The heads of some sermons preached at Finnick, the 17 of August. 1662 By…

Hold your tongues, saith Joseph to his brethren, God is wise enough in this, much shame and lack belongs to you for your selling of me, but God was wise enough for all that, he brought it about for good; and then ye know the uncouth dispensation that was trysted with the Church in Egypt, what sad things they met with, before they went forth from it, that jostled against both commands prophecies, and predictions, after promised liberty ⟨p. 55⟩their bondage grows ay the longer the worse, then they resolve to slay all the male-children, but truly they never throve fast till then there is an uncouth providence, the decree comes out to slay all the men children, but it's said, the more they slew, the more they increased. Now but ye may think they had grown many of them, and they had not slain none of them in faith, ye are all mistaken, there would never have been so many of them, the more they slew, the more they increased, and that way God brought them to be above these lowns, wherein they were cruel, well yet the dispensation grows ay the more and the more uncouth, the King grows ay angrier and angrier: angrier may he be, shame nor he burst at the broad side for anger, but if his anger should rive him all a bits, they shall come out of Egypt that day, 400 years that they entered in, and so they did, ye would even be telling their things now, Sirs, to one another, and then ye know the sad dispensation they were exercised with, after they went out of Egypt, before they came to the land of Canaan, when the red sea is before them, and a rock on every hand, and Pharaoh and all his host behind, this was the uncouthest dispensation of all, yet by it came the most glorious work of all, for then they were made fully and for ever quite of Pharaoh and all his company, they were never troubled more with them, God sets ay all his enemies once fair a foot on the field, he gives ay a good account of his enemies once in the field, and some to the sword, but the next time they are sought, they are not to be found. Ye need not think that these days are all away, in truth I think they are but even coming, yet many of them whenever God gives over good an account of the adversaries of the Church, they had need to say their last prayers, for truly they are near a close.

Hold your tongues, saith Ioseph to his brethren, God is wise enough in this, much shame and lack belongs to you for your selling of me, but God was wise enough for all that, he brought it about for good; and then ye know the uncouth dispensation that was tristed with the Church in Egypt, what sad things they met with, before they went forth from it, that justled against both commands prophecys, and predictions, after promised liberty