and others do make their carnal pleasures, delights, sports, and pastimes their chief end, as if God had put them into the world, as the Psalmist reports of the Leviathans being put into water, to play therein: and this is the case of the younger sort generally of vain and wicked people, who either do not know, or will not consider, that the end of their Creation was to honour and enjoy their Creator, both here and hereafter. 3dly, What it is to glorify God, may be thus explained; namely, it is to live according to his will revealed in his word; or, it is to think, ⟨p. 4⟩speak, and do according to the Rule of his word. (1.) We glorify God in our thoughts, or in our hearts, when we dare not allow our selves to think any thing that is not stamped with Gods authority and allowance; and more particularly, when our thoughts of God, of his works, words, and all that relates to him, are such as do become his excellent Greatness. So when we fear, love, admire, trust, and desire him above all. (2.) We glorify him in our words, when our speech is not corrupt, vain, and idle, but seasoned with grace. (3.) In our actions, when we make his word our rule, and his glory our great and general end in all our actions. 4thly, What it is to enjoy God; we may best conceive of it, by what it is to enjoy a friend: Now this is, we know, to have his presence, company, and converse, and to take delight in his society. So to enjoy God, it is to converse with God, to be well-pleased with his gracious presence, and not only to have him to be our Friend, or Father, but to entertain this King of glory in our hearts and affections. Or as wicked men do look upon the greatest part of their enjoyment to consist in (that which they miscall) good-fellowship; so the Christians enjoying of God, is to have fellowship with him: Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And to maintain and keep up this fellowship with God for ever, it is to enjoy him for ever; which in reference ⟨p. 5⟩to a Christians enjoyment of God in glory, is called a being for ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4.17.
and others do make their carnal pleasures, delights, sports, and pastimes their chief end, as if God had put them into the world, as the Psalmist reports of the Leviathans being put into water, to play therein: and this is the case of the younger sort generally of vain and wicked people, who either do not know, or will not consider, that the end of their Creation was to honour and enjoy their Creator, both here and hereafter. 3dly, What it is to glorifie God, may be thus explained; namely, it is to live according to his will revealed in his word; or, it is to think, ⟨p. 4⟩speak, and do according to the Rule of his word. (1.) We glorifie God in our thoughts, or in our hearts, when we dare not allow our selves to think any thing that is not stampt with Gods authority and allowance; and more particularly, when our thoughts of God, of his works, words, and all that relates to him, are such as do become his excellent Greatness. So when we fear, love, admire, trust, and desire him above all. (2.) We glorifie him in our words, when our speech is not corrupt, vain, and idle, but seasoned with grace. (3.) In our actions, when we make his word our rule, and his glory our great and general end in all our actions. 4thly, What it is to enjoy God; we may best conceive of it, by what it is to enjoy a friend: Now this is, we know, to have his presence, company, and converse, and to take delight in his society. So to enjoy God, it is to converse with God, to be well-pleased with his gracious presence, and not only to have him to be our Friend, or Father, but to entertain this King of glory in our hearts and affections. Or as wicked men do look upon the greatest part of their enjoyment to consist in (that which they miscall) good-fellowship; so the Christians enjoying of God, is to have fellowship with him: Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Iesus Christ. And to maintain and keep up this fellowship with God for ever, it is to enjoy him for ever; which in reference ⟨p. 5⟩to a Christians enjoyment of God in glory, is called a being for ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4.17.
