... Avoid anger; exercise compassion; and love truth. Recollect, that from religion your chief comfort must spring, and never neglect the duty of prayer. Learn from experience the comfort that... The Medley - Seite 84von Catharine Weller - 1810 - 192 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 180 Seiten
...making known your wants and forrows to the wifeft and beft of Beings, in whofe hands are the iffues, not only of this life, but of that which is to come. Your father will allow you a certain ftipend; you have already felt the pleafure of doing good \ ever... | |
| William Jones - 1801 - 428 Seiten
...smoaked out, and buried' in the earth. But the essential worth of the Christian faith, is its great promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come. The good of society, without any thing farther, will sound very flat and dead in the ears of all those... | |
| Edward Fisher - 1830 - 432 Seiten
...taken, we own there are promises of life, and threatenings of death, as well as precepts; and that godliness hath the promise, not only of this life, but of that which is to come, annexed to it in the order of the covenant; yet we are clear, no promise of life is made to the performance... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1839 - 384 Seiten
...the hope of the Bible. All who believe the Bible, and live a life of faith in the Son of God, have the promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come; and those who disbelieve the Bible, despise the hope of salvation in a crucified Redeemer, and lead a life... | |
| Thomas Comber - 1841 - 550 Seiten
...reward us with eternal happiness hereafter, for permitting him to persuade us to be happy here; for godliness hath the promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come alsow. And now if it be natural for us to wish all happiness to ourselves, and if we have but so much... | |
| George Mogridge - 1841 - 374 Seiten
...the hope of the Bible. All who believe the Bible, and live a life of faith in the Son of God, have the promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come. Those who disbelieve the Bible, despise the hope of salvation in a crucified Redeemer, and lead a life... | |
| George Mogridge - 1843 - 188 Seiten
...the world should know. All who believe the Bible, and live a life of faith in the Son of God, have the promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come. And those who disbelieve the Bible, despise the hope of salvation in a crucified Redeemer, and lead a life... | |
| 1846 - 660 Seiten
...infinite wisdom has repeatedly adopted for the purpose of imparting the instruction which brings with it the promise not only of this life but of that which is to come. We give an example or two from our author, picked almost at random : — " Love pure and celestial... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1850 - 664 Seiten
...taken, we own there are promises of life, and threatenings of death, as well as precepts; and that godliness hath the promise, not only of this life, but of that which is to come, annexed to it, in the order of the covenant ; yet we are clear no promise of life is made to the performance... | |
| William John Conybeare - 1854 - 584 Seiten
...being so great for so small a reward, was a fit image of that " training unto godliness," which has the promise not only of this life, but of that which is to come, — to the strict regulations6 which presided over all the details, both of the contest and the preliminary... | |
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