Genesis 33

We may go with the bee from flower to flower, but we shall never have full satisfaction till we come to the infinite God. Jacob said, I have enough, in Hebrew, Li col, I have all (Genesis 33:11), because he had the infinite God for his portion. God being an infinite fullness, th…

In the Ark, the rod was laid up, and manna: with our Father's rod there is always some manna. Asher's shoes were iron and brass, but his foot was dipped in oil (Genesis 33:24). Affliction is the shoe of brass that pinches, but there is mercy in the affliction, there is the foot…

(Philippians 4:11) I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. Content says, as Jacob (Genesis 33:11), I have enough: I have a promise of heaven, and have sufficient to bear my charges there, I have enough. And he who has enough will not covet that which is another's.

In anger he remembers mercy: not all pure gall but some honey mixed with it. Asher's shoes were iron and brass, but his foot was dipped in oil (Genesis 33:24). Affliction is the shoe of brass, but God causes the foot to be dipped in oil.

And there are three reasons for it, whereon he much insists: (1.) That there was a city near Sychem that was called Salem and no otherwise. And this is plainly affirmed in the Scripture (Genesis 33:18), And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem which is in the Land of Canaan. F…

God's children are not satisfied till they can see him and enjoy him in every comfort and mercy. Esau was reconciled to Jacob, and therefore Jacob says (Genesis 33:10), I have seen your face as the face of God; 'twas a token and pledge of the gracious face of God smiling on him.…

Not only will Christian Humility dispose Persons to honor those wicked Men that are out of the visible Church, but also false Brethren and Persecutors. As Jacob, when he was in an excellent Frame, having just been wrestling all Night with God, and received the Blessing, honored…

Quo loco custodia Sabbati intelligitur. De Jacobo idem affirmant veteres, ex eo loco quo dicitur venisse ad Salem, & castra posuisse e regione vel ad conspectum civitatis; ([⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩]) Genesis 33:18. Quia enim Sabbatum, inquiunt, instabat, non licebat ei ulterius…

Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. And on the like account did God also change the names of some other persons, or superadded new names to those whereby they were called before, as of Israel to Jacob (Genesis 33:28), upon his preval…

Children (as it is observed) are a resemblance of our immortality, because a man revives again, lives anew (as it were) in every child: he is born again (in a civil sense) when others are born to him. There be some who account their children, but bills of charges, but God puts t…

Yet there is as much in that of pain, as in any we read (Canticles 5:6): "I rose up to open to my beloved, my beloved had withdrawn himself, and had passed away; my soul went forth, because of his speech." Ainsworth: My soul was gone, and departed, that is, failed, fainted, I wa…

And after that, Saul persecuted him no more (1 Samuel 27:4). The change that Jacob's meekness made in Esau is no less observable, and (some think) is remarked as very strange and surprising, by an unusual pointing in the Hebrew text, upon Esau's kissing Jacob (Genesis 33:4). [in…

Now among, and above other parts of the body, the outward composition of the countenance does soonest and best declare the inward disposition of the heart. By Esau's pleasant countenance Jacob perceived that he was pacified in his heart towards him, and thereupon said, I have se…

From Gods Kindness to David, observe That God dealeth well with his People, Genesis 33:12. The Lord has dealt graciously with me.

So (1 Corinthians 10:13). God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above measure. His conduct is very gentle; as Jacob drove on as the little ones were able to bear (Genesis 33), so does God with a great deal of moderation measure out sufferings in a due proportion…

David gives us here his own experience, and every one that is a faithful servant of God may come in with the like acknowledgments; for what proof God gives of his goodness to any one of his servants, it is a pledge of that love, respect, and care that he bears towards all the re…

God is a universal good; so that it is impossible for a man to be miserable, if he has God. This, doubtless was the reason why Jacob said, I have all (Genesis 33:9). It is translated, I have enough, but that was no more than Esau said: The Hebrew expression is, Ieshli-Col, that…

God turned about his will and thoughts, that he should not accomplish his intention; but by what ways or means is not revealed. Nor is it evident what course he took in the change of Esau's heart, when he came out against his brother to destroy him (Genesis 33:4), whether he sti…

He does first look for spiritual things, he had rather have his part in Christ, than in all the blessings of this life, he would first order his heart to Christ, his principal care is about that, and if he does not so, he looks at it as his death, which a worldly man does not. S…

For euen then the Israelites sorted themselues together, and the godly among them came to live under him in Iudah, though the distinction of the kingdomes did still remaine. The fourteenth Allegation is out of Acts 7:16. where the Papists and Atheists alleadge the Scripture to b…

Now if notwithstanding, all God's powerful operation in their hearts, it remains absolutely in the hands of men, whether they will favor them that fear him or no: it is wholly in their power whether God shall be true in his promises or no. Surely when Jacob wrestled with God on…