A32722:7
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
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TIS fit we should join Issue with God, in being Reconciled to him: We should comply with God, in this great Ordinance. The Consideration of this Doctrine, should work Relenting and Believing: Let therefore, the Design of God prevail with us. ⟨p. 6⟩In this alone we shall find Expiation of our Sins, the Grace of God, Peace of Conscience: In a word, What-ever God (as Reconciled) can Give, or Christ (as Reconciling) can Purchase. 'Tis tender Mercy, Bowels of Mercy, whereby the Day-Spring from on High hath visited us. When we lay wallowing in a Miry Sink, ready to be crushed by God's Righteous Hand, then he pitied us. So that, we shall be the more dis-ingenuous, if we refuse this Amity: The Dignity of the Donor, renders the Gift more valuable, than it may be in it self. The Present of a Prince is more prized, than when it is bestowed by an ordinary Person. The Gift of Christ, the Offer of Peace by him is Incomprehensible in it self; and receives a Value from that God that hath Prepared, and Offered it.
TIS fit we should joyn Issue with God, in being Reconciled to him: We should comply with God, in this great Ordinance. The Consideration of this Doctrine, should work Relenting and Believing: Let therefore, the Design of God prevail with us. ⟨p. 6⟩In this alone we shall find Expiation of our Sins, the Grace of God, Peace of Conscience: In a word, What-ever God (as Reconciled) can Give, or Christ (as Reconciling) can Purchase. 'Tis tender Mercy, Bowels of Mercy, whereby the Day-Spring from on High hath visited us. When we lay wallowing in a Miry Sink, ready to be crush't by God's Righteous Hand, then he pitied us. So that, we shall be the more dis-ingenuous, if we refuse this Amity: The Dignity of the Donor, renders the Gift more valuable, than it may be in it self. The Present of a Prince is more priz'd, than when it is bestow'd by an ordinary Person. The Gift of Christ, the Offer of Peace by him is Incomprehensible in it self; and receives a Value from that God that hath Prepared, and Offered it.
What Pleasure can any Man taste in Earthly Comforts, though he hath a Confluence of all manner of Delight, if he hath no Share in a Reconciled God, by a Reconciling Mediator? While he forces that God that is the Author of this Peace, to stand over him, with a drawn Sword, pointed at his Breast?