Richard Muller describes the real value of Charnock best, saying that it “certainly stands as one of the more elaborate and detailed treatises on the subject written in the seventeenth century and…partakes of the careful distinctions and definitions that belong to the scholastic theology of the era. It also evidences the exegetical and practical character of the Protestant theology of the era, with consistent references to the texts of Scripture on which its teaching is based and equally consistent attention to the churchly and pious ‘use’ of each doctrinal point.”