Excerpt from A New Treatise of the Duties of a Christian Towards God: Being an Improved Version of the Original Treatise That Being is God - who, having created all things by a single act of his divine will, rules them according to the eternal laws of his infinite Wisdom. Of all visi ble creatures, man alone is endowed with understand ing and free-will he alone is capable of knowing, willing, and loving and God, who has conferred these faculties on him, strictly requires that they be employed in promoting the divine honor and glory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.