JOSEPH AND JESUS:

BEING

AN ATTEMPT TO SHED NEW TESTAMENT LIGHT

UPON OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.

BY THE

REV. W. LINCOLN, A.K.C.,

CURATE OF PUDSEY, NEAR LEEDS.

LEEDS:

J. HEATON, 7, BRIGGATE.

LONDON:

HOULSTON & STONEMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1853.

101. d. 356.

TO

THE CHRISTIANS AND OTHER PROFESSORS

ASSEMBLING TO WORSHIP GOD IN

Pudsey Church,

THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSES,

DELIVERED BEFORE YOU,

ARE AFFECTIONATELY SUBMITTED,

AS A SMALL MEMORIAL

OF THAT SPIRITUAL BOND OF UNION WHICH HAS,

THROUGH THE LORD'S MERCY,

EXISTED BETWEEN US,

AND AS A SOLEMN TOKEN THAT

The Gospel

HAS BEEN FAITHFULLY DELIVERED

IN YOUR EARS,

BY YOUR Obedient SERVANT IN CHRIST,

WILLIAM LINCOLN.

PREFACE.

The object of the following pages is to testify of the Person, Work, Love, Grace, Preciousness, Fulness, and Glory of Christ. I am well aware this can never be adequately and fully accomplished. No christian, nay, no saint triumphant, can achieve this; and less, far less, can burning seraph or lofty archangel. They may be, and ever are, telling of Jesus' blessed love; but never, never, can it be said that they have told it. The Love of Jesus is an ocean without shore, or bottom, or brim. The Grace of Jesus is infinite. The Preciousness of Jesus must be felt, must be experienced. The Fulness of Jesus is inexhaustible. The Glory of Jesus is seen best from the Cross, where all the divine attributes meet together in one undazzling focus; but which still, even there, can only be surveyed, cannot be comprehended. Why then attempt a theme confessedly ineffable? Say, rather, Why not? It ravishes the saint, it renews the sinner, it oft rouses the careless, godless slumberer and sleeper. To think and speak of Jesus,