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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.
A DISCOURSE UPON THE Existence of God.
Psalm 14.1. The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; they are corrupt, they have done abominable Works: there is none that doth good.
THIS Psalm is a description of the deplorable corruption by Nature of every Son of Adam, since the withering of that Common Root. Some restrain it to the Gentiles, as a Wilderness full of Briars and Thorns, as not concerning the Jews, the Garden of God, planted by his Grace, and watered by the Dew of Heaven. But the Apostle, the best Interpreter, rectifies this in extending it by name to Jews, as well as Gentiles, Rom. 3.9. [We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin.] And v. 10.11, 12. Cites part of his Psalm and other passages of Scripture for the further evidence of it, concluding by Jews and Gentiles, every person in the world naturally in this State of Corruption.
THIS Psalm is a description of the deplorable corruption by Nature of every Son of Adam, since the withering of that Common Root. Some restrain it to the Gentiles, as a Wilderness full of Bryars and Thorns, as not concerning the Jews, the Garden of God, planted by his Grace, and watered by the Dew of Heaven. But the Apostle, the best Interpreter, rectifies this in extending it by name to Jews, as well as Gentiles,