| Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pages
...befriend yourselves, this is the best season : for godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. — Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Should you succeed in... | |
| 1838 - 504 pages
...who have not done so. One thing, however, is certain: "godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." There is nothing that I now remember more distinctly than the gracious influences of the... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...Tim. iv. 8. For bodily exercise profiteth little : but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. (James i. 12. See above.) Rev. i. 5, 6. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,... | |
| 1822 - 276 pages
...judiciously observe, "bodily exercise profiteth little ; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come?" Divine truth, or the true system of religion will promote the great and weighty interest... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 440 pages
...bodily exercise profiteth for a little time only ; but godliness is profitable for all time, having a promise of the life which now is, and of that which is coming. 9 This is a true saying, and worthy to be received by all. 10 For on this account we [both]... | |
| Schoolboy - 1824 - 138 pages
...called. But exercise thyself rather unto Godliness: for Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Tim. vi. 20 ; iv. 7, S. ON RESIGNATION. DESPISE not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 602 pages
...' the wisdom, which is from above,' is the supremo object of pursuit ; that ' godliness, which has the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.' In the pursuit of this glorious object, full of comfort, hope, and joy, tLe best emotions... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1825 - 680 pages
...could value his eminent piety and zeal. Surely then godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now is and of that which is to come 9. Surely even the Worldly man must acknowledge the excellency of such a life, and the happiness... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1825 - 614 pages
...children of the Poor a blessing of this character — a blessing which embraces both worlds, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come ; who would not start forward to do so? But permit me here to pause for an instant in the course... | |
| 1826 - 410 pages
...emplified— as that mankind at large shall be convinced, that "it is profitable unto ah things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come !" THE AUGUST, 1826. $rU0tou$ Communication^. LECTURES ON THE SHORTER CATECHISM OF THE WESTMINSTER... | |
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