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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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7. We must ever interpret dark Providences by the Promise. Sometimes there are very hard chapters in the Providence of God, which we are at a loss about the meaning of, and now Temptations offer to draw us to despond, and sit still; but for us so to do will dishonour God, whose Service we have engaged our selves in, and bring us more into the dark; and though we cannot see the particular meaning of such Dispensations at present, yet we have a clue, which if we follow, it will never deceive us, and that is the promise, unto which all Providences are accommodated, and shall issue in the accomplishment of; and if there were no more, that one would be sufficient, Rom. 8.28 We know that all things work together, for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
8. Maintain a believing resolve, that all they are happy that walk with God. Could we always firmly build on his conclusion without wavering, how steadily would it help us to walk? Here then,
1. Believe that your nearness to God now is your present safety and security. Satan, and the corrupt part in us, would persuade us to count it our danger, and thereby fright us from it, and could the adversaries of our Souls have their will, they would make it so; ⟨p. 55⟩but God hath assured us that it is otherwise: David gives this reason why he desired to dwell so near to God, Psal. 27 5. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. And this is the argument of encouragement which God useth to fortify the hearts of his people against fear, Isa 41.10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee, be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee by the right hand of my righteousness.