I. Abraham and Iſaac in Canaan. See Gen. 23: 19; and 25: 9: and 35: 29: Which he deſired nor io much for himſelf, as knowing that wherever he was buried he ſhould riſe ro Glory ; as for hisChildren, to ſhew his own, and confirm their Faith in God's Promiſe of Cs- naan ; to diſcover his high valuation of that Land, nor only for it : {c}f, bur as ir'was a T'ypz and Pl:dge of the Heavenly Inheritance ;
to keep his Childrens minis and hearts looſe from Egypr, a place of ſo much fin and danger, and fixed upon Canaan, that they might be
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from Joſeph, of his being buried there, ſo for all his favours to him and to ſoſeph, and by him to all his Family. w Ja at this time was bed-rid through Age and infirmity ; but being now to give God ſolemn Thanks, though the words and manner of it be not here expreſſed, he raiſed himſelf and ſat upon the head or vpper-moft
* part of his bed, as he did alſo Gen. 48: 2. that he might expreſs his
Reverence to God as much as ke could by Bowing, when he could
' not doit as much. as he would, being unable to do it Kneeling.
Others for bes read fiaf, the diſcuſſing whereof I refer unto its pro- per place, Heb. 11: 27. C H A P. XLVIIL. Jacob being ſick, Joſeph comes and viſits him, 1,2. Jacob declayes God's appearances and promiſes to him, 3,4. Adopts Jeſeph's two ſons Manaſſeh and Ephraim to be fathers of two tribes in Jſrael,5, 6. Mentions Rachel's death, andthe place where ho buried her,7. Calls for his ſons to bleſs them: Joſeph brings and places them: Jaceb purpoſely croſſes his hands,8----=14. His bleſſing on Joſeph and his jons. 15, 16+ Joſeph interpo'es to remous his father's hands, 17,18: He declares the pre-eminence of the younger, 19« But the ether alſo bl:ſſed, 20: Prepheſieth of their return x0 Canaan, 2 1: He gives Joſeph a piece of land a part, 22. AND it came to pals after theſe things, that one told Joſeph, Behold, thy father is ſick : and he took with him his two ſons «6, Manaiſleh and Ephraim.
| x To obtain his Venerable and Religious Father's Blefling for tacm,
peared unto me at * Luz in the land of Canaan, and Se. letied me, 35:6: 4 And ſaid unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruit- ful, and mulciplie thee, and'I will + make of thee a jug multitude of people; and will give this land to thy ſeed , nuiriruds atter thee, for an everlaſting poſſeflion. of peoples.
6 And thy iſſue which thou begetteſt after them ſhall be thine e, and ſhall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance *.
e Shall be reputed as thy Children, and my Grand-children, and ſhall not have any diſtin ſhare in my preſent or future Inheritance, but ſhall have a part of their brethrens Lor, in ſuch manner and pro- portion as thou ſhalt think fit, or as their ſucceeding Parents or Governours ſhall determine. Bur it doth not appear, nor doth Scri- pture any where mention, that Jejeph had any other Sons but theſe, and therefore it is probable he had no more : only Jaceb ſpeaks this upon ſuppoſition, in caſe he ſhould have any other. * Either Eph- raimites er Manaſſites,
7 And asfor me, * when I came from Padan, Ra- *Gen.3s: chel died by me f in the land of Canaan, in the way 19: when yet there was but a little way to come unto Eph- rath : and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath g:
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f Or, beſideme ; near me, before mine eyes, I ſeeing, but not be- ing able to help her in her extremity ; which makes the remem- brance of it moxe grievous to me» This ſtory he bere mentions, partlybecauſe the ſight of Joſoph and his Children brought his belo« ved Rachel to his remembrance; partly to give the reaſon of this ation of his to the reſt of his Children, which was not only be. cauſe Rachel was his firſt rightful Wife by Deſignation and Contra, and therefore the right of the Firſt-born was truly Joſeph's; but bee a cauſe by her early death he was cut off from all hopes of having t: more Children by her, and therefore it was but fit he ſhould ſupply that defeCt, by adopting Joſeph's Children. g Not out of diſreſpect : to her, whoſe Perſon was, and Memory yet is, precious and ho- nourable to me, but either becauſe dying in Childbed they could not keep her $illthey came to the Burying-place of the Pacelarehs at
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bron, Gen: 24. 19: eſpecially when they were tied to the ſlow mo- env the 3 bad herds; or becauſe I would not: bury her in the | common Burying-place with Heathens and Tdolaters, in the City of
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$ And Ifrael beheld Joſeph's ſons, and ſaid, Who are theſe þ? |
h For Jacob's eyes were dim through age and infirmity, as 1s ob- ſerved wer. 10; and thzrefore he could not diſtin@ly diſcern them.
o And Joſeph ſaid unto his father, They ares my ſons, whom God hath given me in this place : and he ſaid, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and. I will bleſs them 7:
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nal and Patriarchal and Prophetical Bleſſing, in the Name and by the Spirit of God, praying for, and foretelling thoſe Bleſſings which God will confer upon them. Tn
10 ( Now the eyes of Ifrael were | 'dim for age, /s that he could not fee ) andhe brought them near unto him, and he kiſſed them, and embraced them :
11 And Iſrael ſaid unto Joſeph, I had not thought to ſee thy face, and lo, God hath ſhewed me allo thy ſeed. |
22 And Joſeph brought them out from between his knees &, and he bowed himſelf with his face to the earth I. | ;
þ Not his own knees, from which they had been taken before, bur Jacob's knees, berween which they ſtood-winilſt Jacob kiſſed and embraced them ; from which:Joſeph removed them, partly that they might not be burdenfome to their aged and weak Grandfather, and principallythat he mighr place them m fit order and reverent poſture to receive the Bleſſing for which he longed. 7 Teſtifying rhereby his Reverence to his Father, his Thankfulneſs for rhe Favour which he had now ſhewed to him ard his, and bis humble and earneſt Re- quelt for his Bleſſing upon them. fe