 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...habitation must not be undervalued. The want of them are parts of God's threatened curse; and godliness hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come, and so is profitable to all things. And when God sends on a land the plagues of famine, pestilence,... | |
 | Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.) - 1836 - 380 Seiten
...these piety or evangelical righteousness is the only title : " Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of this life and of that which is to come." For upon this account the works of the law cannot justify us; for the works of the law at the best... | |
 | Thomas Sherman - 1836 - 134 Seiten
...my soul ? A confluence of all the glorious things both in heaven and in earth ? Why godliness hath the promise of this life, and of that which is to come. If heaven, and the righteousness thereof, be what thou seekest; both heaven and earth, with the excellencies... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor - 1837 - 428 Seiten
...to preserve innocence and virtue, or that godliness, which, as the Apostle tells us, is great gain, having the promise of this life, and of that which is to come. DISCOURSE XXXII. ROMANS, CHAP. VI. VERSE 21. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are... | |
 | 1839 - 540 Seiten
...temporal want, in bodily pain, in earthly loneliness, without spiritual peace. Thus hath Godliness the promise of this life and of that which is to come, — " All is our's, for we are Christ's and Christ is God's." " The work of righteousness is peace,... | |
 | 1841 - 880 Seiten
...consideration of supreme and indispensable importance. In this matter, surely, if in any, "godliness has the promise of this life, and of that which is to come." If the Christian marry, and if conscience tells him that he prudently may, it is not the Minister of... | |
 | Few words - 1840 - 44 Seiten
...would speedily beget changed habits. You would soon find that godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of this life, and of that which is to come. This world affords you but little happiness ; you would then have a bright hope for the future, and... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - 1840 - 508 Seiten
...a mere assumption, grounded only on men's fancies. In brief, godliness hath, unto us as to them, " the promise of this life and of that which is to come ;" God spake unto them by His prophets, unto us by His Son ; the mysteries of grace and salvation but... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 428 Seiten
...well ; and I should not wonder that a blessing from God attended such a servant ; for godliness has the promise of this life and of that which is to come. Fa. I owe her many a good wish now ; but I was but little sensible of my obligation to her then. La.... | |
 | Author of Thoughts in suffering - 1842 - 108 Seiten
...curse for us. The curse was first pronounced upon man when he fell ; it descended upon his posterity: the promise of this life, and of that which is to come, rested on its being removed. But what is indeed the curse ? It is not in human power to describe what... | |
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God's threatened curse ; and godliness hath the promise of this life, and of that which is to come , and so is profitable to all things. 
