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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. Glorifying of God consists in Adoration, or Worship, Psal. 29.2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness: There is a twofold Worship, 1. A Civil Reverence we give to Persons of Honour, Gen. 23.7. Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the children of Heth. Piety is no Enemy to Courtesy. 2. A Divine Worship, which we give to God, is his Prerogative-royal, Neh. 8.6. They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces towards the ground. This Divine Worship God is very jealous of; this is the Apple of his Eye, this is the Pearl of his Crown which he guards as he did the Tree of Life, with Cherubims and a flaming Sword, that no man may come near to violate it: Divine Worship must be such as God himself hath appointed, else it is offering strange fire, Levit. 10.2. The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle [Greek or Hebrew], according to the Pattern in the Mount, Exod. 25.40. he must not leave out any thing in the Pattern, nor add to it; if God was so exact and curious about the Place of his Worship, how exact will he be about the Manner of his Worship; surely here every thing must be according to the Pattern prescribed in his Word.
2. Glorifying of God consists in Adoration, or Worship, Psal. 29.2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness: There is a twofold Worship, 1. A Civil Reverence we give to Persons of Honour, Gen. 23.7. Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the children of Heth. Piety is no Enemy to Curtesie. 2. A Divine Worship, which we give to God, is his Prerogative-royal, Neh. 8.6. They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces towards the ground. This Divine Worship God is very jealous of; this is the Apple of his Eye, this is the Pearl of his Crown which he guards as he did the Tree of Life, with Cherubims and a flaming Sword, that no man may come near to violate it: Divine Worship must be such as God himself hath appointed, else it is offering strange fire,