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ne words with the words of Joseph's blessing, the wlioic mystery opens upon my new still more. For that blcs^ ing which the church here prays to be upon Ihe Son uf man, h pruuounccd by Jacob to bifi sou Josopbr and almost in the same word«; "The arms of bis hand^ were made strong by the handA of the mighty Ood of Jacob/' TbU 1 say opcneth to mc the whole mystery of Joseph and his children, that they were sent to be for a type of Messiah io bta character of the Shepherd and stone of Israel ; as Judah was ^ei to be a type of him, as the Lawgivt-r and the Kukr: and that these words, '* from hence is tbe Shepherd and the stone of Israel/' is as much the key to this puiy. pose of Joseph, AS "until Shiloh come/' is the key to the purpose of Judah. Fur no one person except Ad>Lm iriay be said to have beeii a com- plete and perfect type of Christ : from that time forward the types are in fmgmentj, one prcik^uting one port and another nnothcr; and, like a beautiful Mosaic, they do together compose the picture and present the similitude of Christ, Joseph* being to this end chosen, had visions of royal pre* fenncnt above his fath^r,_and nkuti*^r aiuJ all_his II6A tut KiNCtft OK l-HK KABt, I brethren ; and fur th« envy tbereot^ is bmugbt i the pil.^aD emblem of Ephreim'ft captivity. A to perfect cba rosemblancd, wc lose si^t of ib tho (lun^^eoD af Egypt : &o Christy beemuM b^i doclared hiinMlf to be a Kiog, kiu brougbt >t4iH llie <1ttng«on of death and the priiN>ii Uinijttt 'jftbe* tomb, ThtfU JoHCph wii» raJsird Uv tbu right of Pbaroab, and saved both Israel and Egypt, tU thurch and the world ; this came upon the bead him that Mras separated from bb bretbrca. u also came unto the great Nozaritc who was c air from the people. To carry tm thim goo work of typifying the power and glory of Mes in the destmction of all his enemies, was Epbr »cC upQTl und blessed : but he failed> mad for 1 failure was cut off, a^ Adam bad been bafore hi and aa Judah hath b«eu after him. lliey were sci for types to serve for the foreruniters of Hob that was to come : Ihey all set up for themMlvta to become indepondcnt, lo be as gods ; and fi this Ihcy were cut off, and Bhall contiaue cut until the time of the restitution ot^ all ibings. But if the type of Adam is to be recampoud out oftht? pieces into which Satan broke it i mnil cod- ctitutcd ffloriously upon the earth in the Holy Ci of the n»en saints ; and if the typ« of Judab, tbf lawgiver and sceptre- bearer, is to