...what was the answer of the venerable Patriarch, and what is the lesson which we may draw from it. " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Many, as far...

...question; How old art thou ? The days of the years of my pilgrimage (said hej are a hundred and thirty : few and evil have the days of the years of my, life been, and OCTOBER, 1825. have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days...

...question, How old art thou ? The days of the years of my pilgrimage (said he) are a hundred and thirty : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and OCTOBER, 1825. have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days...

...The word was thus used by the patriarch, Jacob, when he said to Pharaoh, with pathetic simplicity, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ;" and Solomon observes, also, " all the days of the afflicted are evil." Farther, it is evident, that the...

...For all his days are sorrows, and his travel grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night c. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been d. ; Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust; neither doth trouble spring out of the ground...

...soon fail ; so that the Christian shall be obliged to say, " ' I loathe it : I would not live always. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.' There has been so much disquiet in my family, so much trouble among my children, so many disappointments,...

...the saving of his soul. * Chalmers. Albury Rectory, May, 1825. CONTENTS. SERMON I. MAN A SINNER. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." — Gen. xlvii. 9 1 SERMON II. THE EQUITY AND FULNESS OF REDEMPTION BY JESUS CHRIST. " A just God and...

...set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained...

...time is counted by days, without mention of nights. "The days of our years," ' says the Psalmist. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," * said Jacob, and elsewhere " ¡ill the days of my life." э Thus under the form of history the law...

...are against me" (Gen. 42:36); we may, perhaps, be compelled to feel as he did when he stood before Pharaoh — "The days of the years of my pilgrimage...and evil have the days of the years of my life been" (Gen. 47:9). but, ah! listen to him at the close (48:15, 16) : he saith, "God, before whom my fathers,...