Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse /

AND Joseph fell upon his Father's Face, And did with Tears his lifeless Lips embrace: And sends for his Physicians and advises Them, to embalm his Father's Corpse with Spices: And they did so, and forty days did pass. (For so the manner of Embalming was) And the Egyptians mourned for the space Of threescore and ten days, which being expired He spake to Pharaoh's Servants and desired, That they would please to speak in Pharaoh's Ear, And tell him that my Father made me swear, That I should bury him in Canaan, where He hath provided his own Sepulchre: I therefore pray thee that I may obtain Thy leave, and I will soon return again. And Pharaoh said, Since thou hast sworn, fulfil Thy Oath, according to thy Father's Will. ⟨p. 87⟩And Joseph went up to accompany His Father's Corpse with great Solemnity: And with him went up Pharaoh's Servants, and The prime Nobility of all the Land, And Joseph's Household, and his Brethren all, Only their Flocks, and Herds, and Children small Were left behind: Moreover there went up Chariots and Horsemen, even a mighty Troop. And they came up to Arad's threshing floor Beyond the River Jordan, where full sore They mourned for him till seven days were past, So long their Mourning in that Place did last. Which when the Canaanites beheld they said, Surely some eminent Egyptian's dead: Wherefore they called it Abel-mizraim. 'Thus did his Sons as he commanded them. For to the Land of Canaan they conveyed Him, and in Machpelah near Mamre, laid His Body in the Cave which Ephron sold To Abraham, for him and his to hold. And thus when Joseph fully had performed His Father's Will, to Egypt he returned, Together with his Brethren, and with all Them that came with him to the Funeral. Now Joseph's Brethren being well aware That they were Fatherless, began to fear That he would hate them, and requite them all The Evil they had treated him withal. Wherefore to him they sent a Messenger And said, Behold our Father did declare Before he died that we should come and say, Forgive thy Brethren's Trespasses, I pray,