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children must be content to be absent one from
another, when it is necessary, on either side,
for the service of God or their generation. In
Joseph's transactions with the Egyptians
observe,
The great extremity that Egypt, and the parts
adjacent, were reduced to by the famine. There
was no bread, and they fainted (Ge 47:13),
they were ready to die, Ge 47:15, 19.
1. See here what a dependence we have upon
God's providence. If its usual favours are
suspended but for a while, we die, we perish,
we all perish. All our wealth would not keep
us from starving if the rain of heaven were but
withheld for two or three years. See how much
we lie at God's mercy, and let us keep
ourselves always in his love.
2. See how much we smart by our own
improvidence. If all the Egyptians had done
for themselves in the seven years of plenty as
Joseph did for Pharaoh, they had not been now
in these straits; but they regarded not the
warning they had of the years of famine,
concluding that to-morrow shall be as this day,
next year as this, and much more abundant.