 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1857 - 496 pages
...weaker capaeity. A. KER. THE SHORTER CATECHISM. Que•t 1 ^fyTHA T is the chief end of man ? Answ. Man's chief end is to glorify God', and to enjoy him for ever b. Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him ? A. The word of God,... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1857 - 200 pages
...beautiful answer given to the question in the Shorter Catechism, " What is the chief end of man ? " — " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever !" Therefore, parents, learn from baptism what God would have your children be educated for, — for... | |
 | Jane Anne Winscom - 1857 - 364 pages
...but there are likewise, and of them I trust not a few, whose lives, as well as words, declare that ' man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.' I conscientiously differ from them in many respects. I think much harm has been done to the Church... | |
 | 1857 - 954 pages
...himself. The end for tiicb. he made the bee has been fulfilled in its just doing what it does. But our "chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." THE SONG or THE BEES. " We watch for the light of the morning to break, And colour the eastern sky... | |
 | 1858 - 604 pages
...question is the first in the Shorter Catechism ! And what an important truth always to bear in mind — " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." Is not this an eunobling view to take of human life ? associating, as it does, man on earth with the... | |
 | Randall H. Ballantyne - 1858 - 172 pages
...question, " What is the chief end of man ?" in the solemn and comprehensive words of our catechism, " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever;" and I longed for our teacher to give us an explanation of these words. But no explanation was ever... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1860 - 586 pages
...be done, and so short a period for performing it ; and that creatures of whom it can be said that ' man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever,' should ever be wilfully careless of their noble destiny ! Yet how often I have seen and lamented the... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1861 - 300 pages
...realife and exemplify that great truth, which many from their infancy have had on their lips — " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever." Thus will active and ceafelefs occupation in the service of God form one of the sweeteft employments... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pages
...evening on her way to a brilliant assembly, when suddenly there darted into her soul, these words, — ' Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever;' which she had committed to memory years before. From that hour, her whole life revolved round a new... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pages
...shall be thankful, and endeavour to employ f"r thy glory. But (), help me practically to remember that man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Do not let uie liie for a lower end than that which thou dost intend for me. Help metj seek first the... | |
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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. 
