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Joseph reviv'd, or, The twelve last chapters of Genesis metaphrazed containing the life & death of holy Joseph / by George Lesly ...
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Lesly, George, d. 1701.
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Wing L1177; ESTC R7199
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JOSEPH REVIV'D OR The Twelve last Chapters of Genesis Metaphrazed Containing the LIFE DEATH Of Holy JOSEPH By GEORGE LESLY Minister of Wittering in Northamptonshier And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God Rom. 8.28 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Charles Smith at the Angel near the Inner Temple gate Fleetstreet 1676. IMPRIMATUR Gul. Jane S.T.B. Reverend in Christo Paâ—ti D no Henrico Episc Lond. Ã Sacris Domesticis Jan. 17. 1675. To the Right Worshipful WILL. WYMONDESOLD ESQUIRE Mr. EDMUND Mr. RICHARD Mr. MATTHEW and Mr. THOMAS his Brethren with their truly Vertuous Mother and Sisters Worthy Sirs and Ladies BEING about to throw my Mite into the Publick Treasury to plant a tender VINE in the Lords VINEYARD I thought you fittest to fence it with Your favourable Aspects who are not onely almost equal in Number but Vertues to those Sacred Patriarchs whose History I have metaphrazed The Meeter is like my Self dull and despicable but the Matter is of Divine Inspiration which requires Your acceptance by Heavens Authority while as the other onely lets the World know that I am YOURS Extraordinary obliged GEO. LESLY Wittering Jan. 7. 1675 6. TO THE READER IF Heaven be pleas'd to dart his glorious Rayes Into my Soul let others take the Bayes Who climb Parnassus and Mount Helicon For airy Notions while I at the Throne Of Mercy beg an understanding Heart To measure out what Moses did impart To th' World concerning Jacob and his Seed Mong whom a Dream did great dissention breed Though God inspir'd the Prophet from above And he poor Heart revealed all in love Whose harmless Vision counted was a crime And so perhaps may this my humble Rhime Yet if in friendly manner you disclose My oversights I 'le mend or write in Prose G. L. To my Worthy Friend Mr. GEORGE LESLY upon his Poem called JOSEPH Reviv'd WITH Fiction while the airy Poet doth Abuse the Text thou tell'st the naked truth Thou stuff'st thy Verse with Sense and every Rhime Compleat speaks thee a Poet without crime He who in Sacred Phrase was once forlorn And piece-meal shown like to his Garment torn Thou offer'st whole snips and shred's thy Theam Thou draw'st his Story up without a Seam O happy Art thrice Joseph rides in State In Pharaoh's Second Char'ot first then date His second Trophy with Divine Records His Honour last commenceth with thy words Bid Breth'ren all his Glory'n Egypt tell He needs not now thy Pen hath don 't so well That all the Brittish Orb of it may ring And we of thee while thou of him do'st sing Tho. Woolsey D.D. JOSEPH REVIV'D OF Rachel's long'd for darling since I sing And thy beloved help me Jacob's King My Bark is crazie and my stock is small Yet if thou Wind and Sea command I shall Safe to the Harbour this my Pinnace bring Then of my self and it make offering At Padan-aram had this worthy breath Not long before the beauteous Rachels death Yet Hebron was the place of his abode At seventeen years belov'd of man and God Where with his Brethren Dan and Napthali Asher and Gad he on the downs did lie Feeding the Flocks with them their ill report Grieved the Lad for which he did resort Unto his aged Father and declar'd Those passages that he had seen and heard These actions Boy to them will fatal prove Though I can never take from thee that love I unto Rachel while she liv'd did bear For proof whereof this Livery take and wear This with his tydings did exasperate His Brethrens spirits so that him they hate Which heaven soon perceiveth and his fame Raiseth by dreams to be fulfill'd on them The which when he awake begins to tell Their eyes inflame and hearts with anger swell Against the harmless Youth who ne'rtheless In friendly manner did it thus express This night said he as we all binding were Sheaves in the field mine did it self uprear In King-like posture and yours round did stand Making obeisance waiting its command To which his Brethren hastily reply'd Shalt thou reign o're us Shall it e're be said That thou shalt have dominion No thy grave Is just reward for these thy Dreams to have Yet where Jehovah works no man can let He dreams again of their succeeding fate Which he once more doth unto them reveale And said this other I will not conceale And thus it was Behold the Sun and Moon With Stars eleven to me have homage done Of this he did not only certifie His Brethren but his Father who did cry Fie Son what mean these uncouth thoughts be sure Such wild presages I shall ne'r endure Think'st thou that I my Wife and Children too Shall crouch and bow and fall 'fore such as you No child be wise forbear thus to divine Lest all the rest against thee do combine This storm is ceased and the young men gone Their flocks to feed in Sechem every one For whose long absence neither night nor day Can Jacob rest till Joseph's sent away Who said Go down and see if all be right I 've suffered much for my ten Sons this night Your will said he is unto me a Law I 'le go to Sechem though I never saw The place no sooner doth he undertake his journey than the way he doth forsake And wanders too and fro in open field Till one drew nigh and pitied the child Saying What seek'st thou Stripling 't is my grief To see thee straying here without relief My Brethren Sir said he pray tell me whither They 've driven their flocks to feed I must go thither Boy answer'd he I think I heard them say Rise up and let 's to Dothan streight away And there they are for any thing I know The grass is good because the ground is low My thanks I give you Sir and if I find Them there I 'le say you were exceeding kind This said he runneth thither joyfully Not dreaming once of any danger nigh But 't was a dream for he 's no sooner spy'd By his malicious Brethren than they cry'd Behold our Dreamer comes prophetick Mome Come let us slay him he shall ne'r go home And cast him in some Pit then we will say Some evil Beast hath ta'ne his life away And then 't is hop'd that we shall quickly see A final end both of his Dreams and he But Reuben who was judg'd least to respect God or his Father doth the Lad protect Sa'ing Let 's not kill him for some time or other It will come out remember he 's our Brother If his Blood cry let us not think to thrive We 'll rather put him in this Pit alive This course he was the willinger to take Because thereby he thought to get him back Safe to his Father All this time the Lad Thought of no ill nor yet suspicion had But rush'd among them ravished with joy Wishing them health who answer Foolish Boy Hast not more Dreams