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 CharnockIt 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 CharnockThe little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.
Stephen CharnockWe may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
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