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Stephen Charnock
1628–1680
A leading English Puritan preacher and theologian, remembered for clear, searching writing on the character of God, he left behind sermons that continued to shape Reformed readers long after his death. His best-known work, published after he died, is The Existence and Attributes of God.
1 Audiobook
The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2
by Stephen Charnock
About the author
Born in London in 1628, Stephen Charnock studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and later at Oxford. He became a minister during the unsettled years of the English Commonwealth and gained a reputation as a serious, thoughtful preacher.
Charnock also served as chaplain to Henry Cromwell in Ireland, where he preached in Dublin. After the Restoration he was among the Presbyterian ministers pushed out of the established church, but he continued preaching and writing for nonconformist audiences.
He died in 1680, yet much of his influence came afterward, because many of his sermons and treatises were published posthumously. Readers especially remember him for his rich, careful reflections on God's nature and attributes, which helped make him one of the most enduring voices of later Puritan theology.