| William Mason - 1765 - 522 sivua
...and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. — Gen. viii. 22. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the...life that now is, and of that which is to come," 1 Tim. iv. 8. By faith we receive the declarations of Jehovah, as the blessings of a father's love. The... | |
| 1810 - 582 sivua
...and prayer, was sweet and pleasant to me. I soon proved the truth of St. Paul's. words to Timothy,'' Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is. to come.' The change in my conduct was so great, that it could not long escape... | |
| George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 sivua
...grace and every human virtue. U 2 SERMON SERMON XX. THE TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL ADVANTAGES OF GODLINESS. i TIMOTHY iv. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things ; having the promise of the life that now is, and of that -which is to come. IT is very unaccountable how it ever came SERM. XX to be imagined... | |
| 1804 - 498 sivua
...bitterness of spirit, in sorrow, and melancholy sadness ? No. The very reverse of all this is truth. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Godliness with contentment is great gain." Instead of diminishing,... | |
| 1842
...between Christian and heathen villages isforcibly drawn in the following note : — ' The proof that godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come, was never, I think, made more manifest than in the contrast between... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 sivua
...soul of eternal felicity. Let us never forger, " That without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Godliness " is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that " naw is, and of that which is to come.'' SERMON XXXV. TO GO D THE GREAT COMMANDMENT. MARK .m, 80.... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 462 sivua
...dying hour, when our souls shall be required of us ? But as for true godliness, " it is profitable to all things : having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come :" 1 Tim. iv. 8. Thus much in brief, respecting the riches of eternal life. 1 now pass to speak of those... | |
| 1806 - 416 sivua
...untimely grave, many of your fellow beings. Real and peculiar advantages result from early piety. " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." It gives dignity to youth, and extorts from the unprincipled some... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sivua
...II. Fromines to the godly. Ps. iv. 3. The Lord hath set apnrthim that is godly for himself. 1 Tim. iv. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all Things, -having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. vi. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 2 Pet. ii. 9. The... | |
| Herman Witsius - 1807 - 360 sivua
...the writer of the Proverbs, chap. xxi. 21. Paul tells us " that godliness is great gain, and that it is profitable unto all things, .having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:" and that " good works are good and profitable unto men," 1 Tim.... | |
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