 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pàgines
...must attribute the happy alteration of manners in those barbarous regions. Christian godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. While it conducts enslaved souls into liberty, and, turning them from the power of Satan to... | |
 | David Austin - 1796 - 542 pàgines
...experience the exercifes and conlblations of his people. — Religion is profitable with refpecl to the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. It prompts to a zealous difcharge of every duty ; and, in a moral view, it renders a perfon greatly fuperior... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1797 - 420 pàgines
...and eternal intereft. For " Godlinefs is ** profitable unto all things ; having the " promife of the life that now is, as well " as of that which is to come." It is the fafeft guide to what is good ; and the greateft prefervative againft evil. It will teach them... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pàgines
...righteousness unto God. This is real godliness : this is what is profitable unto nil things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. The form of godliness, too often and too fatally mis. taken for it, brings no just peace to... | |
 | Hannah More - 1803 - 474 pàgines
...none. He soort found out that therc was some meaning in that text which says, that Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that tvhich is to come: for the same principles which make a man sober and honest, have also a natural tendency... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1804 - 442 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 498 pàgines
...interests to prosper, as well as give them spiritual and everlasting riches. Has not the righteous promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ? But it is not enough to read the Scriptures, we must read them as the Word of God. We must... | |
 | 1806 - 650 pàgines
...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 that God has made one promise... | |
 | Samuel Austin - 1807 - 344 pàgines
...type of heaven. It was promised in the same light that godliness, under the latter dispensation, has "promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." God promised also that he would make of Abraham a great nation ; but it was not to be such... | |
 | 1808 - 604 pàgines
...themselves better prepared to receive all the happiness which this world can give, for " godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." They will find themselves made happy by the exercise of religion in this world. Л peaceful... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
