Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…

A Great Rebuke hence falls upon ungodly Men: The Apostle could say, in Phil. 3. 18. Many walk, of whom I tell you ⟨p. 14⟩weeping. Truly our Hearts are Flints, that we do not with Tears from our Eyes reflect on the Walk of the most of Men. Do they Walk with God? No: They have a Walk most opposite thereunto. Their Walk is that in Eph. 2. 2. They Walk according to the course of this World, according to the Prince of the Power of the Air. Their Walk is that in 2 Thes. 3. 11. They walk disorderly. Alas! How common is it for men to leave the Blessed God, and Walk with the World, yea with the Devil too instead of him? We read of some in Dan. 4. 37. that Walk in Pride. We read of some in Jer. 23. 14. that Walk in Lies. We read of some in 1 Pet. 4. 3. that walk in Lasciviousness: Do these Walk with God? 'Tis declared of some, in Jer. 13. 10. that they walk in the Imaginations of their own Hearts. Are there not many of those Walkers now before the Lord: Conscience, do thine Office: Go and find out the Person that seldom Prays in his Family, and more seldom in his Closet: Find out the Person that has not God in all his Thoughts: Find out the Person that can indulge himself in those abominable things which the Soul of the Lord hates: O tell that Man, that he doth not Walk with God, ⟨p. 15⟩and set before him the dismal Consequences of this ungodly Walk. Consider, O Man, the danger of all the wild, lewd Courses, that vain Persons do Walk and Run into.

A Great Rebuke hence falls upon ungodly Men: The Apostle could say, in Phil. 3. 18