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So
ephefians,Chap.if.
V
ER.6.1
Vfe
t.
Doe.
and this end
mutt
needs be
better then the things madefor
ir, and no-
thing
is
betterthen
all
the creatures,
but
onely God the
Creator
:
Hence
it
followeth that God
muff needs have
himfelfe
as his
end
in
every
thing which
he
worketh:
now
God
being
fo
perfell,
that he
needeth
not our good,that nothing
can
hurt him,or
make him
better
in
himfelfe:
hence it
followeth
that
his
end mutt needs befome
externaII matter,
as
the
making himfelfe
known,that
he
maybe
accordingly honored
of
us,
and
that to
the benefit
of
us
who
yeeld him this
honor.The
Scripturein.
timateth 3.ends
in
that God worketh
toward
his
chofen.
s.The
glory
of
us
;
The
wifdome of the Gofpell
is
faid
to
be predeffinate
to our glory
;
all
things are ours.
The
2.
is
the glory
of
our
mediatour,
a
are yours,
you
are
Chrifi,
a
The
f
r.
Chrift
(hall
be glorious
in
his
Saints, yea,admirable
in
them that beleeve.
The
3.is
God
himfelfe
;
all are yours
, you
Chrifts,
Chrili
Gods
;
that
is
, for
God
and his
glory
:
Now
thofe
two
former are
ends,to which
,not
for which God worketh. He that buildeth
a
houle,
that
he may lay
a
fure
fouhdation,that he may
raife
the
frame,gives
it
the
due filling
which belongeth
to
it, but thefe
are
not
his
proper ends, but
that
he may
have
a
houfe for his
habitation:
So
God worketh
many
things to our
glory,
and
that
in us his
Chrift
may be glorious,
but the
proper
end
which
he
hath inall,is
his owne
glory.
Wherfore
feeing
this
is
Gods end,let
us in all
things labour toyeelde
him
glory;
whatfocver weare, let
us
be
itin
him, and through him, and
for him.
We
fee every
thing that commeth
of
the earth,goeth
to
that
common
parent
again;
every
body
made
of
thefe elements
is
refolved
into thefe elements
;
fo muff it
bewith us,we
muff
returne backe
to
him
in
glorifying
him,
from whom
we
come,
as
the *orkmanfhip ofhis
hands:It
is
certaine,
if
he
be not glorified
of
us,he will glorifie himfelfe
in
us.What
a
fhame
is
it
that we
fhould
not
have
his
glory,as the
end
we
aime
at
in
every
thing, who
hath made
all
things
in
heaven and earth
ferve,as theirend
,to which
they may be reduced r
Secondly óbferve,that
he
doth
generally intend
his praife
of
his grace
in
all
fuch
who
are
predeffinatedby him:that which God doth out
of
his
grace,muft
needs be to
the glory
of
his
grace ;But he
doth
dell
and
predeftinate
us
out
of
his
grace.We
fee
that
if
one
doth
this
or that
in
wifdom,he
is
praifed for
his
wifdom,which
in
this
or that he bath
(hew-
ed:So
in
any
other vertue,thus
it
is,thofe things which
God doth.outof
his
grace , he
muff needs
intend
to
have
his
grace notified
in
them
,
and
to
have it, being knowne, admired, honoured,
and praifed
accordingly.
Againe, thofe things which
God doth
out
of
juftice,
though,
diverfly
juflice
from which they come,
(hall
be
glorious
in
them, yet
all that
juftice
doth
is
reduced
to
this,
as
the
juif fupreame end, even to
lend
a
voice
to the
riches
of
Gods
glorious mercy
,
which he-fheweththe
vef-
fels
of
mercy: Forlooke
as in us
the
anions of
inferiour
venues, which
commend
the verrues
they
come
from,they
are ferviceable in fome
fort,
to
allions offuperiour
verrues
,
Ergo,
what my temperance
doth
upon
the Sabbath
,
it
doth
it
for religion
fake
,
that
mydevotion may more
fully
and fruitfully
occupie himfelfe
;
fo would
God
have us conceive
in