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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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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.
1. Believe that your nearness to God now is your present safety and security. Satan, and the corrupt part in us, would perswade 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.
2. Believe that all that walk with him here, shall rest with him for ever. The way in which all such as these go, is the way of peace; it is the way to eternal life; and all that follow it to the end of it, shall without fail arrive at last in the Everlasting Kingdom. They that walk with God, have him for their Guide; and David could presume upon this, Psal 73.24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to Glory. And let the way be in it self never so difficult, and discouraging, yet this is your consolation, that under the conduct of such a Guide there is no fear of miscarrying.