 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Faith and reason - 1857 - 406 pages
...popular work, and for the purposes aimed at, this close analysis is inappropriate. NOTE B, page 192. "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever," is an expression equivalent to what is here maintained, if we assume that the chief " glory" of God... | |
 | David Stow - Bible - 1859 - 248 pages
...hints on the first question of " The Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism." THE FIEST QUESTION. WHAT is THE CHIEF END OF MAN? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him fir ever. This is a very plain question. The first proof given to illustrate it is this. 1 Cor. x.... | |
 | Edwin Hall - Catechisms - 1859 - 136 pages
...SHORTER CATECHISM, WITH ANALYSIS AND PROOFS FROM THE SCRIPTURES. Q. 1. WHAT is the chief end of man ? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. Chief end. The end for which he was made. That in which he may accomplish the design of his being and... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1862 - 472 pages
...we, by God's grace, be enabled to follow those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever was his favorite motto. " I remain, reverend and dear sir, respectfully yours, "GEO. H. STUART." Trials.... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Clergy - 1863 - 458 pages
...we, by God's grace, be enabled to follow those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever was his favorite motto. " I remain, reverend and dear sir, respectfully yours, " GEO, H. STUABT." Trials.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Self-culture - 1865 - 376 pages
...the Protestant mind of Germany. And the first question and answer of that catechism is well known. "What is the chief end of man?" " Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever." It seems, then, that other persons besides Dr. Ward have thought of glorifying God by and... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly - 1914 - 660 pages
...sin or eternal life at the hand of God. Accordingly, our Churches unite in saying: I. We believe that man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever, and that the first duty of all men is to seek God, to repent of sin, to accept the offer of salvation... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 490 pages
...about our chief end lately,' said he, ' and I think the first answer in our catechism tells it all ; man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever ; and I think,' he added, c we need not trouble ourselves much about the second part, if we only attend... | |
 | 1701 - 984 pages
...the psalmist encourage himself under the scoffs of an unbelieving world ? Ps. iv, 6, 7. Ques. 8. — What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify Him ? Isa. viii, 20. (To bt continued.) STUDIES OF NATURE. No. 1. INSECT LIFE. * Iiuectt differ from... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - Bible - 1871 - 324 pages
...Him too. Some of my readers have perhaps seen that catechism which begins with those grand words, " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever." Yes, we were made to bring glory to God and to his Son. This will be the joy of heaven. When the trumpet... | |
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What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. 
