A Body of Practical Divinity

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, Hos. 12.7. The balances of deceit are in his hand: While Men make their Weights lighter, they make their Sins heavier, or by exacting more then the Commodity is worth, they do not for fourscore write down fifty, but for fifty fourscore; they exact double the Price that a thing is worth. But then we buy and sell to the Glory of God, when in our buying and selling we observe that Golden Maxim, To do to others as we would have them do to us, Matth. 7.12. When we so sell our Commodities that we do not sell our Conscience: Acts 24.16. Herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God, and toward men. This is to glorify God, when we have an eye at God in all our Civil and Natural Actions, and will do nothing that may reflect any Blemish on Religion.

13. We glorifie 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 Ballance,