5 Your famous Progenitor of whom you boaft. t Behaved himſelf
be conquered, or Facob could not have gotten the Viftory. - u Cal-
J led, ver. 3. God, and ver. 5. is Fehovab Lord of Hoſts. ' He was no | created Angel, but the uncreated Angel, Chriſt the Meſſiah, Eternal
| Godby Nature and Eſſence, Angel by Office. and voluntary under- | taking, x Got the Vitory, went out of the Field a Conquerour, but
| not by ſuch Arms and Methods as you uſe. You are conquer'd by '
Man becauſe of your Sins, he conquer'd with God by Faith and Pray- et. J Not the Angel, as ſome through Miſtake, but your Father F4- cb, 2 By this we know he pray'd with Tears, tho the Story ſays not
ſo, with Senſe of his own Unworthineſs, with Earneſtneſs for the Mer- |
© he defired, and apprehenſive of the Majeſty of him with whom he wreſtled, But you quite contrary, proud as if worthy, regardleſs of the beſt part of the Bleſſing, and earneſt only for the meaner part, ſeek itnot of God but Idols. 4 It is Chriſt who is here intended, it was 0 meer Creature, Facob might not have pray'd to ſuch, but *twas the . i of Angels and the Redeemer of Man, the bleſſed Jeſus, to X Mm every Knee ought to bow; Phil. 2. 9g. b God, © Facos full of
. carineſs, Fears and Svlicitude on his Journey to Laban, Gen.28. 12, N, When Prayers obtain'd a Bleſſing ; but with this, arid more dirett-
Ss When on his return after this wreſtling about, Gen. 35+ 1, Ic. God rms to him, ver, 7,8, to 15. and bleſſed him. d Formeriy called. | b but by Fagob new named and called Berh-el, Gen. 28. 19. e Gud
u ro his Promiſe and confirm*d the Bleffing. f By the cur- - ogy words in their Grammatical Order it ſhould be, He ſpake Perc. bur *tis not without good reaſon changed to the plural firſt a _— his Poſterity were in F4cob*s Loins, and blefſed with him ; Y any where God appeared to Facob, he co:nmanded him to build Vo _ to GoJ, to reſtore Religion and reform his Family from
praiſe-worthy z that is, if he took to himſelf with Shame the finful manner of acquiring it, but he takes the Fraiſe ro himſelf and forgets God; boaſts of his Wit, though he cannot of his Honeſty. 7 Finally he hugs himſelf in the Apprehenfion of cloſe and crafty Carriage of all his Affairs, that no great Fault, no Crime can be found in it to deſerve a Reproach or Puniſhment, that he hath more Reaſon to believe all is well ſince it doth proſper, than to ſuſpett any great Miſcarriage which ſhould deſerve Puniſhment. So this People do at once flatter them- ſelyes into Security fearleſs of Puniſhment, and into hardned Obfti- nacy in Sin uncapable of Amendment.
9Andal*® that am the LORD thy God from the land « Ch. t-3.
of Egypt 6, will'c yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles,
aS in the days of the ſolema feaſt.
4 Or but, I the Lord thy God, who ſorbad thy Frauds and gave thee Wealth, and am forgotten in both, thou feareſt not mine Anger and finneft 3 thou forgetteſt that T give thee Power to get Wealth, and takeft Glory to thy ſelf ; but wouldft thou, as thou shovidft, re- member, thou woyldft know 5 that all thy Bleſſings from thy coming out of. Eg ypt to this day are from me, I give more than thou getteſt ; thou boafteſt of what is not thine, and if thou wilt glory, remember it should be in my Good:1eſs and Bounty. c Hitherto have made, ©c. thy Peace, Safety, Plenty and Joy (here expreſs'd proverbially, in al- * luſion to the Joy and Security which they enjoyed in the Days of the Feaft of Tabernacles) was all through my Goodneſs, Preſence and Faithfulnefs. And dareft thou, O Ephraim /! *hus facrilegiouſly rob me of the Praiſe and Glory ? darelt thou be thus unthankfnl ? Oc elſe thus, I would ſtill make thee to dwell, &c. I take what Courlz is fitteſt to prevent thy Dangers, Sorrows and Ruine, but all will not do, thou wilt undo thy ſelf. Iam Fehovah, I change not, I am thy God ſcill, and have been ſo ever fince thou cameſt our of Egypt ; I gave thee Flenty, Peace, Safety, Joy, and would willingly continue it all, as will appear by what I have done to prevent thy Sin, and continue thy O- bedience. Some tell us 'tis a Threat that God will bring them into theCondition of Wanderers again; others make it a Promiſe of iuture Mercy, and in various Conjettures we have vencured on what will ſute the Contexture of the Words, at lealt tolerably well ; it it be not the belt, it beſt pleaſeth at prelent. p
10 I have alſo c ſpoken by the Prophets, and | have
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pent, and do their Duty, phts ſpake plainly to them. of my Mind, the Duty of the People, what would be ſafe, what dan- gerous, by lively Emblems ſet before the Prophets, and by them told to 1ſraz], T have adviſed and warned that I might yet ſettie them. 1 would have had them dwell ſtill in the Peace, Safety, and Joy of Feſti- vals, therefore I have ſent ſuch as Hoſea, 1/aiah, Foel, &c. e Para- bles, Examples, Aftions ;* /aiab goes barefoot, names his Son Maher- ſhalal-baſh-baſh, to warn Jſrael. Berth-arbe's Deſolation is mentioned
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co prevent $amaria's. Heſea takes an Adultereſs to Wife, to bring Iſ- |
7ael to Sight and Senſe of their Sin. All this and much more by my Prophets, becauſe T had Compaſſion, and would have made them dwell in Peace and Safety under my Government. And yet uncoun- ſclable and unthankful 1/rae} will not underſtand and comply, will not own their Sins and repent.
11 7s there * iniquity in Gilead f ? ſurely they g are va- nity, they {acrifice bullocks in * Gitgal ; yea, their altars