each of them trom God Himſelt through Prayer. e Another Et of his Faith, is his worſhipping God, having bequeathed his Bodv to the Burial in a firm Expe&ation of the promiſed Inheritance, as tc Hiſtory clears, Gen. 47. 29, 3o, 3I. and 48. 2 For having ſent tor 7o/eph, heraiſeth up himſelf on the Pillow at the Bed's-Head, and for his Support uſed his Staff, leaning on the head of it, when in Faith he declares his Will to his Son 7e/eph, and binds him by an Oath to bury him in Machpelah in Canaan, with Abraham and [.uc, Heirs of the ſame Promiſe, as an Earneſt and Handſel of the Twelye Tribes pofleffing it ; which 7-/eph having ſolemnly ſivorn to him, Jacob bywed himſelt and worſhipped, lifting up his Heart to God in Thankfuſlneſs for his Dntinual Providence in the gradual Accomplith- ment of his Promiſeto the Seed of Abraham, Iſaac and Jacob. This he did by Faith, adoring his Soveraign Lord and Saviour by his hum- vly bowing before him. There was no need Of F:ith to bow fo 7: ſeph, who was inferjour to 7acob, and blefſed by him. |
22 By faith f Joſeph when he died, || made menti | 0c.” on of the departing of the children of Iracl: And g gave 17-* commandment concerning his bones.
f Jiſeph the firſt Son of 7acob by Rackel, whom God preferred
betore his Brethren, envied and ſold by them, but advanced by him to be Lord of Egypt, and a Saviour to them, Hcir of the Birth-right, and of his Father's Grace, a Patriarch and Prophet like him, drawing near to the end ot his Pilgrimage on Earth ; and dying, he made mention, and brought to the Mind of the Jſraelites his Children, Bre- thren, and Nephews; and, likely, with a charge to convey it down to their Poſterity, as if might be remembred by them, that though he died with willingneſs and choice, looking for a better Place and State than any in Egypt, and that his Death ſhould not obſtruct the Itlues of Providence to them for good; for God /ived, and would ſurely viſit them in their Poſterity, 7jrael living where he ſent M/s to them, and would make them go up gloriouſly out of Egypt, and bring them into the Land- of Promiſe, and give it to them for their Inheritance. This Teſtimony he gives them of it by E:jth, Gen. 50. 24 And God fulfilled it 15G years fafter his Death, as he had ſworn to Abraham, Tjaac and Facob. g By Faith likewiſe he chargcd them about carrying his imbalmed Body with them, and burying it 1n Canaan, and obliged the Tſraelites to it by an Oath, Gen. $0. 25 making an Earneſt and Signal to them of the Promiſe and Oath oi God for their Deliverance, that as he defired his Bones might be bu- ried in Canaan, being Heir together with 7acob of the ſame promited Inheritance, it might be a viſible token of and Incouragement, 11 the appointed time, to their Return. And this 1#ae! fulfilled, Exod. 13. 19. carrying them away with them, and afterwards burying of them in Shechem, the Lot of Ephraim, 7oſh. 24. 32-
23 By faith þ Moſes when he was born was hid three months of his parents, becauſe they 7 ſaw he w.2y = 4 proper child, and they were & not afraid of the * * Ex.» Kings commandment. Oy
h The Parents of Moſes were as eminent in this Faith as their Progenitors ; for by it Amram and Fochebed both of them of tne Tribe of Levi, Fxod 6. 20. Nartear here put by a Metaphraſe t0r ze, and thou;h in the Hiſtory aſcribed to the Mother ouiy, Vet
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it was by the Father's direQtion, as Exzd. 2. 2. comp. Ads 7. 2» They hid 30jes, bn under the bloody Edit of a Tyrant for drown- 19.5 all the //c5r2w-males in Nile : (he was born three years atter A.cron, and 65 after 7ojeph's Death) they kept him three Months trom the Deſtroyers, and they adventured the Penalties threatned by the Edit, Exod. 2. 2, 3. Faith overcoming their bears and Diiiculties about it, and in all probability, ordered their fitting the ark, and diſpoſe of 1t for his Preſervation with the other Adts at- tending it. 7 The Reaſon of Faith's Work, was their ſeeing of him to be 4=<-», fr, beautiful, proper, and this not in himſelt on- lv, but as Stephen interprets It, 454-1 ww ©:s, Ads 7. 20. Farr to G14, Some glorious Aipett was by God put upon him as a Signal of tome great Perſon, and of great uſe in God's Deſign to Ins Church; tome extraordinary Stamp of God on his Countenance, which Faith could diſcern there, and ſo influence them to conceal and preſerve him. + Fiith made them fearleſs; for they were not atraid that the King's Edit ſhould truttrate God's purpoſe con- cerning the Child, or keep hin: from its Service to the Church, wherein God would imploy him, and of which he had given them a Signal in that Luſtre caſt on his Perion, and therefore they uſed means to preſerve him, even when they expoſed him, and which had a ſuitable ſuccels, Exc. 2. 3, to 10.
24 Þy taith / * Moſes when he was come to years, refuted to be called the ſon of Pharaoh's daughrer,
| WYnics himſelf was as eminent a Beljevey as his Parents, and a mi..hty Inſtance of D:vine Faith. He who-was fo named and ſaved by the Enemies of tte Church, and adopted as a Son to a notor1- ous one of ticm, vet being great in Age and Stature, tull forty, Fe4.3.11. .*&s 7, 23, paſt the Folly of Childhood and Raſhneſs of Youth, upon manly Deliberation, and a rationa Exerciſe ot Faith, notwuhfianding he was by Eith a poor T{-aelite, and ſaved trom periſhing by a Princeſs, the Daughter of a Potent King, nouriſhed through her Indulgence by his on Mother, adopted as her own Son, educated by her in all the Wiſdom of the Egyptians,
alid renounceth ths Relition, witli, and a vrciter Good in God, and this he manifeſted by Word ang vecd, 1n h:< after Tranſlations, v. 25.
25 * Chuſing 7 rather to futier atnictions with the people of God. than 7: to enjoy the pleatures of- fin $OT a icaton