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Joseph reviv'd, or, The twelve last chapters of Genesis metaphrazed containing the life & death of holy Joseph / by George Lesly ...
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Lesly, George, d. 1701.
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Wing L1177; ESTC R7199
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Brethren and a Present makes To Pharaoh who did instantly enquire What is your Trade or what will you desire We 're Shepherds and Sojourners in this Land Whose greatest errand is to kiss thy hand The next to see our Brother and have place Our Flocks to feed in Canaan there 's no grass The piercing Drought so scorched hath the land That there is nothing to be seen but Sand If therefore we shall of thee favour find Grant's Goshen Pastures and for this we 'll bind Our selves to be thy Subjects and our Seed Of thee and thine shall stand in Kingly dread Then Pharaoh unto Joseph did reply Since they 'r come down what will I them deny My Crown but spare and ask what e'r they please I 'le give all things conducing to their ease My Land 's before them as for their request In Goshen for them Dwellings make in haste And for a greater proof of love to thee Choose out among them some will active be And put my Cattel all into their hands Their hire from me let it be Gold and Lands But pray thee Joseph where 's thy aged Sire His face to see I have a great desire Greatest of Kings you shall lo here he is This said old Israel doth great Pharaoh bless Saying my Lord the King of Kings protect Your Sacred Person and since you respect Me and my Sons I 'le never cease to pray For you with hands to Heav'n lift night and day My thanks said Pharaoh now I must be bold To ask one question I would know how old Thou art Good Jacob soon this answer made An hundred thirty summers I have had As many winters have I also been In pilgrimage unsettled I mean Yet few and evil if you 'l deign to look Upon a Line in this my Table-book Where is inserted faithful Abrahams age An hundred and seventy five his stage Completes my father Isaac liv'd five more Though all this time their grievances were sore This said the old man looking round about Blesseth the King takes leave and walketh out Now come said he Son since you know I have Your Kings good will a fitting place I crave Where I and all my Children safe may be From all Sedition and Conspiracy Then Joseph beckn'd to his Sire and said Rameses is the best that can be had There take possession this my Lord commands These are your Writings signed with our hands The famine's great yet Joseph wills that he Since come to Egypt have no scarcity Of bread tho'in Canaan'd Egypt there was want In so much that the most began to faint For hunger but that Egypts Nursing Father Its currant money into stores did gather And such as from Canaan was brought to buy Corn he doth put into th'Treasury Now Egypts money doth begin to waste Which made the Natives run to him in haste And say Sir you must grant us fresh supply Of bread and corn or else for want we die There 's none but you can grant us any aid Who answered You 've got as much as paid But this my counsel is which if you take To bring your cattel you will not be slack And them for corn and bread exchange with me What profit they if you of famine die The hunger-starv'd Egyptians at this Do much rejoyce yea and with blessing bless The Ruler and with chearful hearts do bring Their Horses Cattel Flocks and every thing Except their Land all 's laid at Josephs feet Who willingly receiv'd and gave them meat Poor creatures they had good cause to fear For this provision ended with that year Was but the sixth since that great want began When it was ended they to Joseph ran Again for more lay'ng out their wretched case And saying to him We must die alass Our Money gone our Cattel you did crave We brought them now our Land is all we have Come buy this also let 's not starved be And we our selves will serve our King and thee Let us have Seed that we again may try Whether our Land as yet will fructifie At this his tender heart is fill'd with grief And eyes with tears which way for their relief Procures for he to Pharaoh makes it o're Making him Landlord who was King before Their ancient Livings he bids them forsake And for the future other Dwellings take For which they should to Pharaoh Egypts King As to the owner yearly Rent in bring But to the Priests there was more kindness show'n Who parted with no Land that was their own For they on that which was to them allow'd Liv'd all that while as when the Land was plow'd Then Joseph said Behold I have you bought Your Land and all I 'm sure there is not ought Which is not Pharaohs wherefore take you Seed And sow in haste I know you will not need To fear the Famine this is the last year Of Egypt's drought you know hath cost you dear It s former increase you again shall have Of which a Fifth Part I will yearly crave For Pharaoh's use the Four that is behind Dispose of that according to your mind For Seed for Food for you and for your Store Fear not it will be fruitful as before With bowed heads and chearful countenance They thus reply Since we our sustenance These barren years had from our Lord and thee Be gracious to us we your Servants be It is enough we live to serve our King What he commands that will we to him bring Only the Priests did this great Tax escape For all they sow'd all to themselves they reap Behold the kindness of an Heathen King To those who did but hellish Sophismes sing Yet all this while Joseph hath not forgot To settle on Jacob the most happy Lot In all the Land of Goshen where he might Dwell happily and have thereof full right Now that Gods Promise might fulfilled be He multiplies and grows exceedingly When he in Egypt 17 years had been Most prosperous and his Sons glory seen Of Age a 147 then he Prepares himself Deaths Captive for to be For calling Joseph's Father and his Child And looking with a countenance most mild Dear Son said he Age makes me now believe That I must Egypt and my Children leave This heard the Ruler's heart is fill'd with grief And Eyes with tears No Son there 's no relief Said Jacob Seventeen years I 've liv'd in thee Now 't is enough my God I must go see Yet while I live one thing I must implore Grant it my Child as thou hast done much more Which is when dead that then in Canaan I May buried be and with my Fathers lie This granted he commâ—â—ds him for to swear That he his Corps to Macpelah will bear And then in token of his thankfulness He leans on 's Bed and doth his Maker bless Sad tidings soon sounds in the Rulers ear After 's departure that his Father dear Was ill at ease and willed him in haste To pay 'm a Visit e'r his life was
past Who willed quickly that his Children two Should ready be for they must with him go To see their Grandsire it is his command Obeying they in travelling posture stand Scarce had they entered into the Town When one to Jacob hastily runs down And tells him that his Sons and his two O'es Were come to see his end and to dispose Of him this heard he once again revives And to set up upon his bed he strives Saying to Joseph God appear'd to me When I from Esau's fury down did flee To Padan Aram and at Luz me gave The Promise that I should Canaan have And blessed me saying that of my Bloud Should there be born ev'n a huge multitude It to possess until Times fulness shall Come when they for their Sins shall from it fall Then sine I 'm sure that all the Land is mine I 'le give a share unto these two of thine Were born in Egypt e'r I hither came As Reuben Simeon these shall bear my name But all the rest are since by thee begot They shall be thine and have of thee their Lot Among their Brethren yet they must not be Call'd Heads or Tribes of their posterity But whose are these two Youths that stand me by If they be thine then let them both draw nigh That I may bless them being glad to see Thy self once more and thy posterity Now having kiss'd them he said Once I thought Ne're to have seen thee nor be hither brought But blessed be that God who spared me Joseph Manass and Ephra'm for to see This done he takes them from between his Feet Making them stand before him as was meet Manass on 's left and Ephra'm on 's right stand That on them both at once he might lay hand But he inspir'd of God looks not to years Nor yet for Doteage the first-born forbears For on the younger he layes on his right In him it seems God had the most delight Minding to make him Head of all the Tribe Without respect of person age or bribe Then to his Son he said now I will crave That you all Blessings of that God may have With whom my Sire and Grandsire both did walk And with him often face to face did talk Who from Canaan led me out this way And hath me fed at all times as this day The Angel Great which doth my Soul redeem Bless both the Lads and have them in esteem And let them have mine and my fathers name Make thou them great do thou enlarge their fame Encrease their seed for number as the sand On the Sea-shore in their Grandfathers Land But Joseph wroth to see the form invert Says to his father grieved at the heart Not so dear Sir this is the eldest boy Put here your right he is the onely joy Of me his father No saith Jacob no Though what you say be true I right well know Yet fear not for he shall be very great But this much more neither by strength nor fate But by that power that laid the Earths foundations He shall become a multitude of Nations Such blessings that day he to Joseph gave As greater after Israel should not crave If any can but Ephra'ms bliss obtain It will be ever counted greatest gain Then Jacob said Behold I die but God Shall visit you and while you have abode In Egypt he will ever be a Watch Lest by these Heathens any harm ye catch And bring you up into your fathers land He he will do it by 's Almighty hand Moreover thou from me hast got a portion Which I ne'r purchas'd by craft or extortion From th' Amorites but by my sword and bow This on thy self and thine I do bestow Now Jacob finding 's last glass almost out Calls for his sons who compass him about Listning for what he thither did them call Who said Sons hear what will to you befall In the last days when your old father 's gone Strengthen your selves your trouble comes anon Reuben my eldest pray do thou draw near To me thy Parent and thy verdict hear In dignity thou didst excell and power Thy brethren all untill that fatal hour When to thy fathers bed thou didst advance This made me rob thee of th' Inheritance Because as water thou unstable wast Thy Eminence and Dignity is past This said from him he turns his face about To Sim. and Levi whose sentence goeth out You brethren are by consanguinity And no less ally'd in your cruelty Your habitations they are full of bloud And might you grieve if rightly understood For in your anger you the Sech'mites slew Robbing the Town of riches not a few The City also raz'd unto the ground Such horrid Facts I think hath not been found Curs'd be your anger I will you divide 'Mong other Tribes as strangers to abide As for thee Judah thou shalt praised be By all thy Brethren and Posteritie Thy Foes thou shalt subdue and they adore Shall thee with princely Homage nay and more As Lion fierce is terrible so thou Shalt be to all and all thou shalt subdue Yea for a greater Blessing thou shalt hold Thy kingly Scepter till Predictions old Shall come to pass and the Messias shall Come from thy Loyns and rid men out of thrall And all thy Land be fill'd with best of Wine Thy Grapes shall yeild great store of Liquor fine So that thou may as in a mighty flood Thy Garments wash into the grapie blood Zebulun thou shalt still a dweller be In pleasant places situate by the Sea So that by Shipping thou mayst have commerce With other Nations who of Ware are scarce Thy Borders also I will so extend That they in length shall come to Zidon's end Son Issachar I know thine inclination Is such that thou desir'st a quiet station Free from command and still will bowing be Thy back to all the burthens laid on thee Dan as an Adder or a Serpent slie Thou to thine En'mies evermore shalt be And subt'ly shall all of them overthrow If not their Head I 'm sure thou 'lt sting below And now O Lord since well I know this Boy Shall en'mies have that will him much annoy Do thou assist him in 's extremity That at the last he may victo'rous be Gad much affliction doth on thee attend Yet all those Troops thou 'lt conquer in the end Asher Earths fulness shall be thy Lot Affording Royal Dainties and what not Naphthali on both parts thou dextrous are Lover of Peace and yet can follow War Joseph thou as a fruitful Bough shalt be Set by a Wall thy Grapes shall multiply And Branches by the Suns reflections shall Grow to such height as shall surmount a Wall Though Brethren Jempsar Potiphar all three Thy life did seek and Arrows shot at thee Yet God thy God thy Bow kept in such strength That spight of all thou did'st o'rcome at length And made the Shepherd to his Isra'l-flock So that thou was to them both Staff and Rock From God thy