...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...

...religion are those of pleasantness and peace to all who honestly walk in them ; for " godliness hath promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." . Those amongst you who saw this poor girl, so early as in her sixteenth year, cut off out...

...Now, it is a certain and comfortable truth, 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." lTim.iv.8. But verily, my dear friend, I have no notion that God has made one promise of...

...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...

...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,...

...desirable end, with the 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,...

...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...

...It was devised and bestowed upon mankind for this purpose— containing in its ample provisions the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come : and it is, in all its moral tendencies, eminently adapted tx> the ends for which it was designed....