N00935:60
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…
Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened. In a brief discourse, delivered, April 25. 1703. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1703
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Now God will have us to Glorify Him, in Declaring the Praises of His Glory, falling under our Observation. And in these two ways, are we to Declare the ⟨p. 40⟩Praise of the Glorious God. First, We must our selves Acknowledge the Glory of God; and be sensible of those Glorious Things in God, that shall draw us, to Fear Him, and Love Him, and Seek Him, and Serve Him; and make His Will the only Rule of our Life, and count His Good Will to be better than Life. And then, We must Invite and Engage Others, to join with us, in those Acknowledgements of God; So that from what we are, or have, or do, Honourable Thoughts of God shall be Raised in the minds of Others, and Others shall devote themselves unto the Lord.
Now God will have us to Glorify Him, in Declaring the Praises of His Glory, falling under our Observation. And in these two wayes, are we to Declare the ⟨p. 40⟩Praise of the Glorious God. First, We must our selves Acknowledge the Glory of God; and be sensible of those Glorious Things in God, that shall draw us, to Fear Him, and Love Him, and Seek Him, and Serve Him; and make His Will the only Rule of our Life, and count His Good Will to be better than Life. And then, We must Invite and Engage Others, to joyn with us, in those Acknowledgments of God; So that from what we are, or have, or do, Honourable Thoughts of God shall be Raised in the minds of Others, and Others shall devote themselves unto the Lord.
This tis, To Glorify God. This is all the Revenue, that God Expects, of all that He does for us. Yea, Tis that for which He brings us to all the Glory of Heaven at the Last! And all those whom He brings to Heaven, He does first inspire with a Disposition, to make Choice of this above all things, That they may be thus unto the Praise of His Glory.