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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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4. Let us Crucify our over eager affections to ⟨p. 18⟩the world. There is a love to the Creature which it is lawful for Gods people to exercise: but then there is a love of these things which is very dangerous, against which we are warned, 1 Job. 2.15. Love not the world neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. If we let our hearts out over eagerly after these things, they will draw them off from God: and our Saviour hath cautioned us in, Mat 6.24. No man can serve two masters, &c. And there is nothing that more obstructs our walking with God, than the prevalency of Ambition, Covetousness, and Voluptuousness in us: And because these things are so adapted to our senses, and gratify the cravings of the outward man, we have the more need to be daily crucifying of them, and praying as he, Psal 119.37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; we are therefore earnestly advised in, 1 Pet. 2 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the Soul.
4. Let us Crucify our over eager affections to ⟨p. 18⟩the world. There is a love to the Creature which it is lawful for Gods people to exercise: but then there is a love of these things which is very dangerous, against which we are warned, 1 Job. 2.15. Love not the world neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. If we let our hearts out over eagerly after these things, they will draw them off from God: and our Saviour hath cautioned us in, Mat 6.24. No man can serve two masters, &c. And there is nothing that more obstructs our walking with God, than the prevalency of Ambition, Covetousness, and Voluptuousness in us: And because these things are so adapted to our senses, and gratifie the cravings of the outward man, we have the more need to be dayly crucifying of them, and praying as he, Psal 119.37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; we are therefore earnestly advised in, 1 Pet. 2 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the Soul.