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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON VII. The History of Jacob considered. Genesis xlvii. 9. And Jacob said unto 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. ' THERE is not a man in history, whom I pity more than the man who made this reply, not because his days were short, but that they were long enough to have crowded into them, so much evil as we find. Of all the patriarchs, he was the most unhappy: for, 'bating the seven years he served Laban for Rachael, which seemed to him but a few day., for the love he had to her strike those out of the number, all his other, days were sorrow; and that, not from his faults, but from the ambition, the violences, and evil passions of others. A large portion of what man is born to, comes, you'll say, from the fame quarter: 'tis true; but still, in some men's lives, there seems a contexture of misery; one evil so rises out of another, and the whole plan and execution of the piece has so very melancholy an air, that a goodnatured man shall not be able to look upon it, but with tears on his cheeks. I pity this patriarch still the more, because, from his first setting out in life, he had been led into an expectation of such different scenes: he was told, by Isaac his father, that GodJhould bless him with the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earthy and with plenty of corn and wine; that people were Jo serve him, and nations to bow down to him; that he Jhould be lord over his brethren; that blessed was every one that blessed him, and cursed was every one who cursed him. The simplicity of youth takes promisesof happiness inthefullest latitude, and as these were moreover confirmed to him by the God of his fathers, on his way to...

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