In this expression of Rebekah's, was there not a believing reference to the promised seed?
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How sweet and precious is it, to behold dying believers anxious to give their last testimony, to the faith of Jesus! Though the pious parents of the present age, have not, like the Patriarchs, a prophetical benediction respecting the coming Saviour to give their children; yet have they a parental blessing at parting to deliver. And oh! how precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints, when life is closed with such an honourable testimony.
But ought not the improper, and frequently ill-bestowed, affection of parents, in the partiality among their children, to learn from this example of Isaac, how sinful it becomes in the divine eye? Reader! let us pray for grace, that nothing short of the covenant blessing, may satisfy the desires of our souls. The Lord put away far from us that awful spirit of a carnal state, which, like Esau, makes light of the covenant mercies of God in Christ Jesus, and finds, like him, no place for repentance, though it be sought even with tears.