Genesis 28

Christ having married our flesh, has exalted it above the angelic nature. 2. Look upon Christ's divine nature: Christ may fitly be compared to Jacob's ladder (Genesis 28:12), which reached from earth to heaven; Christ's human nature was the foot of the ladder which stood upon ea…

Lactantius said, All the learning of the philosophers was without a head, because it wanted the knowledge of God. 2. Wherein our choosing of God consists: It is an act of mature deliberation; a Christian having viewed the superlative excellencies in God, and being stricken into…

And children must hearken to the counsel of their parents, as in spiritual matters, so in other affairs which relate to this life, as in the choice of a calling, and in case of entering into marriage. Jacob would not dispose of himself in marriage (though he were forty years old…

For it is God's will, that we should not cast the care of heavenly things only, but all our care upon him (1 Peter 5:7). And he has elsewhere commanded that earthly things should be asked at his hand (1 Kings 8:35), and the same has been asked in prayer of Jacob (Genesis 28:10),…

7. This should keep his children in a holy awe (Hebrews 12:28-29): Let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire. When we come in the holy assemblies (Genesis 28:17): How dreadful is this place. In our gener…

Presuppose two things; one, that the commandment is without compulsion; the second, that the father knows what is for the good of the child: then I answer, that he may command his child to marry, and to marry a person thus or thus qualified. Thus Isaac commanded Jacob to marry i…

Now although this reason has some color, yet I had rather refer it to the certainty of the vocation of the Prophet, to wit, that the Lord called him not forth at random, but with choice. This is then a grave deliberation which the Lord takes as touching him whom he should send:…

Thus Mordecai and Hester took all care to perpetuate the memory of that signal deliverance from the plot of Haman, by ordaining the feast of Purim, as an Anniversary throughout every generation, every family, every Province, and every Ciy, that those days of Purim should not fai…

So. Jacob, Genesis 28:20 and Agur, Proverbs 30. 8, 9. Wise Providence considers our condition as Pilgrims and Strangers, and so allots the Viaticum provision, that is needful for our passage home. It knows the mischievous influence of fulness and redundancy upon most men, though…

Genesis 28:12ff. And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Is…

I am Elshaddai, God Almighty, God Alsufficient. And when Isaac would pray for the blessing of the covenant on Jacob, he makes use of that name, Genesis 28:3. God Almighty bless you.

If God command us to aske him bread, and to depende upon him for it, wee must not judge basely of it: nowe in this chapter God commands us to depend upon him for foode to eate: yea, 1. Pet. 5. 7. we must cast all our care on him: and Iacobs practise in praying for bread to eate,…

Certainly the very place where God manifests himself, at least while he does so, are venerable and awful: and therefore when God revealed himself to Jacob in a dream, and gave him the representation of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, angels upon every round of it, and Go…

He accounted the true excellency of his life to consist in its reference and tendency to the glory of his God; and he could not see how a redundancy or too great a penury of earthly comforts, could fit him for that, but a middle estate equally removed from both extremes, best fi…

§. 16. Of husbands' ready yielding to their wives' humble suits. Again, it being a token of reverence in a wife humbly to make known her desire to her husband, he ought to show so much courtesy as readily to grant her desire: this courtesy the forenamed Ahasuerus afforded to Est…

Isaac married the wife which his father provided (Genesis 24:67). Jacob both obeyed his father in going to Laban's house for a wife (Genesis 28:2), and also when he came to Laban asked his daughter of him (Genesis 29:18, etc.). Though Samson saw a daughter of the Philistines whi…

This direction was given in times of persecution, when by reason of the present necessity it was better not to marry: if then a parent ought to be careful (need requiring) to provide a marriage for his daughter, much more ought he in times of peace. Holy parents commended by the…

Let Christians think of the dreadful majesty of God who is present. Genesis 28:17: How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

As a good soldier of Christ endure hardship. Jacob made the stone his pillow (Genesis 28:18). It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth (Lamentations 3:27).

But if our hearts can melt sincerely in tears of love, this is a real sign that God has been with us. As Jacob said (Genesis 28:16): Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. So Christian, when your heart breaks for sin and dissolves into holy tears, God is in this du…

There are sometimes sudden Impressions made on Spiritual Affections, which are always of great Advantage to the Soul, renewing its Engagements to God and Duty. So was it with Jacob, Gen. 28:16, 17, 18, 19, 20. So is it often with Believers in hearing the Word, and other Occasion…

So they opened the matter to her, and she held up her hands and wondered. (Genesis 3:6; Romans 7:24) Then they had her to a place, and showed her Jacob's ladder. (Genesis 28:12) Now at that time there were some angels ascending upon it.

2. Christs person is lovely as he is God-man. He may not unfitly be compared to Jacobs ladder, Genesis 28.12. which reached from earth to heaven; Christs human nature which was the foot of the ladder, stood upon the earth; his divine nature, which was the top of the ladder, reac…