| Timothy Dwight - Clergy - 1818 - 650 pages
...; and virtue can again call forth all its glories, even on the face of this dreary world. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. The piety, truth, and Benevolence, which adorned our first Parents, would again call down... | |
| Hannah More - 1818 - 502 pages
...none. He soon found out that there was some meaning in that text which says, that Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as 'well as of that which is to come : for the same principles which make a man sober and honest, have also a natural tendency to... | |
| Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1818 - 234 pages
...life, ivith an ' humble submission to the -will of God. Lord, thou hast told us that godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ;o and that if we seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, -other things... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...practice of justice and charity among men. " Godliness, svo-eGeta, is " profitable unto all things, having promise of the life " that now is, as well as of that which is to come 1 :" and they whd assert religion to have been the invention ef priests or politicians, to... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...practice of justice and charity among men. " Godliness, eua-s&w, is " profitable unto all things, having promise of the life " that now is, as well as of that which is-to come1:" and they who assert religion to have been the invention ®f priests or politicians, to... | |
| William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1837 - 668 pages
...violation of the Lord's Day, to which he had been before accustomed. We know who has said, "godliness hath promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." "IT SHALL BE PAID HIM AGAIN." I have always liked the beautiful expression of the verse quoted... | |
| Charles Robert Maturin - Sermons, English - 1819 - 500 pages
...refers it to, than the worldling in the very triumph of temporal felicity. Thus hath godliness the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come — a promise (not of its goods indeed, but) of its evils being converted into blessings, of... | |
| Caroline Matilda Thayer - Bereavement - 1819 - 230 pages
...-required to relinquish any enjoyments, except such as are really pernicious. " Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." He that hath relinquished any of the delights of this life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ,... | |
| Johnson Grant - Great Britain - 1820 - 638 pages
...and where diligence, steadiness, sobriety, and good principle, are allowed to make their way to the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. * * CHAPTER XXXII. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. I. Difficulty of preserving Unity or Connection... | |
| William Melmoth - Apologetics - 1821 - 168 pages
...it shall be well with them that fear God: Eccles. viii. 12. and, in short, that Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come; 1 Tim. iv. 8. we may certainly conclude, that a strict observance of the duties of the Christian... | |
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