To Walk with God is the Commendation and Attainment of some that live […] Earth: Here and there a Person is to be met withal, whose Privilege it is to walk with God. It is to be enquired, What is it to walk with God? What is that rare, mysterious, laborious thing? in short, we then Walk with God, when we maintain Communion with God in all the motions of our Lives. Every Man has a Walk in the World. The Life of Man is the Walk of Man. It may be said unto each Man, as in Eccles. 9. 10. Man, Thou art going. A Walk is a progressive continued thing, made up of many steps: Thus a Life; 'tis made up of many thoughts, many words, many deeds. A Man is with God, when he sees God, and owns God: Then therefore do's a Man Walk with God, when he lives in multiplied Acts of Respect and Homage unto the Lord. It is the Command in 1 Pet. 1. 15. Be ye holy in all manner of Conversation; it may be rendered, Be Holy in every turn: While we Walk, we Turn every day, now to one Object, now to another: Well, when we are with God ⟨p. 5⟩in every Turn, then we Walk with God. A Walk with God is in short, that godly, that sober, that righteous Life which the Word of God adviseth us unto. It was the speech of the Psalmist, in Psal. 26. 11. I will walk in mine Integrity; and in Psal. 86. 11. I will walk in thy Truth; and in Psal. 116. 9. I will walk before the Lord: All this is to Walk with God. We read in 2 Cor. 5. 7. of a Walk by Faith▪ and in Rom. 8. 1. of a Walk after the Spirit; and in Gal. 6. 16. of a Walk according to Rule; this is a Walk with God. Two things are comprised in it.
To Walk with God is the Commendation and Attainment of some that live 〈…〉 Earth: Here and there a Person is to be met withal, whose Priviledge it is to walk with God. It is to be enquired, What is it to walk with God? What is that rare, mysterious, laborious thing? in short, we then Walk with God, when we maintain Communion with God in all the motions of our Lives. Every Man has a Walk in the World. The Life of Man is the Walk of Man. It may be said unto each Man, as in Eccles. 9. 10. Man, Thou art going. A Walk is a progressive continued thing, made up of many steps: Thus a Life; 'tis made up of many thoughts, many words, many deeds. A Man is with God, when he sees God, and owns God: Then therefore do's a Man Walk with God, when he lives in multiply'd Acts of Respect and Homage unto the Lord. It is the Command in 1 Pet. 1. 15. Be ye holy in all manner of Conversation; it may be rendered, Be Holy in every turn: While we Walk, we Turn every day, now to one Object, now to another: Well, when we are with God ⟨p. 5⟩in every Turn, then we Walk with God. A Walk with God is in short, that godly, that sober, that righteous Life which the Word of God adviseth us unto. It was the speech of the Psalmist, in Psal. 26. 11. I will walk in mine Integrity; and in Psal. 86. 11. I will walk in thy Truth; and in Psal. 116. 9. I will walk before the Lord: All this is to Walk with God. We read in 2 Cor. 5. 7. of a Walk by Faith▪ and in Rom. 8. 1. of a Walk after the Spirit; and in Gal. 6. 16. of a Walk according to Rule; this is a Walk with God. Two things are comprized in it.
