| Daniel Wilson - 1825 - 662 ページ
...and love of all who knew his excellencies, and could value his eminent piety and zeal. Surely then godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now is and of that which is to come 9. Surely even the worldly man must acknowledge the excellency... | |
| 1840 - 538 ページ
...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 - 296 ページ
...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 - 206 ページ
...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... | |
| John Ryland - 1826 - 388 ページ
...Does not he clothe the lilies and the tulips, and feed the ravens and the lions ? Is not godliness profitable for all things, having the promise of " the life that now is, and of that which is to come." ? " Seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all... | |
| John Angell James - 1827 - 196 ページ
...you, and others of your age. While I write, the groans of creation are ascending ; and future ages are rising up to plead with you, that you would bow...save you from much present danger and inconvenience, promote your temporal interests, prepare you for the darkest scenes of adversity, comfort you on a... | |
| John Angell James - 1827 - 198 ページ
...is, that I am comfortable, and comparatively rich." Here then is a proof and an illustration, that godliness is profitable for all things, having the...of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come. Nor are these proofs uncommon. Many persons, now living in circumstances of high respectability,... | |
| Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 ページ
...to a future state; but, in the despondency of his afflicted mind, he maintains that it has not' the promise of the life that now is,' as well as ' of that which is to come.' Here it was where his faith failed ; and here he is found exposed to the thrusts of assailants,... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 ページ
...prove the truth of the observation in the text; that " Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Having now sufficiently considered the several propositions of the text, I shall conclude... | |
| Jane Taylor - 1827 - 238 ページ
...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... | |
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