Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

Secondly, Morally; as God ordered and designed all his works to be a means of glorifying himself, in and by the Obedience of his rational Creatures. This consideration, both the nature of it, with the Order and End of the whole Creation do ⟨p. 128⟩make necessary. For God first made all the inanimate, then animate and sensitive creatures in their Glory, Order and Beauty. In, and on all these, he implanted a teaching and instructive Power; for the Heavens declare the glory of God, and the Firmament showeth his handy work, Psal. 19. 1, 2. and all creatures are frequently called on to give praise and glory to him. And this expresseth that in their Nature and Order, which revealeth and manifesteth him, and the glorious Excellencies of his nature, which man is to contemplate in their Effects in them, and give glory unto him. For after them all, was man made to consider and use them all, for the End for which they were made; and was a kind of Mediator between God and the rest of the creatures by and through whom he would receive all his glory from them. This is that which our Apostle discourseth about, Rom. 1. 19, 20. The design of God as he declares, was to manifest and show himself in his works to man. Man learning from them the Invisible things of God, was to glorify him as God; as he disputes. The ordering and disposal of things to this purpose, is principally to be considered in the works of God, as his Rest did ensue upon them.

Secondly, Morally; as God ordered and designed all his works to be a means of glorifying himself, in and by the Obedience of his rational Creatures. This consideration, both the nature of it, with the Order and End of the whole Creation do ⟨p. 128⟩make necessary. For God first made all the inanimate, then animate and sensitive creatures in their Glory, Order and Beauty. In, and on all these, he implanted a teaching and instructive Power; for the Heavens declare the glory of God, and the Firmament sheweth his handy work, Psal. 19. 1, 2. and all creatures are frequently called on to give praise and glory to him. And this expresseth that in their Nature and Order, which revealeth and manifesteth him, and the glorious Excellencies of his nature, which man is to contemplate in their Effects in them, and give glory unto him. For after them all, was man made to consider and use them all, for the End for which they were made; and was a kind of Mediator between God and the rest of the creatures by and through whom he would receive all his glory from them. This is that which our Apostle discourseth about,