1” ; | r He who before doubted and lingred to do it when Sarah's Paſ= *Chap:17% $5 And * Abraham was an hundred years old, when ton ſuggeſted it, when once he actideflands it to be God's Will, T7. his ſor Iſaac was born unto him. he makes haſte to execute it, An excellent Example of Prudence 6 © Arid Sarah ſaid, God hath made me to laugh c. oy Piety. s By reny may by here i inn pe neceſlaries, as 6 that all that hear will laugh with me &. Mall'2: 7, 52: Me $2. jand 14: 15} conparen: wth ANTS. ſe c ( 7. e.) Before my own Ai ual Heart made me to laugh, | © 147 hy , Reefs nets it likely thac fo rich and liberal a Per- now God makes me laugh, not through diffi ence and irreverenc.;, | 2 43 ano 6. F.6d. end away ſuch wo and dear Relations he - ” | with ſo mean Accommodations ? 4&ſw. i. This might be done by as before, chap: 18: 12. but through exceſs of holy joy. d Or. ; ale © qf Coden Al a 20 At me, ſome through Sympathy rejoycing with me and for me ; Þ ane” 1 as a oO 0: 4 mg J —_ Fn S669 Jaughter being oft put for joy, as Iſa: 54: I. Gal. 4: 27, &c. others bor Hong v8 Ry bf _— wu Y —_ ya94: Pl __y through ſcorn and derilion, as at a thing which well may ſeem 861g rac ngarngypmcer -- wag. SES all Be ER _ Joan: 204 incredible to them, becauſe it did ſo to me. See Gen: 17: 17. and | 39 3 No » 4g _w rey Fan places: And God might ors 18: 02, 03, 15; ; =nhakpar og in raphang ru her eps pron 7 And ſhe ſaid, who would have 1191 e Unto Abra- per of the Bond-woman and her Son ; and to prepare them ham, that Sarah ſhould have given Childrea f {\uck 8 ? | for the receiving of God's Help and Mercy ; and pa:tly, that hg for I have born him a Son in his old age. might more eminently ſhew his care and kindneſs t» Abraham, in A. ( 7. - ) Eau 008 > omen Ry Sa ſo improbable a pony for _ and _— ON LY ; thing ? Or, who bur a Go1 could have foreſeen and foretold it; | 2<10Nngee to him. 2. it cannor-be reaonabiy aouoted, ma 4- f She ſ2ith Ch:ldren, though ſhe had but one Child, either by an || 92? gave her theſe Proviſions only for the preſent, and intended - uſua]-Enallage of the Plural Number for the Singulac, whereby th. Þ © ſend furrher and berter afrer ward to a place appointed by him, word $05 or Daughtere is uſed when there was but one, as Gen: 36. | vhich alfo he did. But ſhe miſled her way, . as well ſhe migh, 25- and 46. 23. Num: 26 8. or preſaging, that having received | © the Wilderneſs, and thereby c:me iato theſe Straits deſigned by from God a new Strengrh, ſhe might ha'e more Children. & B :od for the fignihcartion of greater Myſteries, as may be gathered which expreſſion ſhe ſheweth all Morhers what their dutie is, viz || 70M Gal: 4. # A place near Gerar, fo called here by a Prolepſis, to give their Children ſ»ck, when they are ible to do ir; and thac | P0© V7 31. h | neither greatneſs of quality, nor mulritude of buſineſs, nor othe; \5 And the water was ſpent in the bottle, and ſh difficulties and INconveniences, will be a ſutficient excuſe to thote | aft the chiid x under one of the ſhrubs. | that neglett ir. : x Not as if ſhe carried him in her Arms, or upon her Shoulders; 8 And the child grew and was weaned h ; and || or he was now about eighteen years old ; bur being weak and faint, Abraham made a great feaſt the ſame day thar Iſaac was | +24 no doubt much dejetted in Spiritupon the proſpedt of his deſo- weaned. | are and diſtreſſed Condition, ſhe was torced to ſupport and lead "> , h It doth not appear how old Iſaac was, becauſe the time fo: fp oy oy _ Ag now, depepmg of Ang hls, Tar BYE ns | the weaning of Childrens very various, according to the differing TOs = = > ruo, 1 fact ft bio? ” tempers agd neceſſities of Children, or inclination of arents ; and 8 nd Ne went, and lat her down over -againit 22, intho;e times when Mens lives were longer than now they are; pi 0- | * good way off, as it were a bow-ſhot : for ſhe ſaid, Let 'Portionably the time was longer ere Ch 1drea were weaned, me not ſee the death of the child. And ſhe fat over 9 5 And oarah ſaw the ſon of Hagar the Egyptian, gainft him, and lift up her voice and wept y- | whicn ſhe had born unto Abraham. mockin &4: y Who wept ? Either Hagar,for the Verb is ofthe Feminine Gen-« z Signifying either by words or geſtures his contempt of 7ſaac, Jer ; or the lad, as the we:ds following ſeem'to intumat. And for and his Ow of all that magnificence the1 ſhewed towards his rhe bay _— _ m_ ” ran pr py = InP wr ce younger Brother : And this carriage proce-ding from a moſt en- 7 AVE F FUR ——— — vious and malicious Diſpoſition, SC being 2 ſufficicat indication angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and ſaid = —_— miſchief —_— to o_ if y_ he thould now eopor: | unto. her, What ailech thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for nity 1t 15 NO WONdET 1T 15 Called p21epurion, Gat: 4; 29. although | (od hath heard the voice of the lad where he js a. _ ey word may be rendered bearing him, as it is uſed 2 Sam. « He hated ——_—_ ”_ my from Ln, out . extorted from him is prefling Calamity. # Tho he be in a va "Gbkg --77 Wherefore ſhe ſaid unto Abraham &, * Caſt | 14 acvolate Wilderneſs, Loh ay Boe is vec him, and I will take 30. out this Bond-woman 4, and her ſon : for the ſon of | care of hin:.
this bond-woman ſhall not be heir with my ſon, ever with Ifaac.
-k Being enraged by this fat, and perceiving it was but a be- ginning and earneſt of greater evil deſigned by him againtt her beloved Jaar ; being allo guided by the wiſe © ounſei and Provi- dence of God, as appears from werſe 12. *} Though the fatt was done by Iſhmael, yet Sarah plainly faw thar this and other like car- rages were from his Mother's inſtig.rion and encouragement, who being of an 1mperious and petulant diipoiition. as appca:s from Gen: IG: 4, 9. in all p: 0>:biliry comforred her ſelf, 1nd animated her Son, by thar right he had to his Father: inheritance as he was his
r{t-born, as may be garhercd oth from the cui:om of Women in ſuch caſes, and from the 1a+ words of this - erſe. Be:ides, if the
Mother had been. continued, ſhe would ealily have pievailed with Abraham to fetca the Child Lack again.
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18 Ariſe, lifr up the lad, and hold him in thine hand 6b: for I will make him a great nation.
for T will bleſs ham, and thy care thall not be 1n vain.