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ecause. the Lonp bath heard thy adlidion. 12 And he rill be a wildman; ha hand WIN k agalnrt every man, and every loan's hand agai~~sthim ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And shecalled the name of LORD that s ake unto her Thou God KeSt me:for rhe raid, Have I alao here losrd after him' that seeth me? 14Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahairoi; behold it is between Ka-. desh and Bered. IS And Hagar bore Abmm a aon : and Abram calledhis son'r name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fuurmcoreand six yearn old, when Hagar bare lehmael to Abrarn. 1God at the first did not indicate to Abraham that'the,son whom he would beget would be by Sarah, and as itseemed as if the heir was not intended to come throughher, Abraham took Hagar, Sarah's bondmaid, and begatIshmael. The antitype of the interval between Gods'scovenant with Abraham, and the birth of Ishmael (between;10 and f I years), is the long period of 2,553 years whichelapsed between the creation of Adam, and the "birth"of the nation of Israel when it entered the promised landunder Joshua. During all of that long period it must have ;seemed as if God's original oath-bound Covenant, typified' \by Sarah, was barren indeed (Gal. q:2I-31).But the LawCovenant, to which God bound Himself, at once con-,ceived and brought forth in due time the nation of Israel,the fleshly seed typified by Ishmael, "a wild man wbosehand was against every man, and every man's hand:against him;" for the nation of Israel has indeed beenthus peculiarly marked amongst the nations of earth;During all the Jewish Age from the entering of the nationinto the inheritance of the land of Canaan, till the first.advent' of Jesus. Christ, the "Sarah Covenant " still re-,mained barren. But when Jesus was -raised from thedead, the "Head" of the great spiritual Seed of promise,was born through the Sarah Covenant; and during the.Gospel Age the " Church of the first-born" have beenselected member by member to complete the antitypicalIsaac, the Seed of God Himself, in whom all .the promisescentre. . 8.. .We anderstand through thetimes and seasons of the20