...these his descendants might have said, " Few and evil have be.en the days of the years of our lives, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of our forefather, in the days of the years of his pilgrimage.^ 1630, and is noticed by Colgao, in a work...

...impressions were habitual. The question put to him by the Egyptian monarch produced, in his answer, vsuch reflections as were naturally suited to his time of...subject of our present consideration. My purpose is to shew how we should be affected in every period of human life, by reflection upon our whether we be...

...unto Jacob, How old art thou ? ^ 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, Thedaysof the years of mypilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 ЧГ And Joseph placed his father...

...thirty years : few and evil have tJie days oftlie years of my life been, and have not attained unto tJie days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the...consideration. My purpose is to show how we should be cted in every period of human life, by reflection on our age, whether we be young or advanced in years...

...an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have.not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." This is not the peevish lamentation of disappointment ; much less the expression of uhthankfulness....

...indeed, entirely hid from the descendants of that Jacob who is recorded in these very writings to have said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage...the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage? Figurative, too, as they may partly be, it cannot be doubted that Moses alluded to...

...better country, that is, an heavenly one. This was Jacob's language when he appeared before Pharaoh : Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the doys of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. And not only the ancient patriarchs, who never had any olher...

...are a hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, andhavenot attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. PERHAPS there are no parts of Holy Writ in which we find ourselves more interested, than in those that...

...few and evil have the *l/iy.i of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the -days i if the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. IT equally concerns men of all ages, of all characters, and of all conditions, to be well acquainted...

...and a sojourner,' though I cannot say with Jacob: ' Few have the days of the years of my pit. giimage been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of ilif life of my fathers' (Genesis xlvii. 9.) For thou hast prolonged my life to a longer period than...