You desire it from the highest motives; and godliness is profitable in all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come... Youthful piety - Page 36by Jabez Burns - 1849Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...a great deal of time in proving the truth of the assertion. As christians you must undoubtedly own, that Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life which now is, as well as of that which is to come.^. If your children, through the divine blessing... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...a great deal of time in proving the truth of the assertion. As christians you must undoubtedly own, that Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life which now is, as well as of that which is to cornel. If your children, through the divine blessing... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| Abner Kneeland - Theology, Doctrinal - 1804 - 416 pages
...avail us in a dying hour, when our souls shall be required of us ? But as for true godliness, " it is profitable to all things : having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come :'' 1 Tim. iv. 8. Thus much in brief, respecting the riches of ciernal... | |
| 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... | |
| Samuel Austin - Church - 1807 - 344 pages
...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... | |
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