Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. Q. 4. Wherein consists the enjoyment of God?

Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. Q. 3. How can a man glorify God, seeing he is perfectly glorious in himself?

Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. Q. 2. What then is to be thought of those men, who being wholly intent upon inferior things, forget and neglect their principal end?

Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. Q. 1. Seeing a chief supposeth an inferior end; what is that inferior end for which man was made?

Richard Blackerby was a minister, educator, and family man who understood that conviction comes with a cost. Whether that is being ejected from the Church of England, being an disliked outcast in his community, or looking hideous to his children, he understood that being biblically principled comes with a cost.

O my crucified but never wholly mortified

sinfulness!

O my life-long damage and daily shame!

O my indwelling and besetting sins!

O the tormenting slavery of a sinful heart!

Destroy, O God, the dark guest within

whose hidden presence makes my life a hell.

O, thou Father of my spirit,

thou King of my life,

cast me not into destruction,

drive me not from thy presence,

but wound my heart that it may be healed;

break it that thine own hand

may make it whole.

This second part entails Christopher Love’s courage at Uxbridge, the conspiracy he was involved with, and the ending of his life.

A young boy who did not grow up in a Christian household yet became a prolific preacher in England. Governed by his biblically centered covenanting principles, he was often persecuted by the Church of England. Through this persecution God preserved him and made him a household name in Great Britain.

I may answer the great end for which

I am made —

to glorify thee who hast given me being,

and to do all the good I can for my fellow men;