A32722:21
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.
Thirdly, There is an absolute Necessity of this Compliance for our Happiness. If you have not a Peace of God's Ordaining, never look for One of your own Inventing. There can be no Fellowship with God, without it: And therefore, we can't be Happy, because we can't Enjoy him, wherein all our Felicity doth consist.
Thirdly, There is an absolute Necessity of this Complyance for our Happiness. If you have not a Peace of God's Ordaining, never look for One of your own Inventing. There can be no Fellowship with God, without it: And therefore, we can't be Happy, because we can't Enjoy him, wherein all our Felicity doth consist.
Guilt and Purity cannot Converse together: What Society can Stubble have with Fire, but to its own Destruction. We can't see God's Face without it; and if a Sight of God's Face be wanting, Felicity is at a distance. The greatest part of Evil remains, though there be no positive Evil. How can Two walk together, except they be agreed? What Intercourse can there be between a Guilty Rebel, and a Frowning Judge? a Sinful Creature, and a Provoked God? When he hides his Face, who can behold him? Job 34.29. But when an Agreement is made, there are Mutual Endearments. We are Enemies to God by Birth; He is an Enemy to us by his Law: The Enmity will remain on God's Part, if it remain on ours.
Strike up therefore a Treaty with God, since there is a Necessity for it, and you can't be Happy without it. Shall not God's Love melt us, and our own Necessities move us?