A32722:73
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.
When there are any Risings of Enmity in thy Soul, go to God in Christ. As God was in Christ, Reconciling the World; so he is in Christ, Reconciling the Soul. Not that I think, that the whole Mass of Guilt returns on a Believer, on his Fall; but the Particular Guilt of that Sin; for which we must fetch fresh Applications of Reconciling Grace: We must go to God in Christ, for it.
WHen there are any Risings of Enmity in thy Soul, go to God in Christ. As God was in Christ, Reconciling the World; so he is in Christ, Reconciling the Soul. Not that I think, that the whole Mass of Guilt returns on a Believer, on his Fall; but the Particular Guilt of that Sin; for which we must fetch fresh Applications of Reconciling Grace: We must go to God in Christ, for it.
As the First Application was from God in Christ, so must the Second and Third. Christ is an Officer in Heaven, for this Purpose.
The Apostle writes to the Corinthians, some whereof were reconciled; yet he beseeches them to be reconciled: That is, to renew their Reconciliation on every New Breach; to regain the Favour they had forfeited by their Sins, for which he had reproved them in the former Epistle.
This should be sued out every Day. What was the Foundation of our first Peace, must