 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 508 pages
...for which I must lie for ever in utter darkness !" But no complaints will then avail. " O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." As to the qualities, with which the bodies of the saints shall be endowed at the resurrection, the... | |
 | William Hales - 1812 - 692 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1813 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 906 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...certain, than that every individual now in this house will one day be numbered among the dead. " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" — It is unquestionably better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, since this... | |
 | Henry Handley Norris - 1815 - 202 pages
...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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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 
