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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.
They are both Holy and Happy Men that thus Walk with God: This is the Prerogative of them that have God with them in all their Walk.
1. The Walker with God is a very Holy Man: What is true Holiness? Many mistakes have there been about that glorious thing: A Man may be Orthodox in his Persuasions, and yet not be Holy: A Man may be very Austere and Severe in his Practices, and yet not be Holy: You may say of a Man, That he has a Righteousness equal to that of the Scribes and Pharisees, and yet the Man may be a stranger to true Holiness after all. O but when once it can be said of a Man, He walks with God! then, then Holiness is to be seen upon him.
1. The Walker with God is a very Holy Man: What is true Holiness? Many mistakes have there been about that glorious thing: A Man may be Orthodox in his Perswasions, and yet not be Holy: A Man may be very Austere and Severe in his Practices, and yet not be Holy: You may say of a Man, That he has a Righteousness equal to that of the Scribes and Pharisees, and yet the Man may be a stranger to true Holiness after all. O but when once it can be said of a Man, He walks with God! then, then Holiness is to be seen upon him.
To Walk with God, is to Walk like God. Now the more like to God any Man is or does, the more Holiness there is in such a Man. 'Tis the Attribute of God in Exod. 15. 11. O Lord, Thou art glorious in Holiness: ⟨p. 9⟩and in Heb. 1. 13. Thou canst not look upon Iniquity. The Nature of Holiness lies in a Dedication unto God: A thing Dedicated unto God, by the Disposal of another, has a Relative Holiness belonging thereunto. A Man Dedicated unto God by his own hearty Resignation and Consecration of himself unto the Lord, such an one hath in him a real Holiness. Well, the Walker with God is an Enoch: Enoch is in English as much as to say, A Dedicated Man: The Man that is with God, is also for God, and him alone: This is Holiness in the Exaltation of it. The Holy Dr. Usher being desired to write about Sanctification, with Tears lamenting the defect of it in himself, gave this Description of it,—It is for a Man to be in the offering up of his Soul continually, in the flames of Love, as a whole burnt-offering to God in Jesus Christ: Now in a Walk with God, a Man is every day doing so. In fine, When Moses had been with God in the Mount, we read in