A26701:203
The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /
The way to true happiness in a serious treatise / by Joseph Alleine.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Nevil Simmons, 1678
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. Not only man, but the whole visible creation is in vain, without this. Beloved, God hath made all the visible creatures in Heaven and earth for the service of man, Jer. 22. 28. and man only is the spokesman for all the rest. Man is in the universe, like the tongue in the body, (which speaks for all the members.) The other creatures cannot praise their maker, but by dumb signs and hints to man, that he should speak for them. Man is, as it were, the High-Priest of Gods creation, to offer the Sacrifice of praise, for all his fellow creatures, Psal. 147, and 148. and 150. The Lord God expecteth a tribute of praise from all his works, Psal. 10•. 22. now all the rest do bring in their tribute to man, and pay it in by his hand. So then, if man be false, and faithless, and selfish, God is wronged of all, and shall have no active glory from his works.
II. Not only man, but the whole visible creation is in vain, without this. Beloved, God hath made all the visible creatures in Heaven and earth for the service of man, Ier. 22. 28. and man only is the spokesman for all the rest. Man is in the universe, like the tongue in the body, (which speaks for all the members.) The other creatures cannot praise their maker, but by dumb signs and hints to man, that he should speak for them. Man is, as it were, the High-Priest of Gods creation, to offer the Sacrifice of praise, for all his fellow creatures, Psal. 147, and 148. and 150. The Lord God expecteth a tribute of praise from all his works, Psal. 10•. 22. now all the rest do bring in their tributo to man, and pay it in by his hand. So then, if man be false, and faithless, and selfish, God is wronged of all, and shall have no active glory from his works.