Attributes of God by Charnock (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Continue Chapter 1 by reading Reason 2 (It is a folly to deny that which all creatures, or all things in the world manifest).
Today we look at Charnock's second reason for God's existence: 'It is a folly to deny that which all creatures, or all things in the world manifest.'
He supports this reason with four propositions. The things in the world declare the existence of a God:
(i) in their production;
(ii) in their harmony;
(iii) in answering their several ends;
(iv) in their preservation.
Amazing to see how creation screams out the existence of God: 'The whole world is like a looking-glass, which, whole and entire, represents the image of God, and every broken piece of it, every little shred of a creature doth the like ; not only the great ones, elephants and the leviathan, but ants, flies, worms, whose bodies rather than names we know : the greater cattle and the creeping things (Gen. i. 24) ; not naming there any intermediate creature, to direct us to view him in the smaller letters, as well as the greater characters of the world. His name is glorious,'and his attributes are excellent ' in all the earth;'' in every creature, as the glory of the sun is in every beam and smaller flash ; he is seen in every insect, in every spire of grass. The voice of the Creator is in the most contemptible creature. The apostle adds, that they are so clearly seen, that men are inexcusable if they have not some knowledge of God by them ; if they might not certainly know them, they might have some excuse : so that his existence is not only probably, but demonstratively proved from the things of the world.'
The fact that anyone can believe that there is no God demonstrates the awful extent to which sin has blinded man.
Conclude Chapter 1
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