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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.
Resp. 1. When we prefer God's Glory above all other things; above Credit, Estate, Relations; when the Glory of God comes in competition with them, we prefer his Glory before them: if Relations lie in our way to Heaven, we must either leap over them, or tread upon them: A Child must unchild himself, and forget he is a Child, he must know neither Father nor Mother in God's Cause, Deut. 33.9. Who said unto his father and his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his Brethren. This is to aim at God's Glory.
2. Then we aim at God's Glory when we can be content that God's Will should take place though it cross ours: Lord I am content to be a Looser if thou a Gainer; to have less Health, if I may have more Grace, and thou more Glory; whether it be Food or bitter Physic thou givest me, Lord I desire that which may be most for thy Glory: Thus our Blessed Saviour, Not as I will, but as thou wilt, Matth. 26.39. So God might have more Glory by his Sufferings, he was content to suffer, Joh. 12.28. Father glorify thy name.
2. Then we aim at God's Glory when we can be content that God's Will should take place though it cross ours: Lord I am content to be a Looser if thou a Gainer; to have less Health, if I may have more Grace, and thou more Glory; whether it be Food or bitter Physick thou givest me, Lord I desire that which may be most for thy Glory: Thus our Blessed Saviour, Not as I will, but as thou wilt, Matth. 26.39. So God might have more Glory by his Sufferings, he was content to suffer, Joh. 12.28. Father glorifie thy name.