 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1811 - 360 pages
...saints be honored, and the ufiright shall have dominion in the morning,^ O that the careless world were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.'J That they would be now of the same mind as they will l>e, when they shall see the heavens pass... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. (m) O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end, and not put far away the evil day ! (») if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel ?" It laments over them: "O that they were wise! that they understood this! that they would consider their latter end !" " He beheld the city and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 470 pages
...doctrine. Read this tender complaint which God formerly made concerning the irregularities of his people. " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight':" chap, xxxii. 29, 30. Read the... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1813 - 502 pages
...ye, turn ye from your- evil ways ; for why will ye die, O house of Israel," Ezek. Jixxiii. 11. Oh ! that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end, .Dent, xxxii. 29. Is the sincerity of God questioned in these precious declarations which lie hath... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...the^wprk of years before them; and but a few fleeting moments in which they can work! " O that men were wise, that they understood this ; that they would consider their latter end." Contemplate now the sudden and unexpected end of the wretched man in our text. While he was flattering... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...of sinners. If they resist the force of it in time, they must feel the weight of it in eternity. "0 that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider Jfceir latter end!" Amen. SERMON X. at Salem, in New-Hampshire, January 4, 1T97, »t the Ordination... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...with their final ruin fully in the sight of his omniscience, still thus lamented over them:— " 0 that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" (Deut. xxxii. 10, 29.) And if still farther proof of this be demanded, we would offer the undeniable... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...our reach, of the impending destruction ; and where we<could.do no more, we should sigh and say, " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." These words express the tender and anxious concern of Moses for the welfare of the children of Israel.... | |
 | Henry Handley Norris - Clergy - 1815 - 202 pages
...—*' O that they were wise," says the Almighty of the children of Israel, through his servant Moses, " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." Few are ignorant of what they ought to do; but many are inattentive. Day after day closes upon great... | |
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that nearly concern them : so that every minister of the Gospel has as much reason as Moses to break out into this prayer, " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! 
