A32722:74
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.
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 ⟨p. 32⟩be the Foundation of our Renewal of the same: The Course we took for the First, will be successful for the Second. God was not out of Christ in the first, he will not be out of Christ, when we need it again.
If God was willing and desirous to make Reconciliation by the Blood of Christ, for all our Sins, when they lay before him in their Crimson Aggravations, much more will he renew it on a particular Fall. But he may hide his Face, with-draw the Comfort of this Peace for a long while, even for as long as we live.