How swiftly does the course of time, like the current of fome mighty ftream, bear away fucceffive generations of men! We who fo lately witneffed the dying fcenes of the father, now approach to contemplate the clofing moments of the fon., We behold Jofeph arrived at the age of an hundred and ten years. He has lived to fee the pofterity of his fons Ephraim's children of the third generation, and the children of Machir the fon of Manaffes, brought up upon his knees to receive of him, as their fathers did from Jacob, the bleffing of a dying patriarch. With his dying. breath he expreffes his faith in God, and affures his brethren of the fulfilment of the divine promifes. He charges them to keep his bones unburied, till the day fhould come, when they fhould be fettled in the land of Canaan; and, like his father, he exacts of them a promife, with an oath, that they would bury him there. So Jofeph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. BUT not in Egypt did the bones of Jofeph moulder into duft. Like Jacob, it was his dying hope, to be gathered unto his fathers: In this coffin, therefore, are his bones preferved, till the deliverance of the children of Ifracl out of Egypt. As they journey through the wilderness, the bones of Jofeph travel with them: And when they arrive at the promifed land of their inheritance, then do thefe find their refting-place in Canaan. So when our SPIRITS quit this mortal clay, they find not here their burying place. In this Egypt we fojourn for awhile, but Canaan is our ever- * Thus far have, we considered The history of Joseph according to the letter, buo is has also a spiritual meaning a typical FAN D. reference to one of rearter than greater Soveply. We have a Frather in Heaven who hath sent sunto us his beloved Lom to dee if Ud. I 20s were wells with reception, who that Son of his Fathers love has med with from his brethen on Earth, bears a striking resemblance to the Treatment The favorite Son of Jacobi Despised a rejected, harted: prosecuted, Stripped of his raimeico,. Fold at a Jorice. delivered into the hands length of The Gewtites, & as Cowlified & stain, was this Antitype of Joseph. Yet The Clessed Jesus sleeps not with the dead, thoughhe was cast into the Ro made his grave with the wicked; he is alive again, he is risen, us to prepare a place & you: & to save much people alive; Where. He is, thither muso sos his bretheen go до Lo when our spirits quit this mortal clay, they find heze - their burfing place In this Egypt |