...promifes, as they relate to this life. Such there are. Chriftian godlinefs has the promt fe of the life, that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But it is the defign of this inftitution to carry our minds above earth and the affairs of it. ThtJewijh...

...an underftanding Heart, to make a right Ufe of them ; and therefore Gedlinefi has the Promife of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But the Vifion of God, the Enjoyment of an eternal Being to all Eternity ', is as much beyond the poor...

...an underftanding Heart, to make a right Ufe of them ; and therefore Godlinefs has the Promife of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But the Vifion of God, the Enjoyment of an eternal Being to all Eternity, is as much beyond the poor and...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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 not read them...

...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...

...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...