...divided now into two or three parties. I never meet with any of them but I think of these words, " He that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the deid." I know that God will scatter them sooner or later into all winds, his hand shall be made known...

...his removals from place to place, or his diversified afflictions, Psal. Ivi. 8. He that ivandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead : he that lives in ignorance and wickedness, and shuns the means ol reformation, shall continue among...

...crooked ways, my Father will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; and those that depart from the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead ; and, if you go over to the law, either for righteousness or perfection, I shall profit you nothing ; therefore...

...insufficent to help them in the day of his displeasure, Acts v. 1, &c. 2 Tim. iv. The man " that wan-- dereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead," Prov. xxi. 16. Solomon affords us another instance how displeasing backsliding and apostacy are in...

...wrath. 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment : but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. 17 He that loveth pleasure shall fie a poor man : he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. 18...

...you, while such as are rotten at heart will cleave to you : and it must be so; for " those that wander out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead" — riot the living. I am afraid that God is discovering \ ou, and A. too, and, before ever you are...

...times we live in, &houldstir up all Christians, especially ministers, " to repiove, rebuke, exhort. wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead," Prov. xxii. l6. The second thing to be learned from these words, as they have relation to them going...

...wrath. 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment ; But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding, Shall remain in the congregation of the dead. 17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man ; And he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich....

...not, is like the beasts that perish a ; also that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good b. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead c. Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction ; but he that regardeth reproof shall...

...sorrowful prison, " where shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth." (Matt. viii. 12.) "The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead." (Prov. xxi. 16.) " In Hebrew it is, — he shall remain with the giants, who more especially provoked...