The Mine Explored; Or, Help to the Reading of Te Bible (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...or the partiality of his father; discountenancing the sin" of the former, and prompt in his obedience to the latter: b though unjustly sold as a slave, he is represented as strictly faithful to his master;c abhorring youthful lust, though exposed to the strongest temptation f afflicted and persecuted, yet finding, even when confined as a criminal, opportunity for doing good; and though flattered by a king, disowning his own power to interpret Pharaoh's dream, and boldly avowing before this heathen and despotic monarch the power of God.f At the age of thirty years, he is suddenly raised to the right hand of Pharaoh, yet is unseduced by the splendour of his situation. Being guided by the Spirit, he becomes a pattern to rulers, of industry, prudence, and justice. As a courtier, he shows the strictest regard to truth, with true nobleness of mind avowing the disreputable employment of his connections.1' As a brother, he exhibits unabated affection not only to Benjamin,1 but to those who had hated him even unto death; for his apparent harshness arose from his anxiety to bring them to repentance; and when he had accomplished this," his whole conduct to them was marked by peculiar tenderness, and the most studied attention to their feelings and welfare.1 As a son, though lord of Egypt, he manifests the most affectionate respect for his aged parent, who was now dependent upon him.TM As a father, his piety appears in the names he gave his children;" and his earnest desire for God's blessing upon them, in bringing them to Jacob's dying bed." For eighty years" he lived in the midst of the greatest worldly grandeur, surrounded with every temptation to worldliness and idolatry; but his dying breath testified how entirely his heart and treasure wer...