Product Description
VOLUME FIVE contains a further nineteen discourses. By way of contrast with the earlier volumes – most of which are based on texts from the New Testament – five of the discourses here draw on texts from the Old Testament Scriptures. Many of the topics addressed are of perennial interest to all Christians: the necessity of Christ’s death, and the necessity of his exaltation; Christ’s intercession; God in Christ as the object of faith; afflictions; mortification; the stability of the church; delight in prayer; the sins of the regenerate; man’s enmity to God; and the pardon of sin. The set closes with a useful Index of subjects and persons mentioned, and an Index of Texts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DISCOURSES
A discourse of the necessity of Christ’s death – Luke xxiv 26
A Discourse Of The Necessity Of Christ’s Exaltation – Luke Xxiv 26
A Discourse Of Christ’s Intercession – 1 John Ii 1
A Discourse Of The Object Of Faith – John Xiv1
A Discourse Of Afflictions – Heb Xii 5-11
A Discourse Of The Removal Of The Gospel – Rev Ii 5
A Discourse Of Mercy Received – Ps Lvi 12, 13
A Discourse Of Mortification – Rom Viii 13
A Discourse Proving Weak Grace Victorious – Mat Xii 20
A Discourse Of The Sinfulness And Cure Of Thoughts – Gen Vi 5
A Discourse Of The Church’s Stability – Ps Lxxxvii 5
A Discourse Upon The Fifth Of November – Exod Xv 9, 10
A Discourse Of Delight In Prayer – Ps Xxxvii 4
A Discourse Of Mourning For Other Men’s Sins – Ezek Ix 4
A Discourse For The Comfort Of Child-Bearing Women – 1 Tim Ii 15
A Discourse Of The Sins Of The Regenerate – 1 John Iii 9
A Discourse Of The Pardon Of Sin – Ps Xxxii 1, 2
Man’s Enmity To God – Rom Viii 7
The Chief Sinners Objects Of The Choicest Mercy – 1 Tim I 15
INDEX
INDEX OF TEXTS
Hardcover, 592 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.
