Stephen Charnock

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT073779London: printed for the editor, by W. Smith; and sold by J. Mathews; W. Button; J. Murgatroyd; and L. Rowe, 1797. viii, 2],559, 1]p.; 8

These series of discourses focus on the work of God and the Holy Spirit in regeneration. While a topic that has been taught in churches for a long time without much thinking about how the thinking developed, in these pages are the answers of how the act of believer salvation comes around.

A lightly-edited, refreshed version of Stephen Charnock's 1682 classic work on the character of God, Boundlessly Good explores God's pervasive goodness in everything He does. Stephen Charnock was a 17th-century English Puritan and theologian who saw the importance of understanding the nature and character of God. His book Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God (published posthumously) is one of the most exhaustive, profound books ever written on the character of God. A magnificent collection of sermons and discussions, Discourses explores the revealed character of God in Scripture and argues that the attributes of God have a practical weight in the day-to-day life of the Christian. We wanted to provide a readable version of Charnock's work, and so updated language, cleaned up punctuation, and provided paragraph and chapter breaks, all while maintaining the original integrity of Charnock's work. When you read this, you are "reading Charnock". We are working to make the entire original Discourses readable in the Boundlessly God series. This book, Boundlessly Good, is the first installment of that project. This book is published by a non-profit foundation, with any profits to be recycled into missions and other ministry.

In this stimulating work Stephen Charnock links the Old and New Testaments with this classic explanation of how the sacrifice of Jesus Christ fulfils the Old Testament sacrificial system. He particularly illustrates the importance of the Passover, and opens up our understanding of the differences which characterise the New Testament Church era. He shows that Jesus willingly submitted to the pain he knew he would go through, in order to bring us the blessings of a new covenant with God. The Puritans were brought up on the Bible; for a Puritan mind a clear text from the Bible settled all controversy. It is this discipline and clear sightedness which makes their work so valuable to today’s generation.