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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.
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.
Resp. Glorifying of God consists in four things: 1. Appretiation. 2. Adoration. 3. Affection. 4. Subjection. This is the yearly Rent we pay to the Crown of Heaven.
1. Appreciation: To glorify God is to set God highest in our Thoughts, to have a venerable Esteem of him, Psal. 92.8. Thou Lord art most high for evermore. Psal. 97.9. Thou art exalted far above all gods. There is in God all that may draw forth both Wonder and Delight; he is [Greek or Hebrew], there is in him a Constellation of all Beauties; he is Prima Causa, the Original and Spring-head of Being, who sheds a ⟨p. 2⟩Glory upon the Creature. This is to glorify God when we are God-Admirers; we admire God in his Attributes, which are the glistering Beams by which the Divine Nature shines forth; we admire him in his Promises, which are the Charter of Free-grace, and the Spiritual Cabinet where the Pearl of Price is hid; we admire God in the noble Effects of his Power and Wisdom, viz. the making of the World; this is called the work of his fingers, Ps. 8.3