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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64806	Panoplia, or, The whole armour of God explained and applyed for the conduct and comfort of a Christian in all his tryals and tentations : as also the dying preachers legacy in several sermons, being the last labours of the reverend author in the course of his ministry : together with certain seasonable considerations proving the lawfulness and expediency of a set form of lyturgy in the church / by Richard Venner.	Venner, Richard, b. 1598?	1662 (1662)	Wing V194; ESTC R27038	215,543	611

people of what condition soever they be neverthelesse the manifold Commands of God and the abundant Councel and Advice which is given in this particular Case I shall no longer insist upon this Point in any other instances or further Inlargements Only I shall pray heartily for the amendment of these fore-mentioned Faults which are of so much concernment to Church and Kingdom and to the right ordering of all publick affairs I do now descend to the rest of the peoples duty consisting in the walk and the manner and end of such walking Here in as in the former Point I shall conjoyn both these particulars into one main point of doctrine for our use which will make the Doctrine full and Use offectual Touching the walking in this Text you must understand that walking is appliable to God and man 1. To God and so it notes his presence Gen. 3.8 as in the Garden c. and providence for good or evil towards us Levit. 26.12 28. 2. To men it signifies the motion of the Body from one place to another in which is terminus à quo ad quem via per quam c. The whole progresse of mans Life in matters of Faith and Manners Gen. 5.24 Enoch Psalm 119.1 pasfim And hence observe this Doct. Every mans life is a walk and but a walk it begins at our Birth and ends at our Death and is but short at the longest In every life there are Terms viz. à quo ad quem via per quam and these terms do differ ex Diametro are quite crosse one to another according to the way in which we do walk For if our way be good then our Terms are from Satan to God Sin to Grace Hell to Heaven But if it be bad then our Termes are contratrary For this Walk is appliable to good and bad in their several wayes and this leads me to take in the rest viz. the manner and end of thus walking viz. so as to please God for this is the Consolation and this will be the perfection of a Christian and this makes the Point full being conjoyned together viz. Doct. Every mans life is to be ordered so that we may please God in our generation and in the course of our conversation This the Apostle prayes earnestly for viz. Thut we may walk worthy of the Lord to all well-pleasing Col. 1.10 This all will easily grant that we should all live to please God but the Businesse is not so easily done and upon due search we shall find it is a very hard work to live as we ought and here you may Dicotomize the world and all the ways terms of all men walking in the world all which are either pleasing or displeasing to Almighty God and this puts us upon one main Inquiry viz. Quest How should we so walk that we may please God and wherein doth this walking consist that we may discern for this being known we shall easily see who they be that displease God in the course of their life and practise Now in answer to the grand Question observe that the distinctive Notes and Characters of such as walk and do please God are such as these 1. They are such as walk with God as Enoch and Noah did in their Generations Cen. 5.22 and 6.9 And you know how God translated the one from Earth to Heaven so that he never saw death Heb. 11.5 and preserved the other with his whole Family in the general Deluge when the whole world besides was drowned Heb. 11.7 And all because they had this Testimony that they pleased God 2. And that walk before God as Abraham and David did in their time in integrity and uprightnesse Gen 17.1 24 40. 1 Kings 9.4 and David made use of all deliverances to this end Psalm 56.12 13. of his soul from death and feet from falling that I may walk before God c. ☞ These were men that so walked with and before the Lord that they made a progresse as Travellers do in a Journey in their holy path they were neither idle nor stood still much lesse were Retrograde or apt to Retreat they ran to the Goal and gained the Garland of Glory This is our duty God expected it and if we perform it God will crown it accordingly These walked not inordinately c. but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exactly and according to Rule Eph. 5.15 Not after their own Fancies Imaginations inventions as many ignorant superstitious ceremonious Formalists and Fanaticks do to the great danger of their Souls and these men in their walk way and practice aimed not so much at the applause of men as the approbation and acceptation of Almighty God 1. Enoch walked not with the world but with God and God took him out of the world as too good to live in the same with such men 2 Noah was a Preacher of Righteousnesse in a most unrighteous Age when the earth was filled with violence as our Land was of late the old world did neither love him nor would hearken to him or Regard his preaching though for their own good the result of all was the Lord preserved him when the rest perished 3. Abraham believed in God in a most Idolatrous Age and walked before God when others forsook him the Result God blessed him abundantly called him his Friend Jam. 2.23 and gave him the honourable title of the Father of the faithfull Rom. 4.11 16. 4. And David was much afflected with the evils of his time insomuch that his Eyes gushed out with Rivers of water because men kept not Gods Law Psalm 119.136 These Evils he endeavoured to Represse as he was able Psalm 101. and God gave him the testimony of an upright heart 1 King 9.4 5. Many others did the like Princes Prophets Apostles the care of those men was to please God Had those men learned to smooth and slick to temporize humour and concur with the times c. sure they might have had the favour of the World in a very high measure for the World will love her own John 15.19 But this they sought not after it was besides and below them and hereupon this Record of Honour lyes upon all their Graves as well as upon Enochs that they pleased God Heb. 11.5 the reward of wel-doing is with them whereas had they walked with they had perished with the world 1. And those men that walk so with and before the Lord as those men Enoch c. did are said ever since to walk in Gods Lawes and Commandements in his Judgements Ordinances wayes and Pathes Psalm 119. passim in the name of the Lord Micah 4.5 not only in external profession but in the true Faith and Knowledge sincere Worship and Service of God Idolaters walked in the name of their Idols as Papists and others do but without any truth of faith or worship In the Spirit Gal. 5.16 i.e. By the directions of the Spirit of God suitable with the holy Scriptures