Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

Fifthly, He is a faithful God. His faithfulness is twice repeated. Faithful is he that hath called you, 1 Thes. 5.24. God is faithful by whom you were called, 1 Cor. 1.9. Then would you walk worthy of God who hath called you; When ever God makes a promise, promise your self that thing, because God hath promised it; Not because the creature promiseth it, being big and full of second Causes; but when God promiseth, assure your self of it, because God hath promised it. This is to walk worthy of God, as he is faithful.

Sixthly, He is our chief good, and our utmost end, and therefore in all your affairs you are to begin with him, and to rest in him, and to be boundless and insatiable in your desires after him. A world y man makes the world his end; and therefore is insatiable, ⟨p. 202⟩thinks he never ha's enough of it, because he makes it his utmost end.

Sixthly, He is our chief good, and our utmost end, and therfore in all your affairs you are to begin with him, and to rest in him, and to be boundless and insatiable in your desires after him. A world y man makes the world his end; and therefore is insatiable, ⟨p. 202⟩thinks he never ha's enough of it, because he makes it his utmost end.

Secondly, If you would walk worthy of God, &c. Observe what the great design of God is in the world, and labour all you can to advance the same: The great design of God in the world, is to glorify himself in his Son. Now when a man does pray to God, and Christ shall do the thing for him that he prays for; then the Father is glorified in the Son.