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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.
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⟩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?
I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt, &c. is the Preface to the Decalogue, and an Incitement to the Israelites, to obey all his Precepts.
God hath been in Christ, Reconciling us to himself, is the Tenor of the Gospel; and should be an Incitement to greater Service, by how much our Spiritual Deliverance (the Antitype of it) is greater. We should serve God as Friends: And as he hath given us an higher State, so we should give him the greater Honour.