Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

CHAP. II. The Doctrines raised from the Text, and the Treatise divided into several parts.

CHAP. II. The Doctrines raised from the Text, and the Treatise devided into several parts.

That 'tis the great excellency and commendations of a godly man, to walk with God: Or, That it is the highest testimony that can be given of a man that walks with God. Walking with God is a high excellency, and whoever hath this testimony hath the highest testimony that can be given unto a man in this world, that he walks with God. And therefore that's observable, that God mentions him twice, as if he loved to mention his poor creatures walking with him: at the 22. verse; And Enoch walked with God. And then in the 24. verse, And Enoch walked with God. Oh! as if God should say, This is that that is the delight of my soul indeed. Yea, and that's observable in the testimony of Noah, in Gen. 6. 9. perhaps in the reading of it you may not observe that that I shall observe unto you now, Noah (saith he) was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. He doth not say thus, Noah was a just man and walked with God: But mark, he repeats Noah twice, Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God: as if he should say, This is the blessed man that lived in a wicked generation, and though that generation was sinful and wicked, yet he kept close with God; Noah was just and perfect, and Noah walked with God; Oh I take delight in this Noah: Consider my servant Noah, Noah was thus, and Noah walked with God. There's a great Emphasis in doubling of his name, and there can be no reason given of it, for the sense would be perfect without it: as if he should say, Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation, and walked with God; But for the putting of a special encomium upon Noah, Oh! ⟨p. 266⟩Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. Oh! 'tis the excellency of a man to walk with God, and for God himself to own a man and to say, that he walks with him: Men may live in a practice of the duties of Religion, Eternal duties, and go very far that way, and yet be strangers unto God, never know what it is to walk with God; they may have by-ways of their own in which their hearts do walk; as the Stars that have a motion turn about by the Primum Mobile, the first mover, one way, but they have a secret motion the other way themselves: