SERMON X.
the wisdom of duly considering the latter end.
"Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end."
Deut. xxxii., 29.
It is a serious thought, not always easy to thrust aside, that every thing pertaining to this life must come to an end, how soon none can tell. This is a secret veiled in the bosom of the great Eternal. The solemn truth we cannot evade; the conviction is deep in our minds, that all things which now delight the eye, gratify the taste, dazzle and delude the giddy, and which excite the ambition of a vain multitude, all shall have an end. The stars themselves shall fade, the sun grow
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