Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
Thomas Boston, The Whole Works of Thomas Boston, Vol. 2:570
"It is the duty of all men to sanctify the holy name of God, to reverence, adore and honour it, in their hearts, lips, and lives. O ! let us then be excited to the practice of this duty, considering that it is the end for which God gave us a being ; that if we do not hallow it, we contradict this very petition, praying for a thing we have no mind to comply with ; that if we live in the neglect of this duty, God will get honour to himself by inflicting heavy judgments upon us in this life, and by making us eternal monuments of his vengeance in the next ; that when we come to encounter with the king of terrors, it will tend to sweeten the awful prospect, that we have made it our business to glorify the name of God ; that we will loose nothing, but be great gainers, by honouring the name of the Lord ; for they that do so shall be reckoned among his jewels, and be a royal diadem in the Lord's hand ; they shall be happy in death, and be safely conveyed to Immanuel’s land where glory dwells. Let us then make it the principal business of our lives to glorify God, that so we may come to enjoy him for ever."
"It is the duty of all men to sanctify the holy name of God, to reverence, adore and honour it, in their hearts, lips, and lives. O ! let us then be excited to the practice of this duty, considering that it is the end for which God gave us a being ; that if we do not hallow it, we contradict this very petition, praying for a thing we have no mind to comply with ; that if we live in the neglect of this duty, God will get honour to himself by inflicting heavy judgments upon us in this life, and by making us eternal monuments of his vengeance in the next ; that when we come to encounter with the king of terrors, it will tend to sweeten the awful prospect, that we have made it our business to glorify the name of God ; that we will loose nothing, but be great gainers, by honouring the name of the Lord ; for they that do so shall be reckoned among his jewels, and be a royal diadem in the Lord's hand ; they shall be happy in death, and be safely conveyed to Immanuel’s land where glory dwells. Let us then make it the principal business of our lives to glorify God, that so we may come to enjoy him for ever."
