 | Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...former complaining of the gross ignorance of his people, breaks out into this passionate wish, ' О that they were wise ! that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! ' 29. Moses had been bred a scholar as well as a courtier, and was well instructed in all the secrets... | |
 | Morgan Williams - Epitaphs - 1822 - 728 pages
...for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Deut. xxxii. 29. O, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! 1 Sam. ii. 6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive : he bringeth down to the grave, and briugeth op.... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 554 pages
...of witnesses which attests the turpitude of sin, and the peace and pleasantness of wisdom's ways ? " O that they were wise — that they understood this — that they would consider their latter end !" Let young people imitate the devout and contemplative disposition of Isaac; and they will find it... | |
 | Hugh Worthington - Sermons, English - 1822 - 556 pages
...10. This wish would have been vain and senseless, but for the belief in another state of existence. " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! Deuteronomy xxxii. 29. This expression could only arise from looking forward to futurity. In Psalm... | |
 | David Harrowar - Sermons, American - 1822 - 440 pages
...is a solemn and impressive subject ! In the view of it, we may say with Moses, concerning sinners, " O that they were wise ; that they understood this ; that they would consider their latter end !" Eternal salvation and damnation, are really overwhelming considerations ! They are calculated to... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 576 pages
...Does he instantly dart forth his thunders, and. sink them in despair? No! he affectionately cries, "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter «nd :" (Deut. xxxJi. 29.) " Oh that my people had hearkened unto me:" (Ps. Ixxxi. 13.) "Turn ye, turn... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1822 - 480 pages
...with the privileges of thesanctuary. Brother Bingham preachedfrom Deut. xxxii, 29—31. "O that thej were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end. Fortheir rock is not as our roek, even our enemies themselves being judges." The object of the discourse... | |
 | Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...will own your want of true wisdom. And we have' reason to pray also over you in the words of Moses, " O that they were wise, that they understood this; that they would conaider their latter end ! " And who are those that do not need to consider it ? Not you, young people,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1823 - 494 pages
...Moses, the man of God, beheld the degraded state of the Israelites, he piously prayed in their behalf, " O that they were wise, that they understood this ; that they would consider their latter end." Properly considering our latter end, is " numbering our days ;" and this is the best method of " applying... | |
 | William Hurn - 1823 - 142 pages
...come upon them. Behold therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter eud."» For " the getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that... | |
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 
