...comforts, and enriches the soul ; rendering it happy here, and ensuring its happiness hereafter. — This godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. III. WHEN WE MUST REMEMBER OUR CREATOR ? " In the days of youth." And that because we are...

...virtue ; and virtue can again call forth all its glories, even on the face of this dreary world. ' Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' The piety, truth, and benevolence which adorned our first parents, would again call down...

...shall be well with them that fear God;' Eccles. viii. 12.— and in short,) I that 'godliness hath the promise of the life that now is,' as well as 'of that which is to come;' 1 Tim. iv. 8. — we may certainly conclude, that a strict observance of the duties of the...

...him come " unto me, and drink." The blessed Gospel of Christ is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. Although, with respect to our temporal affairs, it offers no stores of wealth ; by teaching...

...religion, even with respect to the comforts of the present life, are very great. " Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." It prevents many evils, which, without it, cannot be prevented; and secures many blessings,...

...clause above given, I may say, (and I say it with joy and gratitude, as illustrative of the truth, that godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come,) I have been young, and am now in middle life, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,...

...establishment;" neither, we think, can it, with strict propriety, be said that the same establishment " has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." P. 336. The peculiar purity of doctrine, and correctness of practice inculcated by our Church,...

...awfully defaced by the apostacy of our first parents. It appears, that Christianity has indeed ' the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' She forbids no enjoyments, but what are injurious to our temporal as well as spiritual welfare....

...prospects, but in reference to our present enjoyments. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. This subject would bear an ample and useful illustration, with respect to the influence which...

...conduce to the happiness of the scholar, is apparent. So true is it, in this as in every thing, that " godliness has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." The disposition which we are considering crowns all those which have been mentioned, at the...