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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44364	The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.	Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2663A; ESTC R224173	399,190	375

years service Jacob asking leave of Laban to return into his own Country he was held there six years more upon another bargain made between him and his Father-in-law Laban for a certain part of his Flock Jacob perceiving the heart burning of Laban and his Sons malice towards him was warned of God to return into his own Country year of the world 2265 which having communicated to his Wives whilst Laban was sheering his Sheep at the latter end of the Spring after his twenty years service getting away unknown to Laban with all his Substance Jacob gets away from Laban unknown to him Wives and Family passed over the River Euphrates Laban three dayes after hearing that his Son-in-law was gone took some of his Friends and Kindred along with him and persued after him seven dayes Journey and at last overtook him at mount Gilead which took its name from this their Meeting there for after many and divers Expostulations which passed there between them making all fair at last Laban following after him and overtaking him came to agreement with him for a Testimony and Monument of their Covenant there made Jacob erected a Pillar with an heap of Stones which Laban the Syrian called Jegar-Sahadutha but Jacob the Hebrew called Gilead that is the heap of a Testimony or Witness between them two Jacob being sent away in peace by Laban He is affrighted with the news of Esau approach but affrighted with the news of his Brother Esau's approach with four hundred men divided his Company into two saying If he smite one then the other Company which is left shall escape and calls upon God saying O God of my Father Abraham Isaac c. which saidest unto me return into thy Country and to thy Kindred and I will deal well with thee deliver me I pray thee from the hand of my Brother Esau Esau having entertained his Brother courteously after much intreaty accepts of his Presents Jacob then went on to Su●●oth and there he built him an House and afterwards passing over Jordan he came into Canaan and pitched his Tent in Salem and there he built an Altar He presents Esau with Presents which he called by the name of El-Elohe-Israel or of the mighty God the God of Israel to wit in the self same place where Abraham had heretofore built his first Altar and where Jacob's Well was I am now come to write of Joseph who being Seventeen Years of Age year of the world 2276 when his Brethren saw that their Father loved him more then all his Brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him The cause why Ioseph's Brethren hated him and Joseph declaring his Dream to them the Lord having shewed him that he should be set above his Brethren and be the chief of his Fathers Family they hated him yet the more and first they conspired his death They conspired his Death at last sold him and at length agreed to sell him away for a Bond slave unto a far Country so drawing him out of the Pit whereinto they had cast him they sold him to the Merchants for twenty pieces of Silver and was by them carried into Aegypt and there sold for a Slave to Potipher Captain of the Guard to Pharaoh He is sold to Captain of the Pharaoh's Guard where he was tempted by Potiphers Wife to Uncleanness and because he refused to do such Evil she by her Lyes instigated Potipher her Husband against him who put him in Prison but the Lord was with Joseph and shewed him mercy and gave him favour in the sight of the Keeper of the Prison and that which he did the Lord made it to prosper Two of the Officers of Pharaoh's Court year of the world 2287 being Imprisoned in the same Prison with Joseph having both of them Dreamed Joseph interpreted their Dreams unto them which came to pass according to his interpretation and saith Joseph to one of them When thou art restored into thy place after thy former manner think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness I pray thee unto me and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this House for indeed I was stolen away out of the Land of the Hebrews and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the Dungeon But when this Officer was restored again into Pharaohs Court he remembered not Joseph Ioseph expert in interpreting the Dreams Two Years after Pharaoh Dreamed two Dreams which seeing he could not get expounded by his own Wise men but hearing of Josephs expertness to enterpret Dreams sent for him being then thirty Years Old who having opened to the King his Dreams first that of the Seven Years of Plenty He interpreeted the Kings Dream then the Seven Years of Famine He added moreover as his councel and advice how to provide out of the store of the first Years of Plenty against the Famine of the other Seven Years of Scarcity Pharaoh advanced Ioseph which were to follow whereupon by the general consent of his Nobles he made him Governor of the Kingdom Seven Year Plenty From the Harvest of this Year being to be counted Seven Years of Plenty wherein Joseph laid up an infinite Treasure of Corn. The Seven Years of the Famine began from the Harvest of this Year year of the world 2296 wherein the forecast and wisdom of Joseph did not only sustain Egypt Seven years of Famine but was a help and relief to other Countries Jacob dispatched away ten of his Sons into Aegypt to buy Corn year of the world 2297 to whom Joseph seeming not to know caused to be taken for Spies and being laid hold on he spake roughly unto them and said Jacob sends his Sons into Egypt to buy Corn and they are taken for Spies Whence came ye and they said From the Land of Canaan to buy Food And Joseph knew his Brethren but they knew not him and he said They were come as Spies to see the Nakedness of the Land they said They were true men and thy Servants are twelve Brethren the Sons of one man in the Land of Canaan and behold the Youngest is this day with our Father and one is not and Joseph said Ye are Spies Ioseph sends all of them away with Corn but one whom he kept Prisoner till they brought their Youngest Brother hereby shall it be proved if ye be true men let one of your Brethren be bound in Prison go ye carry Corn for the Famine of your Houses but bring your Youngest Brother unto me so shall your words be verified and you shall not die and they did so And they said one to the other We are verily guilty concerning our Brother in that we saw the anguish of his Soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this Distress come upon us and Ruben answered them saying speak not I unto you saying Do not

also bereft of his Children and at last tormented with grievous Botches and Sores in his Body he could yet never be drawn through impatience to sin in any sort whereof having first received a Testimony from Gods own mouth he was afterwards restored to his former health and had cast into his Bossom double of whatever he possessed before Joseph being dead and Pharaoh And now when Joseph was dead and all his Brethren and that Generation and the Children of Israel were fruitfull and increased aboundantly and muliplied and waxed exceeding mighty and the Land was filled with them A new King rose up that afflicted the Israelites Now there arose up a new King over Egypt which knew not Joseph and he began to afflict them but the more they were afflicted the more they multiplyed and grew and the Egyptians made the Children of Israel to serve with Rigor and they made their lives bitter with hard Bondage and kept them under with great severity Aaron was born three years before his Brother Moses year of the world 2430 eighty three years before the departure of the Children of Israel out of Egypt The Ungodly King of Egypt year of the world 2431 when he could not prevail with the Midwives of the Hebrew Women privily to make away the Male-Children of them set forth a barbarous Edict to destroy them all The King made an Edict to destroy the Male-Children by drowning them in the River About this time Moses the Son of Amram of the House of Levi was born and when his Mother saw he was a goodly Child being willing to preserve him year of the world 2433 she hid him three Moneths and when she could no longer hide him Moses born she took for him an Ark of Bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the Child therein and she laid it in the Flags by the Rivers brink his Sister standing aloof off from the place to see what would become of him and Pharaohs daughter finding him there caused her maids to fetch it His wonderful fetchfetch and when she had opened it she saw the Child and behold it wept and she had compassion on him and said this is one of the Hebrews Children then said his Sister to Pharaohs Daughter Shall I go and call a Nurse to thee of the Hebrew Women that she may nurse the Child for thee and Pharaohs Daughter said go and the maid went and called the Childs Mother and she nursed him and Pharaohs Daughter called his Name Moses because she drew him out of the Water and she caused him to be brought up as her Son and caused him to be instructed in the Science and Learning of the Egyptians And thus did the Lord wonderfully preserve him which noteth no less then that he intended to make him an Instrument in some great Work as indeed it so came to pass for as he grew in years the Lord put it in his heart to slight the honours of Pharaohs Court for he refused to be called the Son of Pharaohs Daughter year of the world 2513 choosing rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater Riches then the Treasures in Egypt for he had respect to the Recompence of Reward And now the Lord having chosen him into his work and service he indued him with such a Spirit of Meekness that none was like him upon the Earth and being thus fitted he had often tryals and exercises of his patience by the People he was to govern who were often murmuring and repining against him And the Lord appeared unto him whilest he was keeping his Father-in-law Jethros Sheep in the Mountain of Horeb and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of Fire out of the midest of a Bush and behold the Bush burned with Fire and the Bush was not Consumed and the Lord said unto him I am the God of thy Father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob and Moses hid his Face for he was afraid to look upon God and the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my People which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their Tusk-masters for I know their sorrow and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians And he chose Moses as an Instrument to go unto Pharaoh and to bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt to whom as an Assistant in this work Aaron was added Moses and Aron declare their Message to Pharaoh Moses and Aaron having declared unto Pharaoh the Message in which they were sent unto him from God were sent away with many bad words and many more grievous labours were inflicted upon the Israelites then were before They go again to Pharaoh Moses being now eighty and Aaron eighty three Years of Age being moved by the Lord returned again to Pharaoh where the Magitians immitating the Miracles of Aarons Rod God plagued Pharaoh made Pharaoh harden his heart so that he would not let the Children of Israel go wherefore the Lord sent divers Plagues upon Pharaoh before they would let the Children of Israel go and when the last Plague was brought upon them When they were departed Pharaoh and his Host followed them then Pharaoh and his Servants made haste to send away the Israelites with all their Substance being six hundred thousand men besides Children and now being departed Pharaoh with his Host over-took them here Moses divided the Waters with his Rod whom Pharaoh and his Army would needs follow The Children of Israel sung a Song a Song to the Lord for their deliverance they were all overwhelmed of the Waters coming together again when the Israelites were thus freed from the Bondage of the Egyptians they forth-with song a Song of Praise and Thanks-giving unto God for their deliverance which is called the Song of Moses After their encamping in the desert of Sinai Moses went up into the Mount and the Lord said unto him Thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob and tell the Children of Israel Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bear you on Eagles Wings and brought you unto my self now therefore if you will obey my Voice indeed and keep my Covenant then ye shall be a Peculiar Treasure unto me above all People for all the Earth is mine and ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of Priests and an holy Nation and Moses told the People what the Lord had Commanded him all the People answered together and said All that the Lord hath spoken we will do But the Reader may see how ready and apt these People were to forget the tender dealings of the Lord towards them for Moses and Aaron and several of the Elders of Israel went up into the Mount and there beheld the Glory of God and the

sin against the Child and ye would not hear They confess the evil they had done against Ioseph therefore behold his blood is required and they knew not that Joseph understood them for he speak unto them by an Interpreter and he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and communed with them and took from them Simeon the chiefest of them who consented to sell him and cast him into Prison and now being dismissed they carried away their Corn and with it the Money that they had payed for it being conveyed into their Sacks by the secret appointment of Joseph they tell their Father Jacob all that happened unto them They tell their Father what happened and withal declared unto him the necessity that laid upon them of carrying there Younger Brother Benjamin into Aegypt perswading him by all means to let him go but Jacob their Father said unto them He was loath to part with Benjamin but being press with Famine let him go Me have ye bereaved of my Children Joseph is not and Simeon is not and you will take away Benjamin all these things are against me but Jacob pressed with Famine sent again his Sons and with them his Son Benjamin furnished with double Money and other Presents to Joseph to buy more Corn and they at their return were courteously entertained year of the world 2298 for when Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the Ruler of his House Bring these men home and slay and make ready for these men shall dine with me at Noon And the man did as Joseph bad Ioseph Entertains them and the man brought the men into Josephs House and the men were affraid because they were brought into Josephs House and they said Because of the Money that was returned in our Sacks the first time are we brought in that he may seek Occasion against us but the Steward comforted them saying Peace be unto you fear not your God and the God of your Fathers hath given you Treasure in your Sacks I had your Money and he brought Simeon out unto them And Joseph asked them of their welfare saying Is your Father well the old man of whom you spake is he yet alive and they answered Thy Servant our Father is in good health he is yet alive When he saw his Benjamin his Mothers Son he made haste for his Bowels did yern upon his Brother and he sought where to weep and he entered into his Chamber and wept there and after they had eaten he commanded the Steward of his House to fill their Sacks with Food and to put a silver Cup in the Sacks mouth of the youngest His Contrivance to stay his Brethren and when they were gone Joseph sent after them and caused them to be stopt for taking away his Cup which Crime they endeavoured to put of by shewing how truly they ment by bringing again the Money which they found in their Sacks when they came home offering themselves to die or to be his Bondslaves if any such thing could be proved against them but in the end the Cup being found with Benjamin and they brought back to Joseph they all yeilded themselves to him for his bondslaves which when he refused Jud●h humbly supplicates Joseph saying He would have none but him with whom the Cup was found Judah then humbly offered himself to serve him in Benjamins stead saying When I come to thy Servant my Father and the Lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up in the Lads life it shall come to pass that when he seeth that the Lad is not with us that he will die and thy Servants shall bring down the gray Hairs of thy Servant our Father with Sorrow to the Grave Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he cryed Cause every man to go out from me Joseph maker himself known 〈◊〉 his Brethren and there stood no man with them while Joseph made himself known unto his Brethren and he wept aloud and the Egyptians and the House of Pharaoh heard and Joseph said unto his Brethren I am Joseph doth my Father yet live And his Brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his Presence and Joseph said unto his Brethren Come neer to me I pray you and they came neer and he said I am Joseph your Brother whom ye sold into Egypt and seeing them troubled he comforted them by shewing how that act of theirs was by the Providence of God And he said unto them ●●er he and comm●●ed cha●● he sends for his Father Haste ye and go up to my Father and say unto him Thus saith thy son Joseph God hath made me Lord of all Eygpt Come down unto me tarry not and thou shalt dwell in the Land of Goshen and thou shalt be neer unto me thou and thy Children and thy Childrens Children and thy Flocks and thy Herds and all that thou hast and there will I nourish thee for there are yet five years of Famine and he fell upon his Brother Benjamin's Neck and Benjamin wept upon his Neck moreover he kissed all his Brethren and wept upon them so he sent his Brethren away and they told Jacob all the words of Joseph and when he saw the Waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him the Spirit of Jacob their Father revived When the news was bought to Jacob be revived and Israel said it is enough Joseph my Son is yet alive I will go and see him before I die and God spake unto Israel saying I am God the God of thy Father fear not to down into Egypt for I will there make of thee a great Nation I will go down with thee into Egypt and I will surely bring thee up again and Jacob was one hundred and thirty years old when he went down into Egypt Joseph letting Pharaoh know of the arrival of his Kindred in Egypt Joseph brings five of his Brethren and Father before Pharaoh brought his Father and five of his Brethren into his presence and having communed with him assigned them a fitting place in the Land of Goshen where they were provided of all necessaries by Joseph The Book of Genesis end with the death of Joseph containing the the Story of Two thousand three hundred sixty nine years space which Book that it was written by Moses himself is the opinion of the Talmudists in their Baba-bathra Lib. I. At this time lived Job year of the world 2369 a man of whom it is recorded that he was a man of a perfect and upright heart and one that feared God and eschewed evil and imbraced the Knowledge fo the true God The time when Job lived and all righteousness rich in Substance and the more noted for that neither the enjoyment of those riches corrupted nor the loss of them depraved him in his way for whenas first being spoiled of his Goods by Satan he was