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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
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.
4. If God be eternal, Here is a strong ground of comfort against all the distresses of the Church, and the threats of the Churches Enemies. Gods abiding for ever, is the Plea Jeremiah makes for his return to his forsaken Church.* Thou O Lord, remainest for ever, thy Throne from Generation to Generation. The Church is weak; created things are easily cut off; What prop is there, but that God that lives for ever? What though Jerusalem lost its Bulwarks, the Temple were defaced, the Land wasted; yet the God of Jerusalem sits upon an eternal Throne, and from everlasting to everlasting there is no diminution of his Power. The Prophet intimates in this complaint, that it is not agreeable to Gods Eternity to forget his People, to whom he hath from Eternity bore good will. In the greatest confusions, the Churches eyes are to be fixed upon the Eternity of Gods Throne, where he sits as Governor of the world: No Creature can take any comfort in this perfection, but the Church; other Creatures depend upon God, but the Church is united to him.
4. If God be eternal, Here is a strong ground of comfort against all the distresses of the Church, and the threats of the Churches Enemies. Gods abiding for ever, is the Plea Jeremy makes for his return to his forsaken Church.* Thou O Lord, remainest for ever, thy Throne from Generation to Generation. The Church is weak; created things are easily cut off; What prop is there, but that God that lives for ever? What though Jerusalem lost its Bulwarks, the Temple were defaced, the Land wasted; yet the God of Jerusalem sits upon an eternal Throne, and from everlasting to everlasting there is no diminution of his Power. The Prophet intimates in this complaint, that it is not agreeable to Gods Eternity to forget his People, to whom he hath from Eternity bore good will. In the greatest confusions, the Churches eyes are to be fixed upon the Eternity of Gods Throne, where he sits as Governour of the world: No Creature can take any comfort in this perfection, but the Church; other Creatures depend upon God, but the Church is united to him.