| Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 páginas
...exempt from suffering on earth? The text? implies, experience proves, the contrary. Though Godliness has promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, yet facts demonstrate, that this promise includes not an exemption from present anxiety and... | |
| Thomas Gisborne - 1810 - 446 páginas
...to be a transcript of the holiness of God ! Behold it as a branch of that godli~ ness, which has the promise of the life that now is, as "well as of that which is to come (a^ : behold it conducing to the happiness of men, present no less than future : to their future... | |
| William Giles - 1811 - 268 páginas
...for you, ye faithless, any I Is he unwise : or, are ye less than they ? * Godliness is said to have promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ; and on these encouraging words I stedfastly rely. What then shall separate our love ? Shall... | |
| William Melmoth - 1812 - 410 páginas
...flourish $ xiv. 11. that 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... | |
| Micaiah Towgood - 1812 - 610 páginas
...than a course of folly and sin. For godliness, or true religion, is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. The fruit of righteousness is peace ; and a good conscience will prove to every man that enjoys... | |
| 1809 - 618 páginas
...the gospel promote our temporal, as well as spiritual, and eternal advantage. True religion lias the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ! As the public services at Wooburn were only morning and evening, Mi . English, soon after... | |
| 1813 - 502 páginas
...rightcous, and let my last end be like his." Very different is the situation of the rightcous. They have the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But they do, by no means, expect perfect happiness here. They vicw this world, as it was designed,... | |
| Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 páginas
..." godliness," as the great Apostle of the Gentiles teaches, " is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come V The Gospel conducts men to future happiness, by means well adapted to the end ; by teaching... | |
| 1847 - 760 páginas
...time shall be no more. But it is surely no inconsiderable argument in its favour, that it has " the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come," — that while it move* on to its final destination, it scatters unnumbered blessings in... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 520 páginas
...motive, in order to attach men to the laws of Jesus Christ. Godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. iv. 8. He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,... | |
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