 | Thomas Guthrie - 1867 - Страниц: 296
...— with this question, namely, and its appropriate answer, " What is the chief end of man ? " — " The chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy him for ever." With that, like the catechism, our life should open, and should also close ; the glory of... | |
 | Norris C. Hodgdon - 1871 - Страниц: 444
...about so desirable a consummation, — you will endorse that isolated truth found in the old creed, that the ' chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.' " If there be a hope more grand, beautiful, or sublime than this, it has never been read to me in history,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1871 - Страниц: 450
...far at least that without that there can be no end, I accept the statement of the Westminster divines that " The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." If any inquire how this is to be done, I reply that it is to be done by knowing, loving, and obeying... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 616
...the future, for " the life that now is," and that " which is to come." ., . (1.) Godliness is a duty. The chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy Him for ever. Ungodliness is man's fundamental crime. It is the prodigal's ungrateful demand, "Give me... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1872 - Страниц: 444
...far at least that without that there can be no end, I accept the statement of the Westminster divines that " The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." If any inquire how this is to be done, I reply that it is to be done by knowing, loving, and obeying... | |
 | Adam Hamilton Leppere - 1875 - Страниц: 296
...our part ; and is there not endless labor before those who rejoice in the gift of Revelation ? And if the chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy him forever, it is time for him to be up and doing. Thus, Malcolm, I open the door of a great future, and it remains... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - Страниц: 548
...of Satan. The right, positive purpose is defined in the words of the Scottish Shorter Catechism, ' The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever ' ; in the even more pregnant words of Augustine, ' Fecisti nos ad te, Domine, et inquietum... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commission on memorial statues - 1877 - Страниц: 72
...religious race of men that ever lived at the most religious period of their history. The men who believed that " the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever " did not lightly put on record their creed as to the object of the state and the purpose for which... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - 1878 - Страниц: 172
...and in doing so work directly in their channel. CHAPTER XIV. v THE DUTY OF SELF-CULTURE. It is said the chief end of man is " To glorify God and enjoy him." To glorify God is his paramount duty, which absorbed all others. There is a duty which precedes this,... | |
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The catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, which of course is applicable mainly to God as seen in his works. 
