Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. Stephen Charnock More Quotes by Stephen Charnock More Quotes From Stephen Charnock Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world Stephen Charnock lust blessed world Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them. Stephen Charnock voice taken men All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. Stephen Charnock scripture prayer together Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul. Stephen Charnock light spiritual heart It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us. Stephen Charnock atheist men thinking Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play. Stephen Charnock worship play heart Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them. Stephen Charnock all-things made men What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! Stephen Charnock receiving vision eye God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient. Stephen Charnock god father world It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all. Stephen Charnock speak atheist purity Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving. Stephen Charnock eternal This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. Stephen Charnock earth views heaven Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion. Stephen Charnock spiritual-change regeneration spiritual In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person. Stephen Charnock brightness law clouds The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God. Stephen Charnock moments eternity littles Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it. Stephen Charnock knowledge-of-god mass art All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need. Stephen Charnock shots worship needs Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day. Stephen Charnock meditation morning heaven God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. Stephen Charnock portraiture color christian No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ. Stephen Charnock conquer grace men
