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enemy_n	advantage_n	great_a	part_n	1,014	5	3.9894	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

Iacob and by his fathers words at the denouncing of his blessing By thy sword shalt thou live But as Nimrod so Esau for all his plotting and threatning was confounded in his enterprize for he was his brothers servant in posterity Againe Nimrod was a great and mighty King and his Territories of a large extent even from Babel to the end of the earth for ought I know because it is not specified and Esau was a mighty man the Captaine of foure hundred men a great company in those dayes and from him sprang many Dukes and Kings the first that I read of Dukes in sacred writ as appeares in his Genealogy so it is very conspicuous that Esau bent all his minde for the obtaining worldly honour and applause yet note it further in the story rather then he would want good cheare to fulfill his wanton appetite he would sell his birthright like many flourishing gallants in our dayes that rather then they will leave their lascivious courses in gaming revelling and swaggering will make sale of all that their parents and friends left them for what cared Esau for his fathers blessing so hee might fare well and goe bravely according to the fashion of the Countrey Here I might touch the vanity of phantasticke apparrell in these dayes but I know it is a thing indifferent and thererefore passe it over and come to consider how Isaac liked all this alas good man he could not perceive it the love of venison had blinded his eyes Now I would gladly know what venison it was that Isaac loved I read that Rebeccas savory meat was two Kids and for ought I know Esau launted for a Bucke or a Doe a Stag or a Hinde but because it is not expressed in a metaphoricall exposition I surmise it was his flattering insinuating and colloguing disposition for surely Isaac could not chuse but see that Esau was worldly minded both by his habit and behaviour but especially in the choice of his wife whose Idolatrous and rebellious courses were a griefe of minde to him and Rebecca so that she complained that shee was weary of her life for the daughters of Heth yet Isaac for the love of Venison so powerfull is naturall affection in the heart of mankinde called to give him the blessing of the elder brother and forgot Iacob who had before purchased that Birthright of which I beleeve his father was not ignorant like many rich men in these dayes that as the Proverb is love to have their elbows clawed and delight to thinke their posterity shall flourish in the world after their decease care not what they give to maintaine pride and prodigality but take little or no care at all for the poore and destitute In the last place I am to shew how Esau was prevented in that he intended and how Isaac rewarded him for his Venison for the first while Esau was hunting to get savoury meat such as his father loved Rebecca that knew her husbands appetite as well as Esau and could blinde his judgement as well as his sight daintily cheated him because she loved Iacob in whom she saw the graces of Gods Spirit shined bright and did beleeve that hee was the Sonne of Promise according as God told her at his birth That the elder should serve the younger and as she perceived by his religious and godly exercises in the course of his life therefore she prepared savoury meat such as she knew her husband loved and compelled Iacob her younger sonne to present it to his father in the name of his brother who very fearefull of a curse rather then a blessing did performe her will for hee knew such cunning plotting and indirect meanes by hypocrisie and dissimulation to accomplish their designes was both hatefull to men and abhomin●ble in the sight of God yet I note it to shew the subtilty of a woman to obtaine her desires for it is very likely that shee perswaded Isaac that Iacob was her elder sonne though his voice declared the contrary But p●ssing by that also I am in the last place to demonstrate what was the reward that Esau received for his great labour in hunting It 's plaine he did desire with Balaam to have the blessing that Iacob supplanted him in and sought it with teares But seeing be could not obtaine that he desired one blessing of his father and so according to his request enjoyed the fatnesse of the earth and dew of heaven from above viz. he lived in a fertile and fruitfull countrey hee did not want for any earthly blessing and was a man of great power and authority for from his stocke came many famous Kings as is before expressed so that as he hunted for worldly honour he did enjoy it Now to make a conclusion of the whole matter I should show the love of Iacob toward Ioseph the first borne of Rachel his first love But what should bee the reason that Iacob fixed his love more on him then all his brethren Was it because he brought to their father their evill sayings No surely for Iacob as a godly man did not delight to heare any slanderous reports for he knew that tale-bearers and busie bodies in other folkes matters doe set houses and commonwealths in divisions The Text renders the reason thus because he begot him in his old age and that might very well be for experience showes old folke love little children more then young doe because there is a sympathizing affection betweene them as the proverbe is An old man is twice a child But the reason as I conceive why Iacob loved Ioseph more then all his brethren was because he saw in him a promptitude to the service of God and divine speculation more then in his brethren and that he was of a harmlesse innocent and sweet disposition appeares plainly for though hee knew his brethren hated him because of their fathers love towards him yet hee loved them and would bee telling them his dreames for which they hated him so much the more which in my opinion was very improvidently done for we ought to avoid and not to run headlong into danger and this rash conversing with his enemies almost cost him his life first by putting him into a pit and then selling him to perpetuall slavery Yet this is and was ever for the most part the practice of the most zealous godly to speake or doe something at which the worldly wise taking advantage of bring them into great persecution and trouble as it was here But what care they for such affliction if God see it good for them And what cared Ioseph for his brethrens spleene so his father noted his sayings Now if from hence I could learne according to Salomons rule to traine and bring up my children in the feare of the Lord in their youth that so they might not forget it when they be old to bend the twig while it is young lest when it is growne to a tree it be past my strength