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Note, Those that must live by faith have need
often to review, and repeat to themselves, the
promises they are to live upon, especially when
they are called to any instance of suffering or
self-denial.
4. He recommended to him the good example
of his father's obedience, as that which had
preserved the entail of the covenant in his
family (Ge 26:5): "Abraham obeyed my voice;
do thou do so too, and the promise shall be sure
to thee." Abraham's obedience is here
celebrated, to his honour; for by it he obtained
a good report both with God and men. A great
variety of words is here used to express the
divine will, to which Abraham was obedient
(my voice, my charge, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws), which may intimate that
Abraham's obedience was universal; he obeyed
the original laws of nature, the revealed laws of
divine worship, particularly that of
circumcision, and all the extraordinary
precepts God gave him, as that of quitting his
country, and that (which some think is more
especially referred to) of the offering up of his
son, which Isaac himself had reason enough to
remember. Note, Those only shall have the
benefit and comfort of God's covenant with