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 CharnockAll the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Stephen CharnockWe often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
Stephen CharnockSelf is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
Stephen CharnockSince 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