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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.
Use 1. Of Information.
1. There is a great pleasure in the ways of God, if rightly understood. Prayer, which is a duty wherein we express our wants, is delightful. There is more sweetness in a Christians asking than in a wicked mans enjoying blessings.
2. What delight will there be in heaven! If there be such sweetness in desire, what will there be in full fruition! There is joy in seeking, what is there then in finding! Duty hath its sweets, its thousands, but glory its ten thousands. If the pleasure of the seed-time be so great, what will the pleasure of the harvest be!
3. The miserable condition of those that can delight in any thing but prayer. 'Tis an aggravation of our enmity to God, when we can sin cheerfully, and pray dully: When duty is more loathsome than iniquity.
3. The miserable condition of those that can delight in any thing but prayer. 'Tis an aggravation of our enmity to God, when we can sin chearfully, and pray dully: When duty is more lothsome than iniquity.