 | 1819 - 488 էջ
...keep all my commandments always ; that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever'! O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter endf ! SECT. 8. The obligations on the children of Israel to keep this covenant. Now therefore hearken,... | |
 | John Cennick - 1819 - 540 էջ
...come ; and this made their chief minister sigh over them, when he was finishing his course, " Oh lhat they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" They were, as too many of us are, fond of things temporal, and careless of things eternal ; lovers... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 էջ
...made no preparation: instances which « prompt us to exclaim with God's ancient prophet, "O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" Here too was one of those sad cases which so painfully convince us, how ill-adapted is a season of... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 370 էջ
...within the City of Edinburgh and Suburbs. Collected and Englished by R. Monteith, MA Deut. 32. 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this. That they would consider their Latter End. Sors tua mortalis ; ne sit mortale quod optes. Nil non mortale tenemus, Pectoris exceptis Ingeniique... | |
 | 1820 - 590 էջ
...heart to believe, how dull in feeling, not to tremble at the threatened judgments of the Almighty ! " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." Then would they become emulous of a crown that fadeth not, and of a throne that crumbleth not, and... | |
 | William Thorn - 1820 - 202 էջ
...therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.']/ " Oh that they were wise, that they understood this ; that they would consider their latter end \"k Oh that Sabbath-breakers would consider what gracious opportunities they are neglecting, what present... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 514 էջ
...who hath no works to show; who hath slept, and trifled, and squandered away all his time? "O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end !" — " How long, O ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?" How lon^, O sinner, shall that precious... | |
 | John Willison - 1821 - 316 էջ
...all earnestness and application. God's voice by every fit of sickness, is that in Deut. xxxii. 29. " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." God knows our folly, and readiness to forget this great work in the day of health ; and therefore in... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1821 - 324 էջ
...; the end of all human illusions ; and the approach of a decisive reckoning, and a dread eternity ! O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! V. I object to the Unitarian system as being, in my opinion, DECISIVELY AND NECESSARILY UNFRIENDLY... | |
 | 1821 - 388 էջ
...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... | |
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 
