 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - Страниц: 538
...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... | |
 | 1815 - Страниц: 436
...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 - Страниц: 474
...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 - Страниц: 442
...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 - Страниц: 498
...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 - Страниц: 650
...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 - Страниц: 344
...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 - Страниц: 604
...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... | |
 | John Ireland - 1809 - Страниц: 454
...the apostle ; and the Gospel, thus persecuted and apparently forlorn, was still declared to have the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ! Let us extend this view beyond the limits of the apostolic age, and follow the Gospel in... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - Страниц: 492
...less solicitous on account of your own calamities. Study with alacrity that godliness, which has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." In a letter to Eulogius,* bishop of Alexandria, written the year after, he says, " I have... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
