 | John Angell James - 1827 - 196 pàgines
...you a Christian, and think the purchase cheap. " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." As I shall have more than one chapter on the advantages of piety, it will not be necessary... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pàgines
...contentment is" the truest "gain," the surest happiness, the most choice condition of human being, " having promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come." The " soul's health " then is its great and ultimate object. Now there is one book which... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pàgines
...comes down from above, make you holy and make you amiable — then will you find that godliness is the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come — then will you find that wisdom will be more precious to you than rubies — that its loveliness,... | |
 | Henry Budd - 1827 - 1150 pàgines
...is " the truest " gain," 1 the surest happiness, the most choice condition of human being, " having promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come." 2 The " soul's health " then is its great and ultimate object. Now there is one book which... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1827 - 482 pàgines
...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 gentlewoman... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pàgines
...but that the truest happiness, is to be found in obedience to the will of God, " Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Look at the misery with which the world abounds ; and you will see that the severest sufferings... | |
 | 1828 - 502 pàgines
...fullness, or more energetic in all its sanctions, than that which attaches to true religion, " the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." But let us see how this same system, from whose influence we would rescue our countrymen,... | |
 | Mansie Wauch - 1828 - 242 pàgines
...bypast volume of human transactions, having for its moral, that " purity of life hath for its reward the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." To attest its truth, the parish church of Suverdsio, among the Dalecarlian hills, yet bears... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
