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Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673
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3. General. That it is our duty, or the duty of every man to walk with God in his calling, not barely to abide therein, but to abide and walk with God therein. For thus,
1. It was so from the beginning. Adam had a calling, even in the state of innocency, but therein he was to walk with God.
2. And if a man do not walk with God in his calling, how can he walk with God at all. A man is not said to walk with God, because he prays in the morning or evening; walking is a constant thing. Now it is the duty of every man to walk with God; and therefore 'tis his duty to walk with God in his calling.
3. Thereby a man is distinguished from the world and the men of the world. A man is not therefore one of another world, because he deserts his calling that he may give himself unto his devotions: For then the Monks, and Nuns, and Anabaptists, should be men and women of another world; he is a man of another world, that doth use the world as if he used it not. Christ himself was in the world, but not of the world. And if you would not be of the world, you must not go out of the world, but you must walk with God in the world. Hereby you shall be distinguished from the world, and men of the world. Now it is our duty so to walk, as it may appear that we are not of this world. Therefore it is our duty to walk with God in our callings, not not only to abide therein, but to walk with God therein.