 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 422 pages
...infirmities ; for, while the gospel assures us of everlasting felicity, it also brings us temporal peace. " Godliness is profitable to all .things, having " the promise of the life that now is, as *' well as that which is to come." If he be poor and needy, and scarcely able, by all tke exertions... | |
 | New York Sunday School Union Society - Sunday schools - 1816 - 428 pages
...honest industry and integrity, under the righteous providence of God, seldom fail of their reward. " Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." The ardour of diligence which it quickens, the confidence which... | |
 | Isaac Stockton Keith - Congregational churches - 1816 - 470 pages
...of St. Paul to Timothy, that it embraces the whole of practical religion : " godliness," says he, " is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Saurin reduces it to these four ideas, " knowledge in the mind,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 396 pages
...Correspondent with this declaration of the blessed Saviour, is the assertion of the apostle Paul— " Godliness, is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." And among the innumerable circumstances, that recommend the christian... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 538 pages
...St. Paul said well, ' Bodily exercise profiteth but little ;' but of the latter sort, he added, ' but godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come :' and this indeed is our exactest measure. Fastings alone, lyings upon... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 530 pages
...St. Paul said well, ' Bodily exercise profiteth but little ;' but of the latter sort, he added, ' but godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come :' and this indeed is our exactest measure. Fastings alone, lyings upon... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1822 - 340 pages
...first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, all other things shall be added to us ; for godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Blessed are they that can witness and experience a work of God upon... | |
 | Arminianism - 1840 - 1122 pages
...morality, have been extensively diffused in every quarter of the globe ; and myriads have proved that " godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Mere numerical calculations, however, afford but very inadequate... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 640 pages
...the necessities of the world and of this life) shall be added." — For so saith the Apostle, " Piety is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." — And to this that of Homer '' rarely accords. TIB o BetrAoK aiuuM*™?,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 642 pages
...the necessities of the world and of this life) shall be added." — For so saith the Apostle, " Piety is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." — And to this that of Homer 'i rarely accords. E TEU ri /3iw(XTjoc... | |
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Bodily exercise profiteth but little ;" but of the latter sort, he added, "but godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come :" and this indeed is our exactest measure. 
