Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Ver. 5. Because that Abraham.] His obedience was universal to all the wills of God; and is here alleged, not as the meritorious cause, but as an antecedent, of the blessing. Our good works do truly please God in Christ, and move him, after a sort, to do us good; yet not as merits, but as certain effects of Christ's merits alone, and such as of his merit. a
a Rulloc., De Vocatione, p. 25.