The divine life in three treatises

2. Our walking with God includeth our Reconciliation to him, and that we are not in our natural state of Enmity, but made his Children and friends in Christ. Can two walk tother unless they be agreed? Amos 3. 3. Enmity is against Unity; Disaffection causeth Aversion, and flying from ⟨p. 162⟩each other: Yea the fears of a guilty Child may make him fly from his Fathers presence, till there be a particular Reconciliation besides the general state of Reconciliation. A provoking faulty Child doth Dwell with God his Father, though under the continual terror of his frowns: But to walk with him (in the full sense) is more than to be related to him, and to dwell with him: In a large sense indeed all Gods Children may be said to walk with him, as it signifieth only a conversation ordered in godliness, sincerity and simplicity. But in this sublimer sense, as it signifieth a lively exercise of Faith and Love, and heavenly-mindedness, and a course of complacential contemplation, and holy converse with God, so it is proper only to some of the •ounder and more vigilant industrious believers. And hereto it is necessary, not only that we be Justified and Reconciled to God from our state of Enmity, but also that we be pardoned justified and reconciled from our particular wounding falls, which are more than the ordinary infirmities of Believers. And also it is necessary that we have grateful friendly thoughts of God: that we have so much sense of his excellency, goodness and kindness to our selves, as may give us a complacency in conversing with him, and may make the thoughts and mention of him to be desirable and pleasing to us. Walking with God doth import, though not the full assurance of his special Love and Grace to us, yet such an apprehension of his Love and Goodness, as may draw the heart to think of him with desire, if not with delight. A loathness to draw near him, to think of him, or to mention him, a weariness of his special service, are contrary to this special walking with God.

2. Our walking with God includeth our Reconciliation to him, and that we are not in our natural state of Enmity, but made his Children and friends in Christ. Can two walk tother unless they be agreed? Amos 3. 3. Enmity is against Unity; Disaffection causeth Aversion, and flying from