344 n Expofitio Doifrine. Reafon. God upon his word, as Abraham did in chis matter of a childe, when there was uo poflibility in nature,norprobability in reason. T 1 u. What other inffruetion ari feth from tl:irverje? S s L. That all which are the fonnes of belecving Parents, are not the founts of God. The reafon is, becaufe the ele& which be the children of the promie, having it applyed to them by faith,they only be Gods children. Secondly, be- caute the Church hash in it many hy- pocrites which.feem to. be that which they are not. T rt. What ufeisto !remade of this? S i L. leadmonifhethus, that as we covet to be,and to be accounted Gods children, we mull endevour hard to be. leeve the promifes of grace becaufe though the promifes be univerfally propounded to all the members of the n upon Cklap.g, T s m. What are we generally to learn from he next rxample of Jacob and Etau, in verfes so, it? S i L. That the pofition of the Stars 4;01 at our birth, doth not over =rule either our manners or our death ; for betide Delphos were riven that Man was " made ruler of. them, and byh;áh;. not they of him, ehefe two brethren h; notch; were borne together, y etwere of con- trary mo qualities, and had contrary ends. fare., uflt This reproves nativity- caflers,and Star- gazers, whole fcience and pra&ite even all divining and Aftrologicall predi &i - ons touching future events which be contingent,are in fundry texts of Scrip- tures, either forbid, or derided , os threatned, and that very feverely, yea and the feekers unto them,See Levet.zo. 6. Deut.18. 9,10,11,1z. Efay 4i .2 2.and 44. 25. and 47 18. yet. 2Q.8. Jer.to.2. Alfo by experience there is sound no certainty in their fcience. viable Church, yet they datake effe& peculiarly imthe faithtull alone, who have the power to beleeve in (Aria, which is the condition of the promilè. T a mt. What deth follow hereupon ? S,s L. Firfi, that it is molt neceffary therefore to firive to get a lively faith, facing the promifes are ratified and made effe&ual to non,but to fuch alone r as be ele &,and have the gift of faith to receive Chrifl,which is the titbflance e:f the promilè. Secondly, though' many, which live in the Church, never enjoy, thethings promifed,yet that happens by their owne default, God hill remaining true, becaufe he fulfils his ward in the ele& ones, whom the promifes do efpe- cially concerne, being of God applied to them, andto every one of them, of his free mercy and goodneffe. To 54. What inffruaron arifeth from the ninth verfe ? S I L. That the Scriptures have force to prove every truth that pertaines to falvation.Secondly,that children are the gift and blefling of God, which fhould teach fuch as lack children,to waite up-1 not by his birth nor by his workes; for on God for them, who giveth them to ( then Efate fhould have obtained the whom he will, and when he will. Al fo. blefling promifed ( who came of the finch ai have children,it fhould provoke fame Parents). and yet was reje &ed and them unto thanketulnes for this bletfing 1. hated ofGod: thereforeall which car- nall DIti1.OGU Verle to. Neither he only felt this, but Ala Rebecca when the bad conceived by one, even by our father lfaac. T I M O T H 'a u S. Has is the purgo fe of tbie Text ? St L.To prove by a new exam- ple in Ifaaa family, that all be not true ìfraeliter, and Abrahams feed which be fo counted, but the ele& only : and therefore fithence God performes his promifes to them which be ele &, he cannot be laid to faile of his word, though many I fraelites which. were A- brahams children after the flefh, doe lofe falvation. T I M. What is the fumme of this Text 1 S i L. That the promi.fe of grace and falvation was reftrained unto Jacob by e e &ion only before he was borne, Strmrhe,
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