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It is presumption to say that all those who are left out of the external dispensation from all his
mercies: those may be saved who are not thus honoured. However, we are sure it was not his temporal ruin. Though he was chased out of the church, he was not chased out of the world. I will make him a nation. Note,
(1.) Nations are of God's making: he founds them, he forms them, he fixes them.
(2.) Many are full of the blessings of God's providence that are strangers to the blessings of his covenant.
(3.) The children of this world often fare the better, as to outward things, for their relation to the
children of God.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a
bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Here is, I The casting out of the bond-woman, and her son from the family of Abraham, Ge 21:14. Abraham's obedience to the divine command in this matter was speedy--early in the morning, we may suppose immediately after he had, in the night's visions, received orders to do this. It was also
submissive; it was contrary to his judgment, at least to his own inclination, to do it; yet as soon as he perceives that it is the mind of God he makes no