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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.
3. A spiritual sensibleness of our own weakness, is necessary to make our worship spiritual. Affections to God cannot be without relentings in our selves. When the eye is spiritually fixed upon a spiritual God, the heart will mourn, that the worship is no more spiritually suitable. The more we act love upon God, as amiable and gracious, the more we should exercise grief in our selves, as we are vile and offending. Spiritual worship is a melting worship, as well as an elevating worship; It exalts God, and debaseth the Creature. The Publican was more spiritual in his humble address to God, when the Pharisee was wholly carnal with his swelling language. A spiritual love in worship will make us grieve, that we have given him so little, and could give him no more. 'Tis a part of spiritual duty to bewail our carnality mixed with it; as we receive mercies spiritually, when we receive them with a sense of Gods goodness and our own vileness, in the same manner we render a spiritual worship.
3. A spiritual sensibleness of our own weakness, is necessary to make our worship spiritual. Affections to God cannot be without relentings in our selves. When the eye is spiritually fixed upon a spiritual God, the heart will mourn, that the worship is no more spiritually sutable. The more we act love upon God, as amiable and gracious, the more we should exercise grief in our selves, as we are vile and offending. Spiritual worship is a melting worship, as well as an elevating worship; It exalts God, and debaseth the Creature. The Publican was more spiritual in his humble address to God, when the Pharisee was wholly carnal with his swelling language. A spiritual love in worship will make us grieve, that we have given him so little, and could give him no more. 'Tis a part of spiritual duty to bewail our carnality mixed with it; as we receive mercies spiritually, when we receive them with a sense of Gods goodness and our own vileness, in the same manner we render a spiritual worship.
4. Spiritual desires for God render the service spiritual. When the Soul follows hard after him*