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I doe remember my faults] God gives the Butler occasion to call Joseph to mind, whom he had forgotten till now, at least had not made good his promise to remember him to Pharaoh; he beginneth with a confession of his fault, but so as meaning rather to please Pharaoh then to performe his promise made unto Joseph, of whose condition he had no mind to thinke, or speake, because he had endured it as an aggrievance: and he was loath to remember Josephs state to the King, lest the remembrance of his owne fault (if he were guiltie) should be renewed, or the Kings wrong (if he were innocent); yet this forgetfulnesse was serviceable to the divine providence, for thereby Josephs knowledge of interpretation of dreames was reserved to the best occasion to make use of it, to the fittest season, when the Magicians consulted with (about Pharaohs dreames) could not say any thing for the interpretation thereof.

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