| God says, "I will not give My glory to another." This is as much as to say, that praise and honour and glory belong to none but to God only. But now, if I call any good thing my own, as if I were it, or of myself had power or did or knew anything, or as if anything were mine or of me, or belonged to me, or were due to me or the like, I take to myself somewhat of honour and glory, and do two evil things: First, I fall and go astray as aforesaid: Secondly, I touch God in His honour and take to myself what belongeth to God only. For all that must be called good belongeth to none but to the true eternal Goodness which is God only, and whoso takes it to himself, committeth unrighteousness and is against God. | |