Man's Chief End is to Glorify God - (part 3) Affection

"Affection. This part of the glory we give to God, who counts himself glorified when he is loved. Deut. 6:5 "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." There is a twofold love: 1. Amor concupiscentiae, a love of concupiscence, which is self-love; as when we love another, because he does us a good turn. A wicked man may be said to love God because He has given him a good harvest, or filled his cup with wine. This is rather to love God's blessing than to love God. 2. Amor amicitiae, a love of delight, as a man takes delight in a friend. This is to love God indeed; the heart is set upon God, as a man's heart is set upon his treasure. This love is exuberant, not a few drops, but a stream. It is superlative; we give God the best of our love, the cream of it...thus to love God is to glorify him, He who is the chief of our happiness has the chief of our affections."

Man's Chief End is to Glorify God (part 2) Adoration

Adoration, or worship. Psalms 29:2 “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.” There is a twofold worship: 1. A civil reverence which we give to persons of honor. Genesis 23:7 “And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth." Piety is no enemy to courtesy. 2. A divine worship which we give to God as his royal prerogative. Nehemiah 8: 6 “And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.” This divine worship God is jealous of; it is the apple of his eye, the pearl of his crown; which he guards, as he did the tree of life, with cherubims and a flaming sword, that no man may come near to violate it. Divine worship must be such as God himself appointed, else it is offering strange fire. Lev. 10:1 The Lord would have Moses make the tabernacle, according to the pattern in the mount. Exodus 25:40. He must not leave out anything in the pattern, nor add to it. If God was so exact and curious about the place of worship, how exact will he be about the matter of his worship! Surely here everything must be according to the pattern prescribed in his word.”