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

And this may be in the first place: The walking with God. Oh there is an Excellency in it: If it were only this, That it makes the ways of God easy: All the ways of God, how easy are they to the soul that knows what this means, [Of walking with God] That hath God in his company continually, Oh the easiness that there is in the ways of God! it's that that is worth a world, and it's a very grievous and sad condition that men and women are in who have convinced consciences, and dare not wilfully go out of Gods ways, but are always drooping and find them grievous and tedious to them: But it is because they have not communion with God in them: they are in them merely, upon necessity because they ought to be in them. But the Saints find the ways of God more easy to them, for they have always good company with then. When I awake, I am always with thee, saith David. The very nights are pleasant unto them: when he awakes still he is with God. There's many men and women cannot lie alone; those that cannot sleep when they awake, if they have no company with them the nights are tedious; but if they cannot sleep, and yet when they awake they have some with them the nights are not so tedious to them: When I awake I am ever with thee saith David concerning God. That's the first thing, for the Excellency of this walking with God.

And this may be in the first place: The walking with God. Oh there is an Excellency in it: If it were only this, That it makes the waies of God easie: All the waies of God, how easie are they to the soul that knows what this means, [Of walking with God] That hath God in his company continually, Oh the easiness that there is in the waies of God! it's that that is worth a world, and it's a very grievous and sad condition that men and women are in who have convinced consciences, and dare not wilfully go out of Gods waies, but are alwaies drooping and find them grievous and tedious to them: But it is because they have not communion with God in them: they are in them meerly, upon necessity because they ought to be in them. But the Saints find the waies of God more easie to them, for they have alwaies good company with then. When I awake, I am alwaies with thee, saith David. The very nights are pleasant unto them: when he awakes still he is with God. There's many men and women cannot lie alone; those that cannot sleep when they awake, if they have no company with them the nights are tedious; but if they cannot sleep, and yet when they awake they have some with them the nights are not so tedious to them: When I awake I am ever with thee saith David concerning God. That's the first thing, for the Excellency of this walking with God.