Product Description
VOLUME ONE contains a helpful introduction to Charnock’s life and work by James McCosh, and the first eight discourses on The Existence and Attributes of God, opening with A Discourse of Divine Providence, based on 2 Chronicles 16:9. In this Charnock sets forth the doctrine of providence with great clarity, and then applies it to instruct, comfort, and exhort the people of God.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
A TREATISE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
To the reader
A Discourse Of Divine Providence – 2 Chron Xvi 9
DISCOURSE ON THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
To The Reader
A Discourse Upon The Existence Of God – Ps Xiv 1
Practical Atheism – Ps Xiv 1
A Discourse Upon God’s Being A Spirit – John Iv 24
A Discourse Upon Spiritual Worship – John Iv 24
A Discourse Upon The Eternity Of God – Ps Xc 2
A Discourse Upon The Immutability Of God – Ps Cii 26,27
A Discourse Upon God’s Omnipresence – Jer Xxiii 24
A Discourse Upon God’s Knowledge – Ps Cxlvii 5
Hardcover, 536 pages
Publication Date: December 2010
Author
Stephen Charnock was born in London in 1628, studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was converted, and preached for a time in Southwark. He undertook further study at Oxford, becoming a Fellow of New College, and later Senior Proctor. He served in Ireland as chaplain to the Governor, Henry Cromwell, and became a popular preacher, being lecturer at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin between 1655 and 1660, and minister of St Werburgh’s Church. On the Restoration of the monarchy (1660) he returned to London, studying and ministering privately till 1675, when he began a shared Presbyterian pastorate with Thomas Watson at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate. He died aged 52 in July 1680.
