 The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...  Sermons - Page 128by Rev. Thomas Scott - 1837 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 280 pages
...soul ; — which may God grant. Amen. SERMON XXII. THE HISTORY OF JACOB CONSIDERED. GENESIS XLVI. 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years...an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the day of the years of my life been. — . THERE is not a man in history whom I pity more than the man... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...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 an hundred and thirty years j few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...much closer examination. ' The testimony I mean, is that of the patriarch Jacob before Pharaoh : " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and I have not attained to those of my fathers :'' — a testimony full and express for the opinion we... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - Christian biography - 1815 - 298 pages
...difficulties, fears and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...of trouble;" and that Jacob's answer to Pharaoh, when he desired to know the patriarch's age, was, " few and evil have " the days of the years of my life been ;" and your own experience will have convinced you, that both these declarations are true. Pains of body,... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury, Joseph Emerson - 1816 - 300 pages
...difficulties, fears, and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,... | |
 | John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 486 pages
...and, when he comes to make the estimate of his own life, near the close of it, what is the amount ? " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Indeed, whilst he was practising deceit upon his nearest relatives in Canaan, Providence was silently... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...nim before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, f How old art thou? 9 in Jerusalem: and he fled to " Lachish ; but they...sent after him to Lachish, and" Israel; and Jerobo mfew and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and "have not attained unto the days of the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...Gen. jxiii. 4. general sense of the patriarchs, by what Jacob says to Pharaoh. " And Jacob said to Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years i few and evil Lave the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the... | |
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