 | Henry Melvill - 1854 - 384 pages
...anxieties of life, so that " the wolf shall lie down with the lamb," and godliness to be proved to have the " promise of this life as well as of that which is to come." And we would never be weary of pointing out what tendencies there are in Christianity (though,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Deaf - 1854 - 232 pages
...and value. To do this would be alike unwise and ungrateful. It would.be unwise ; for godliness hath the promise of this life as Well as of that which is to come, and it is only a misguided enthusiasm which can aim to prepare youth for a better world, without,... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Society of Friends - 1856 - 364 pages
...hands. They " know that ALL THINGS work together for good to them that love God."1 Godliness, however, has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come : we may, therefore, entertain a reasonable confidence that our temporal happiness and safety,... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1859 - 964 pages
...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 risen... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1856 - 500 pages
...conversation " is not only the prelude to 216 a happy death, but that it has, as its natural fruit, the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come, A religious life is not merely a shield against a host of evils which vice draws after it,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1856 - 94 pages
...ourselves for heaven it is not necessary to make ourselves uncomfortable on earth ; for " godliness hath the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come," giving us " a thousand fold " in the one, and " everlasting " joys in the other. Religion... | |
 | John David Macbride - Christianity and other religions - 1857 - 308 pages
...care, and righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost; confirming the apostle's assurance that it has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. The foundation of his teaching must be laid deep in the doctrine of human corruption; but... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...future gain ; yet thousands of instances prove tho truth of the divine declaration that "godliness has the promise of this life as well as of that which is to como." A chemist and druggist once remarked to an American author, "There was a time when I used... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - Health - 1859 - 334 pages
...the Bible tells us—" Cease to do evil; learn to do well." He shows us that a correct mode of living has the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come; for I defy any one to read Cornaro's autobiography attentively, and not see that this is the... | |
 | 1859 - 894 pages
...he is in Christ, and has passed from death unto life, and is the work of the Holy Spirit in him. It has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come. Co him that soSuctf) righteousness, sfjaH be a sure rtfaaro.—PROV. xi. 18. The illustration... | |
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which has the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come. 
