When we know Him in order that we may honour Him. (continued)
I. Faith
1. What is the chief end of human life? To know God.
2. Why do you say that? Because He created us and placed us in this world to be glorified in us. And it is indeed right that our life, of which He Himself is the beginning, should be devoted to His glory.
3. What is the sovereign good of man? The same thing.
4. Why do you hold that to be the sovereign good? Because without it our condition is more miserable than that of brutebeasts.
5. Hence, then, we see that nothing worse can happen to a man than to live without God. It is so.
6. What is the true and right knowledge of God? When we know Him in order that we may honour Him.
7. How do we honour Him aright? We put our reliance on Him, by serving Him in obedience to His will, by calling upon Him in all our need, seeking salvation and every good thing in Him, and acknowledging with heart and mouth that all our good proceeds from Him.
8. To consider these things in order, and explain them more fully---what is the first point? To rely upon God.