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The pedigree and perigrination of Israel Being an abridgement of the histories of the creation of Adam. Cain & Abel. Noah. Abraham. Issac. Jacob. Joseph. Joshuah. Deborah. Ruth. Hezekiah. Zedekiah. And the taking of the Arke. With meditations and prayers upon each historie. By John Jackson of Kilingraves in Com. Ebor. Gentleman.
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Jackson, John, of Kilingraves.
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Wing J75C; ESTC R216980
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came to the land of Goshen and Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father and presented himselfe unto him and he fell on his neck and wept and Israel said unto Joseph Now let me die since I have seene thy face And Joseph said unto his brethren and to his fathers house I will goe up unto Pharaoh and tell him my father and you are come hither and when Pharaoh shall aske you What is your occupation Ye shall say Thy servants trade hath beene about cattell that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen for every Shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians Then Joseph told Pharaoh of his fathers coming into Egypt and presented five of his brethren unto him and Pharaoh said unto his brethren What is your occupation and they said Thy servants are Shepherds both we and also our fathers and they said moreover The famine is great in Canaan now therefore we pray thee let thy servants dwel in the land of Goshen And Pharaoh spake to Joseph saying Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee in the land of Goshen let them dwell and if thou knowest any man of activity amongst them then make them rulers over my cattell And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh and Pharaoh said unto Jacob How old art thou and Jacob said unto Pharaoh The yeares of my pilgrimage arâ— one hundred and thirty years few and evill have the dayes of the yeares of my life beene And Jacob went out from before Pharaoh and Joseph placed his father and his brethren in the best of the land as Pharaoh had commanded and Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and all his fathers houshold according to their families And Israel did grow and multiply exceedingly in Goshen and Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeene yeares so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred fourty and seven yeares and the time drew nigh that Israel must die and he called his sonne Joseph and said unto him If now I have found grace in thy sight put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh and deale kindly and truly with me Bury me not I pray thee in Egypt But I will lye with my fathers and thou shalt cary me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place and he said I will doe as thou hast said and he said Sweare unto me and he sware unto him and Israel bowed himselfe upon the beds head And Jacob being sick Joseph brought his two sonnes Manasseh and Ephraim with him and Jacob was told of their coming and he strengthened himselfe and fate upon the bed Israel after he had blessed Joseph called for his two sonnes to blesse them Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age so that he could not see and Joseph brought them neare unto him and he kissed them and imbraced them and Israel said unto Joseph I had not thought to see thy face and loe God hath shewed me also thy seed and Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himselfe with his face to the earth and Joseph tooke them both Ephraim in his right hand towards Israels left hand and Manasseth in his left hand towards Israels right hand and brought them neare unto him and Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraims head who was the younger and his left hand upon Manassehs head guiding his hands wittingly and he blessed Joseph and said God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walke the God which fed me all my life long unto this day the Angel which redeemed me from all evill blesse the lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim it displeased him and he held up his fathers hand to remove it from Ephraims head unto Manassâ—hs head and Joseph said unto his father Not so my father for this is the first borne put thy right hand upon his head and his father refused and said I know it my sonne I know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly his younger brother shall be greater then he and his seede shall become a multitude of Nations and he blessed them that day saying in thee shall Israel blesse saying God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh and Israel said unto Joseph Behold I die But God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren which I tooke out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bowe And Jacob called all his sonnes and said gather your selves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last dayes gather your selves together and heare ye sons of Jacob and hearken unto Israel your father and he blessed them and he charged them and said I am to be gathered unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittit in the land of Canaan which Abraham bought for a possession of a burying place there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife there they buried Isaac and Rebeckah his wife and there I buried Leah and when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sonnes he gathered his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people And Joseph fell upon his fathers face and wept upon him and kissed him And Joseph commanded his servants the Physicians to embalme Israel and fourty dayes were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the dayes of those which are embalmed and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and tenne daies and when the dayes of mourning were past Pharaoh said unto Joseph Goe up and bury thy father as he made thee sweare and Joseph went up to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his fathers house onely their little ones they left in the land of Goshen and there went up with him both Charets and Horsemen and it was a very great company and they came to the threshing floore of Arad which is beyond Jordan and there they mourned with a great and sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven dayes and his sons did unto him according as he commanded them and carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave as he appointed And Joseph returned into Egypt he and his brethren and all that went up with him and when Josephs brethren saw their father was dead they said Peradventure Joseph will hate us and will certainly
blastings of the temptations and vanities of this world which are so dangerous in the bud and blossome of my good purposes and resolutions towards thee O Lord as thy wonderful works in the Creation are far beyond the weake capacity and apprehension of mortall man to conceive yet by thy goodnesse some things thou makest us sensible of which are so visible to our mortall eyes and so admirable to our due consideration whereby we may so see thy such infinite power and providence for which to magnifie extoll and praise thee O thou God of omnipotency As in wonder thou diddest create thy Creatures abundantly both by Sea and Land so thy goodnesse did this great worke at a time of great mercie and providence to Adam whose Creation did next follow O Lord how abundant is thy goodnesse and thy wayes of mercy except our sins provoke and stop the current of thy blessings What creature is more miserable then man in his birth first breeding yet how wonderfully hast thou ordained and provided for him that though he came most feeble and crying into this miserable world no creature more unable to help himselfe yet thou O God by thy goodnesse even before his being hast thus provided thy creatures and comforts to him for his preservation O Lord how unsearchable are thy workes and how infinite was thy goodnesse in the Creation of our first Father of which substance I am let me with wonder admire â—e astonished that whiles I consider that being so made of the very dust of the Earth and yet to thy blessed Image O Lord most mighty O thou my only hope and comfort of my soule I want new words to expresse this thy boundlesse goodnesse for how doth this thy so high and divine mercy herein meet with my so deepe and earthly misery Therefore let me who am this dust fall downe in all humility before thee upon that Earth of which I am made And O Lord my maker whose Image I am let thy power strength look in pitty upon me and bring mee to the true knowledge of my selfe and thy goodnesse and grant that this thy holy countenance may so shine in me that therby I may be so enlightned by the splendor of thy grace as I may break from the danger and darksome corners of my owne blinde and corrupt conditions so derived unto me and so by seeing thy goodnesse and mercy with most ardent and burning zeal I may adore and magnifie thee my Creator O the unconceivable losse of that happinesse which was once in Paradise that just reward of disobedience and the dangerous â—â—endant of spirituall pride 〈…〉 knowledge the bane of 〈…〉 â—nhappy children of Adam 〈◊〉 â—eeth are set on edge by the forbidden fruit that he did eate we still pursuing to know more then is needefull or that we ought to doe the which even at this unhappy time â—s so like to destroy us and to throw us out of this our fooles paradise which we esteem of so much 〈…〉 pleasure the which indeed though it come farre short of the Paradise of happinesse in Eden yet by thy mercie O God to a sinfull Nation one of the best amongst the thistles and thorns of this our banishment from the happinesse we have lost O Lord open thou mine eyes that I may discern before the coole of the day and my latter end my great offence against thee not to esteeme it any safety for me to run from thee or by covering my secret or open sins with the fig-leaves of hypocrisie it being of such weake and deceitefull â—â—vert to thy All-seeing eye But oh thy mercy my Creator in the depth of thy so just judgements whereby wee were lost and by thy so great mercy whereby we were redeemed and preserved By one womans pride being seduced by the Serpent we suffered and by the humility of another being full of grace who was the Mother of our Redeemer that saved us the one by the Cherubin in thy wrath was kept out of that terrestriall Eden The other with a heavenly salvation brought us the blessed tidings of that happinesse in celestiall Paradise And thus by thy mercy diddest thou breake the head of the Serpent and saved us by that Messias the Saviour of the world This is hee that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and that Word was God and the same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by it He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not He came to his owne and his owne received him not O unmeasurable mercie of thine O God thou pattern of perfect goodnesse from thy glorious seat of mercy in heaven thus to looke upon us the great map of earthly misery and objects of thy wrath As for our redemption to make this word flesh to dwel amongst us and to see the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten Sonne full of grace and truth Surely there is no mercie or comfort like this thy incomprehensible goodnesse O Lord thus to give thy selfe unto us This is even such a gift as may sufficiently astonish the Receiver Therefore O thou bountifull Benefactor give me grace even to forsake my selfe and give it unto thee Let me out-strip by a heavenly expedition those Shepheards and Kings who came first to offer unto thee the Angels theÌ„ rejoycing when this thy Word was made flesh and came amongst us Lead mee O Lord by that blessed star of thy grace to that manger of mercie Let no difficulties hinder mee in this my holy pilgrimage to the blessed Bethlehem where thou art And if these three Kings tooke such a long journey to see thee O god in that homely stable What difficulties should we undergoe to enjoy thy heavenly salvation Let me imitate these Shepheards Kings by their humility and offerings O Lord by offering even all that I have unto thee my heart in perfect humiliation with those Shepheards both heart and goods in charity to the poore and distressed inimitation of the humility and Presents of these three Kings That at last in the fulness of thy mercie being delivered out of this misery wherein I am fallen by the fall of Adam out of earthly Paradise And being thus redeemed by thee as these devout Shepheards and Kings did see thy face here upon earth in such humility grant that I may so follow thee here by such humble and harmlesse steps as hereafter I may enjoy the happy fight of thee in glory in the heavenly Paradise where the Saints and Angels doe rejoyce in thy presence even for ever and ever THE HISTORY of Cain and Abel CAin being a Tiller of ground brought an oblation of the fruit thereof unto the Lord and Abel did the like with the encrease of his Cattell and of the fatt of them unto the which the Lord had respect but unto the offering of Cain he