 | Child rearing - 1843 - 322 pages
...she loves, and teach him that precept, which he will see is the daily practice of her life, namely, that " man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." For the moral effect of such training we can depend with as much certainty as upon any thing in this... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1850 - 330 pages
...The soundness of the first statement of a venerable and excellent Christian formulary of doctrine — that " man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever " — if applied to man, individually, may be almost questioned ; since the enjoyment of the individual... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1855 - 592 pages
...the perfect good. Now the Scriptures propose the fellowship of God as the consummation of felicity. That man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him...at the basis of the ethical system of the Gospel. This noble and exalted view of happiness is then compared with the beastly theory of Paley and the... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Marriage - 1857 - 366 pages
...cannot be questioned. Whether it be said, in the language of the old Assembly of Divines' Catechism, that" Man's chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy him forever;" or, in the" language of Dr. Paley, that " Virtue is doing good for the sake of everlasting happiness,"... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...studied tho catechism in vain, when wo found him saying, that "Item No. 1 of the catechism" — namely, that "man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever" — "is entirely retained in memory." But the very next sentence completely dashed that hope to tho... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - Etiquette for young women - 1865 - 352 pages
...— respectable, well-educated, daughters of Christian families, of families who think they believe that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, who profess to make the Bible their rule of faith and practice, to eschew the pomps and vanities of... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - English essays - 1865 - 352 pages
...vague longing : the Christian only knows what it is that shall fully satisfy that longing : we know that " man's chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy him forever": holiness and happiness, Christ's beatific presence in heaven, it is these towards which we are blindly... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1867 - 660 pages
...ennobled by his new and wide-reaching relations, embracing the world to come. He has a new thought, that " man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever," and he is very happy in it. Inferences and Uses. 1. No place is so much of a " desert," where Philip... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 884 pages
...further discussed. It follows at once from the nature of God and the nature which God has given to man, that " man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." All ethical systems which leave out of account man's primary relation to God and the primary duties... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1873 - 212 pages
...SUPREME PERSONAL, DUTT. Nor am I forgetful in this statement of the teachings of the Westminster divines that " man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." I accept this as a concise and comprehensive statement of human duty. But how is man to glorify his... | |
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Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever". 
