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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 1693
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.
3. An Aim at God's Glory, that must be the supreme End of all our Actions, be they of never so small a consequence; 1 Cor. 10.31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God. Whatever we do, Eating, Drinking, Trading, all must be done, that God may be honoured by our selves and others. This is to make every Meal an Act of Worship, your Trading a solemn Praise. It is God's design that all our Life-time we may do him Service; this must be our fixed Scope, that his Honour and Glory may be at the end of every Natural and Civil Action. Look as in all the Works of Creation, Providence and Redemption, God made it his Aim to glorify Himself in all; so we should make it our fixed Aim and Scope to bring Honour to God in all our Work: all other things are nothing to this.
3. An Aim at God's Glory, that must be the supream End of all our Actions, be they of never so small a consequence; 1 Cor. 10.31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God. Whatever we do, Eating, Drinking, Trading, all must be done, that God may be honoured by our selves and others. This is to make every Meal an Act of Worship, your Trading a solemn Praise. It is God's design that all our Life-time we may do him Service; this must be our fixed Scope, that his Honour and Glory may be at the end of every Natural and Civil Action. Look as in all the Works of Creation, Providence and Redemption, God made it his Aim to glorify Himself in all; so we should make it our fixed Aim and Scope to bring Honour to God in all our Work: all other things are nothing to this.
Use 1. Examination. Art thou godly? Hast thou been a diligent Hearer and Reader of the Word? a religious Observer of the Lord's Day? an earnest Worshipper of God? zealous for his Glory against those that profane his Name, corrupt his Doctrine, make void his Institutions? an Enemy to Idolatry and Superstition? a Lover of God's Ordinances? It is an evidence of Interest in Grace, to live godly. Only there is a Form of Godliness, (