Stephen Charnock

Discourse XIV - on God’s Patience

May 16, 2021 156 min read

NAHUM 1 3 -The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet THE subjec

Discourse XIII - on God’s Dominion

May 15, 2021 352 min read

PSALM 103 19 -The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all THE Psalm begins with the praise of God wherein the penman excites his soul to a right and elevated manag

Discourse XII - on the Goodness of God

May 14, 2021 440 min read

MARK 10 18 -And Jesus said unto him Why callest thou me good There is none good but one that is God THE words are part of a reply of our Saviour to the young man's petition to him a certain person cam

Discourse XI - on the Holiness of God

May 13, 2021 307 min read

EXODUS 15 11 -Who is like unto thee O Lord among the gods Who is like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders THIS verse is one of the loftiest descriptions of the majesty and excel

Discourse X - on the Power of God

May 12, 2021 307 min read

JOB 26 14 -Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him but the thunder of his power who can understand BILDAD had in the foregoing chapter entertained Job with a discourse

Discourse IX - on the Wisdom of God

May 9, 2021 325 min read

ROM 16 27 -To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ for ever Amen THIS chapter being the last of this Epistle is chiefly made up of charitable and friendly salutations and commendations of parti

Discourse VIII - on God’s Knowledge

May 8, 2021 274 min read

PSALM 147 5 -Great is our Lord and of great power his understanding is infinite IT is uncertain who was the author of this psalm and when it was penned some think after the return from the Babylonish

Discourse VII - on God’s Omnipresence

May 7, 2021 132 min read

JEREMIAH 23 24 -Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth saith the Lord THE occasion of this discourse begins ver 16 where God admon

Discourse VI - on the Immutability of God

May 6, 2021 157 min read

PSALM 102 26 27 -They shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old as a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed But thou art the same and thy years sh

Discourse V - on the Eternity of God

May 5, 2021 100 min read

PSALM 90 2 -Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God THE title of this pcalm is a prayer the author M

Discourse IV - on Spiritual Worship

May 4, 2021 212 min read

JOHN 4 24 -God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth HAVING thus despatched the first proposition God is a Spirit it will not be amiss to handle the inference o

Discourse III - on God’s Being a Spirit

May 3, 2021 82 min read

JOHN 4 24 -God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth THE words are part of the dialogue between our Saviour and the Samaritan woman Christ intending to return f

Discourse II - on Practical Atheism

May 2, 2021 263 min read

PSALM 14 1 -The fool hath said in his heart There is no God They are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good PRACTICAL atheism is natural to man in his depraved state and

Discourse I - on the Existence of God

May 1, 2021 193 min read

PSALM 14 1 -The fool hath said in his heart There is no God They are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good THIS psalm is a description of the deplorable corruption by n

Part 2

April 21, 2021 209 min read

Which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God -John 1 13 Two doctrines were raised from these words 1 That man in all his capacities is too weak to produc

A Discourse on God's Being the Author of Reconciliation

April 20, 2021 592 min read

And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself 2 Cor 5

The Fruits of Converting Grace in the Salvation of Sinners

April 15, 2021 66 min read

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief -1 Tim 1 15 1 A sense of the sovereignty of grace in conversion will fi

God’s Regard for His Own Glory, Seen in the Saving of Sinners

April 14, 2021 42 min read

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief -1 Tim 1 15 1 The glory of his patience We wonder when we see a notorio

A Discourse of the Pardon of Sin

April 13, 2021 83 min read

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputes not iniquity -Psalm 32 1 2 This psalm as Grotius thinks was made to be sung upon the an

A Discourse of the Nature of Regeneration

April 12, 2021 304 min read

Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new -2 Cor v 17 The apostle in those words ver 13 'For whether we be besides ourselves it