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!
— Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)
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Eternity of God
God is of an eternal duration. The eternity of God is the foundation of the stability of the covenant, the great comfort of a Christian.
— Stephen Charnock (1628 – 1680)
Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
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Faith, Doubts, and Unbelief
Waverings where faith is, are like the tossings of a ship fast at anchor.
— Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)
God’s Power
As holiness is the beauty of all God’s attributes, so power is that which gives life and action to all the perfections of the Divine nature. How vain would be the eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them. Without power His mercy would be but feeble pity, His promises an empty sound, His threatenings a mere scarecrow. God’s power is like Himself: infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor frustrated by the creature.
— Stephen Charnock
Worship
The nature of God is the foundation of worship, the will of God is the rule of worship.
— Stephen Charnock
