| James Ross - 1825 - Страниц: 472
...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... | |
| 1825 - Страниц: 664
...establishment;" neither, we think, can it, with strict propriety, be said that the same establishment "has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." P. 336. The peculiar purity of doctrine, and correctness of practice inculcated by our Church,... | |
| 1840 - Страниц: 538
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington - 1826 - Страниц: 296
...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... | |
| John Worthington - 1826 - Страниц: 206
...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... | |
| Jane Taylor - 1827 - Страниц: 238
...statement with some appearances that seem to contradict it. "Godliness," the apostle tells us," has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." That is, the true Christian really participates with others, in the moderate enjoyment of... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1827 - Страниц: 528
...less solicitous on account of your own calamities. Study with alacrity that godliness, which has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." In a letter to Eulogius*, bishop of Alexandria, written the year after, he says, " I have... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1827 - Страниц: 482
...ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace ; that godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ; and that in keeping God's commandments there is great reward. Fifthly: This young gentlewoman... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - Страниц: 478
...glorious theme renew. At the same time that the pious and grateful man perceives, that to him belongs "the promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come," he is deeply sensible of the danger and temptations to which he is exposed ; and he feels... | |
| John Angell James - 1827 - Страниц: 196
...you a Christian, and think the purchase cheap. " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." As I shall have more than one chapter on the advantages of piety, it will not be necessary... | |
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