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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.
London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doct. To walk with God is the singular Commendation of Holy and Happy Men.
Prop. I.
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