...and abundantly proved by the history of good men, and, therefore, worthy of all acceptation, '•' That godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come." " Therefore," says the apostle, •' we labour and suffer, trusting...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...will find themselves better prepared to receive all the happiness which this world can give, for " godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." They will find themselves made happy by the exercise of religion in this world....

...less solicitous on account of your own calamities. Study with alacrity that godliness, which has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." In a letter to Eulogius,* bishop of Alexandria, written the year after, he says,...

...the apostle ; and the Gospel, thus persecuted and apparently forlorn, was still declared to have the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ! Let us extend this view beyond the limits of the apostolic age, and follow the Gospel...