_ 4 As men which dwell in kouſes that are nor their own - which teem to contradict the promiſe mentioned in the foreooing wer!y : but it 1s onely to make Abraham the more believe agnnll hone. 11 hope, as *tis faid, Rom 4 18. though there were never to many difficulties more, for what God hath promiled, fiith would ove: - come them all, # This very fpace of tour hundred years, is alſo mentioned, Ger. 15. 13, 16. Which is thus computed, trom the birth of 1ſzac ( the promiſed fred ) ro the birth of 73:06, fixry years; from 7acob?s birth, ro his going into Er pt, one bundred an tity years, . fiom thence to their deliverance out ot Egg}, tweao hundred and ten years; this period is accounted, Exod.” 12. 4e, 4:
to be tour hundred and thirty years; which allo St. Paul reckons by, Gal. 3. 17. but then thirty years is adiled unto the account, being the ſpace of time betwixt the lirſt promile made unto 45rahan; of this feed, and the birth of Jſaxc, in whom the promiſe was co be fulfilled : St. Srephen here reckoning onely from the birth of Iſaac.
7 And the nation to whom they ſhall be in bondage, will q I judge, faid God: And atter that ſhall they come | +16. 3:10 forth, and * ſerve me r in this place. *Ex 3.3: | PAM IENEY |
9g Or, puniſh ; and fo the Egyptians were punithed, not by humane 64 be AS means, but by D:vine power, and with Gods own immediate hand, v.4f and that in the fulnets of time, the very night in which God”s A311 pf n promiſe was to take A-& : and rher-fore 'tis a night to be much Woe oh nv obſerved, Exod. 12. 42. as ſh:wing, that the Salvation of his peop!e. | | and che deſtruction of his enemies flumber nor, 2 Pet. 2.3. » In Mount Horcb, The reaton why God delivers his people is, thar chey may ſerve him, as Lv{? 1. 71, 75. and fo long as God hath v6 work tor them to do in this World, he will preferveand deliver
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feCtions, wafter the promile : ſo that the promiſes were not given for Iſaac's fake ; but 1/aac was given tor the promite ſake : which made theſethings more fir to repreſent Goſpel grace, which St. Stephen was Preaching of. x The heads of the Tribes, from whom they were denominated. Of this Genealogy, ſee Mar. 1. 1, 2, &c. and the Hi- ſtory of it in Geneſis. 9g * And the patriarchs moved with y envy, & fold « Ge, - +. . ; F I, *
Joſeph into Egypt 4: but God was with him. 28. y Enraged; the holy Martyr accommodates his apology fo, as that Pf. :05. 17. they may yet have occaſion to reflz& on themſelves : 7 tor as they had ſold our Saviour unto ſtrangers, ſo had their Fathers told Joſep 4. » To favour, and bleſs him ; for Gods preſence brings 21] good a- long with it: with this he comforts himlielf and others ; thar it was not without example or precedent that God ſhould be with fuch whom their perſecurors could not endure.
10 b And delivered him out of all his afflitions, and *gave him c favour and wiſdom in the ſight of Pharaoh king of Egypt ; and he made him governour over Egypr,
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b The effe& of God's preſence with him, which to his people is al- ways In an eſpecial manner, not onely as he is with all other Crea- cures ; but as the Soul 1s with the Bodv, moſt effzQually, fo is God with them, c Thus God brought Daniel into favour, Daz. 1. 9. and hath all hearts in his hands.
11 Now there came 4 a dearth over all the land of Fgypr and Canaan, ande great affliction ; and our fa- thers found f no ſuſtenance.
d This is mentioned, G2z. 41. 54, ©, e As ſeidom any milchiet comes alone: Rapine, and many dilcaies tollow Famine. f Any courle diet ; graſs or herbs. :
12 But when g Jacob heard chic chere was corn in Egypt, he ſent our our þ tathers firſt.
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13 And ar - the ſecond ::me Joſeph was made knownto his brethren ; and Joſephs kindred was made known + unto Pharaoh. |
; Upon their ltecond coming into Egype, Gen. 45. 3, 4, 16. Joſeps made himfelf known unto them. # For the continuance of thei: ſuſtenance, and fulfilling of what was foretold.
14 Then ſent Joſeph, and called his father Jacob to him, and * all / his kindred, threefcore and fifteen m * Devt.- 12. fouls. 22;
{ His affinity, and not conſanguinity onely, which may be the reaſon why, though in Gen. 46. 26. it 1s ſaid, that all che ſouls that came with Jace into Egypt, were ſixty ſix, (it being then added, they were all fuch as came our of his {oyns) yet it 15 faid, they were ſeventy perſons, Qer. 46. 27 . Zaccb, Foſeph, and Joſzph's rwio fons (who were alfo of the promiſed ſced} being added unto the number.
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