...was to have the posterity that was to inherit the land of Canaan ; by him he was to have that seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed j in a word, he looked-upon this child as the heir of all the promises, and of the covenant. These...

...was to have the posterity that was to inherit the land of Canaan ; by him he was to have that seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed ; in a word, he looked upon this child as the heir of all the promises, and of the covenant. These...

...the Church and people of God, nor be entitled to the possession of Canaan, nor give birth to the seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. 5. The circumstance of Esau's being older than Jacob was very properly taken notice of, to show that...

...father Abraliam, who, in obedience to the command of God, took his son, his son Isaae, his only son, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, and laid him bound on the altar, to offer him up as a burnt offering 1 Did not Isaac know the intention...

...satisfactorily made out ; if the Son of the virgin Mary were the seed of David, the descendant of Abraham, He in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, he must have been that very Seed of the woman, who was announced in Paradise to our hapless progenitors,...

...elect people and many powerful kings, whose history was to occupy so large! space in the hook of God, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, a forlorn wanderer, hanished from his father's house, his whole inheritanre his staff in his hand !...

...the birth of Isaac ; the long expected seed, the child of promise, the declared progenitor of Him, in whom " all the families of the earth were to be blessed ;" when God said to Abraham, " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee...

...any intimation of his mercy and grace in the promise of Jesus Christ; in the promise of a Saviour, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed; in selecting Abraham and his seed as his peculiar people; in causing the Saviour, according to the...

...the church and people of God, nor be entitled to the possession of Canaan, nor give birth to the seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. 6. The circumstance of Esau's being elder than Jacob was very properly taken notice of, to shew that...

...a faithful son of Abraham would perceive that every prophet directed the Church to the true Shiloh, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed; he would discover that the prophetic word was more minute and distinct as time advanced. And in the...