...answer, such reflections as were naturally suited to his time of life. And Jacob said unto Pharoah, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. But the peculiar circumstances of the Patriarch, or the number of his years, are not to be the subject...

...answer, such reflections as were naturally suited to his time of life. And Jacob said unto Pharoah, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pil380 On the Improvement of Time. [SERMON xxxm. grimage. But the peculiar circumstances of the Patriarch,...

...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...

...correspondent to his present feelings, as that of old age. " And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou I And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." This is a short and comprehensive...

...to have been struck by it. " Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." Few and evil! The life of man, the life of Patriarchs, of Jacob, Isaac, and of Abraham, is but as a...

...desire to look into, 1 Pet. i. 10— 1Ï. c I am a stranger and a eojonrner with you, Gen. xiiii. 4. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage, xlvii. 9. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry ; hold not thy peace at my tears : for I...

...before him ; and when be inquired of Jacob — " How old art thou," received this affecting reply: "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." And then mark the manner in which this interesting interview was concluded—" And Jacob blessed Pharaoh,...

...utter unworthiness, as well as unprofitableness. " And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." What a mercy that our acceptance is VOL, xi. a in the Beloved I Every sin-sick soul may well weary...

...unto Jacob, How old art thou ? And Jacob (reflecting upon the unbelief which had marked his career) said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." Reader, the Lord has many a fearful, unbelieving Jacob still ; and (thanks to his great name) has an...

...Hebrews, the king had never before seen a man so aged and venerable in- his countenance and appearance. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. With this answer Pharaoh appeared satisfied ; and as the ceremonial of introduction to a sovereign...