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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.
2. The Glory which is ascribed to God, or which his Creatures labour to bring to him, 1 Chr. 16.29. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. And, 1 Cor. 6.20. Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit. The Glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his Name in the World, and magnifying him in the eyes of others, Phil. 1.20. Christ shall be magnified in my body.
2. The Glory which is ascribed to God, or which his Creatures labour to bring to him, 1 Chr. 16.29. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. And, 1 Cor. 6.20. Glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit. The Glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his Name in the World, and magnifying him in the eyes of others, Phil. 1.20. Christ shall be magnified in my body.
Quest. What is it to glorify God, or wherein doth it consist?
Quest. What is it to glorifie God, or wherein doth it consist?
Resp. Glorifying of God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation. 2. Adoration. 3. Affection. 4. Subjection. This is the yearly Rent we pay to the Crown of Heaven.