The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)

29. Thus it is also with Jacob and Esau: In Jacob the Line of Christ got the upper Hand in the wrestling Wheel; and in Esau the Fall of Adam; now Christ was therefore promised into the Humanity, that he might heal the Fall of Adam, and redeem Esau, which was captivated in the Wrath, from the Wrath; Jacob denotes Christ; and Esau Adam; now Christ is to redeem Adam from Death and Wrath, wherein he was captivated: But did Esau continue in Sin? That I know not; the Scripture also does not declare it; the Blessing belonged to Esau, that is, to Adam, but he fooled it away in the Fall, and so the Blessing fell upon Jacob, that is upon Christ, who should bless Adam and Esau, so that the Kingdom and Blessing might be given of free Grace again to Adam and Esau; though he was apprehended in the Curse, yet the Door of Grace stood open in Jacob, that is, in Christ; therefore Jacob said afterward, that is Christ, when he was entered into Adam's Soul and Flesh, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden with your sins, and I will refresh you: Also, I am come to call the sinner to Repentance; not Jacob, who needs it not, but Esau, who needs it; and when he (viz. Esau) is come, then says Christ, There is more Joy in Heaven for him, than for ninety-nine righteous ones, which need no Repentance; [viz. for one Esau that repents] there is more Joy than for ninety-nine Jacobs, who in the Centre of the Life's Original are apprehended in the Line of Christ: There is more Joy for one poor Sinner, whom the Anger has apprehended in the Centre of God's Wrath in the Life's Original, and chosen to Condemnation, if he brings the Sins of Death again into the Mortification or Death of Sin, than for ninety-nine righteous ones that need no Repentance.

30. But who are the Righteous, for we are all become Sinners in Adam? Answer, They are those whom the Line of Christ in the Humanity apprehends in the Life's Rise [or at the first Point of Opening of Life in them], not that they cannot fall as Adam, but that they are apprehended in Christ's Will-Spirit in the wrestling Wheel, where Love and Anger are counterpoised, and chosen to Life; as happened to Jacob, so also to Isaac, and Abel: But this Line should be the Preacher and Teacher of Cain, Ishmael, and Esau, and exhort them to Repentance, and to turn out of the Anger: And this Line did give itself into the Anger which was enkindled in Adam, Cain, Ishmael, and destroyed the Devil's Sting with Love, that Cain, Ishmael, and Esau had an open Gate to Grace; if they would but turn and die in Jacob, that is, if they would enter into Christ's Death, and die to Sin in Abel, Isaac, and Jacob, and Christ, then they should be received into the Election of Grace.

31. Jacob took Esau's Place in the Blessing: Why did that come to pass? In Jacob was the promised Seed of Abraham and Adam; from this Line the Blessing should come upon the sinful Adam and Esau; Jacob must be filled with God's Blessing, that he might bless the First-Born of angry Adam and Esau; for the Blessing, that is, Christ must be born in our Flesh and Soul, that the Seed of the Woman might bruise the Head of the Serpent.

32. The Anger must be drowned and appeased in the Humanity; an Offering did not do it, but this resigning into the Wrath, that the Love might drown the Wrath. Jacob in Christ must drown Esau in the Love-Power in his Blood, that Esau might also become a Jacob in Christ: But Esau was not willing to receive his brother Jacob, and contended about the first Birth; that is, Adam in Sin will not, cannot receive [or accept of] Christ, he shall and must die to the sinful Flesh and Will.

33. Therefore Esau has ever fought against Jacob; for Jacob should drown him in Christ in his Blood; this the evil Adam in Esau would not have, he would live in his Self-hood, therefore he strove with the earthly Adam against Jacob; but when Jacob met him with his gifts, that is, when Christ came with his free Love-gift into the Humanity, then Esau fell upon his brother Jacob's neck and wept; for when Christ entered into the Humanity, Adam wept in Esau, and repented him of his Sins and Evil intent, that he would kill Jacob: For when God's Love in the Humanity entered into God's Anger, the angry Father bewailed our Sins and Misery, and Jacob with his Humility drove forth mournful Tears out of his brother Esau; that is, the Love in the Humanity brought forth the great compassion out of and through the angry Father; so that the angry Father in the midst of his enkindled Wrath in the Humanity did set open a Gate of Mercy for Adam and all his Children; for his Love broke the Anger, which [Love] put itself into Death, and made an open Gate for poor Sinners in the Death to his Grace.