The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... V.1
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What did Nebuchadnezzar intend, by setting up a golden image, and conmianding all his subjects to worship it, upon the highest penalty he could inflict ; but that all should aim qnly at the pleasing his humour ? 2. In using the creatures contraiy to the end God has appointed. God created the world and all things in it, a$ steps whereby men might ascend to a prospect of him, and the acknowledgment of his glory; and we would use them to dishonour CJod, and gratify ourselves. He appointed them to ...supply our necessities, and support our rational delights ; and ^^ e use them to cherish our sinful lusts. We Mring groans tVoni the creatures in diverting them from their true scope, to one of our own fixing, when we use them not in his service, but purely for our own, and turn those things he created for him- self to be instruments of rebellion against him to serve our turns ; and hereby endeavour to defeat the ends of God in them, to establish our o^n ends by them. This is a high dishonour to God, a sacrilegious undermining of his glory ; * to reduce what God hath made to serve our own glory, and our own pleasure.
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