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

Some other men that know not what it is to walk with God, perhaps they may come and walk a step or two in Gods ways, but they quickly turn out again, and they find them tedious and irksome to them: But the heart that walks with God doth all this that I have named.

Some other men that know not what it is to walk with God, perhaps they may come and walk a step or two in Gods waies, but they quickly turn out again, and they find them tedious and irksom to them: But the heart that walks with God doth all this that I have named.

That is, Eyes God in all his ways. Behaves its self as in the presence of God. Walks in the same way God doth. Observes Gods designs. And so likewise the rest, and all this in the constant course of his life.

That is, Eyes God in all his waies. Behaves its self as in the presence of God. Walks in the same way God doth. Observes Gods designs. And so likewise the rest, and all this in the constant course of his life.

It's true, Through the violence of some temptation there ⟨p. 284⟩may chance to be a step astray, or there may be perhaps some fall in the way; but still the heart is God-ward, and still is towards God, it gets up again, and walks again in the way, it doth not merely go a step into the way of God as some carnal men do; it may be sometimes when Gods hand is upon them, or upon the hearing of some Sermon, then their hearts are a little touched, and they seem to be a little froward; but take the constant course of their lives, and it's in the way of sin; But the constant course of the ways of the Saints, are in the ways of God. As now, a Swine may go through a fair meadow, I but that's not the place that it doth so much regard, but it would be in the mire and dirt, and there it wallows. So it is with many wicked men, they will come and hear, and pray, and do some good duties, this is a Swine in a meadow; but when they come to those ways that may satisfy the lusts of the flesh, there they wallow, that's their proper place, and therefore far from walking with God. A beggar will perhaps follow a man a little way so long as he hath hopes of getting any thing by him: but if the man goes still away from him, he turns aside to another way, he will go no further along with him: so 'tis with many men, even many professors they would seem to follow God perhaps for comfort, and for something that they would have from him; but if they cannot find presently what they would have from God, then they turn aside: whereas (I beseech you observe this) the difference between a friends walking with another out of delight of Communion with him, and a beggar that only goes along with another man begging for an alms; The man that goes along begging for the alms he doth not regard the company of this man any further than he may have hopes of an alms from him, if he cannot have what he would have, or if he have once what he would have, he turns aside from the man: But a friend that is walking with his friend, that that satisfies him is, the company of his friend, and the converse that he hath with him while he is walking, and so he goes