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Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God (1845)
Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God - 1845 Author:Stephen Charnock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: those of the ume blood can be to us. Who hath the worse thoughts of the sun, Cor shining upon the earth, that sends up vapours to cloud it.' it can be no digrace... more » to resemble God; if bis hand and bowels be open to us, let not ours be shut to any. Discourse XIII. ON GOD'S DOMINION. Psalm cui. 19. — The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heareia: and kit g kingdom ruU/it over all. Tin: Psalm begins with the praise of God, wherein the penman excites his cool to a right and elevated management of so great a duty (ver. 1): ' Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name:' and because himself and all men were insufficient to offer up a praise to God answerable to the greatness of his benefits, he summons in tin- end of the psalm the angels, and all creatures, to join hi concert with him. Observe, 1. As man is too shallow a creature to comprehend the excellency of God, so he is too dull and scanty a creature to offer up a due praise to God, both in regard of the excellency of his nature, and the multitude and greatness of his benefit. 2. We are apt to forget Divine benefits: our souls must therefore be often jogged, and roused up. 'All that is within me,' every power of my rational, and every affection' of my sensitive part: all his faculties, all his thoughts. Our souls will hang back from God in every duty, much more in this, if we lay not a strict charge upon them. We are so void of a pure and entire love to God, that we have no mind to those duties. Wants will spur us on to prayer, but a pure love to God can only spirit us to praise. We are more ready to reach out a hand to receive his mercies, than to lift up our heart to recognize them after the receipt. After the Psalmist had summoned his own soul to this task, he enumerates the Di...« less