...is " the truest " gain," 1 the surest happiness, the most choice condition of human being, " having promise of the life that now is," as well as " of that which is to come." 2 The " soul's health " then is its great and ultimate object. Now there is one book which...

...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, operates to produce...

...onward stages of his 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...

...These and many other impressive images are used by the sacred penmen to show, that godliness has the "promise of the life that now is^" as well as of "that which is to come." Joy is our duty, glory, health, The sunshine of the soul ; The best return that we can make...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

..." through much tribulation we must enter the kingdom," made no scruple to say, " Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Peter, also, who charged Christians not to think it strange " concerning the fiery trial...

...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...