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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.
5. Resp. We must bring Glory to God, because all our Hopes hang upon him, Psal. 39.7. My hope is in thee. And, Psal. 62.5. My expectation is from him; I expect a Kingdom from him. A Child that is good natured will Honour his Parent, as expecting all that ever he is like to be worth from him, Psal. 87.8. All my fresh springs are in thee. The Silver Springs of Grace, the Golden Springs of Glory.
5. Resp. We must bring Glory to God, because all our Hopes hang upon him, Psal. 39.7. My hope is in thee. And, Psal. 62.5. My expectation is from him; I expect a Kingdom from him. A Child that is good natur'd will Honour his Parent, as expecting all that ever he is like to be worth from him, Psal. 87.8. All my fresh springs are in thee. The Silver Springs of Grace, the Golden Springs of Glory.
Quest. How many ways may we glorify God?
Quest. How many ways may we glorifie God?
Resp. 1. It is a glorifying God when we aim purely at God's Glory; it is one thing to advance God's Glory, another thing to aim at it; God must be the Terminus ad quem, the Ultimate End of all our Actions; thus Christ, Joh. 8.50. I seek not my own glory, but the glory of him that sent me. 'Tis the Note of an Hypocrite, he hath a squint Eye, he looks more to his own Glory then God's Glory. Our Saviour Deciphers such, and gives a Caveat against them,