A32723:1179
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.
This levity of Spirit is the root of all mischief; it scatters our thoughts in the Service of God, it is the cause of all revolts and Apostasies from him, it makes us unfit to receive the communications of God; whatsoever we hear is like words writ in sand, ruffled out by the next gale; whatsoever is put into us is like precious liquor in a palsy hand soon spilt: It breeds distrust of God, when we have an uncertain judgment of him, we are not like to confide in him: an uncertain judgment will be followed with a distrustful heart. In fine, where it is prevalent, it is a certain sign of ungodliness; to be driven with the wind like chaff, and to be ungodly is all one, in the judgment of the Holy Ghost, Psal. 1.4. the ungodly are like the chaff which the wind drives away, which signifies not their destruction, but their disposition, for their destruction is inferred from it, ver. 5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in judgment.
This levity of Spirit is the root of all mischeif; it scatters our thoughts in the Service of God, it is the cause of all revolts and Apostacies from him, it makes us unfit to receive the communications of God; whatsoever we hear is like words writ in sand, ruffled out by the next gale; whatsoever is put into us is like precious liquor in a palsie hand soon spilt: It breeds distrust of God, when we have an uncertain judgment of him, we are not like to confide in him: an uncertain judgment will be followed with a distrustful heart. In fine, where it is prevalent, it is a certain sign of ungodliness; to be driven with the wind like chaffe, and to be ungodly is all one, in the judgment of the Holy Ghost, Psal. 1.4. the ungodly are like the chaff which the wind drives away, which signifies not their destruction, but their disposition, for their destruction is inferred from it, ver. 5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in judgment.
How contrary is this to the unchangeable God, who is always the same, and would have us the same, in our religious Promises and Resolutions for good?