 | John Towne - 1756 - 410 sider
...glorious and honourable employment, as they would have been commirTioned to teach the promife of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, while the Preachers of the new Covenant were confined only to the latter part : in a word, they would have... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 538 sider
...therefore 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... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1797 - 582 sider
...happy alteration of manners in thofe barbarous regions. Chriftian godlinefs has the promife of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. While it conduces enflaved fouls into liberty, and, turning them from the power of Satan to God, inverts them... | |
 | 1815 - 436 sider
...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 - 474 sider
...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 - 442 sider
...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 - 498 sider
...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 - 650 sider
...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 - 344 sider
...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 - 604 sider
...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... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
