William Perkins
30 But what saith the Scripture: put out the bond-woman, and her sonne: for the sonne of the bondwoman shal not be heire with the sonne of the freewoman.
The second answer to the former obiection, is in these wordes, that they which hate the children of promise, shall at length be cast out of the house of God.
Obiect. I. These wordes, cast out the bondwoman, are the words of Sara to Abraham: therefore they are not the words of scripture. Ans. The words were vttered by Sara, but they were afterward approoued by God, Gen. 21. 12. and thus they are the voice of scripture.
Obiect. II. Sara is commended for her subiection to Abraham, 1. Pet. 3. 6. yet here shee speakes imperiously, Cast out the bondwoman. Ans. Shee speakes this not as a priuate woman, but as the voice and mouth of God, and that (no doubt) by instinct from God. And therefore the words shee vttereth, are to be esteemed as the commandement of God. This her case is extraordinarie, and not to be followed.
Thevse. I. All carnall hypocrites, mockers of the grace of God, shall be cast forth of Gods familie, though for a time they beare a sway therein. This is the sentence of God. Let vs therefore repent of our mocking, and hereafter become louers of the grace of God, as Christ was. Mark. 10. 21.
II. Consolation: the persecution of the people of God shall not be perpetuall. For the persecuting bondwoman, and her sonne, must be cast out. The rodde of the wicked shall not rest vpon the Lot of the righteous. Psal. 125. 3. This is our comfort.
III. All iustitiarie people, and persons that looke to be saued and iustified before God by the law, and the workes of the law, either in whole, or in part, are cast out of the church of God, and haue no part in the kingdome of heauen. The casting out of Agar and Ismael, is a figure of the reiection of all such. Behold here the voice of God casting downe from heauen the greatest part of the earth, the Turke, the Iew, the obstinate Papist, with the stepmother, the Romish church.
