Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God I-VI

By: Stephen Charnock

Excerpt from character sketch:Stephen Charnock, B.D., was born in the year 1628, in the parish of St. Katharine Cree, London. His father, Mr. Richard Charnock, practised as a solicitor in the Court of Chancery, and was descended from a family of some antiquity in Lancashire. Stephen, after a course of preparatory study, entered himself, at an early period of life, a student in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was placed under the immediate tuition of the celebrated Dr. William Sancroft, who became afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Although there is too much reason to fear that colleges seldom prove the spiritual birthplaces of the youth that attend them, it was otherwise in this case. The Sovereign Spirit, who worketh where and how he wills, had determined that this young man, while prosecuting his early studies, should undergo that essential change of heart which, besides yielding an amount of personal comfort, could not fail to exert a salutary influence on all his future inquiries, sanctify whatever learning he might hereafter acquire, and fit him for being eminently useful to thousands of his fellow creatures. To this all important event we may safely trace the eminence to which, both as a Preacher and as a Divine, he afterwards attained,-as he had thus a stimulus to exertion, a motive to vigorous and unremitting application, which could not otherwise have existed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154043883X
• ISBN13: 9781540438836
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"