The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fan of the greateft Integrity, is tempted to be Splendide Mendax, and even to take the facred Name of God in vain: I am Esau thy firfi born — the Lord thy God has brought it [the Venifon] to me. That’s the Reafon, that Esau, partly out of Refpedt and Duty, and partly in Confe- quence of the Prejudices of Education, was fc eagerly preffing for his Father’s Bleffing ; that’s the Caufe alfo, that when he found himfelf difappointed, he cried with a greats and exceeding bitter Cry, and [aid, Blefs me, even me alfo> O my Father, Gen. xxvii. 34* But this unhappy fufferer made his La~ mentations to very little Purpofe 5 for I s a a g milled by that Prevention, anfwered, I have bhjjed him, yea, and he Jhall be blejjed, Gem xxvii. 33. This is as much as to fay, the Decree is unalterable, ’tis already ratified in Heaven. 2. However it appears, that Isaac was much affronted at Jacob’s proceeding, and that his Heart was filled with Afionijhment and Horror, in Confideration of the fad Difi* appointment, and the great Mifery of his beloved Son. T’hy Brother, fays the common Tranflath on, came with Subtilty; but the original Word HOTD is very emphatical: It does not only fignify an abominable Lie, PfaL F v,. 6,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
