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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
A DISCOURSE UPON GODS Dominion. › The USE.A DISCOURSE UPON GODS Dominion. › The ƲSE.
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III. USE of Comfort. The Throne of God drops honey and sweetness, as well as dread and terror; All his other attributes afford little relief, without this of his dominion, and Universal command; When therefore he speaks of his being the God of his people, he doth often preface it, with the Lord thy God; His Sovereignty as a Lord being the ground of all the comfort we can take in his federal relation as our God; Thy God, but Superior to thee; thy God, not as thy Cattle and Goods are thine, in a way of sole propriety, but a Lord too in a way of Sovereignty, not only over thee, but over all things else for thee. As the end of God's settling Earthly Governments, was for the good of the communities over which the Governors preside; So God exerciseth his Government for the good of the World, and more particularly for the good of the Church, over which he is a peculiar Governor.
III. USE of Comfort. The Throne of God drops hony and sweetness, as well as dread and terror; All his other attributes afford little relief, without this of his dominion, and Universal command; When therefore he speaks of his being the God of his people, he doth often preface it, with the Lord thy God; His Soveraignty as a Lord being the ground of all the comfort we can take in his federal relation as our God; Thy God, but Superior to thee; thy God, not as thy Cattle and Goods are thine, in a way of sole propriety, but a Lord too in a way of Soveraignty, not only over thee, but over all things else for thee. As the end of God's setling Earthly Governments, was for the good of the communities over which the Governours preside; So God exerciseth his Government for the good of the World, and more particularly for the good of the Church, over which he is a peculiar Governour.
1. His love to his people is as great as his Sovereignty over them. He stands not upon his Dominion with his people so much, as upon his affection to them; He would not be called Baali, my Lord, i. e. he would not be known only by the name of Sovereignty, but Ishi, my Husband, a name of Authority and sweetness together;