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A sermon preached
A sermon preached by the late eminent Mr. Steph. Charnock on 2 Cor. V. XIX.
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for J.K., 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To use some Motives.
First, There is the highest Encouragement, and Ground for Acceptance: There's no room for any hard Thoughts of God, after so signal a Discovery of himself. He is not a God of unquenchable Wrath, but willing that his Justice should be Appeased. He hath taken all the Courses that were possible for Infinite Wisdom ⟨p. 11⟩to invent, for Infinite Power to effect, for Infinite Love to propose. What greater Security can we have for our Blessing, than that he hath made his Son a Curse, that we might be Blest by him? How should so much Love make us change any unworthy Opinions of God, that we harbour in our Breasts. If the Father hath Contrived, the Son hath Effected, the Spirit stands ready to Apply it to every Believer: The Refusal of it, puts a Scorn upon all.
First, There is the highest Encouragement, and Ground for Acceptance: There's no room for any hard Thoughts of God, after so signal a Discovery of himself. He is not a God of unquenchable VVrath, but willing that his Justice should be Appeased. He hath taken all the Courses that were possible for Infinite Wisdom ⟨p. 11⟩to invent, for Infinite Power to effect, for Infinite Love to propose. What greater Security can we have for our Blessing, than that he hath made his Son a Curse, that we might be Blest by him? How should so much Love make us change any unworthy Opinions of God, that we harbour in our Breasts. If the Father hath Contrived, the Son hath Effected, the Spirit stands ready to Apply it to every Believer: The Refusal of it, puts a Scorn upon all.
As soon as Adam sinned, the same Day God applies the Plaster of a Redeemer: Not a Day did slip, for ought we know, not an Hour, before he made it known to him. His Heart was in Travel, and he longed to be Delivered of this Gracious Promise of a Mediator. He armed him with this Cordial, before he subjected him to those standing Miseries. What Heart he had then, the same he hath still. His Kindness made him desirous to Publish this Promise; and, Can his Truth be less zealous to perform it? The same Kindness that moved him to Assure it, he hath still to Effect it: He is still willing to apply it to every one that seeks it, through his Son. The Wrath that we were under, is over-come by his Love, through