A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

¹2. When our inordinate love to them causes us to counsel them to, or encourage them in that which is evil. This was a deep blot, and indeed the only one I find in that godly Mothers,² good Rebekah's Scutcheon, Gen. 25.28. 'Tis said, that Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his Venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob: Isaac being old was too much held by the teeth, and too fond of Esau, for his Venison's sake, but Rebekah her self was not a little in fault. Her Jacob by his red Pottage had got the Birthright, and now she is resolved that he should have the Blessing too. On this account she furnishes him with a lye in his mouth, and skins on his neck and hands, and so, in her great love, exposes her dressed Jacob instead of a Blessing, to his Fathers Curse and his own Damnation. 'Tis true, he narrowly escaped, and ran away with the Blessing; But both Mother and Son had both their Bellies full of the Sauce in which the Mothers Indulgence had sinfully soaked it. 'Twas this chiefly that made poor Jacob go halting to his Grave.

¹2. When our inordinate love to them causes us to counsel them to, or encourage them in that which is evil. This was a deep blot, and indeed the only one I find in that godly Mothers,² good Rebekah's Scutcheon, Gen. 25.28. 'Tis said, that Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his Venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob: Isaac being old was too much held by the teeth, and too fond of Esau, for his Venisons sake, but Rebekah her self was not a little in fault. Her Jacob by his red Pottage had got the Birthright, and now she is resolv'd that he should have the Blessing too. On this account she furnishes him with a lye in his mouth, and skins on his neck and hands, and so, in her great love, exposes her drest Jacob instead of a Blessing, to his Fathers Curse and his own Damnation. 'Tis true, he narrowly escaped, and ran away with the Blessing; But both Mother and Son had both their Bellies full of the Sauce in which the Mothers Indulgence had sinfully soakt it. 'Twas this chiefly that made poor Jacob go halting to his Grave.