...present and our future happiness. It proclaims, that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come "* : a deelara* " Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things...

...tendency, and design, who suppose it to be a mere system of restraints ; an enemy to innocent enjoyment. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. The Gospel bids us to be happy. All that it condemns is, an abuse of divine mercies ; and that alienation...

...pleasures of sin as momentary, deceitful, and ruinous ; and godliness as profitable to all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. Among the things which the sinner realizes, when he first comes to himself, are the following....

...life and power of godliness, which only is profitable * Enhes. iv. 11—13. for all things, and has the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. A reference is however here more especially made to the Apostle Paul, for the purpose of introducing...

...of good Christians, and may thankfully receive this earthly reward over and above, as godliness hath the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. Or, if we see our conduct blamed by the good, it may justly make us fear that if they condemn...

...passage to the realms of everlasting light; this is the only highway for the redeemed to pass along ; " its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace 1." If the proper study of mankind be man, it will be no improper application of this principle, to...

...revelation: and we fail not to urge in a subordinate view this motive. We tell men that Christianity has "the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come." But then we place not truth on this footing. We build nothing on the shifting foundation...

...nothing, substituted for the life and power of godliness, which only is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. A reference is however here more especially made to the Apostle Paul, for the purpose of introducing...

...persuade all around you (hat there is nothing gloomy, nothing disagreeable in religion ; but that " its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace." Show that you neither wish for nor require the pleasures or amusements of the world to make you happy...

...the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come"." We are further assured, that " its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace V This was the conviction of Moses, when he penned this psalm. The vanity and bitterness of sin had...