 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 ページ
...XX. THE TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL ADVANTAGES OF GODLINESS. i TIMOTHY iv. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things ; having the promise of the life that now is, and of that -which is to come. IT is very unaccountable how it ever came SERM. XX to be imagined that religion -was an unprofitable and... | |
 | 530 ページ
...glory of God. Silvester increased in property, and left an example to his family and to posterity that godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. His name will be long remembered, as associated with the epithet,... | |
 | 1806 - 416 ページ
...fellow beings. Real and peculiar advantages result from early piety. " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." It gives dignity to youth, and extorts from the unprincipled some proof of the secret apprehension they... | |
 | 1806 - 650 ページ
...would accordingly undoubtedly fulfil them. Now, it is a certain and comfortable truth, that " goodness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come," 1 Tim. iv. 8. But verily, my dear friend, / have no notion... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 ページ
...to his Father's house, in the best way which infinite wisdom and everlasting love can devise. Thus "godliness is profitable for all things: " having the promise of the life that now is, and " of that which is to come.1" 5. Communion with God is the believer's privilege. We " have... | |
 | Paul Wright - 1810 - 508 ページ
...public order and private happiness. Christianity is the most excellent and the most useful institution, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come ; it is the voice of reason ; it is also the language of Scripture ; the ways of wisdom are ii,ays of pleasantness,... | |
 | 1811 - 868 ページ
...and on whom you may bestow them with infinitely greater advantage than you can on any other object. " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Let me, then, beseech you, even now, without delay, to make a surrender... | |
 | John Fleetwood - 1813 - 558 ページ
...public order and private happiness. Christianity is the most excellent, and the most useful institution, having the " promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." It is the voice of reason ; it is also the language of scripture, " the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness,... | |
 | 1837 - 714 ページ
...genuine Christians, the greater part were called when comparatively poor ; but they have found 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." Too few of them, alas I render to the Lord according to his... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 664 ページ
...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 anything good in it ; and the promise of the life that is to come, in which... | |
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Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. 
