, row::trdEf:-U, and loued 1\ifu Prophet, an c:xtraordinaricman, and a famous ochcrwifc then hce ought ~ and thcrefoj·e'~·a~ Pattiarch,did by the fpirit ofprophccieforefec purpofcd to haue blcffed ·Efau .with the fpc'Ci'• and fet dowoe, ond tpll before hand, what all bleff,ng. This was a fault in lfaac: but ydi,t Chculdbe: the: particular dlate of his two fons, takes not away lfacs faith, nor maks ic to·be no laco6 and EftUJ:and as he did foretell it,{o Ekefaith; But it lhews that/faacffaith was wehke; wife ha prayed Vnco God that the fame might and ioyned with fome infirmitie in forgCt1:1ilg cemc to. paCfe; as it did afterward. And thus Gods pan;cularpromifes. S_ec6dly,howf0c~er much for the meaning. · at the firft Ifaac erred in his purpofe 'for (~e Now, though thiswere an cxtraordinaric D bleffing of his children, yet aft~rward he'~or.. kinde ofblcffing, which lfoac vfed; yet from reC\s himfclfc for it. For as wee may read io.tlie hence:,we may all ofvs learn an ordinaryduty; HiHoric,after hcc hadindcede-ble{fccJ liuCo/J, for ,looke as lfaac blcffed histwo fonncs,fo we fuppofing it had beene Efau,-whe_n Efau came byhis example muft learnc to abllainc from all for his blcffing with his vcn1fon,thc TeXt faith, wickeel fpcechcs; as curfing and banning, ~nd That lfaac WM flrick.tn witha merHttilomgreat cxcreife our tongues in 6Le/Jwg, not making feare and laid ,Jhaue Mejfedhim, and rh:refor~ them the in{hun'lcnts oflinne, to curfc,and rehe/hallheMe./fed;corrcCtinghis fault in llis:fOr.. uilc as many doe : for vmgeam·e is minC (faith mer purpoiC: yea, and though E{tm fo~_ght ·it the Lord). Hec muft curfc, that hath abfolute with teares, yet he could nc:c ~nooue ljaa(!·tb power and :nuhoritic to infliCt the fame, w~en repent himfclfc ofblcffing laacob, Hcb,I 2..1 7· hewil.But we arc 11ot abfolutc Lords ouer a1)y wherefore it is vndoubtcdly true, th~t he gauc m:m, nor any creature; and therefore wee mull: tbcfe bleffings vnto his children by faith. ; rcmen1bcr S. PeterJ leffon, 1 .P-er.~ .9: l¥ee mu.ft Now from this that lfaac 6/e.lfed his childrm notrender euillfo)· eui/1, no"t· refmk,,e for:re!Jttkf, But by faith, we lcamc many in!lrntlionS. The6rft contr,n?:::_ifoh!~({c: & he rcndrcth 11 rcafon,K_no_-_..:_._co_.ll_c_er_nethParents; chac,hoVI.;focuer they canMm z nOC !_ : ::
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