An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

And more particularly, You that now enjoy great blessings from Gods mercies to your Ancestors either outward or inward, ¹you must consider the free Grace of God; as now, such of you as are rich, great in the world; whence is it that your Ancestors were richer than others, and were not beggars as well as others? Was it not free Grace, free Grace in ²in the kind of it? it was the free goodness of God; Others that had their Ancestors to be beggars they were before God in the same lump with your Ancestors, and that God should rather pitch upon your Ancestors to be honourable in the earth and rich, and you enjoy the benefit of it in this world, look to the free goodness of God that hath made such a difference between your Ancestors and others; it may be some of you, though you be honourable, and rich, yet your elder Brother might be rejected, and sometimes Families rises from the younger Brother rather than the elder; It was so here, Jacob that was the younger he afterwards came to have the blessing, and Esau rejected. And it may be that the posterity of the elder Brother proves wicked; it was so here, Religion ⟨p. 223⟩in the Family of Jacob and not in Esau; look back to this, and see what cause you have to bless God, and how you are engaged to the free Grace of God towards you in regard of your Ancestors; as here the Prophet would have this people look back to the free Grace of God to their Father Jacob; and that's the first thing the Prophet aimed at.

And more particularly, You that now enjoy great blessings from Gods mercies to your Ancestors either outward or inward, ¹you must consider the free Grace of God; as now, such of you as are rich, great in the world; whence is it that your Ancestors were richer than others, and were not beggers as well as others? Was it not free Grace, free Grace in ²in the kind of it? it was the free goodness of God; Others that had their Ancestors to be beggers they were before God in the same lump with your Ancestors, and that God should rather pitch upon your Ancestors to be honorable in the earth and rich, and you enjoy the benefit of it in this world, look to the free goodness of God that hath made such a difference between your Ancestors and others; it may be some of you, though you be honorable, and rich, yet your elder Brother might be rejected, and sometimes Families rises from the yonger Brother rather than the elder; It was so here, Iacob that was the yonger he afterwards came to have the blessing, and Esau rejected. And it may be that the posterity of the elder Brother proves wicked; it was so here, Religion