Eight lectures upon the history of Jacob
Subtitle: delivered during Lent, 1828, at the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea
Publisher: J. Hatchard & Son
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: LECTURE I.; title: Genesis xxv. 27.; title: "Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents"; title: The birth of Jacob — The contrast evon in childhood between Esau and Jacob — Jacob purchases his brother's birthright — Obtains by subtlety the blessing Page 1; title: LECTURE II.; title: Genesis xxvm. 5.; title: "And Isaac sent away Jacob."; title: "Be sure your sin will find you out" — Jacob leaves the tents of Isaac — Jacob's vision — Jacob erects a memorial of God's mercy to him — Chooses the Lord for his God — Jacob's vow 25; title: LECTURE III.; title: Genesis xxix. 20.; title: "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her"; title: Jacob enters Laban's house for a few days, and remains there twenty years — Jacob's seven years' servitude for Rachel — Jacob is induced by the fraud of Laban to serve other seven years — Jacob desires to be sent away 50; title: LECTURE IV.; title: Genesis xxxii. 11.; title: "Deliver me, I pray thee from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau"; title: Jacob sends messages to deprecate Esau's resentment — Jacob's confession of unworthiness before God — Jacob wrestles with an angel 74; title: LECTURE V.; title: Genesis xxxiii. 4.; title: "And Esau ran to meet him y and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and hissed him y and they wept."; title: Jacob beholds Esau coming with four hundred men — Esau meets Jacob in peace — The Almighty reminds Jacob of his vow 103; title: LECTURE VI.; title: Genesis xxxv. 2.; title: "Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him y Put away the strange gods that are among you y and be clean, and change your garments."; title: Jacob's family disappointments — Jacob removes the strange gods out of his family — The death of Rachel 134; title: LECTURE VII.; title: Genesis xlv. part of 26th verse.; title: "And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not," Jacob dwells in a land where his fathers were strangers — Famine in Canaan — Jacob sends his sons into Egypt — Jacob receives intelligence of the long-lost Joseph — Jacob's spirit revives when he beholds the chariots which were to convey him to his son 156; title: LECTURE VIII.; title: Genesis xlvii. 8, 9.; title: "And Pharaoh said unto Jacoby How old art thou ? 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 t and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."; title: The Almighty promises Jacob to go down with him into Egypt — Joseph goes to meet Jacob his father — Pharaoh asks Jacob his age — The death of Jacob 179