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The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royal authority in a sermon preached…The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royall authority in a sermon preached…
The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royal authority in a sermon preached before His Majesty in the Isle of Wight, upon the anniversary of his birth-day / by James, L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royall authority in a sermon preached before His Majesty in the Isle of Wight, upon the anniversary of his birth-day / by James, L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.
London: printed for R. Lowdes, 1648
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Concerning Isaac's life, the Scripture saith but little, and the self same words are used of him at his death, as was at the death of Abraham.
Concerning Isaac's life, the Scripture saith but little, and the selfe same words are used of him at his death, as was at the death of Abraham.
Jacob as ordinary in his life as ye shall meet withal; But his death was a Prophecy of Christ's coming into the World. He begins with Reuben, to whom (though he had no mind at all to bless him) he gives his due; shows him that the right of Primogeniture belonged unto him, if he had not forfeited it: Thou art my first borne, my might, & the beginning of my strength. For this reason God commands, that the first borne should have a double portion. And so Reuben should have received, but that he forfeited it; Therefore, saith he, because thou art unstable as Water, &c. thy excellency is departed from thee: and so he gave it to Joseph. In repeating the Genealogy of Jacobs sons, 1 Chron. 5. 1, 2. Now (saith the Text) the sons of Reuben the first borne of Israel, (for he was the first borne) but forasmuch, as he defiled his Fathers bed, his Birth-right was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and the Genealogy is not to be reckoned after the Birth-right, &c.
Jacob as ordinary in his life as ye shall meet withall; But his death was a Prophecy of Christ's comming into the World. He begins with Reuben, to whom (though he had no mind at all to blesse him) he gives his due; shewes him that the right of Primogeniture belonged unto him, if he had not forfeited it: Thou art my first borne, my might, & the beginning of my strength. For this reason God commands, that the first borne should have a double portion. And so Reuben should have received, but that he forfeited it; Therefore, saith he, because thou art unstable as Water, &c. thy excellency is departed from thee: and so he gave it to Joseph. In repeating the Genealogie of Jacobs sonnes, 1 Chron. 5. 1, 2