...in view which we cannot but admire and approve : " As for you," speaking to his guilty brethren, " ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto...pass as it is this day, to save much people alive." Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, whom Jesus loved, was sick : when Jesus heard, he expressed...

...evil against me," was his language to his brethren, in allusion to their selling him for a slave: " but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people d 1 Cor. x. 31. * Rom. viii. 28. alive. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God." 3. He,...

...Joseph reason, when comforting his brethren about their former conduct after his father's death, Gen. l. 20, " As for you ye thought evil against me ; but...pass as it is this day, to save much people alive." 5. The Lord's people have the same common support and encouragement set before them in his promises...

...unwittingly accomplish the counsels of God. " As for you," saith Joseph to his brethren, Gen. 1. 20. " ye thought " evil against me ; but God meant it unto...to " bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much peo" pie alive." And how doth St. Peter address the brethren of that other Joseph ? " Him, being de"...

...nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life." " As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good." You acted a criminal part ; but the event brought about by your conduct, was as important as the existence...

...against " him ;" but "they were not able to perform it;" " for God meant it unto good, to bring it to pass, as " it is this day, to save much people alive :" Gen. 1. 20. So let all the designs of ungodly men against thy church, O LOrd, through thy power...

...servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not : for am I in the place of God ? 20 But as foryou,ye esses ; for they luejre been ever of old. 7 Remember...of my youth, nor my transgressions : according to t 21 Now therefore fear ye not: 1 will nourish you, and your little ones. And ic comforted them, and...

...Psal.xvii.11,12,13. ' Psal. xxvi. 9, 10. h Psal. Ixxi. 4. ' Psal. cxix. 121,134. k Psal. Ixxiv. 19,40,21. you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is this day. Now therefore, fear ye not : I will nourish you, and your little ones ; and he comforted them, and...

...forgiven, you must seek not from me but from God. " Ye thought evit against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive." Your fears are groundless. I tell you now what I said to you seventeen years ag°; I mean wha,t I said...

...Behold, we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not : for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant...pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. . 21 Now therefore fear ye not ; 1 will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and...