Chief end of man

"The whole design of God in all His providence to us is to advance His own glory by drawing off our minds from the things which are seen, and which are temporal, to those that are invisible and eternal, and by all our earthly losses to teach us more the value of His own grace."

Timothy Rogers (1658-1728) on 1 Corinthians 7:31 preached on the occasion of the funeral of Edmund Hill.