 | James Milligan - 1818 - 304 pagine
...ihall be added. Whether Paul or Apollos er Cephas, or the world, all is yours, and ye are Christ's. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Do these appendages alter the spiritual and "everlasting privileges... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pagine
...practice of justice and charity among men. " Godliness, svo-eGeta, is " profitable unto all things, having promise of the life " that now is, as well as of that which is to come 1 :" and they whd assert religion to have been the invention ef priests or politicians, to... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 pagine
...virtue can again call forth all its glories, even on the face of this dreary world. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. The piety, truth, and Benevolence, which adorned our first Parents, would again call down... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 604 pagine
...practice of justice and charity among men. " Godliness, eua-s&w, is " profitable unto all things, having promise of the life " that now is, as well as of that which is-to come1:" and they who assert religion to have been the invention ®f priests or politicians, to... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 pagine
...with the case of those who fear God and work righteousness, and I think you will be constrained to say that " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." What I have related above is not the work of imagination, but a... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Thayer - 1819 - 230 pagine
...-required to relinquish any enjoyments, except such as are really pernicious. " Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." He that hath relinquished any of the delights of this life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1822 - 516 pagine
...am sure by striving to do so, we most promote our own happiness; and find the truth of that text, " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." M. — True : to be holy, is to be happy. Religion will not indeed... | |
 | Charles Robert Maturin - 1819 - 500 pagine
...refers it to, than the worldling in the very triumph of temporal felicity. Thus hath godliness the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come — a promise (not of its goods indeed, but) of its evils being converted into blessings, of... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pagine
...kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him*? Godliness with contentment is great gain1" ; and is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come1. For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pagine
...illustrating, in a peculiar and forcible manner, the observation, that godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come. J. COUCH. ENGLISH LAW. — CHARACTERS OF SERVANTS. MR. EDITOR. SIR,... | |
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It respects temporal good, to show that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 
