Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor. x. 31. As they say of the eagles, who try their young ones whether they be of the right kind or not, by holding them before the sun; and if they can look stedfastly upon it, they own them; if not, they throw them away;-this is the true evidence of an upright and real Christian, to have a stedfast eye on the glory of God, "the Father of lights." In all, let God be glorified, says the Christian, and that suffices; that is the sum of his desires. LEIGHTON. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.-1 Pet. iv. 11. BEFORE the sun was made, there was a light which did the office of distinguishing night and day; but when the sun was made, that did all the offices of the former light and more. Reason is that first and primogenial light, and goes no farther in a natural man; but in a man regenerate by faith, that light does all that reason did, and more and all his moral, and civil, and domestic, and indifferent actions, (though they be never done without reason), yet their principal scope and mark is the glory of God; and though they seem but moral, or civil, or domestic, yet they have a deeper tincture, a heavenly nature, a relation to God in them. DONNE. |