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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.
This is all the Tenor of his Proclamation, Be ye Reconciled. If he had not desired it, he would not have spent his Thoughts about it, nor been at any Expense to effect it. He was not bound to it: He might have left us to sink into the Depth of Misery, that we had merited; without exposing his Son to Death, which we had not deserved. We had Contracted a Necessity of Death; our Surety was no more bound to seek us out, nor God to make to Adam a Promise of Redemption, than he was to make any of his Creatures. He might have raised a new World, and filled it with new Inhabitants. It must needs be a ⟨p. 21⟩thing of vast Concernment, for which God seeks to us, and speaks to us in his Gospel; who is infinitely more Glorious, than we are Vile. God did us not the least Wrong, though he hath born many of our Affronts. It is as easy for him to breath us into Hell, as to breath out one kind Invitation. He hath no more need of our Friendship, than he fears our Enmity. He is no more benefited by us, than the Sun by darting its Beams on a Grain of Sand.
This is all the Tenor of his Proclamation, Be ye Reconciled. If he had not desired it, he would not have spent his Thoughts about it, nor been at any Expence to effect it. He was not bound to it: He might have left us to sink into the Depth of Misery, that we had merited; without exposing his Son to Death, which we had not deserved. We had Contracted a Necessity of Death; our Surety was no more bound to seek us out, nor God to make to Adam a Promise of Redemption, than he was to make any of his Creatures. He might have raised a new VVorld, and filled it with new Inhabitants. It must needs be a ⟨p. 21⟩thing of vast Concernment, for which God seeks to us, and speaks to us in his Gospel; who is infinitely more Glorious, than we are Vile. God did us not the least VVrong, though he hath born many of our Affronts. It is as easie for him to breath us into Hell, as to breath out one kind Invitation. He hath no more need of our Friendship, than he fears our Enmity. He is no more benefited by us, than the Sun by darting its Beams on a Grain of Sand.