"Jacob, speaking to his son Joseph, said _I had not thought to have seen thy face, and lo! God hath showed me thy seed, also:_ meaning his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.

And may not many amongst us well say some years hence _We had not thought to have seen a Chief Magistrate again among us, and lo! God hath shown us a Chief Magistrate in his Two Houses of Parliament ?_ Now may the good God make them like Ephraim and Manasseh, that the Three Nations may be blessed in them, saying _God made thee like these Two Houses of Parliament, which two, like Leah and Rachel, did build the House of God!_ May you do worthily in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem!" There was more of the same kind, including a comparison of the new constitution of the _Petition and Advice_ to the perfected eduction of the orderly universe out of chaos.

It was the speech of a Puritan Jean Paul.[1] [Footnote 1: Carlyle, III.

320-326; Commons Journals Jan.

21 and Jan.