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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	brethren_n	father_n	joseph_n	2,518	5	9.7131	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09887	Josephus redivivus: or, Innocencie violated and vindicated. In a sermon preached on the publike day of Thanksgiving, in Wandsworth in Surey by the vicar there. On Thursday May the 24th, 1660.	Roberts, Hugh, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1597AB; ESTC R233804	10,639	22

Josephus Redivivus OR INNOCENCIE Violated and Vindicated IN A SERMON PREACHED On the Publike Day of Thanksgiving In Wandsworth in SURREY By the Vicar there On Thursday May the 24th 1660. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by James Cottrel for Humphry Robinson at the three Pigeons in St. Paul's Church-yard 1660. The PREFACE THere needs no Key to unlock the sence of these few leaves let but our hearts be open in thank-fulness to God for a mercy both miraculous and unexp●cted and such as our Fathers never knew to declare unto us It was joyful news which the Brethren brought to their aged Father that Joseph was alive and ruled over all the land They once scorned the motion Gen. 45. 26. as we may see by what follows that Joseph should rule over them Yet now they proclaim it and sensible of the happiness of it they tell it with great gladness Such a Triplicity of Change could receive its motion from no lower Orb then the high Hand of Divine Providence Jacob sate mourning and would not be comforted because his Joseph was not The Brethren were snared in the setters which their own ambition had created and could not tell whether imprisonment famine or what sadder judgement should close the Tragoedy wherein themselves had been the principal Actors Joseph is amongst strangers where some entertain'd him and conquered by his Virtues courted him even in the midst of his affliction Yet there wanted not malice to have betray'd his life or to have made him wretched because he would not be perswaded to be wicked But in a sudden revolution of Affairs The spirit of Jacob their Father was revived The Brethren's feared and Deserved Captivity was for the strangeness of the Change as to men in a Dream turned into the possession of an Assured Liberty Joseph ruled who before was despised Gen. 45. Vers 7. being sent to preserve a posterity in the earth and to save their lives by a great deliverance Thus the former Object of their envie becomes under God the onely ground of their security They had been most miserable if Joseph had not ruled over them The first Act of this Pious Prince appeared in his Duty to his Father like a Religious King who holds the common Concernments of the Common Parent his Country more regardfully then all his own particular Interests And as the chief means to preserve his Country in safety his Zeal is to keep his Brethren in Unity See that you fall not out by the way The Jealousie of Differences amongst them did arise from the Diversity of their dis-affection towards him He was now safe and they in a way to be happy and have the chiefest advantage from his safety if tbey did not ruine and undo all again by falling out by the way Surely if Joseph would forget it were very impious for the offending Brethren to remember foment or inlarge former Differences What if Reuben suffered for the present and was even distracted under the bitterness of his Brethrens cruelty to their Innocent Joseph He and his more loyal party did suffer indeed and that very deeply which I suppose their very Persecutors well not deny Yet let the suffering party confess That Joseph suffered most And now he may revenge he pleads Reconciliation first It were great pity that so pure a spirit should be attempted to be poysoned with the angry counsels of any discontented parties who will not be satisfied except they may be as Vnchristian as their Adversaries whom they condemn to be Vncharitabl● Thou that judgest another wilt thou fall into the same condemnation Let Them talk up themselves to be the Godly Party let us act Godliness they have censured the loyal Party to be a loose Party GOD hath now put an Opportunity into our hands to silence their slanders and convince them of rash judgements Forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave Colos 3. 13. 1 Pet. 3. 16 you so also do ye By this means they which speak evil of you as of evil doers may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ But we have suffered and found no mercy 'T is true many have known sorrow neither shall I argue the ground of it with some men who make most noise lest it should appear to be the disturbance of affected Interests rather then suffering with Joseph or for the Truth in its undefiled constitutions To these passionate Overturners I would recommend the consideration of that mixt Dialogue Dispeream ni ultus fuero Dispeream ni melius persuasero The one would perish rather then not be revenged The other was afraid that he should perish if he did not discharge his Duty by indeavouring to dispossess him of so unclean a spirit My Prayer is That God would preserve our Joseph that the sweetness of his natural temper so adorned and impowered with supernatural Grace may not be disturbed with any violent impression of discontented complaints but that all may finde warmth and comfort from the Beams of that Majesty which God hath graciously given once more to shine in this land and that led by his most Christian Example we moving in our inferiour Orbs and several places may not continue in our still angry distance one with another but meet in the spirit of love and meekness Let the joy that our Joseph is yet alive silence animosities unite us in thank-ful obedience unto God loyalty to his Majesty and love one to another So shall we honour God in the King bless God for him prosper under him Let all loyal Subjects say AMEN Josephus Redivivus OR Innocency violated and vindicated Genesis 37. 8. His Brethren said unto him Shalt thou indeed reign over us shalt thou indeed have dominion over us IF we consider these words singly by themselves we may look upon them as of acceptation and congratulation wishing it might be so yet in some doubt whether it would be so or no Shalt thou indeed Or of admiration Shalt thou who art but young and as one single person come to that dignity to be King and reign over us who are older in years and many in number and will keep the rule in our own hands in a Popular State and Community rather then One reign over Many how can this be indeed that Thou reign over us Thou one over us many But the Context will admit of neither of these acceptations of the words but render them in a far other sense viz. of scorn and detestation Thou what Thou whom we hate and therefore hate because of the claim thou seemest to make of dominion over us and that as if it were by the disposing of Divine Providence Thou indeed no indeed thou shalt not reign over us Like the unthankful subjects Luk. 19. 14. But his Citizens hated him and sent a messenger after him saying We will not have this man to reign over us Why would they