And when the people hungered they cried to Pharaoh asking meat, to whom he answered: Go ye to Joseph, and whatsoever he saith to you do ye.

"Here, I tell you, is the prophecy of Joseph to prove it, away back in 1832: 'Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will terminate in the death and misery of many souls.

The text saith plainly, 'The holy Ghost shall glorify me, &c.' Now Christ is in the faithful (although they have and feel sins, do confess the same, and with sorrow of heart do complain thereover); therefore sins do not separate Christ from those that believe.

But we are far from any such strange conceits, and will permit our wives and daughters to go to the tavern with a friend, as Aubanus saith, modo absit lascivia, and suspect nothing, to kiss coming and going, which, as Erasmus writes in one of his epistles, they cannot endure.

Wherefore the Holy Spirit saith: "To-day, if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

[6160]Alexander Phaereus was murdered of his wife, ob pellicatus suspitionem, Tully saith.

If this be true now, as some out of experience will inform us, farewell wiving for my part, and as the comical poet merrily saith, "Perdatur ille pessime qui foeminam Duxit secundus, nam nihil primo imprecor!