 | William Hales - 1812 - 692 pages
...would learn righteousness," from Liie experience and observation of all ages, past and present. — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their end! the end of themselves, and of their posterity, even in this life, independent of futurity : for... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 622 pages
...soul and bodv : and it il in this sens« 1 rank it among their sins. Scripture. "Dent, xxxii. 39. О that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! Lam. i. 9. She remembered not her lastend, therefore she came down wonderfully, and вне had DO... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1813 - 276 pages
...they will look upon those blessings as invaluable, which npw they think. pot worth asking for. " O that they were wise ! that they understood this! that they would consider their latter end !" There are again others, who, it is to be feared, having •nee lived in the habit of prayer, yet... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 pages
...ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why mil 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... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 pages
...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 -Jteir latter end!" Amen. SERMON X. 1>elivered at Salem, in Nc-r-Hampshire, January 4, 179r, at the... | |
 | 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 instance of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...contrary to the salutary precepts laid down for them by the Divine Lawgiver. Thus in Moses — " 0 that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight!" And in Isaiah — "0 that thou... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...the moments, run to waste " That 1, my God ! their worth may see, And dedicate them all to thee. H. " Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,...would consider their latter end !" DEUT. xxxii. 29. There is a future state, Of sorrow and of bliss, Doth ev'ry one of us await, When we have done with... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...melancholy view of the subject, how natural is it to exclaim, in the pathetic language of Moses; " Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" Yet what life so happy as a truly religious life? To enjoy forgiveness and reconciliation with God;... | |
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 
