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Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse / by John Bunyan.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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being over joy'd fell on his Neck And for a good while thereupon he wept Then Jacob said since thou yet liv'st and I Have seen thy face once more now let me die And Joseph said my Brethren I will go Unto King Pharaoh and will let him know That you and all my Father's House are come And that your Occupation when at home Hath been in feeding Cattle altogether And that you 've brought your Flocks and Herds all hither Now therefore when you come before the King And he shall ask you what your Trade hath been Say thus Thy Servants from our Youth till now Have dealt in Cattle we and our Fathers too That he may let you dwell in Goshen for Th' Egyptians do a Shepherd's-Life abhor CHAP. XLVII THen to King Pharaoh Joseph went and said My Father and his Sons with all they had In their own Countrey are come down to me And in the Land of Goshen now they be Five of his Brethren also with him went Whom he unto King Pharaoh did present And Pharaoh asked them about their Trade And they unto the King reply'd and said We and our Fathers while we were at home Were Shepherds all and now behold we come With all our Flocks to get some Pasture here For in our Land the Famine is severe We therefore pray thee to appoint a Portion Unto thy Servants in the Land of Goshen And Pharaoh said to Joseph I impow'r thee To use thy pleasure Goshen is before thee Settle thy Father and thy Brethren there And if among them active Men there are Commit my Cattle to their special care And Joseph brought his aged Father in Before the King and Jacob blessed him And Pharaoh asking him about his Age He said The Years of my Life's Pilgrimage Are but an Hundred Thirty very few And evil nor have I attain'd unto The Years of my Fore-Fathers longer age Which they past thro' in this their Pilgrimage And Jacob blest the King again and then Out of his Presence he return'd again And Joseph plac'd his Father and Relations In Egypt and appointed them Possessions In the best of the Land ev'n in the Land Of Ramases according to the King's Command And there he nourisht them with fit supplies Of Bread according to their Families And now the People having spent their store And Famine still increasing more and more Egypt and Canaan too for want of Bread Were sore distrest and almost famished And Joseph took the Money they did bring To buy their Corn and kept it for the King Wherefore the People came to represent Their case to him both Corn and Coin be'ng spent And Joseph said If Money be grown scant Bring me your Cattle and ye shall not want And they brought Horses Asses and their Flocks And Herds of Cattel ev'n all their Stocks And gave to Joseph in exchange for Bread For which the People he for that Year fed And when that Year was past the second Year They came again and said we can't forbear To let thee know our want my Lord doth know Thou hast our Money and our Cattle too And there is nothing left so hard 's our fate But only each Man's Person and Estate If thou wilt give us Bread into thy hands Will we resign our Persons and our Lands And be the Servants of the King for ever From Death therefore our hungry Souls deliver And take some pity on our wretched state Lest we dye and the Land be desolate And the Egyptians sold each Man his Field Beaause the Famine over them prevail'd And all their Lands became the King's Possession And Joseph plac'd them at his own discretion But the Land of the Priests he purchas'd not For Pharaoh had assign'd to them their Lot And they receiv'd their Food from Pharaoh's hands Wherefore they had no need to sell their Lands And Joseph said unto them now behold You and your Lands are unto Pharaoh sold Lo here is Seed to sow in each Man's Field And when the Land its ripe increase shall yield A fifth part shall belong unto the Crown And th' other four parts shall be your own For Seed to sow your Lands and for supplies Of Food convenient for your Families And they said Thou hast sav'd our Lives my Lord Thy gracious favour unto us afford And we will do according to thy word And Joseph made it a Decree to stand Ev'n to this day throughout th' Egyptian Land That Pharaoh should have a fifth part except The Priests Lands which unto themselves they kept And in the Land of Egypt ev'n in Goshen Did Isr'el dwell and therein had possession And grew and multiply'd exceeding fast And Jacob liv'd till seventeen Years were past So that the sum of Jacob's age appears To be an hundred forty seven Years And when the time approach'd that he must die He called Joseph unto whom he said If I Have now found favour in thy sight I pray Swear thou unto me that thou wilt not lay My Bones in Egypt for I fain would lie Among my Ancestors when e'er I die And not be bury'd here therefore fulfil This my Desire and he reply'd I will And he said swear unto me which he did Then Jacob bow'd himself upon his Bed CHAP. XLVIII AND now when Joseph heard his Father lay Even at the point of death he hasts away To visit him and took along with him His Son Manasseh and 's Son Ephraim Whereof when Jacob heard he strengthned Himself and rose and sate upon the Bed And thus to Joseph said Lo God appeared To me at Luz in Canaan and declared That he would bless and make me a great Nation And give my Seed that Land for a Possession And Jacob said Behold these Sons of thine As Reuben and as Simeon shall be mine And all the rest which shall be born to thee Hereafter shall be thine and they shall be Call'd by the Name of their own Family Behold thy Mother died upon the way When I from Padan came near Ephratah The which is in the Land of Canaan where To wit in Bethlem did I bury her And Jacob seeing Joseph's Sons were there He asked of him who the Children were And Joseph said My Father lo these be The Sons God in this Place hath given me Then Jacob said I pray thee bring them nigh To me and I will bless them e'er I die Now Jacob's Eyes by reason of Age were dim And Joseph brought his Sons near unto him And Jacob kissed and embraced them And said I never thought to see thy Face And lo the Lord hath shown me of thy race And Joseph from between his Knees brought forth His Sons and bow'd himself even to the Earth And in his Right hand held up Ephraim Towards his Father's Left hand guiding him And in his Left hand to his Father's right He held his Son Manasseh opposite And Isra'l stretching out his Right hand laid It on the youngest namely Ephraim's head And laid his Left hand wittingly upon Manasseh's head although
the eldest Son And Jacob blessed Joseph saying The God Of Heaven in whose Paths my Fathers trod Who all my Life hath nourish'd me even he Who from all Evil hath redeemed me Bless both the Lads and let them bear my Name And the Name of my Fathers Abraham And Isaac and let them multiply In the midst of the Earth exceedingly And Joseph seeing his Father 's Right hand laid On Ephraim's head he was displeas'd and said Not so my Father lay this hand upon Manasseh's head for he 's the eldest Son And therewithal attempted to have laid His Father's Right hand on Manasseh's head But he refus'd and said I know 't my Son I know 't full well he also shall become A People and be mighty But indeed His younger Brother shall him far exceed And many Nations shall come from his Seed Thus Jacob blessed them and said In thee Shall Isra'l bless and say God make thee be Like Ephraim and Manasseh Thus did he Prefer the youngest to the first degree And Isra'l said to Joseph Lo I 〈◊〉 But God shall visit you and certainly Shall bring you back unto your Fathers 〈◊〉 And thou shalt have a Portion from my hand Above thy Brethren which with Sword and Bow I took from th' Amorite my deadly Foe CHAP. XLIX AND Jacob called all his Sons together And said Ye Sons of Jacob come you hither And hearken what your aged Father says Who tells you what shall be in the last days Reuben my first born of my Strength the Flower The excellency of Dignity and Power Unstable as Water be for ever vile Because thou didst thy Father's Bed defile Simeon and Levi're Brethren Instruments Of Cruelty are lodged in their Tents Come not my Soul their secret Councils nigh My Honour with them have no Unity For in their Wrath they caus'd a Man to fall And in their Self-will digged down a Wall Curst be their anger fierce yea cursed be Their Wrath for it was full of Cruelty In Jacob therefore let there Seed be spread And every where in Israel scattered Judah shall have his Brethren's Praise and they Shall bow before him he his Foes shall slay Judah's a Lion's Whelp return'd from pray He stoop'd he couch'd and as a Lion lay As an old Lion who shall dare molest Or rouze him up when he lies down to rest The Scepter shall from Judah never start Nor a Lawgiver from his Feet depart Until the blessed Shiloh come to whom The scatter'd People shall from all parts come Binding his Foal unto the choicest Vine He wash'd his Garments all of them in Wine His Eyes shall with the Blood of the Grapes look red And milky Whiteness shall his Teeth o'er spread Lo Zebulun shall dwell upon the Sea An Haven for the Ships security And unto Zidon shall his Border be And Issacha◠is a strong Ass between Two Burdens crouching who when he had seen That Rest was pleasant and the Land was good His servile Neck unto the Yoak he bow'd Dan as a Judge shall over Israel sway He shall be as a Serpent in the way To bite the Horse and cast the Rider down O God! I have look'd for thy Salvation Gad by a Troop shall be o'ercome but he Shall at the last obtain the Victory The Bread of Asher shall be fat indeed And Royal Dainties shall from him proceed Like to an Hind let loose is Naphthali He speaketh all his Words acceptably Joseph's a fruitful Bough whose Branches tall Grow by a Well and over-top the Wall By reason of Hatred which the Archers bore They shot at him and griev'd him very sore But Joseph's Bow in its full strength abode And by the Arm of Jacob's mighty God He was indu'd with strength from whence alone Is Israe'l's Shepherd and chief corner Stone Even by my Father's God who shall assist Thee by th' Almighty God shalt thou be blest With Blessings from above and from below With Blessings of the Breast and Womb also Thy Father's Blessings have prevail'd beyond My Ancestors Unto the utmost bound Of the perpetual Hills yea let them rest On Joseph's head and let him be possest Of all who was divided from the rest Young Benjamin shall Wolf-like take his prey And part at night what he hath took by day All these are the twelve Tribes of Israel And thus their Father did their Fate foretel And blessed every one of them apart According to their Personal desert Moreover he gave them a charge and said Lo I shall die but let my Bones be laid Among my Ancestors in Canaan where Of Ephron Abraham bought a Sepulcher Together with a Field to be a Place Of Burial for him and all his Race There Abraham and Sarah lie and there They Isaac and Rebecca did inter And there when Leah died I buried her The Field was purchas'd of the Sons of Heth. Thus having said resigning up his Breath To him that gave 't his Feet into the Bed He drew and so was number'd to the dead CHAP. L. AND Joseph fell upon his Father's Face And did with Tears his lifeless Lips embrace And sends for his Physicians and advises Them to embalm his Father's Corpse with Spices And they did so and forty days did pass For so the manner of Embalming was And the Egyptians mourned for the space Of threescore and ten days which being expired He spake to Pharaoh's Servants and desired That they would please to speak in Pharaoh's Ear And tell him that my Father made me swear That I should bury him in Canaan where He hath provided his own Sepulcher I therefore pray thee that I may obtain Thy leave and I will soon return again And Pharaoh said Since thou hast sworn fulfil Thy Oath according to thy Father 's Will. And Joseph went up to accompany His Father's Corpse with great Solemnity And with him went up Pharaoh's Servants and The prime Nobility of all the Land And Joseph's Houshold and his Brethren all Only their Flocks and Herds and Children small Were left behind Moreover there went up Chariots and Horsemen even a mighty Troop And they came up to Arad's threshing floar Beyond the River Jordan where full sore They mourned for him till seven days were past So long their Mourning in that Place did last Which when the Canaanites beheld they said Surely some eminent Egyptian's dead Wherefore they call'd it Abel-mizraim ' Thus did his Sons as he commanded them For to the Land of Canaan they conveigh'd Him and in Machpelah near Mamre laid His Body in the Cave which Ephron sold To Abraham for him and his to hold And thus when Joseph fully had perform'd His Father's Will to Egypt he return'd Together with his Brethren and with all Them that came with him to the Funeral Now Joseph's Brethren being well aware That they were Fatherless began to fear That he would hate them and requite them all The Evil they had treated him withal Wherefore to him they sent a