...pleasure, as it is to your future welfare ; — that " godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Wisdom and religion are one and the same thing : and " the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness,...

...fullness, or more energetic in all its sanctions, than that which attaches to true religion, " the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." But let us see how this same system, from whose influence we would rescue our countrymen,...

...bypast volume of human transactions, having for its moral, that " purity of life hath for its reward the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." To attest its truth, the parish church of Suverdsio, among the Dalecarlian hills, yet bears...

...the whole race, especially of the vast crowds of its population ; every thing declares that she has promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. Much less am I to be understood as implying, that these details of our national and temporal...

...progress ; yet I still claim, that the word of the Lord standeth sure — ' that godliness . hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' In illustration of this position, it may in the first place be remarked, that the objects...

...know from Scripture and observation and experience, th:it it is profitable unto all things, and has promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. But allowing that it were all gloom, and self denial, and sacrifice, and suffering here ;...

...church. " Godliness is " now, and 1 Tim. always has been, " profitable unto all things, iv. 8. having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." But the sum and substance of the covenant was this, * Sec note on page 5. " To be a God unto...

...consciousness of a continual progress." So true is the scripture declaration, that "godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Our review of the character of the bulk of nominal Christians, has exhibited abundant proofs...

...Sabbath holy, is an essential branch of that " godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." All men in a Christian land might know, if they would, that in keeping the fourth commandment,...

...the whole race, especially of the vast crowds of its population; every thing declares that she has promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. Much less am I to be understood as implying, that these details of our national and temporal...