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Walking with God, the great duty and privilege of true Christians. In two sermons,…Walking with God, the great duty and priviledge of true Christians. In two sermons,…
Walking with God, the great duty and privilege of true Christians. In two sermons, preached on the lecture, in the year 1700. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Micah]Walking with God, the great duty and priviledge of true Christians. In two sermons, preached on the lecture, in the year 1700. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Micah]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1701
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or, a so living as to have fellowship with him in all that we do; on this account it is said, 1 Job. 1.3. Truly our fellowship is with God the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ. Or, an endeavouring so to live that we may please him, and enjoy his favourable presence with us: for, it is not his Essential presence which is here designed, but the presence of his love, and his acceptance of us. The Apostle therefore in the fore cited Heb 11.5. interprets his walking with God, by his pleasing of God. Now, we then please God, when we always do the things that please him; and he walks with us, when he signifies to and in us, that he takes delight in us; hence that of Christ, Job. 8.29. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him. Hence this is set forth in other terms in Scripture, all of which are but Commentaries on this. Sometimes to walk in the ways of God. Isa 3.2. i. e. in those ways which he hath commanded us, and wherein we conform to his will: to walk in his law, Psal. 119 1. i. e. to follow that law which he hath revealed to us for the ordering of our Conversation by; to walk in good works, Eph. 2.10 i e. to exercise our selves in such works as God approves of; to walk in our integrity, Psal. 26.1. i. e. in the practice of sincere Obedience ⟨p. 9⟩to God; and many expressions of like import. So that in sum, we are then properly said to walk with God, when we constantly nourish true piety in our hearts, and pursue it in our whole lives. This then is the matter about which we are now enquiring; and for our help and direction in which, the following Rules are to be observed.
or, a so living as to have fellowship with him in all that we do; on this account it is said, 1 Job. 1.3. Truly our fellowship is with God the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ. Or, an endeavouring so to live that we may please him, and enjoy his favourable presence with us: for, it is not his Essential presence which is here designed, but the presence of his love, and his acceptance of us. The Apostle therefore in the fore cited Heb 11.5. interprets his walking with God, by his pleasing of God. Now, we then please God, when we always do the things that please him; and he walks with us, when he signifies to and in us, that he takes delight in us; hence that of Christ, Job. 8.29. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him. Hence this is set forth in other terms in Scripture, all of which are but Commentaries on this. Sometimes to walk in the ways of God. Isa 3.2. i. e. in those ways which he hath commanded us, and wherein we conform to his will: to walk in his law,