 | 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... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...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 have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - 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,... | |
 | John Hoyland - 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 - 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, f How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' 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... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...was affliction. Hence, when near the end of his earthly course, he could, in truth, tell Pharaoh, " Few and evil have the days of the years .of my life been."* While yet in the morning of life, he was obliged to secure his own safety from the sanguinary resentment... | |
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Pharaoh, 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... 
