 | William Gilpin - Sermons - 1799 - 494 pages
...There JJiall be wailing., and gnafiiing of teeth. SERMON r SERMON XII. 1 TIMOTHY 4. Vlll. GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS, HAVING THE PROMISE OF THE LIFE THAT NOW IS, AND OF THAT WHICH IS TO COME. godlinefs depends chiefly on the promife •W of the life, that is... | |
 | William Gilpin - Homiletical illustrations - 1804 - 466 pages
...unbelievers. There Jhall be waiting, and gna/hing of teeth. SERMON XII. I TIMOTHY, Iv. 8. GODLINESS IS PROFITABLE UNTO ALL THINGS, HAVING THE PROMISE OF THE LIFE THAT NOW IS, AND OF THAT WHICH IS TO COME. 1 HOUGH godlinefs depends chiefly on the promife of the life, that... | |
 | Andrew Fowler - 1805 - 340 pages
...is a very charitable custom, and such as tends to the real benefit of i hildren; for '• godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come." Neither is there any thing in ttrs custom, that is not used... | |
 | Christian life - 1806 - 416 pages
...grave, many of your fellow beings. Real and peculiar advantages result from early piety. *' Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." It gives dignity to youth, and extorts from the unprincipled some... | |
 | Andrew Fowler - Sacraments - 1807 - 388 pages
...it is a very charitable custom, and such as tends to the real benefit of children; for " godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come." Neither is there any thing in this custom that is not used... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 560 pages
...life.'—2. The means of supporting life: ' all her living/ ' He divided unto them his Hving/ ' Godliness is profitable unto all things; having the promise of the life that now is,-" that is of every thing ne- . to support the present life.—3. It denotes the. space from hinting... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...QUARRELWOOP; Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. .. . John viii. 3*. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that .now is, and of that which is to come I Tim. iv. 8. I VoL. II PAISLEY: . PRINTED BY STEPHEN YOUNG. 1808.... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1809 - 636 pages
...qf both kinds of blessings is well expressed by the same sacred writer. I Tim. iv. 18. " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that NOW is and of that which is to come." This present life, with all its necessaries, and comforts, as far... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 404 pages
...the wicked, even in this present lite : For, as the apostle Paul may well be understood, Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. And if any virtuous practice has a better claim than other to the... | |
 | Henry Tuke - Christian life - 1812 - 200 pages
...religion and virtue; for both these, 1 apprehend, are included •in this observation ; " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now u, and of that which is CHAPTER IR On Religion as the Basis of Moralllif,•-. jLHERE are-many in the... | |
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the heart, which differs from the languishing emotions of the lukewarm." The advantages of this disposition are honour, peace, safety, usefulness, support in death, and prospect of glory ; or, as the apostle sums up all in a few words, " It is profitable... 
