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 ...

§. 118. Of Joseph's prerogatives.

THe prerogatives wherewith Ioseph was honoured and blessed, were these fol∣lowing.

• 1. His comely feature. Gen. 39. 6.
• 2. His Fathers love. Gen. 37. 3.
• 3. His birthright. 2 Chron. 5. 1, 2.
• 4. Gods blessing on his affairs. Gen. 39. 2, 23.
• 5. The favour of all that were over him. Gen. 39. 4, 21. and 41. 38.
• 6. An extraordinary divine spirit. Gen. 37. 6. &c. and 40. 8. and 41. 25.
• 7. High honour, even next to the King. Gen. 41. 40.
• 8. Ability and opportunity of doing good. Gen. 41. 57.
• 9. A reservation of his own, and Childrens right to the Church of God, though he lived most of his dayes in strange land, where he was a prime Gover∣nour, and where his Children were born and brought up. Psal. 48. 6.
• 10. A reputation to be as his father Iacob, and other his forefathers, a stock and head of the Church; the members whereof are stiled, the Sons of Iacob and Ioseph, Psal. 77. 15.
• 11. A numerous progenie. Gen. 49. 22. Two Tribes issued from him, and one of them, namely Ephraim, was more numerous than most of the other.
• 12. The many years that he lived, which were an hundred and ten. Genes. 50. 22.
• 13. An honorable laying him in a co•…•…fin, wherein he continued hundreds of years. Gen. 50. 26.
• 14. The carrying of his bones in the aforefaid cosfin with the Israelites, when they were delivered out of Egypt▪ Exod. 13. 19.
• 15. His buriall in that part of Canaan, which by lot fell to Ephraim, and be∣came the inheritance of the Children of Ioseph.

In these prerogatives of Ioseph, we have an instance of the providence and bounty of God towards such as fear him.