A Body of Practical Divinity

Sin is an unclean thing, it is hyperbolically evil.

Read the Bible with reverence. Think in every line you read that God is speaking to you.

God is an unmixed good. There is no condition in this life but has its mixture; for every drop of honey hath its gall.

God is the summum bonum, the chief good; therefore the enjoyment of him is the highest felicity.

Knowledge of fundamentals is the golden key that opens the chief mysteries of religion; it gives us a whole system and body of divinity, exactly drawn in all its lineaments and lively colours.

Glorifying God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father who gave us life; God the Son, who lost his life for us; and God the Holy Ghost, who produces a new life in us; we must bring glory…

Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.

[I] Appreciation. To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, and to have a venerable esteem of him... There is in God all that may draw forth both wonder and delight; there is a constellation of all beauties;…