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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![for his Liberty, let me go, for *the Day is a coming: Words, which found well from the Mouth of a Man, but appear nonfenfical, when they are pretended to come from God. Now, let us only change Names, and, in- ftead of Jacob, put the Duke of Marl- bo r o u g h, and for the Emijfary, the French, and Tallard, and then let any body judge of the Senfe. The Duke of Marlborough by his Strength had Power over the French; yea, his Grace ^z//7W Marlhal Villars into the Danube; he cried bitterly, and begged for Quarter. What Man in his Senfes would pretend, that the laft Words, he cried bitterly, are to be underftood of the Con qjj e ro r ? The Cafe is fo plain, that Dr us i us Vatablus, and feveral other learned Men3 have ingenuouily con felled, that it was not Jacob, but the M e s s e n g e r, who made Supplications. So far as this I am very fafe, having vi- fibly the Protection of the Prophet; I pro¬ ceed to the laft and grand Objection, which is fuppofed to be unanfwerable from thefe Words, He found him in Beth-el, and there he fpake with us [with him] even Jehovah the Lord of Hofis, Jehovah his Memorial “ Who fhould He refer to, “ but to the Perfon, which before is men- tioned, viz. to the Angel, or Mefenger, 4< who](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
