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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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3. Let us maintain a special warfare against our bosom sin. Although there is every lust remaining in every believer, against which the spiritual warfare is to be upheld and pursued: yet there is usually one more remarkable lust, which either our natural constitution, or the occasions offered in the Providence of God, or the affairs that we are employed in, do stimulate us to; and we are more easily won to hold correspondence with it, and find it hardest to withstand the motions of it, when it calls for being attended and gratified. Now one sin if it be allowed by us, and we can hold familiar correspondence with it, though it be never so secretly, is enough to procure a distance between God and us, and make us to experience his displeasure. How carefully then ought we to observe the stirrings of it in us, and resist it with greatest resolution? David therefore tells us on this account, Psal. 18.23. I was upright before him, and I kept my self from mine iniquity.
3. Let us maintain a special warfare against our bosome sin. Although there is every lust remaining in every believer, against which the spiritual warfare is to be upheld and pursued: yet there is usually one more remarkable lust, which either our natural constitution, or the occasions offered in the Providence of God, or the affairs that we are employed in, do stimulate us to; and we are more easily won to hold correspondence with it, and find it hardest to withstand the motions of it, when it calls for being attended and gratified. Now one sin if it be allowed by us, and we can hold familiar correspondence with it, though it be never so secretly, is enough to procure a distance between God and us, and make us to experience his displeasure. How carefully then ought we to observe the stirrings of it in us, and resist it with greatest resolution? David therefore tells us on this account, Psal. 18.23. I was upright before him, and I kept my self from mine iniquity.
4. Let us Crucify our over eager affections to