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.

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…

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…

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…

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…