A Body of Practical Divinity

12. We glorify God by being zealous for his Name, Numb. 25.11. Phinehas hath turned my wrath away, while he was zealous for my sake. Zeal is a mixed Affection, a Compound of Love and Anger; it carries forth our Love to God, and Anger against Sin in a most intense manner: Zeal is impatient of God's Dishonour; a Christian fired with Zeal takes a Dishonour done to God worse then an Injury done to himself: Rev. 2.2. Thou canst not bear them that are evil. Our Saviour Christ did thus glorify his Father; he being baptized with a Spirit of Zeal, drove the Money-changers out of the Temple, Job. 2.14 and 17. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

12. We glorifie God by being zealous for his Name, Numb. 25.11. Phinehas hath turned my wrath away, while he was zealous for my sake. Zeal is a mixed Affection, a Compound of Love and Anger; it carries forth our Love to God, and Anger against Sin in a most intense manner: Zeal is impatient of God's Dishonour; a Christian fired with Zeal takes a Dishonour done to God worse then an Injury done to himself: Rev. 2.2. Thou canst not bear them that are evil. Our Saviour Christ did thus glorifie his Father; he being baptized with a Spirit of Zeal, drove the Money-changers out of the Temple, Iob. 2.14 and 17. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

13. We glorify God when we have an eye at God, both in our Natural and in our Civil Actions: 1. In our Natural Actions, in eating and drinking, 1 Cor. 10.31. ⟨p. 7⟩Whether therefore ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God. A gracious Person holds the Golden Bridle of Temperance, he takes his Meat as a Medicine to heal the Decays of Nature, and that he may be the fitter by the strength he receives for the Service of God; he makes his Food not Fuel for Lust, but Help to Duty. 2. In buying and selling, we do all to the Glory of God; the Wicked live upon unjust Gain, either by falsifying the Balance,