The Complete Works of Stephen Charnock, B.D

The Complete Works Of Stephen Charnock, B.D by Stephen Charnock. This excerpt presents two extended Puritan theological discourses on Luke 24:26, arguing that Christ’s death was a necessary means of humanity’s redemption and that His exaltation (resurrection, ascension, and mediatorial rule) is equally necessary to receive and apply the merits of that death. It grounds these claims in Scripture, prophecy, and typology, including Genesis 3:15, Psalm 22, and Isaiah 53, and treats the death as a penal satisfaction imputed to believers through faith. The treatise emphasizes that the death and the cross express divine justice, truth, and mercy within the covenant economy, and it explores imputation, substitution, and the role of the Spirit in applying grace. It also surveys the place of Christ’s exaltation in applying merit, the debates about whether exaltation is merited or gratuitous, and the doctrinal method (covenant theology, penal substitution) underpinning a coherent soteriology. The tone is dense, scholastic, and polemical, with frequent Scripture citations and a structured, multi-point argument. The accompanying sections on sanctification and assurance outline mortification, perseverance of grace, and practical piety as the ongoing application of redemption.