 | John Murray - 1812 - 444 pagina’s
...his offspring ; for he is indeed the Father of the spirits of all flesh. God made man for himself. " What is the' chief end of man ? To glorify God and enjoy him forever." Thus are we taught by our teachers. God made man in his own image. Emmanuel is the God in whose image... | |
 | 1838 - 602 pagina’s
...is strengthened by conflict, and goes onward and upward, appears godlike in character, and answers the chief end of man, to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. God is the proper centre of our thoughts and meditations. From this point they should go forth as radiations... | |
 | 1745 - 522 pagina’s
...set forth in the shorter Catechism, used in the Church of Scotland, in reply to the question — " What is the chief end of man ?" " To glorify God and enjoy him for ever !" We cannot conclude without a word, inviting attention to the singular force of the Hebrew... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pagina’s
...modern. The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly of Divines answers thus the question — ' What is the chief end of man?' 'To glorify God, and enjoy him for ever.' This notion of glorifying God, if realized, will produce saints and heroes, while superior... | |
 | 1869 - 1042 pagina’s
...aim and end. The old Catechism expresses this distinction no less grandly and happily when it makes the chief end of man " to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." If we could but rid ourselves of the fatal error that we were made to be happy ! that this is what... | |
 | 1869 - 820 pagina’s
...than the question, What is the chief end of man ? It reaches Ihe depth of the question : Why is it the chief end of man to glorify God, and enjoy him forever ? The profounder question is not, What is the ultimate object in view of which obligation is affirmed... | |
 | 1869 - 854 pagina’s
...deeper than the question, What is the chief end of man ? It reacha the depth of the question : Why is it the chief end of man to glorify God, and enjoy him forever V • The profounder question is not, What if the nhimatc object in view of which obligation is affirmed... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 592 pagina’s
...older I grow — and I now stand upon the brink of eternity — the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes — " What is the great end of man ? To glorify God and enjoy Him for ever." No... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pagina’s
...I grow, — and I now stand upon the brink of eternity, — the more comes back to me the sentence in the catechism, which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes, — ' What is the great end of man ? To glorify God, and enjoy him forever.' No... | |
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The older I grow — and I now stand upon the brink of eternity — the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes, ' What is the chief end of man? — To glorify God,... 
