him, be bound to serve him.
Creation puts on the obligation to glorify him in our body and spirits
which are his, but affection only puts that to exercise. All other bonds
leave our natures at liberty, but this constrains, 2 Cor. v. 14, it binds
on all bonds, it ties on us all divine obligations. Then a soul will
glorify God, when love so unites it to God, and makes it one spirit with
him, that his glory becomes its honour, and becomes the principle of all
our inward affections and outward actions. It is not always possible to
have and express particular thoughts of God and his glory, in every action
and meditation, but, for the most part it ought to be so. And if souls
were accustomed to meditation on God, it would become their very
nature,--_altera natura_,--pleasant and delightsome. However, if there be
not always an express intention of God's glory, yet there ought to be kept
always such a disposition and temper of spirit as it may be construed to
proceed from the intention of God's glory, and then it remains in the seed
and fruit, if not in itself.

Now when we are speaking of the great end and purpose of our creation, we
call to mind our lamentable and tragical fall from that blessed station we
were constitute into. "All men have sinned and come short of the glory of
God," Rom. iii. 23. His being in the world was for that glory, and he is
come short of that glory. O strange shortcoming! Short of all that he was
ordained for! What is he now meet for? For what purpose is that chief of
the works of God now! The salt, if it lose its saltness, is meet for
nothing, for wherewithal shall it be seasoned? Mark ix. 50. Even so, when
man is rendered unfit for his proper end, he is meet for nothing, but to
be cast out and trode upon, he is like a withered branch that must be cast
into the fire, John xv. 6. Some things, if they fail in one use, they are
good for another, but the best things are not so,--_Corruptio optimi
pessima_. As the Lord speaks to the house of Israel, "Shall wood be taken
of the vine tree to do any work?" Even so the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Ezek. xv. 2-6. If it yield not wine, it is good for nothing. So, if man do
not glorify God,--if he fall from that,--he is meet for nothing, but to be
cast into the fire of hell, and burnt for ever, he is for no use in the
creation, but to be fuel to the fire of the Lord's indignation.

But behold! the goodness of the Lord and his kindness and love hath
"appeared tow