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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.
III. EXHORTATION.
BE Industrious and Affectionate in your Services to God. Hath God done so much for us, and shall we put off God with a little Service, with the scantlings of Duty? God hath done his utmost to engage our Affection, and encourage our choicest Service. There was not an higher way to Procure it, nor a dearer way to Confer it.
BE Industrious and Affectionate in your Services to God. Hath God done so much for us, and shall we put off God with a little Service, with the scantlings of Duty? God hath done his utmost to engage our Affection, and encourage our choicest Service. There was not an higher way to Procure it, nor a dearer way to Conferr it.
View the Creatures, and God's Goodness in them to Man, and it will raise a Natural Love: But, What an Height of Love should we ascend to, that have an higher Step to mount? The least Love, is more than is due to us; How much more that Immensity of Love he hath shown us? And, Shall we return but Drops for an Ocean, when he hath stopped the Torrent ⟨p. 26⟩of Legal Penalties, that were deserved by us? How should we combine all our Thoughts and Affections together, to serve that God, who hath made all his Thoughts conspire, to reduce us Honourably and Successfully?
View the Creatures, and God's Goodness in them to Man, and it will raise a Natural Love: But, What an Height of Love should we ascend to, that have an higher Step to mount? The least Love, is more than is due to us; How much more that Immensity of Love he hath shewn us? And, Shall we return but Drops for an Ocean, when he hath stopt the Torrent ⟨p. 26⟩