| George Ware Briggs - 1846 - Страниц: 226
...low application to external things alone the wisdom of the apostle's declaration is really seen, " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." It is verified even in outward things, so universal and all-beneficent... | |
| Henry William Sulivan - 1846 - Страниц: 468
...happiness : let us remember, that as without holiness we shall never see the face of God, so too " godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." If so, the word of exhortation with which, after meeting... | |
| 1846 - Страниц: 404
...she lived comfortably the residue of her days, and experienced the truth of the Apostle's words : " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." PARENTAL MONITOR. PATERNAL OBLIGATION. PARENTS are supposed to be... | |
| 1846 - Страниц: 492
...the first. To him, in a fulness of meaning which is seldom recognised in practice, ' godliness was profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ;' religion was a thing to live by, and not only a thing to... | |
| Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1846 - Страниц: 430
...real happiness and no worldly preferments which we may not enjoy in connection with our religion. " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and also of that which is to come." The only requisition is, that we make our religion... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1847 - Страниц: 336
...thankful in life — happy in death — and is gone to be happier than I can tell you, for ever. ' For godliness is profitable for all things ; having the promise of the life that now is,' so far as there is any thing good in it ; and the promise 'of the life that is to come,' in which... | |
| J. Willm, John Pringle Nichol - 1847 - Страниц: 346
...contribute his share towards that provided in the most suitable manner. " Godliness," says the Apostle, " is profitable for all things — having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." " How admirable !" exclaims Montesquieu, " is the Christian religion,... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1847 - Страниц: 224
...has, on the contrary, realized in his whole life the truth of that grand and inspired assurance that " godliness is profitable for all things ; having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." He is at this time one of the highest in station and in... | |
| Sketches - 1848 - Страниц: 422
...every holy influence, and their condition become worse and worse, both for time and for eternity 1 " Godliness is profitable for all things ; having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." (1 Timothy iv. 8.) THE promise of the Lord standeth sure, that,... | |
| Edward Payson - 1849 - Страниц: 622
...price into your hands to get wisdom; but like the fool you have no heart to it. He has told you that godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now is, as well as of that which is to come : but you will not believe him. You have, therefore,... | |
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