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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. It is by Faith that we must derive all this virtue and help from him. As all our help is fountained in him, so there is a way in which we are to fetch it in from him, and that is by the exercise of faith on him: and for this reason, Paul, when he speaks of his life of Holiness in which he walked with God, refers it hither, Gal. 2.20. I live, yet not ⟨p. 26⟩I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. The Obedience of Gods people is on this account called the work of faith, 2 Thes. 1.11. And all the glorious exploits which are mentioned to have been done by the Worthies of old, are ascribed to their faith in, Heb. 11. For it is by faith that we go to Christ, and embracing the promise, in which all the help that we need is laid up, we fetch in that assistance from him, by which we are enabled to walk with him.
3. It is by Faith that we must derive all this vertue and help from him. As all our help is fountained in him, so there is a way in which we are to fetch it in from him, and that is by the exercise of faith on him: and for this reason, Paul, when he speaks of his life of Holiness in which he walked with God, refers it hither, Gal. 2.20. I live, yet not ⟨p. 26⟩I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. The Obedience of Gods people is on this account called the work of faith, 2 Thes. 1.11. And all the glorious exploits which are mentioned to have been done by the Worthies of old, are ascribed to their faith in, Heb. 11. For it is by faith that we go to Christ, and embracing the promise, in which all the help that we need is laid up, we fetch in that assistance from him, by which we are enabled to walk with him.