 | Children - 530 pages
...glory of God. Silvester increased in property, and left an example to his family and to posterity that godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. His name will be long remembered, as associated with the epithet,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1806 - 650 pages
...would accordingly 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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 586 pages
...wars, massacres, persecutions, or other dreaded catastrophes, can hurt, or should alarm him: for lie is safe, and shall be guided, supported, and guarded...things: " having the promise of the life that now is, and " of that which is to come.1" 5. Communion with God is the believer's privilege. We " have... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pages
...wars, massacres, persecutions, or other dreaded catastrophes, can hurt, or should alarm him: for he is safe, and shall be guided, supported, and guarded...which infinite wisdom and everlasting love can devise. i . Thus "godliness is profitable for all things: " having the promise of the life that now is, aud... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Apologetics - 1809 - 392 pages
...wars, massacres, persecutions, or other dreaded catastrophe, can hurt or should alarm him ; for he is safe, and shall be guided, supported, and guarded...can devise. Thus " godliness is profitable for all thing*, " having the promise of the liie, that now is, and of that, " which is to come."* V. Communion... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1810 - 548 pages
...wars, massacres, persecutions, or other dreaded catastrophes, can hurt, or should alarm him: for he is safe, and shall be guided, supported, and guarded in all places and circumstances, till the ap. pointed period of his pilgrimage arrive; and then he will be conveyed home to his Father's house,... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...and on whom you may bestow them with infinitely greater advantage than you can on any other object. " Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Let me, then, beseech you, even now, without delay, to make a surrender... | |
 | Missions - 1837 - 714 pages
...genuine Christians, the greater part were called when comparatively poor ; but they have found that " godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Too few of them, alas I render to the Lord according to his... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 664 pages
...thankful in life — happy in death — and is gone to be happier than I can tell you, for ever. For godliness is profitable for all things ; having the promise of the life that now is, so far as there is anything good in it ; and the promise of the life that is to come, in which... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 406 pages
...men : love the brotherhood : fear God: honour 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,... | |
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Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. 
