A Body of Practical Divinity

14. We glorify God by labouring to draw others to God; we convert others, and so make them Instruments of glorifying God. We should be both Diamonds and Lodestones, Diamonds for the Lustre of Grace, and Lodestones for our attractive Virtue in drawing others to Christ: Gal. 4.19. My little children, of whom I travel, &c. This is a great way of glorifying God, when we break the Devil's Prison, and turn Men from the Power of Satan to God.

14. We glorifie God by labouring to draw others to God; we convert others, and so make them Instruments of glorifying God. We should be both Diamonds and Loadstones, Diamonds for the Lustre of Grace, and Loadstones for our attractive Vertue in drawing others to Christ: Gal. 4.19. My little children, of whom I travel, &c. This is a great way of glorifying God, when we break the Devil's Prison, and turn Men from the Power of Satan to God.

15. We glorify God in an high manner when we suffer for God, and Seal the Gospel with our Blood: Joh. 21.18, 19. When thou shalt be old, another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not: This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. God's Glory shines in the Ashes of his Martyrs, Isa. 24.15. Wherefore glorify the Lord in the fires. Micaiah was in the Prison, Isaiah sawn asunder, Paul beheaded, Luke hanged on an Olive-tree, thus did they by their Death glorify God. The Sufferings of the Primitive Saints did Honour God, and make the Gospel famous in the World: What would others say, See what a good Master they serve, and how they love him, that they will venture loss of all in his Service. The Glory of Christ's Kingdom doth not stand in Worldly Pomp and Grandeur, as other Kings, but it is seen in the cheerful Sufferings of his People; The Saints of old loved not their lives to the Death,