...fecms the good Patriarch goes on with this account of them ) few and evil have the Days of the Tears of my Life been, And have not attained unto the Days of the Tears of the Life of my Fathers in the Days of their Pilgrimage. Now if we conftder, that an Hundred...

...of misery ; and I may say with old Jacob, ' The days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage ' (Gen. xlvii. 9). " As to my education, I was brought up with those that cared not...

...blefled Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh faid to Jacob, How old are you ? And he anfwered Pharaoh, The Number of the Years of my Pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty Years ; few and evil have the Days of my Life been, and have not come up to the Number of the Years of the Life of my Fathers during their...

...this life had been referved for them, that faying of old Jacob, towards the conclufion of his life, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, would have been an eternal reflexion upon the truth and faithfulnefs of him who had fo often called...

...forth like a flower, and is cut down : hefteeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been : this was old Jacob's account of himfelf. And men that have been ferious and confiderate, have thus...

...life had continued : The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years, feyj and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the yean of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. But in particular,...

...account unto Pharaoh how long his life had continued : The days of the years ef my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years* few and evil have the days of the years of my life heen, and have not attained unto the days of thg years of the life of my fathers, in the days...

...you;" and Gen. xlvii. 9. where Jacob fays to 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." Thefe good men were " ftrangers and fojourners" in a land, which was promifed to be theirs afterwards....

...we die. The sum total of human life is justly calculated by the hoary-headed patriarch, Jacob, "Pew and evil have the days of the years of my life been," Gen. xlvii. 9. A truth this that lies level with the common observation and judgment of all men ; but...

...himfelf explains it to be, not on account of the fhortnefs of human life in general, but, becaufe he had not attained unto the days of the years of the life of bis fathers. The fenfe therefore, which the writer of the epiftle to the Hebrews puts upon thele words,...