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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.
Resp. Man's chief End is to glorify God, and enjoy him for ever.
Resp. Man's chief End is to glorifie God, and enjoy him for ever.
Here are two Ends of Life specified, 1. The Glorifying of God. 2. The Enjoying of God.
First, I begin with the first, The Glorifying of God, 1 Pet. 4.11. That God in all things may be glorified; the Glory of God is a Silver Thread which must run through all our Actions: 1 Cor. 10.31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Every thing works to some end in things natural and artificial; now Man being a rational Creature, must propose some end to himself, and that is, that he may lift up God in the World, and better loose his Life, then loose the End of his living: So then the great Truth asserted is this, That the End of every Man living is to glorify God; this is the yearly Rent is paid to the Crown of Heaven. Glorifying of God, hath respect to all the Persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father, who gave us our Life; it respects God the Son, who lost his Life for us; it respects God the Holy Ghost, who produceth a new Life in us: we must bring Glory to the whole Trinity.
First, I begin with the first, The Glorifying of God, 1 Pet. 4.11. That God in all things may be glorified; the Glory of God is a Silver Thread which must run through all our Actions: 1 Cor. 10.31