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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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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.
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, Rom. 8 7. and incensed the just indignation of God against them, for we are told in, Psal. 7.11. God is angry with the wicked every day.
2. That so long as this alienation abides, there can be no Communion between God and Sinners. Communion between person ever supposeth an union going before, which is the foundation of it: and where there hath been an antecedent separation, it requires an atonement, in order to which that which made the difference must be removed. God and Sinners go two ways, they walk contrary one to another, and God requires that they do acknowledge that it hath been so,