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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
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.
These may be reduced to three heads,
1. In regard of God. 2. Of our selves. 3. Of others.
I. In regard of God.
1. Cold thoughts of God; When no affection is raised in us by them. When we delight not in God, the object of those thoughts, but in the thought it self, and operation of our mind about Him, consisting of some quaint notion of God of our own conceiving. This is to delight in the act or manner of thinking, not in the object thought of; and thus these thoughts have a folly and vanity in them. They are also sinful in a regenerate man, in respect of the faintness of the understanding, not acting with that vigour, and sprightliness, nor with those raised and spiritual affections, which the worth of such an object doth require.
1. Cold thoughts of God; When no affection is raised in us by them. When we delight not in God, the object of those thoughts, but in the thought it self, and operation of our mind about Him, consisting of some quaint notion of God of our own conceiving. This is to delight in the act or manner of thinking, not in the object thought of; and thus these thoughts have a folly and vanity in them. They are also sinful in a regenerate man, in respect of the faintness of the understanding, not acting with that vigor, and spriteliness, nor with those raised and spiritual affections, which the worth of such an object doth require.