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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 68
Have you anything to say against the chastity and the piety
of Hagar? Of course not, for she was the wife of a Prophet
and the mother of a Prophet, and herself favored with Divine
revelations.
The God who made the Covenant with Ishmael thus prescribes the
law of inheritance, namely: If a man has two wives, one beloved
and the other despised, and each one has a son, and if the son
of the despised wife is the first-born, that son, and not the son
of the beloved wife, is entitled to the birthright. Consequently
the first-born shall inherit twice that of his brother.
(Duet. xxi. 15-17). Is not, then, this law explicit enough to
put to silence all who dispute the just claim of Ishmael to birthright?
Now let us discuss this question of the birthright as
of Hagar? Of course not, for she was the wife of a Prophet
and the mother of a Prophet, and herself favored with Divine
revelations.
The God who made the Covenant with Ishmael thus prescribes the
law of inheritance, namely: If a man has two wives, one beloved
and the other despised, and each one has a son, and if the son
of the despised wife is the first-born, that son, and not the son
of the beloved wife, is entitled to the birthright. Consequently
the first-born shall inherit twice that of his brother.
(Duet. xxi. 15-17). Is not, then, this law explicit enough to
put to silence all who dispute the just claim of Ishmael to birthright?
Now let us discuss this question of the birthright as