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

and so, though many in their external profession seem to be moved one way, but secretly their hearts move another way, they do not walk with God all that while, they did pray, and read, and hear, and come to Sermons and make great profession, so as men might think they walked with God, but it was not so. As it is with a ship, you may be bound to such a Port, and the ship and the sails blow that way, and yet when the ship goes east, a man may walk up and down in the ship west-ward: so in profession, a man seems to be carried east-ward, yet his private walks may be another way, to his own ends, to his own designs; but here's the honour of a man when God himself shall own him, as if God should say concerning Enoch, I who am a God that am the Seer and Searcher of all mens hearts, and I observe the ways of my servant Enoch, and I see him not only in the outward profession of godliness, but in the secret of his soul he walks with me, he hath no bye-walks at all, but he keeps himself close with me and walks with me continually; Enoch walked with God.

and so, though many in their external profession seem to be moved one way, but secretly their hearts move another way, they do not walk with God all that while, they did pray, and reade, and hear, and come to Sermons and make great profession, so as men might think they walked with God, but it was not so. As it is with a ship, you may be bound to such a Port, and the ship and the sails blow that way, and yet when the ship goes east, a man may walk up and down in the ship west-ward: so in profession, a man seems to be carried east-ward, yet his private walks may be another way, to his own ends, to his own designs; but here's the honor of a man when God himself shall own him, as if God should say concerning Enoch, I who am a God that am the Seer and Searcher of all mens hearts, and I observe the waies of my servant Enoch, and I see him not only in the outward profession of godliness, but in the secret of his soul he walks with me, he hath no bye-walks at all, but he keeps himself close with me and walks with me continually; Enoch walked with God.

This phrase, Walking with God, we have expressed in Scripture in divers other phrases that are to the same purpose: as walking before God,