 | John FISHER (A.M., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Exeter.) - 1741 - 354 pages
...World alfo, as far as Happinefs is to be had here, as well as in the next; for it has the Tromje of the Life that now is as well as of that which is to come .- And this it does, not by pleafing the Fancy, and gratifying the Senfes ; this is a mean and fordid Happinefs,... | |
 | George Fothergill - 1765 - 466 pages
...the Principles upon which we perform it, perfeB freedom. Godlinefs has indeed ' the Promife of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come; and this Promife is fufficiently fulfilled to perfuade a rational Choice. At the fame Time, however, the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Burges - 1800 - 216 pages
...grofler vices " naturally lead to poverty and contempt, while " godlinefs hath ' thepromife of the life that now " is, as well as of that which is to come;' and " when this world mall pafs away, and that which " is perfedt mall fucceed it, thenlhall it evidently... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...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 pages
...vices, he wasted 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... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1803 - 244 pages
...xvii. 15 / Luke xvi. 9. m Heb. xi. 10. Lord, thou haft told us that godlinefs hath the pro. mile of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come << ; and that if we feek fir ft the kingdom of God and the righteoufnefs thereof, other things fhal> be added... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1806 - 650 pages
...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... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
