A32722:85
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.
Hard Hearts, and uncharitable Dispositions, are unlike to God, that had a Heart full of Tenderness. Such will not part with a Grain of their Right, though God parted with his Son to work our Peace: And had he not been more forward in it than we, we had perished for ever, Luk. 6.36. God sets his own Actions, as a Pattern for ours. If we are Irreconcilable to our Brother, we do not imitate God; but reject this Blessed Pattern, and discover no sense of the Kindness of God to us.
Hard Hearts, and uncharitable Dispositions, are unlike to God, that had a Heart full of Tenderness. Such will not part with a Grain of their Right, though God parted with his Son to work our Peace: And had he not been more forward in it than we, we had perisht for ever, Luk. 6.36. God sets his own Actions, as a Pattern for ours. If we are Irreconcileable to our Brother, we do not imitate God; but reject this Blessed Pattern, and discover no sense of the Kindness of God to us.
Since God hath made Christ a Propitiation for our Sins; if God so loved us, ought not we also to love one another? 1 Joh. 4.10, 11.
The Son of his Bosom veiled his Glory, that he might be at Peace with us, Entertain us, and Accept us into Favour: And shall we on every ⟨p. 35⟩occasion, be at Swords-point with our Brother?
The Son of his Bosom vailed his Glory, that he might be at Peace with us, Entertain us, and Accept us into Favour: And shall we on every