...with reference to this strange infatuation, and mental blindness, that the wise king of Israel says, " There is a way, which seemeth right unto a man ; but the end thereof are the ways of death." If we wish for a striking illustration of this important truth,...

...to our pride, yet the " wisdom of this world" is " foolishness with God :" I Cor. iii, 18 — 20. " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man ; but the end thereof are the ways of death :" Prov. xiv, 12. In short, unregenerate men are " darkness :" they...

...them, i. 32. Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end, Psal. Ixxiii. 17. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death, Prov. xiv. 12, and xvi. Î5. Whose end ii destruction, whose god...

...have been fine, but not strong. As to the Second point, I cannot at all complain of Dr. E.'s want «f openness. He speaks plain and downright : " Seeming...the way of death," (p. 46.) Again. " What claim can we have to genuine Christianity, whose professed experience gives God the lie ?" " Say I these things...

...turned every one to his own way." They make to themselves crooked paths ; they walk on in darkness ; " there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." One thinks he shall harm ; another walks in a profession of religion, and believes he is safe ; a third...

...back to it again; but the farther he proceeds, the greater is his deviation. The wise man tells us, there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end, thereof are the ways of death].. How miserable is this, that the way which leads to death should...

...that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth," 2 Cor. x. 18. And Solomon saith, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death," Prov. xiv. 12. But persons had need to beware taking counters for...

...path of sin may appear, yet it will be bitterness in the end. Yea, as Solomon repeatedly observes, " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Such is the way of the selfrighteous, and of every kind of false...

...regenerated by his Spirit, as in the case of Paul. Tho language of Solomon, also, is directly in point, " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man ; but the end thereof are the ways of death." And God himself reproves men, saying, "Thou thoughtest that I was...

...openly irreligious. See close by its side another path, opened by the first murderer. See written on it, There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death. This is the path of the self righteous, the formalist, the hypocrite, and, like the other, leads...