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glory_n	face_n	moses_n	shine_v	2,681	5	9.0852	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70554	Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Samuel, 1651-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1097A; ESTC R20873	63,808	161

Vsher being desired to write about Sanctification with Tears lamenting the defect of it in himself gave this Description of it It is for a Man to be in the offering up of his Soul continually in the flames of Love as a whole burnt-offering to God in Jesus Christ Now in a Walk with God a Man is every day doing so In fine When Moses had been with God in the Mount we read in Exod. 34. 35. It made his Face to shine A Man whose whole Walk is with God must needs derive much Grace from God a shine a glory a lustre of Holiness will be seen upon such a Man. 2. The Walker with God is also a very Happy Man The Psalmist hath well determined where Happiness is to be found in Psal 73. 28. It is good for me to draw near to God By the same Reason we may every one say It is good for me to walk with God. Happiness properly lies in the Conjunction of a Thing with such a good as the Appetites and Faculties of that thing are suited unto Well Walking with God cannot be without an having of God God and Man do mutually possess each other in this blessed thing Now the Soul is in conjunction with such a good as answers all the boundless Cravings of it The Soul of Man hath placed in it by the Hand of God a restless raging desire after an Infinite and an Eternal good Until it find this it pines it frets it is all on a light fire like the Hart panting after the water-brooks When it has got this it is then at ease and with a wonderful delight it cries out This is all my Salvation and all my Desire Behold then the Happiness of a Walk with God it hath no less than that vast thing Satisfaction in it All Men are seeking after satisfaction every day O but who finds this Pearl of great price Where is it The voluptuous Epicure he thinks with Belshazzar It is to be found in Cups and sensual Relishes The Covetous Muckworm he thinks with Achan golden Wedges will rive into the bowels of it The Ambitious Hector he thinks with Haman An high Chair of state will help a man to reach unto it And the contemplative Scholar he imagines That it is folded up in the leaves of his Books which he knows no end of looking into These are all deceived In the mean time the Walker with God says I have found it Enoch has it For First A Walk with God brings a Man to the enjoyment of an Infinite good The Man has God with him now and one God is enough to supply all our Wants to relieve all our Woes It is said in Phil. 4. 19. God shall supply all your Need. When an Immortal Soul has try'd all the Objects in the World it yet gapeth and gaspeth after more it still cries Give Give after all But there is enough in one God enough to feed and fill that Soul whose Desire is enlarged like Heaven it self There is Infinite Truth in God there is Infinite Good in God he is the God of all Consolation The Jews have a Fable of their Manna that whatever a Man had a mind to tast the Manna still had the tast of that thing This is to be affirmed of our God there is in God all that we can ask or think yea and infinitely more He that walks with God walks with him that saith as in Gen. 17. 1. I am the Alsufficient God walk before me Secondly A Walk with God brings a Man to the Enjoyment of an Eternal good The Man has now the Portion of the Righteous And what an one is that We are told in Psal 37. 18. Their Inheritance shall be for ever A virtuous young Man among the Primitive Christians when there was Musick and Feasting in his Fathers House retired from it with such Thoughts as these Here are delicate things but they are short-lived things they will be at an end anon I will therefore go to my God who is the good part can never be taken away Truly whatever Creatures we should content our selves in the Presence of all those Creatures are like the Moon in the Increase they shine for a few Hours perhaps but they go down and all is dark before the Morning The Soul of Man is an Eternal thing it shall stand like a Rock in the Sea of Eternity The things of this World shall perish but thou O Soul shalt endure they shall wax old like a Garment but thy years have no end O thou never-dying Soul. A Soul must have a more enduring substance than any thing here below for the refreshment of it otherwise it is most wretchedly provided for it will starve and languish and perish for evermore Now he that Walks with God meets with that all other things that we Walk withal will take their leave of us But God our God hath said as in Heb. 13. 5. I will never leave thee nor for sake thee So Happy is the Man that Walks with God. The excellent Minister of Nola when the Barbarians plundered him of all he had in the World he lifted up his Eyes to Heaven and said Domine ne excrucier ob Aurum Argentum tu es mihi omnia Lord I have All in Thee so that I am still Happy enough though I have no Gold and Silver left unto me This is the Blessedness of the Man that walketh with the Lord his God and his Happiness is with him though the World be laid all in Ashes before his Eyes VSE I. A Great Rebuke hence falls upon ungodly Men The Apostle could say in Phil. 3. 18. Many walk of whom I tell you weeping Truly our Hearts are Flints that we do not with Tears from our Eyes reflect on the Walk of the most of Men. Do they Walk with God No They have a Walk most opposite thereunto Their Walk is that in Eph. 2. 2. They Walk according to the course of this World according to the Prince of the Power of the Air. Their Walk is that in 2 Thes 3. 11. They walk disorderly Alas How common is it for men to leave the Blessed God and Walk with the World yea with the Devil too instead of him We read of some in Dan. 4. 37. that VValk in Pride We read of some in Jer. 23. 14. that Walk in Lies We read of some in 1 Pet. 4. 3. that walk in Lasciviousness Do these Walk with God 'T is declared of some in Jer. 13. 10. that they walk in the Imaginations of their own Hearts Are there not many of those Walkers now before the Lord Conscience do thine Office Go and find out the Person that seldom Prays in his Family and more seldom in his Closet Find out the Person that has not God in all his Thoughts Find out the Person that can indulge himself in those abominable things which the Soul of the Lord hates O tell that Man that he doth not Walk with God and set before