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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 26:5

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.

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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