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not always of grace, yet it must thus be always
with grace. Observe here,
[1.] He calls his life a pilgrimage, looking
upon himself as a stranger in this world, and a
traveller towards another world: this earth his
inn, not his home. To this the apostle refers
(Heb 11:13), They confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims. He not only reckoned
himself a pilgrim now that he was in Egypt, a
strange country in which he never was before;
but his life, even in the land of his nativity, was
a pilgrimage, and those who so reckon it can
the better bear the inconvenience of
banishment from their native soil; they are but
pilgrims still, and so they were always.
[2.] He reckons his life by days; for, even so,
it is soon reckoned, and we are not sure of the
continuance of it for a day to an end, but may
be turned out of this tabernacle at less than an
hour's warning. Let us therefore number our
days (Ps 90:12), and measure them, Ps 39:4.
[3.] The character he gives of them is, First,
That they were few. Though he had now lived
130 years, they seemed to him but a few days,
in comparison with the days of eternity, the