A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at KidderminsterA treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster

10. Lastly, it is the high Prerogative of God, to have the honour and Power and Glory ascribed to him, and be praised as the author of all Good to the world: and his Glory he will not give to another: Man and all things are Created, and preserved and ordered for his Glory: Nor shall man have any Glory but in the Glorifying of his Lord: when we fell short of Glorifying the Lord, we also fell short of the Glory which we expected by him.

But when sin turned man from God to himself, he became regardless of the honour of God, and his mind was bent on his own Honour, so that he would have every knee bow to himself, and every eye observe him, and every mind think highly of him, and every tongue to praise and magnify him: It doth him good at the heart, to have virtue, and wisdom, and greatness ascribed to him, and an excellency in all; and to have all the good that is done ascribed to him, and to be taken to be as the Sun in the firmament that all must eye, and none can live without, and to be esteemed the benefactor of all. When he hears that men extol him and speak nothing of him but well, and great things; and when he sees them all observe and reverence him, and take him as an Oracle for wisdom, or as an Angel of God, O how this ⟨p. 25⟩pleaseth his unsanctified selfish mind! Now he hath his End, even that which he would have; and verily saith Christ, they have their reward.

But when sin turned man from God to himself, he became regardless of the honour of God, and his mind was bent on his own Honour, so that he would have every knee bow to himself, and every eye observe him, and every mind think highly of him, and every tongue to praise and magnifie him: It doth him good at the heart, to have vertue, and wisdom, and greatness ascribed to him, and an excellency in all; and to have all the good that is done ascribed to him, and to be taken to be as the Sun in the firmament that all must eye, and none can live without, and to be esteemed the benefactor of all. When he hears that men extol him and speak nothing of him but well, and great things; and when he sees them all observe and reverence him, and take him as an Oracle for wisdom, or as an Angel of God, O how this