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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. What is it to live to God?
Resp. When we live to his Service, and lay out ourselves wholly for God: The Lord hath sent us into the World, as a Merchant sends his Factor beyond the Seas to trade for him. Then we live to God when we trade for his Interest, and propagate his Gospel; God hath given every Man a Talent: Now when he doth not hide it in a Napkin, but improves it for God, this is to live to God. When a Master in a Family, by Counsel and good Example, labours to bring his Servants to Christ, when a Minister doth exhaust himself in the Labours of his Holy Calling, when he spends himself, and is spent, that he may win Souls to Christ, and make the Crown flourish upon Christ's Head; when the Magistrate doth not bear the Sword in vain, but labours to cut down Sin, and suppress Vice; this is to live to God, and this a ⟨p. 6⟩glorifying of God: Phil. 1.20. That Christ may be magnified, whether by life or by death. Three Wishes St. Paul had, and they were all about Christ, That he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and that he might magnify Christ.
Resp. When we live to his Service, and lay out ourselves wholly for God: The Lord hath sent us into the World, as a Merchant sends his Factor beyond the Seas to trade for him. Then we live to God when we trade for his Interest, and propagate his Gospel; God hath given every Man a Tallent: Now when he doth not hide it in a Napkin, but improves it for God, this is to live to God. When a Master in a Family, by Counsel and good Example, labours to bring his Servants to Christ, when a Minister doth exhaust himself in the Labours of his Holy Calling, when he spends himself, and is spent, that he may win Souls to Christ, and make the Crown flourish upon Christ's Head; when the Magistrate doth not bear the Sword in vain, but labours to cut down Sin, and suppress Vice; this is to live to God, and this a ⟨p. 6⟩glorifying of God: