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,…

Name: Walking with God, the great duty and privilege of true Christians. In two sermons,…
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707Boston: printed by B. Green, 1701

56 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 13k words · Evans 1036

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Walking with God.

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I. That we may walk with God, we must take care that he and we are reconciled. Walking together signifies, and presupposeth friendship and agreement; hence that, Amos 3.3. Can two walk together except they be agreed? If therefore there hath been a discord between them before, it presumes that there hath been a making up of the breach, and bringing of them together again: and so it is in the case before us. Here then let us observe.

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1. That the state of nature is a state of alienation from God. Not that mans primitive state was such, for God made man upright, Eccl. 7.29. There was a Covenant of amity between God and man at first; but mans Apostasy hath violated that Covenant, and so hath procured a great distance between them, Isa. 59 2. Your sins have separated between you and your God. And at this distance ⟨p. 10⟩is every natural man born, as he comes out of the loins of the first Adam, hence that is universally a truth, Eph. 2.3. Were Children of wrath by nature. On this account Unregenerate men are said to be far off from God, Psal. 73.27. Eph. 2.13. In this regard also ungodly men have the stile of Enemies put upon them, Rom. 5.10. Whiles we were yet enemies, &c. And good reason, for man is by his sin revolted from God, hath broken his Allegiance, which hath both filled him with enmity against him, for such is the frame of them that are carnally minded,

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