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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. We must join to all prayer for the Spirit of Illumination to be afforded us. We do not only stand in need of the Word and Ordinances to inform us about the will of God, tho' the matter of the knowledge of it is therein contained Doctrinally; but of the Spirit too, to give us a right discerning: for we are naturally blind in spiritual things, and so need not only light to be set before us, but our eyes to be restored that we may perceive it. And though there is a remainder of the light of nature in us, which can apprehend the reason of many moral Duties, yet we are altogether strangers to the way of Evangelical Obedience, by which alone we can walk with God: this therefore Paul prays for on their behalf, Eph. 1 17, 18. That the Father may give to them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understandings ⟨p. 36⟩being enlightened, &c. And good reason; for he tells us in, 1 Cor. 2 14 The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Surely then we should pray for it in respect of our selves, in the words of the Psalmist, Psal. 119 18 Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
4. We must joyn to all prayer for the Spirit of Illumination to be afforded us. We do not only stand in need of the Word and Ordinances to inform us about the will of God, tho' the matter of the knowledge of it is therein contained Doctrinally; but of the Spirit too, to give us a right discerning: for we are naturally blind in spiritual things, and so need not only light to be set before us, but our eyes to be restored that we may perceive it. And though there is a remainder of the light of nature in us, which can apprehend the reason of many moral Duties, yet we are altogether strangers to the way of Evangelical Obedience, by which alone we can walk with God: this therefore Paul prays for on their behalf, Eph. 1 17, 18. That the Father may give to them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understandings