A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

§. 116. Of Josephs Trialls.

• 1. IOseph being young was hated of his Brethren; and so hated, as they could not give him a good word; and that not for any desert of his, but because his Father loved him, even deservedly. Gen. 37. 4.
• 2. He coming to enquire of the wellfare of his Brethren, they, upon the first 〈◊〉〈◊〉: of him, conspire to slay him; but being kept from that unnatural fratri∣•…•…, by the eldest among them, they strip him, and cast him into a pit; where when he had lien some while, they take him up, and sell him to strange Merchants 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a slave. Gen. 37. 23, 24, 28. Psal. 105. 17.
• 3. He was brought into Egypt by the foresaid Merchants, and there sold to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Captain of the guard. Gen. 39. 4.
• 4. In his Masters house he was impudently tempted by his Mistress.
• 5. He was falsly accused, and maliciously slandered, by her that tempted 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• 6. He was unjustly cast into prison, Gen. 39. 7. &c.
• 7. In prison, they so manacled, and fettered him, as they hurt his feet with 〈◊〉〈◊〉-fetters. Psal. 105. 18.
• 8. The kindness that he shew'd to a fellow-prisoner, whom he desired to re∣•…•… him, was forgotten. Gen. 40. 23.
• 9. He was kept all his life, after he was once sold, out of the visible Church, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was his Fathers family, in a strange land, where he had his wife, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he died, and where his bones remained for a long while. Gen. 50. 26.

Who may think himself free fnom trialls, when as such a man as Ioseph had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 trialls as he had?