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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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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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This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

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Views, Heaven, Earth

Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.66

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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

Art, Knowledge Of God, Mass

Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.13

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Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

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Blessed, Lust, World

Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.62, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Morning, Meditation, Heaven

Stephen Charnock (1866). “The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.”, p.307

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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.

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Atheist, Speak, Purity

Stephen Charnock (2001). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.449, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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.

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Taken, Men, Voice

Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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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.

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Clouds, Law, Brightness

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Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.

Stephen Charnock

Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

Stephen Charnock

Prayer, Together, Scripture

Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.529

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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.

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Men, Made, All Things

Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.59

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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.

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Christian, Color, Portraiture

Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1847). “The Choice Works of the Rev. Stephen Charnock, B.D.: With His Life and Character”, p.24

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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!

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Eye, Vision, Receiving

Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.35, Ravenio Books

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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

Needs, Worship, Shots

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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

Men, Grace, Conquer

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