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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.
2. It reproves such as are so far from bringing Glory to God, that they rob God of his Glory, Mal. 3.8. Will a man rob God, yet ye have robbed me. They rob God who take the Glory due to God to themselves, 1. If they have gotten an Estate, they ascribe all to their own Wit and Industry, they set the Crown upon their own Head, not considering that, Deut. 8.18. Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth. 2. If they do any Duty of Religion, they look asquint to their own Glory, Matth. 6.5. That they may be seen of men; [Greek or Hebrew], That they may be set upon a Theatre, that others may admire and canonize them. The Oil of Vain-glory feeds their Lamp: how many hath the Wind of Popular Breath blown to Hell? Quos non gula [Greek or Hebrew] superavit, Cyprian. Whom the Devil could not destroy by Intemperance, he hath by Vain-glory.
2. It reproves such as are so far from bringing Glory to God, that they rob God of his Glory, Mal. 3.8. Will a man rob God, yet ye have robbed me. They rob God who take the Glory due to God to themselves, 1. If they have gotten an Estate, they ascribe all to their own Wit and Industry, they set the Crown upon their own Head, not considering that, Deut. 8.18. Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth. 2. If they do any Duty of Religion, they look asquint to their own Glory, Matth. 6.5. That they may be seen of men; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, That they may be set upon a Theatre, that others may admire and canonize them. The Oil of Vain-glory feeds their Lamp: how many hath the Wind of Popular Breath blown to Hell? Quos non gula 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 superavit, Cyprian. Whom the Devil could not destroy by Intemperance, he hath by Vain-glory.