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AVING followed this charming history in its plain literal sense, and endeavoured to draw from it some of those moral lessons which it abundantly affords, I now propose to shew something of its spiritual meaning, in which a still more precious history than that of Joseph, and a still more heavenly lesson than his life teaches, are delivered.

All the great public characters of the Old Testament history were types or representatives of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and the history of each of them was representative of His history, not always strictly of His outward life, but always of His inward experience. The history of Joseph has many points of resemblance to that of our Lord, though not always in the same connective order. It does not destroy the correspondence that the incidents in Joseph's history,