...sermon delivered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1673, Urian Oakes chose for his text Deuteronomy 32:29 ("O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!"). As the words of my text respect the body of a nation, even Israel, that were sometimes the peculiar...

...Deuteronomy 32:28-33 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them,...