 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. — Gen. viii. 22. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come," 1 Tim. iv. 8. By faith we receive the declarations of Jehovah, as... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...U 2 SERMON SERMON 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... | |
 | William Gilpin - Sermons - 1799 - 494 pages
...unbelievers. There fjiall be wailing, and gnaJJiing of teeth. SERMON. SERMON XII. 1 TIMOTHY 4. Viil. GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS) HAVING THE PROMISE OF THE LIFE THAT NOW IS, AND OF THAT WHICH IS TO COME. godlinefs depends chiefly on the promife of the life, that is to... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...instruments of 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 - Conduct of life - 1803 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...eternal felicity. Let us never forger, " That without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Godliness " is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that " naw is, and of that which is to come.'' SERMON XXXV. TO GO D THE GREAT COMMANDMENT. MARK .m, 80.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1804 - 442 pages
...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,... | |
 | Children - 1836 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1806 - 650 pages
...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 that God has made one promise... | |
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It respects temporal good, to show that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 
