| Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 442 sider
...for you will be told, that they who will live godly, must suffer persecution, and that godliness has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. It is asserted both, that God suffers the wicked to prosper in this life, and that, if we... | |
| 1805 - 510 sider
...the Jaw? and Gentiles in one society, before the church had received her temporal power ; for "'she hath the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come ;" see Rev. v* 10. When the church comes to be established by Constantine, she is described... | |
| Mary Blackburn Cobb - 1805 - 358 sider
...midst of plenty, as it respects enjoyment of the mind. Prosperity is vain and delusive; godliness alone hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. What an unspeakable mercy is it, if you then, (amidst the happy few) are made to choose that... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1806 - 240 sider
...length attain the true Christian meekness, which is blessed in the sight of God and man : " which lias " the promise of this life as well as of that which " is to come." Then will you pity, in others, those infirmities, which you have conquered in yourself; and... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1809 - 350 sider
...length attain that true Christian meekness, which is blessed in the sight of God and man ; " which has the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come." Then will you pity, in others, thoqe infirmities, which you have conquered in yourself; and... | |
| 1809 - 344 sider
...length attain that true Christian meekness, which is blessed in the sight of God and man ; " which has the promise of this life, " as well as of that which is to come." Then will you pity, in others, those infirmities, which you have conquered in yourself; and... | |
| Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 sider
...sobriety, and .whose conduct entitles him to respe& and esteem from all good men ; thus " godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come."* * f, Tim. iv. 2. But there may be a great difference between a good and a bad man as I have... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1811 - 258 sider
...first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things shall be added to you, for godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. Were you sure therefore of living a great many years, it would be your best and wisest way... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 sider
...me according to my righteousness.' Sometimes he rewards them with temporal blessings : for godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. Sometimes Providence doth notably interpose, and load obedience with blessings herein •the... | |
| William Clayton - 1814 - 420 sider
...and with tfie first-fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns befitted with plenty. GODLINESS hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. How many have been beggared by vice, how few comparatively by religion! As a general maxim... | |
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