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SERMON I.

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GENESIS XXXIX. 2.

The Lord was with Jofeph.

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MONGST all the noble and in- SER M. ftructive hiftories recorded in the Old Testament, there is not perhaps one from whence fo much useful knowledge may be drawn, as from the narration now before us; wherein the circumstances are fo peculiarly interefting, the diftrefs fo exquifite, the escapes fo miraculous, the confequences fo unexpected,

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SERM. and at the fame time fo defirable; the whole fo feelingly and fo pathetically defcribed, as to merit our repeated notice, and to call for our perpetual admiration. I intend therefore to lay before you, as briefly as poffible, the several occurrences of this beautiful relation; and as I pafs along, to draw from them fuch inferences and reflections as may poffibly be of fome fervice to us with regard to our own future conduct.

The hiftory of Jofeph may indeed, with the utmost propriety, be called the history of Virtue, of virtue deferted, perfecuted, and oppreffed, ftruggling through a variety of afflictions and temptations, fupported throughout by the interpofition of Divine Providence, at length emerging from darknefs and defpair to light and life, rifing fuperior to all its calamities, and fhining forth in the utmoft

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