 | Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 pages
...instruction be sufficient, even if the present life alone were considered. " Godliness," be it remembered, " has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Here is another powerful reason in favour of the teaching recommended in the text. What are... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1820 - 638 pages
...and where diligence, steadiness, sobriety, and good principle, are allowed to make their way to the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. * * CHAPTER XXXII. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. I. Difficulty of preserving Unity or Connection... | |
 | Barnabas Hill (fict.name.) - 1821 - 80 pages
...the truth of the Apostle's declaration that " godliness, with contentment, is great gain ; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. Often did they join together in singing the following favorite hymn : Father! \vhate'er of... | |
 | Joseph Milner, Rev. Isaac Milner - 1821 - 480 pages
...persons here, who know in some real degree, what these things mean. You can witness that " godliness has promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." But perhaps the most instructive view of this part of our subject may be, to show the want... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1821 - 168 pages
...it shall be well with them that fear God: Eccles. viii. 12. and, in short, that Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come; 1 Tim. iv. 8. we may certainly conclude, that a strict observance of the duties of the Christian... | |
 | John Venn - 1822 - 478 pages
...drawn indeed in bloody, but legible, characters; "Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." All misery and evil came into the world by sin; and in proportion to its increase, in that... | |
 | 1822 - 584 pages
...godliness, which always produces temperance and activity, is indeed profitable unto ail things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. I am led to think, that the accounts which we receive in England, respecting Sierra Leone,... | |
 | 1841 - 1234 pages
...something for him ; showing that that godliness, which is said to be " profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come," has been so far profitable to him in his temporal circumstances, as to enable him to take... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1823 - 452 pages
...instruction be sufficient, even if the present life alone were considered. " Godliness " be it remembered, " has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Here is another powerful reason in favour of the teaching recommended in the text. What are... | |
 | Charles Jerram - 1823 - 238 pages
...present pleasure, as to your future welfare ; - that " godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Wisdom and religion are one and the same thing : and " the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness,... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
