...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 briugeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 1...

...all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither ¡s there any understanding in them. 29 d oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold...

...cited in subsequent occasional sermons—was taken from Moses' "farewell sermon" in Deuteronomy 32:29: "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." 14 These words, Oakes began, appeared at a time in Israel's history when they were done wandering in...

...winter overtakes us toiling there, with heaps of hoarded dust, but destitute of the bread of life. Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! Seek first the kingdom of God, and let wealth come or go in its wake. He who, in the market of a...

...hearts to all the words which he testified to them that day ? (Deut. xxxii. 47). Does he not say, " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end" ? and does he not, in that grand 90th Psalm say, in words which they must have read with the full knowledge...

...shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Commentary; The box of 4 scriptures called the frontlet was marked with the Hebrew letter or symbol...

...generation of the time Moses exclaims: " Of the Rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful! . . . Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! . . . For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life; and through this thing ye shall...

...destiny which Moses foresaw as he cast his gaze down the centuries then to come, in the words : " 0 that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end " (ie their state at the end of the " last days ") (Deut. xxxii, 29). Such was the prophetic utterance...

...about it, so as to prepare for it. God mournfully complains of his people, that they dont consider; — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end. The next thing I shall consider, is the actual death of the body, or separation between soul and body....

...of 1837.118 The title was "The Contemplation of Death. "H9 The text is taken from Deuteronomy 32:29, "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" In homiletical form it is a very traditional tex116. Asahel Nettleton and Lyman Beecher, Letters of...