...years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." Read that beautiful passage, Proverbs, v. 15; "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters...

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...together ; although he can seldom, like the patriarch, say, even of the shorter time, that the " years seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to " his art. No wonder, then, that the public is sometimes astonished by seeing our fellowship-initials...

...prospect of the promised recompense made the tedious service appear as nothing to Jacoh. The seven years " seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had unto her." Of the hundred and thirty years of Jacob's life, concerning which he testified to the king...

...therefore she called his name Judah ; and left bearing. The efficacy of love, in things heavenly. " Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." So ought to seem all the chastisements of God, light, and of short contmuance, to them that really...

...a harsh proposal, but Jacob willingly acceded to it, and we read, that ' the seven years seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." And it is true still, that where our heart is in a work, the most difficult and laborious work, it...

...have no farther history of her, except that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah. LOVE. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her," Genesis. Twice seven years that suitor wrought, To win that maiden's hand, And yet to his impassioned...

...better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. 20 And Jacob ere was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 If...came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God 21 Tf And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto...

...reasonable to understand the blessing of Shem to be also on his posterity. GENESIS xxix. 20. — " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Jacob was a type of Christ, in his obtaining his wife by a servitude, and in his servitude's seeming...

...wife Rachel. And, in the emphatic language of Scripture, it is said of those years, " they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." And, through all his subsequent history, up to the hour when he placed a pillar on her grave, his love...