 | Renn Dickson Hampden - 1827 - 360 pages
...present and our future happiness. It proclaims, that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come "* : a deelara* " Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1828 - 820 pages
...dispositions mentioned in the text, do pertain unto godliness, "which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." Yet all these are denied unto the men of the last times; and, withal, it is said that they... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 520 pages
...pleasures of sin as momentary, deceitful, and ruinous ; and godliness as profitable to all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. Among the things which the sinner realizes, when he first comes to himself, are the following.... | |
 | Piety - 1829 - 454 pages
...Society. He exemplified, in his conduct, that " godliness, with contentment, is great gain ; having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." Towards the close of the year 1815, having about eight years previously removed with his... | |
 | Thomas Stratten - 1830 - 338 pages
...life and power of godliness, which only is profitable * Enhes. iv. 11—13. for all things, and has the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. A reference is however here more especially made to the Apostle Paul, for the purpose of introducing... | |
 | 1830 - 454 pages
...of good Christians, and may thankfully receive this earthly reward over and above, as godliness hath the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. Or, if we see our conduct blamed by the good, it may justly make us fear that if they condemn... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1831 - 228 pages
...revelation: and we fail not to urge in a subordinate view this motive. We tell men that Christianity has "the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." But then we place not truth on this footing. We build nothing on the shifting foundation... | |
 | Thomas Stratten - 1831 - 304 pages
...nothing, substituted for the life and power of godliness, which only is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. A reference is however here more especially made to the Apostle Paul, for the purpose of introducing... | |
 | Edward Curtis KEMP - 1834 - 224 pages
...and a future state of felicity ; that course of godliness which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. There are two principal divisions in the Christian life : the reception of that faith in Christ... | |
 | 1834 - 546 pages
...piety gives us the best enjoyment of all these — " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." • Here, then, is the true and correct statement — Men lose their souls, forfeit heaven,... | |
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... fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness : for bodily exercise is profitable for a little ; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. 
