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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. Why we must glorify God?
Quest. Why we must glorifie God?
Resp. 1. Because he gives us our Being, Psal. 100.3. It is he that hath made us. We think it a great kindness in a Man to spare our Life, but what kindness is it in God to give us our Life; we draw our breath from him, and as Life, so all the Comforts of Life are from God: he gives us Health, which is the Sauce to sweeten our Life; he gives us Food, which is the Oil that nourisheth the Lamp of Life: now if all we receive is from the hand of his Bounty, is it not good reason we should glorify him, and live to him, seeing we live by him, Rom. 11.36. For of him and through him are ⟨p. 3⟩all things. Of him are all, all we have is of his Fullness; through him are all, all we have is through his Free-grace; and therefore to him should be all, so it follows, To him be glory for ever. God is not only our Benefactor, but our Founder; the Rivers come from the Sea, and they empty their Silver Streams into the Sea again.
Resp. 1. Because he gives us our Being, Psal. 100.3. It is he that hath made us. We think it a great kindness in a Man to spare our Life, but what kindness is it in God to give us our Life; we draw our breath from him, and as Life, so all the Comforts of Life are from God: he gives us Health, which is the Sawce to sweeten our Life; he gives us Food, which is the Oyl that nourisheth the Lamp of Life: now if all we receive is from the hand of his Bounty, is it not good reason we should glorifie him, and live to him, seeing we live by him, Rom. 11.36. For of him and through him are ⟨p. 3⟩