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This preservation was in some instances especially very remarkable; those instances that we have an account of, wherein the people of the land were greatly irritated and provoked; as they were by Simeon and Levi's treatment of the Shechemites, as you may see in Gen. xxxiv.30. &c. God then strangely preserved Jacob and his family, restraining the provoked people by an unusual terror on their minds, as you may see in Gen. xxxv.5. "And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the son• of Jacob."

This preservation was in some instances especially very remarkable; those instances that we have an account of, wherein the people of the land were greatly irritated and provoked; as they were by Simeon and Levi's treatment of the Shechemites, as you may see in Gen. xxxiv.30. &c. God then strangely preserved Jacob and his family, restr•ining the provoked people by an unusual terror on their minds, as you may see in Gen. xxxv.5. "And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the son• of Jacob."

God's preserving them, not only from the Canaanites, is […] to be taken notice of, but his preserving them from all others that intended mischief to them; as his preserving Jacob and his company, when pursued by Laban, full of rage, and • disposition to overtake him as an enemy: God met him, and rebuked him and said to him. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad." How wonderfully did he also preserve him from Esau his brother, when he came forth with an army, with a full design to cut him off! how did God in answer to his prayer, when he wrestled with Christ at Penuel, wonderfully turn Esau's heart, and make him, instead of meeting him as an enemy with slaughter and destruction, to meet him as a friend and brother, doing him no harm