 | Albert Shaw - 1891 - 722 pages
...in spirit and was troubled over the economic results of a revival of religion. Godliness, having the promise of the life that now is as well as that which is to come, naturally brings riches in its train. Diligence and frugality, the children of true religion, are in... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 pages
...Presbyterianism is at once a creed and a polity. It looks both toward God and Man. It has respect to the life that now is as well as that which is to come. It recognizes God as the only Supreme fíuler, the source of all binding law, the only being in the... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1893 - 932 pages
...be only the fulfillment of the declaration, that " Godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come." The day is coming when God, the supernal good, who organized the world that it might serve him in virtue... | |
 | William John Deane - 1893 - 556 pages
...and to spare (Job xxxvi. 16). IV. A PORTION ON BOTH SIDES OF JORDAN is OURS. The Christian has the promise of the life that now is as well as that which is to come. All things are ours. The world, life, death, things present, things to come, the blessings of the throne... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1891 - 680 pages
...spirit and was troubled over the economical results of a revival of religion. Godliness, having the promise of the life that now is as well as that which is to come, naturally brings riches in its train. Diligence and frugality, the children of true religion, are in... | |
 | Arthur Lukyn Williams - 1894 - 702 pages
...only requiring the one great spiritual Guide. No longer are they dependent upon alms. Keligion has the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come. It fulfils that promise hy opening the eyes of its subjects. — JAM Ver. 2. — Fair labour-agreements.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 612 pages
...look for a rital welcome of the Faith which deals with the Future through the pr\sent, and claims the life that now is as well as that which is to come.' * Certainly, if this were the case, there would be no need to discuss the inability of the Church to... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 pages
...left for the missionary of the cross to carry, not alone the gospel, but all good things else, for the life that now is, as well as that which is to come. This same divine Word has furnished to man his highest ideals : of the true freedom, consisting in... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Baldwin - 1895 - 336 pages
...purity of the inner. Nor is this asking too much : for we are told by Inspiration that " godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." XVII. JOSEPH IN EGYPT. " And Joseph was brought down to Egypt."... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, W. A. Morris - 1896 - 656 pages
...bread and water guaranteed to them while they live; for "godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come." Rut the joint heirs with Christ are never taught to regard the earth as their inheritance. They may... | |
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He did not see why true believers, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come... 
