Genesis 26

In heaven righteousness and peace kiss each other. 6. The kingdom of heaven excels in magnitude; it is of vast dimensions; though the gate of the kingdom be strait, we must pass into it through the strait gate of mortification; yet when once we are in it is very large; though th…

Indeed, doubtless Esau, when he was little and in his tender age, promised as much comfort to his parents as Jacob did; and I question not but Isaac and Rebecca, a gracious pair, spent as many prayers, and bestowed as many holy counsels upon him as they did upon his brother. But…

3. In fact, one saint is more valued by him than the whole world of the wicked. God is the God of all creatures, but peculiarly the God of Abraham, and of his seed: one Abraham is more deeply rooted in his heart than all the world; and he does more entitle himself the God of Abr…

(Isaiah 62:7) As when a young man marries a virgin, when your children do marry wives, as in the joy (I say) of the bridegroom with the bride, so shall the Lord rejoice with you. (Genesis 26:8) And it came to pass, when they had been there many days, that Abimileck, king of the…

Also lifting up of the hands and eyes, &c. (Psalm 123:1, 141:2). For even as a husband looks that he alone should not only have the heart, but also the reverent and loving behaviour of the body (1 Peter 3:6; Genesis 26:6), so the Lord requires these, both as testimonies of our s…

What a grief was Esau to Isaac and Rabecka? Genesis 26. 34, 35. What a scourge were Absalom and Amnon to David?

Some of them are collected by Manasse Ben Israel; Lib. de Creat. Problem. 8. says he, Dico quemadmodum traditio creationis Mundi penes Abrahamum & ejus posteros tantum fuit; ita etiam ex dictamine Legis naturalis Sabbatum ab iis solis cultum fuisse. De Abrahamo dicit sacra Scrip…

The second to Noah after the Flood in the renewal of the Covenant, and establishing of the Church in his family (Genesis 8:21, Chap. 9:9, 10), whereunto were subservient the revelations made to Melchisedech (Genesis 14:18) and others before the calling of Abraham. The third to A…

The words in the original do signify servants, or tillage and husbandry. Concerning Isaac (Genesis 26), it is said that he had possessions of flocks and of herds, and great store of servants, so some read it; others that he had great store of husbandry. It comes all to one purpo…

It was Abraham's meek management of his quarrel with Lot, that secured both his own and his kinsman's possessions, which otherwise would have been an easy prey to the Canaanite and the Perizzite that dwelt then in the land (Genesis 13:7-8). And Isaac, whom I have sometimes thoug…

Objection. Thus shall all delightful familiarity between husband and wife be taken away. Answer. Though the forenamed sobriety be opposed to lightness and wantonness, yet not to matrimonial familiarity: which is so far permitted to man and wife, as if any other man and woman sho…

"You (even you) have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin, you have done deeds to me, that ought not to be done"; he lays the sin at Abraham's door, and Sarah also (for her suppleness) had a reproof from him (verse 16). Yet after all this, Abraham's son Isaac is found tardy…

You that laugh at sin now — the time is coming when God will laugh at your calamity (Proverbs 1:26). Fourth, it reproves those who cry down mourning for sin; they are like the Philistines who stopped the wells (Genesis 26:15). These would stop the wells of godly sorrow.

But as a man that has dug so many fathoms deep for water and can find none at last digs until he finds a spring, so though we have been digging for the water of tears and can find none, yet let us weigh all that has been said and set our hearts again to work. Perhaps at last we…

(1) From Isaiah 65:16, where it is promised, under the time of the Gospel, that the nations to be converted to Christ, shall swear by the name of God, as is clear also from Jeremiah 4:2. (2) Because, the calling upon the name of God with due fear and reverence in swearing, is co…