...spiritual and eternal, acts contrary to this pluin dictate of common sense ! — Besides, godliness has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come : and we are likely to have as much comfort in the world, when the only wise God manages and...

...the faith and zeal of that holy man. Thus God blesses his faithful servants ; and thus has godliness the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. — The Same. Go : come. — What more lamentable and more dreadful can be thought of, than...

...this, and this alone, is really profitable either to the body or the soul ; for godliness only hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. To follow the evil example which has been described, is both debasing and injurious: we sacrifice,...

...to receive, or to do good than to gain it ; and that godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come, — are truths pencilled in sunbeams on the experience of man. They are truths which, if •we...

...exclaiming, when he looked at his decent and respectable dress, as he arose in the morning, " Godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come." " Since I have served God, how abundantly hath he provided for me." When the servants had...

...Cultivate it therefore, my dear child, with your utmost diligence — and watch the symptoms of ill temper, as they rise, with a firm resolution to conquer them,...the promise of this life as well as of that which is to coma." Then will you pity, in others, those infirmities which you have conquered in yourself; and...

...for your temporal prosperity, (at least so much of it as is really good for you,) for godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. And this will be the best and surest pledge for your fulfilling the duties of life, not only...

...this, and this alone, is really profitable either to the body or the soul ; for godliness only hath the promise of this life, as well as of that .which is to come. To follow the evil example which has been described, is both debasing and injurious : we sacrifice,...

...character is a permanent blessing; and practically true is the inspired declaration, that "godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come." A FRIBNn TO THE. POOR. THE TEARS OF PARENTS— (continued from p. 40.) For the Christian...

...the faith and zeal of that holy man. Thus God blesses his faithful servants ; and thus has godliness the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. CHAPTER XV. IN this chapter and the following, to the nineteenth, we are informed in what...