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The fourth type or figure was Jacob and Esau, both sons to Isaac: Esau was the eldest brother, & Jacob the ¹younger, yet God loved Jacob and hated Esau, because Esau contemned his birth-right and sold it to Jacob for a mess of pottage, and therefore Jacob stole the blessing from him: so God blessed Jacob, but cursed Esau: whereby is showed, that the Lord did for the contempt of the Jews, take away their birth-right and their blessing, and hath given it unto us.

The fourth type or figure was Iacob and Esau, both sonnes to Isaac: Esau was the eldest brother, & Iacob the ¹younger, yet God loued Iacob and hated Esau, because Esau contemned his birth-right and sold it to Iacob for a messe of pottage, and therefore Iacob stole the blessing from him: so God blessed Iacob, but cursed Esau: wereby is shewed, that the Lord did for the contempt of the Iewes, take away their birth-right and their blessing, and hath giuen it vnto vs.

1. 1Gen. 25.

The fifth type or figure was Leah and Rachel, the two daughters of Laban: Leah was the elder, but blear or ¹squint-eyed: Rachel the younger, beautiful and fair. 17. Therefore Rachel was beloved of Jacob, and Leah despised, 18. Yet Leah was first married. 23. And also made ⟨image 44⟩fruitful, 31. but Rachel also war after married, 28. and more beloved, 30 and having envied her sisters fruitfulness, 30. 1. and repented, God remembered her, and made her fruitful. So Christ first married the Jews, and made them glorious; but when they despised their glory, he married with the Gentiles, and they envying their happiness; of barren in all goodness, became fruitful in true holiness.