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

Seventhly, One that walks with God, in all his ways of Holiness and Obedience his heart is free in him, he comes off readily to every good work, he is not hauled and pulled to God, but he walks with him. There's a great deal of difference between one that is dragged after another, (as if you should drag a prisoner that hath no mind to go that way) and another that walks up and down with delight and pleasure with you: 'Tis not enough to walk with God, for to be in the way that God would have you to be, or to do the things that God would have you to do, except your hearts do come off freely in the ways of obedience, except there be a cheerfulness in the ways of obedience, except you choose the ways of holiness as the ways that are most suitable to you, this is the walking with God. In the 119. Psal. 45. I will walk at liberty, (saith David) for I seek thy precepts. It's a notable Scripture. The men of the world they think that there is no walking at liberty but for them to satisfy their desires to the uttermost, to walk after their lusts which is the Scripture phrase: No but saith David, my liberty is this, I seek thy precepts. A carnal heart thinks it is the greatest bondage in the world for to seek the precepts of God, and to conform to Gods precepts, that I must walk according to rule, that's a bondage: No, I'll walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. It's an excellent argument of grace in the heart, to account the precepts of God to be the greatest liberty to the soul: When I am in the ⟨p. 280⟩