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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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6 It is only by faith that we apply this perfect Righteousness of Christ by which we are thus accepted Hence that title is put upon it, Phil 3.9. The Righteousness which is of God by faith. If we confide in our own works, and expect to be accepted for the worthiness of them, God will despise us, and wholly reject our services as things which he can take no delight in: but when we utterly renounce our affiance in them, and resolve our whole hope, after all, into Christ, and him alone, ⟨p. 28⟩we then please God. We thus comply with the New-Covenant way, in which the Grace of God is every way exalted, and our whole acknowledgement is paid to it: and when we thus do, we Walk by faith, and so Walk with God.
6 It is only by faith that we apply this perfect Righteousness of Christ by which we are thus accepted Hence that title is put upon it, Phil 3.9. The Righteousness which is of God by faith. If we confide in our own works, and expect to be accepted for the worthiness of them, God will despise us, and wholly reject our services as things which he can take no delight in: but when we utterly renounce our affiance in them, and resolve our whole hope, after all, into Christ, and him alone, ⟨p. 28⟩we then please God. We thus comply with the New-Covenant way, in which the Grace of God is every way exalted, and our whole acknowledgment is paid to it: and when we thus do, we Walk by faith, and so Walk with God.
V. If we would Walk with God, we must endeavour to conform our whole Conversation to his revealed will. We before observed, that walking intends the course of life which we follow, every action whereof incompared to one step that we take. Walking with God then, is a living according to his will, so it is expressed in, 1 Pet. 4.2. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Now there is a double-consideration of the Will of God, viz as it is secret, or as it is revealed; by the former of which God disposeth of all the affairs of his Creatures, according to his infinite wisdom, and good pleasure,