A Body of Practical Divinity

4. We glorify God by being tender of God's Glory; God's Glory is dear to him as the apple of his Eye; now when we are tender of his Glory by laying to heart his Dishonours, this is a glorifying of him. An ingenuous Child weeps to see a Disgrace done to his Father, Psal. 69.9. The reproaches of them that reproach thee, are fallen upon me. When we hear God reproached, it is as if we were reproached; when God's Glory suffers, 'tis as if we suffered. This is to be tender of God's Glory.

4. We glorifie God by being tender of God's Glory; God's Glory is dear to him as the apple of his Eye; now when we are tender of his Glory by laying to heart his Dishonours, this is a glorifying of him. An ingenuous Child weeps to see a Disgrace done to his Father, Psal. 69.9. The reproaches of them that reproach thee, are fallen upon me. When we hear God reproached, it is as if we were reproached; when God's Glory suffers, 'tis as if we suffered. This is to be tender of God's Glory.

5. We glorify God by Fruitfulness, Joh. 15.8. Hereby is my Father glorified, if ye bring forth much fruit. As 'tis a Dishonour to God to be barren, so Fruitfulness doth honour him: Phil. 1.11. Filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are to the praise of his glory. We must not be like the Fig-tree in the Gospel, which had nothing but Leaves, but like the Pomocitron, that is continually either mellowing or blossoming, ⟨p. 5⟩it is never without Fruit. 'Tis not Profession but Fruit glorifies God, God expects to have his Glory from us this way, 1 Cor. 9.7