An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Then Fourthly, When Ephraim spake, trembling.¹

1. 1Obs. 4.

Though Ephraim the younger, yet when he got Authority in his hand, how imperious was he? And observe, The meaner the beginnings of men are, the more imperious often-times they are when they come in place of Power, none more imperious and insulting over men than such as have meaner beginnings: this was the younger Brother, and had power by a special providence of God, not according to ⟨p. 419⟩the ordinary common course, and very often we find it, that men of mean quality, and that were inferior to others, if any providences raises them above others, they grow more imperious than others.

Though Ephraim the yonger, yet when he got Authority in his hand, how imperious was he? And observe, The meaner the beginings of men are, the more imperious often-times they are when they come in place of Power, none more imperious and insulting over men than such as have meaner beginings: this was the yonger Brother, and had power by a special providence of God, not according to ⟨p. 419⟩the ordinary common course, and very often we find it, that men of mean qualitie, and that were inferior to others, if any providences raises them above others, they grow more imperious than others.

And then a Fifth is this, (which is a principal thing to be observed here, a Note from the change of the condition of Ephraim, when Ephraim spake, trembling, but after he sinned, he died.) That men which heretofore have