Excerpt from The Life of Joseph, the Son of Israel: In Eight Books; Chiefly Designed to Allure Young Minds to a Love of the Sacred Scriptures Kept in countenance by the molt ortho dox of our commentators, who all have their fuppofitions conjeelures on ma; ny places of facred fcripture. It may be, my young reader could even wiih that I had more enlarged upon the fanciful part of the fiory. To him I would make this apology for myfelf. I wrote with caution, always keeping 1n my eye the people above referred to, and was cautious of ofiending them for I know that n is poflible for a man to be deemed anheretic, for afew things which to them appear to be new and out of the beaten traet of orthodoxy therefore I had a reflraint upon my own inclination, which otherwil'e would have led me to give a free fcope to my fancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.