...error, through the influence of corrupt affections. ' He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool.' ' There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.' The only true ground of safety lies in divine guidance and teaching,...

...come out -of Zion." For we feel that their very prayer is sin ; " there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." (Prov. xiv. 12.) Two days after we reached Beyrout in safety, by the road we came, only turning aside...

...gratifying to our pride, yet the "wisdom of this world" is "foolishness with God :" 1 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...

...of death ? Dedncis ad portas mortis et reducia ? It is written, (Proverb, xiv. 12. and xvi. 25.) " There is a way, which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." The Seventy Interpreters, in both these places, use Hades for death....

...have been suffered to abide by it, have, it is to be feared, experienced the truth of the words, " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." 102 CHAPTER VI. WE have, till now, spoken but little of Sophia,...

...perverseness. Let us look at it as a fearful warning. " Every way of a man is right in his own eyes." " But there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."4 1 Rom. ii. 17. 2 See Gal. iii. 19—24. 3 See 2 Cor. iii. 14,...

...adjoin Bede, ""who is in like manner indifferent for either reading. In the Proverbs, where it is said, There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death, Proverbs xiv. 12, and xvi. 25, the Seventy in both places for death...

...of the gospel. " Wisdom," says Solomon, " crieth without : she uttereth her voice in the streets." " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." J Mark, then, the tendency of that course of life which the gospel...

...vi. 20,21. 4 Jam. v. 16. 6Eph. ii "> 'Jer.x. 25. 8Paa. IxxxU". SERMON XXXVII. PROVERBS xiv. 12. — There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. IT is not of gross wickedness, you observe, that the Wise man is...

...the prosperity of the community ! Truly, therefore, may be applied to them the words of Solomon — ' There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death' — or the language of our Lord—' The light of the body is the...