 | 692 σελίδες
...may say, (and I say it with joy and gratitude, as illustrative of the truth, that godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come,) I have been young, and am now in middle life, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 σελίδες
...prospects, but in reference to our present enjoyments. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. This subject would bear an ample and useful illustration, with respect to the influence which... | |
 | Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 σελίδες
...awfully defaced by the apostacy of our first parents. It appears, that Christianity has indeed ' the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' She forbids no enjoyments, but what are injurious to our temporal as well as spiritual welfare.... | |
 | John Worthington - 1826 - 206 σελίδες
...resignation to the will of God is also highly conducing to our temporal good : And that not only because it " hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of " that which is to come ;"1 but also because it tends in its own nature hereunto. Here I will particularly, yet very... | |
 | Thomas Babington - 1826 - 296 σελίδες
...happiness of the scholar, is apparent. So true is it, in this as in every thing, that ." godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." The disposition which we are considering crowns all those which have been mentioned, at the... | |
 | 1840 - 538 σελίδες
...enterprise, the truth of the Scripture which declares, that godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come. " The establishment entrusted to my superintendence being dependent for support upon the voluntary... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1827 - 272 σελίδες
...record, in my letters, those sentiments which I deem of the utmost importance, in reference to the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. If you will preserve, and occasionally peruse them, they may not only serve as a lasting memorial of my affection,... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 σελίδες
...to a future state; but, in the despondency of his afflicted mind, he maintains that it has not' the promise of the life that now is,' as well as ' of that which is to come.' Here it was where his faith failed ; and here he is found exposed to the thrusts of assailants,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 σελίδες
...prove the truth of the observation in the text; that " Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Having now sufficiently considered the several propositions of the text, I shall conclude... | |
 | 1827 - 590 σελίδες
...contentment is" the truest "gain," the surest happiness, the most choice condition of human being, " having promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come." The " soul's health " then is its great and ultimate object. Now there is one book which... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
