If you take away God, you take away conscience, and thereby all measures and rules of good and evil. And how can any law be made when the measure and standard of them are removed? All good laws are founded upon the dictates of conscience and reason, upon common sentiments in human nature, which spring from a sense of God; so that as the foundation is demolished, the whole superstructure must tumble down. A man then could be a thief, a murderer, an adulterer, and could not in a strict sense be considered an offender. The worst actions could not be evil, if a man were a god to himself, a law to himself.
– Stephen Charnock
1628 – 1680
Christ Alone Wyoming 
Must have seen into the future to now.
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Or could have been seeing into the past, or could have been seeing a few blocks away. While it is certainly the trend to talk about how much better things used to be, in defiance of Ecclesiastes 7:10, but there have always been people rejecting God and His ways and troubles from that.
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RGF:
Your reference to “there have always been people rejecting God and His ways and troubles from that” is certainly biblical, as described in Rom. 1, I would also agree with Doreen. Though Charnock lived in the 1600’s, it was largely due to Darwin (2 centuries later) that “modern” man came to reject the existence of God wholesale, because of the “scientific proofs” of evolution by chance. In essence, he “took away God”. And his bogus theory continues to be the major influence not just in the scientific community, but in the various fields of education. So, in that sense, Charnock was “ahead of his time”.
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