| Edward Irving - 1825 - 172 páginas
...which, taking its calculations for eternity, applies them also to time. Hence it is written, that b godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of the life that is to come. Hence, also, the moment you make a poor man religious, you make him sober... | |
| 1825 - 658 páginas
...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... | |
| James Ross - 1825 - 472 páginas
...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... | |
| 692 páginas
...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... | |
| Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 páginas
...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... | |
| 1859 - 632 páginas
...its pleasures. What is this? It is the favour and friendship of God ! " Godliness," says St. Paul, " hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Godliness is not doom, as those say who have it not, and do not understand it. It... | |
| Thomas Babington - 1826 - 296 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1840 - 538 páginas
...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... | |
| John Worthington - 1826 - 206 páginas
...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,... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1827 - 482 páginas
...can assure them, that the 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... | |
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