 | 1824 - 418 pages
...walkelh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. St. Paul saith: Godliness with contentment is great gain: for we brought...world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And again : Let him that is poor labour working with his han'ls the thing which is good, that he may have... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...11— 13. Godliness with contentment is great gain : for we brought nothing iuto this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out ; and having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. — 1 Tim. vi. 6 — 8. Let your conversation be without covetonsness, and be content... | |
 | 1824 - 450 pages
...for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth,' Mat. x. 31. ' Godliness, with contentment, is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we shall carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...25—27. She that liveth in pleasure (or delicately) is dead while she liveth. — 1 Tim. v. 6. 420 Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out : having food and raiment, let us be therewith content: but... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.' 1 Tim. vi. 6, 7. 'godliness with contentment is great gain ; for we...carry nothing out : and having food and raiment let us therewith be content' Heb. xiii. 5. ' be content with such things as ye have.' Even in poverty. Psal.... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, 1 Cor. i. 26. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and...which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the AD 33. MATT. xix. 23—27. AD 33. love of money ia the root of all evil : which while some coveted... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 422 pages
...C, 7, 8. Godliness with contentment is great gain — for we brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out — and having food and raiment, let us be therewith content - - - - 208 Page XXIII. SUICIDE. 2 Sam . xvii. 23. And when Ahithophel saw that his... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - 632 pages
...godliness with contentment is great " gain ;" for, says he, " we brought nothing into " this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing " out. And, having food and raiment, let us be " therewith content." In considering the subject we may, I. Notice the connexion between godliness... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 604 pages
...7i 8. Godliness with contentment is great gain — -for tre brought nothing info the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out — and having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. RESTLESSNESS and impatience in the situation of life they are placed in, is in some... | |
 | 1825 - 806 pages
...a consideration of the end of human life. " We brought nothing," says he, " into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out; and having food and raiment, let us therewith be content." And on another occasion, having dwelt at large on some relative duties, as if... | |
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But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. 
