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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.
Let all your Approaches to God, be begun, and ended with a Sense of this, in any Duty; especially, in Prayer. God in all his Communications to his People, acts as a Reconciling God; we should eye him so, in all our Addresses to him.
LEt all your Approaches to God, be begun, and ended with a Sense of this, in any Duty; especially, in Prayer. God in all his Communications to his People, acts as a Reconciling God; we should eye him so, in all our Addresses to him.
As there is not one Mercy, not one Act of Grace God shows to us, but the Spring is from this restored Affection; so there is not a Duty we offer to God, but should do it in the Sense of this. What is not by and through Christ, will not be accepted as a Duty. This Consideration should animate us in all our Addresses. This is necessary to be acted by us, to make us humble; and to consider what we were, before we were freely reduced; to make us believe, and come with holy Boldness. And, What Ground can there be for ⟨p. 28⟩Despondency, when we have so many Tokens of his Heartiness in it?
As there is not one Mercy, not one Act of Grace God shews to us, but the Spring is from this restored Affection; so there is not a Duty we offer to God, but should do it in the Sense of this. What is not by and through Christ, will not be accepted as a Duty. This Consideration should animate us in all our Addresses. This is necessary to be acted by us, to make us humble; and to consider what we were, before we were freely reduced; to make us believe, and come with holy Boldness. And, What Ground can there be for ⟨p. 28⟩Despondency, when we have so many Tokens of his Heartiness in it?