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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Man's Chief End TO GLORIFY GOD.Man's Chief End TO GLORIFIE GOD.
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.
who would weigh a Feather with a Mountain of Gold? God excels all other things more infinitely then the Sun the light of a Taper. 6. God is an Eternal Good. He is the ancient of Days, Dan. 7.9. yet never decays, or waxes old. The Joy he gives is eternal, the Crown he gives fadeth not away, 1 Pet. 5.4. The glorified Soul shall be ever solacing it self in God; it shall be feasting on his Love, and sunning it self in the light of his Countenance. We read of the River of Pleasure at God's right hand, but will not this in time be dried up? No, there's a Fountain at the bottom which feeds it, Psal. 36.9. With the Lord is the fountain of life. Thus God is the Chief Good, and the enjoying God for ever is the Supreme Felicity the Soul is capable of.
who would weigh a Feather with a Mountain of Gold? God excels all other things more infinitely then the Sun the light of a Taper. 6. God is an Eternal Good. He is the ancient of Days, Dan. 7.9. yet never decays, or waxes old. The Joy he gives is eternal, the Crown he gives fadeth not away, 1 Pet. 5.4. The glorified Soul shall be ever solacing it self in God; it shall be feasting on his Love, and sunning it self in the light of his Countenance. We read of the River of Pleasure at God's right hand, but will not this in time be dried up? No, there's a Fountain at the bottom which feeds it, Psal. 36.9. With the Lord is the fountain of life. Thus God is the Chief Good, and the enjoying God for ever is the Supream Felicity the Soul is capable of.
1. Use of Exhortation. Let it be the chief end of our living to enjoy this Chief Good hereafter; this is that will crown us with Happiness. Austin reckons up two hundred eighty eight Opinions among the Philosophers about Happiness, but all did shoot short of the Mark. The highest Elevation of a reasonable Soul, is to enjoy God for ever. It is the enjoying God, makes Heaven,