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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 Mot. If we glorify God, he will glorify our Souls for ever; by raising God's Glory we increase our own; by glorifying of God we come at last to the blessed Enjoying of Him, and that brings me to the second, The Enjoying of God.
2 Mot. If we glorifie God, he will glorifie our Souls for ever; by raising God's Glory we encrease our own; by glorifying of God we come at last to the blessed Enjoying of Him, and that brings me to the second, The Enjoying of God.
Secondly, Man's chief End is to Enjoy God for ever, Psal. 73.25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? Quasi, What is there in Heaven I desire to enjoy but thee? Ibi Angeli musculus, There is a twofold Fruition, or enjoying of God; the one is in this Life, the other in the Life to come:
1st, An enjoying of God here in this Life: The enjoying of God's Presence; it is a great matter to enjoy God's Ordinances, (a Mercy that some do envy us) but to enjoy God's Presence in the Ordinances, is that which a gracious Heart aspires after, Psal. 63.2. To see thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. This sweet enjoying of God is, when we feel his Spirit co-operating with the Ordinance, and distilling Grace upon our Hearts: 1. When in word the Spirit doth quicken and raise the Affections, Luke 24.32. Did not our hearts burn within us? 2. When the Spirit doth transform the Heart, leaving an impress of Holiness upon it, 2 Cor. 3.8