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that keep the balance even between prince and
people, so that liberty and property may not
intrench upon prerogative, nor the prerogative
bear hard upon liberty and property: in the
multitude of such counsellors there is safety.
If afterwards the Egyptians thought it hard to
pay so great a duty to the king out of their
lands, they must remember, not only how just,
but how kind, the first imposing of it was.
They might thankfully pay a fifth where all
was due. It is observable how faithful Joseph
was to him that appointed him. He did not put
the money into his own pocket, nor entail the
lands upon his own family; but converted both
entirely to Pharaoh's use; and therefore we do
not find that his posterity went out of Egypt
any richer than the rest of their poor brethren.
Those in public trusts, if they raise great
estates, must take heed that it be not at the
expense of a good conscience, which is much
more valuable.
2. For their persons, he removed them to cities,
Ge 47:21. He transplanted them, to show
Pharaoh's sovereign power over them, and that
they might, in time, forget their titles to their
lands, and be the more easily reconciled to
their new condition of servitude. The Jewish