| Sermons, American - 1813 - 502 pages
...rightcous, and let my last end be like his." Very different is the situation of the rightcous. They have the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But they do, by no means, expect perfect happiness here. They vicw this world, as it was designed,... | |
| Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...renewed. You will find that God still leaves you much happiness in store, and that "godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come." If you love, you will comprehend this, and will say, with St. Paul, when speaking of himself,... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...who rightly understand the meaning of that scripture, ip which it is said, that godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. iv. 8. But, so far as it affects the argument we are maintaining, we must consider,... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...who rightly understand the meaning of that scripture, in which it is said, that godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. iv. 8. But, so far as it affects the argument we are maintaining, we must consider,... | |
| 1815 - 512 pages
...spirit of the gospel promote our temporal, as well as spiritual and eternal advantage. True religion has the promise of the life that now is, as well as- of that which is to come. As the public services at Wooburn were only morning and evening, Mr. English, soon after his... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...prove the truth of the observation in the text; that " Godliness is profitable for all things, having pharisees said, he casteth out the devils through the princ to come." Having now sufficiently considered the several propositions of the text, I shall conclude... | |
| Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...the King. . ODLINESS," says the author of " our text, " is profitable for all things, " having the promise of the life that now is, " as well as of that which is to come:" that is, a man, by believing and pra&ising the gospel, will not only secure to himself, through... | |
| 1816 - 926 pages
...righteousness unto God. This is real godliness : tins is what is profitable unto- all tilings, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which i» to eeinc. The form of godliness, too often and too fatally mistaken for it, brings no jn.,t peace... | |
| Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 490 pages
...with Himself to heaven to see his glory, and to share his happiness for ever and ever. But godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to * John, xi. 25, 26.— 1 Joho> ii. 12. v. 12. — John, iii. 3& x. 10. 27,28. xiv. 19, come: and... | |
| Thomas Babington - Religious education - 1818 - 208 pages
...happiness, of the scholar, is apparent. So true is it, in this as in every tiling, that " godliness has the promise of the life that now " is, as well as of that which is to eome." The disposition which we are considering crowns all those which have been mentioned, at the... | |
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