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When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

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Faith, God, Christian

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Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

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Eye, Hands, Delight

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Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

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Happiness, Death, Christian

"Christ Our Passover".

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We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

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Comfort, Staff, Strikes

Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

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Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

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Ignorance, Littles, Estimation

Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.666

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In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.

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Christian, Godly, Order

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God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

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Heart, Secret, Caverns

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A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

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Men, Knowing, Ignorant

Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.653

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Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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Pride, Self, Contending

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Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

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Religious, Nature, Son

Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

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Self, World, Anti God

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Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

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Heart, Good Heart

Stephen Charnock (2000). “A Discourse of the Nature of Regeneration”, p.475, Library of Alexandria

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A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

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Humble, Devil, Proud

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Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

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Heart, Hypocrite, Play

"The Existence and Attributes of God".

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The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

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Littles, Moments, Eternity

Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.287, Ravenio Books

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Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

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Eternal

Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.308

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Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

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Roots, Fruit, Assurance

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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.

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God, Father, World

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We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

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Perfection, May, Worship

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Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

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Jesus, Taken, Lips

Stephen Charnock (2000). “Christ Our Passover”, p.280, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

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Heart, Play, Worship

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How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

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Benefits, Remember, Worthy

Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.277

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How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.

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Night, Soul, Enemy

Stephen Charnock (1866). “The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.”, p.142

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Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

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Pride, Firsts, Sin

Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.340

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Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

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Spiritual, Spiritual Change, Regeneration

Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.98

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