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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![Thou haft forgot [haft vexed] the Rock that begot thee, Deut. xxxii. 18. God cxaSlcth of thee [punifheth thee] lefs than thine Iniquity, Job xi. 6. The Laud of Forgetfulnefs [Affliction] Pfal. Jxxxviii. 12. . b-'LeJftj/iemy Jhall not exatt upon, {torment him] pfal. lxxxix. 22. 2 ioou Jl ad not be forgotte?i of me fuffed un¬ mercifully j Ef xliv. 2i. . 1 f°fgot Profperity [I am depriv’d of Fell- cityj Lament. ii?. iy. ,Ail, lbis being confidered, I fee no Reafon wny t tie Word which is tranflated by Shrinking and of which we have no Inftance, fhoufd not be underftood in the Senfe which is fup- ported by fo many Places of Scripture. Now let us put together all thefe feveral Explanations, 2nd fee how they found. Aid when the Man perceived that he could notfredml, be did farioufy firth Jacob upon * f °f the Thigh near the Inguen, and tce nftl Pfrt of Jacob’s Thigh was bruifed ■—toerefore to this Day the Children of Jl s ® A ftft efcfno FleP which is about the flat oj- use Thigh, m Remembrance of Jacob beim treacheroufly wounded on the like part of his body. r J , we bave an additional Proof, that tne vVREST LEK was a Rogue, and a great VnJain, who plaid foul'; for at all Times, and m all Places, there have been certain Rules](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
