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A69130	The Christian mans walke with the most regardable and remarkable steppes thereof, the true rule according to which, and manner how we must walke: shewing the infallible properties of the children of light. Newly published by the author Nathanael Cole, Preacher at S. Leonards Bromley in Middlesex, on the backside of Stratford-Bow neere London.	Cole, Nathaniel, 1584 or 5-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 5534; ESTC S115975	148,624	710

and the saluation of our brethren like to bee hindred wee must for a time lay aside meeknesse and bee inflamed with Zeale that wee may say with Dauid The zeale of thine house hath euen consumed vs. Psalm 69. 9. Wee are redeemed to bee a peculiar people zealous of good workes Titus 2. 14. This zeale is the feruency of the spirit arising partly of loue partly of anger Of loue causing vs eagerly and earnestly to maintaine Gods worship both in our selues and others Of anger moouing vs to griefe and anger when wee see God dishonoured It is of that nature that it cannot beare with them which are euill which was the commendation of the Church of Ephesus Reuel 2. 2. And Saint Paul saith It is a good thing to bee zealously affected alwayes in a good thing Galat. 4. 18. Vse 1 First This reprooues all those who are too remisse in this dutie either not reproouing at all or if they doe it is coldly sparingly negligently or else being neither hot nor cold but luke-warme Innumerable are the sinnes committed daily but where is the man that zealously reprooues it the party offending seldome or neuer heares of it But cursed be hee that doth Gods worke negligently Ier. 48. 10. True zeale will haue his vent Iob 32. 18 19. Secondly This condemnes the preposterous zeale in a number which is a bad zeale proceeding neither from faith repentance nor knowledge as the zeale of Iehu 2. King 10. 16. to 29. 31. so a number are so precise as a man must doe nothing not so much as laugh but they are ready to finde fault they know not for what euen condemning them to the pit of hell for trifles I might instance in many particulars wherein these curious rash bold-hardy fooles shew their preposterous zeale a man must feed their humour and doe nothing but as they do and be of the same hew as they are of say as they say doe as they doe or else we are worse then naught according to their censure but they being so absurd and ridiculous I forbeare yea I am ashamed almost to name them This onely I say to all such They straine at a gnat and swallow a camwell Matth. 23. 24. They turne aside to vaine iangling for want of true loue a pure heart a good conscience and faith vnfained desiring to be teachers but vnderstanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirme 1. Tim. 1. 5 6 7. They zealously affect you but not well c. Gal. 4. 17. And I will beare them record they haue a zeale but not according to knowledge Rom. 10. verse 2. Eleuenthly We must reprooue Profitably that is so as it may be best for Gods glory and the good of our brethren it must be for to winne and gaine them Matth. 18. It must be to bring them to repentance and to winne them to the faith wee must alwayes propound this end in our reproofes for the end of reproofe is to bring men to repentance and then reproofe ceaseth We must not seeke our owne profit but the profit of many that they may bee saued 1. Cor. 10. 33. Rebuke them sharpely that they may be sound in the faith Tit. 1. 13. We must reprooue with doctrine 2. Tim. 4. 2. Now all Scripture is giuen by inspiration from God and is profitable for reproofe correction c. 2. Tim. 3. 16. And forasmuch as we are zealous of spirituall gifts of which I spake before we must seeke that we may excell to the edifying of the Church 1. Cor. 14. 12. We must speake with vnderstanding that we may teach others Vers 19. Let all things be done to edifying Vers 26. if all things then reproofe Vse This reprooues diuers sorts of people which I will onely name 1. Those that reprooue others in that nature as they bring them to desperation 2. Parents and Masters who prouoke vnto wrath and so to discouragement as Saul to Ionathan 1. Sam. 33. 34. Againe this condemnes all such as are in place of Magistracie I say not all but those that abuse this censure Ecclesiasticall for their owne gaine excommunicating for euery trifle whereas this beeing a maine part of spirituall Iurisdiction ought to bee vsed with great conscience reuerence care and consideration Lastly we must reprooue Impartially that is without partiallity or respect of persons either for feare fauour affection or any other sinister respect This partality is a great hinderance to effectuall reproofe and respecting of persons either makes vs altogether neglect it or to doe it by halfes whereas wee must doe it faithfully in the feare of God and with a perfect heart 2. Chron. ●9 9. which place ought to bee obserued of Magistrates in place of authority especially when they sit in the seate of iustice Wee may bee said to bee partiall either in regard of our selues or others In regard of our selues when wee can be content to reprooue some sinnes in our selues but not other the smaller but not the greater and herein many are iniqui Iudices partiall Iudges who will not lay the greater matters to their charge lest they should cōdemne themselues but wee must know for a truth that God will admit no dispensation for any one sinne bee it great or small In regard of others when wee so regard mens persons as we will reprooue some but dare not others some sinnes in them and not others which proceedes many times from this that wee are guilty of the same sinnes our selues But Saint Iames saith Haue not the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ with respect of persons which if yee doe are ye not partiall Iam. 2. 1 2 3 4. I confesse there must bee a due respect had vnto men according to their place and calling as our equals must be reprooued by friendly admonition Superiours as Magistrates and Ministers with submisse exhortation Those that offend of infirmity with gentle and affectionate perswasions not alwayes to vse cutting and searing but mollifying ointments and mundifying waters Those that are more refractary to do with sharpe reprehension and Inferiours as occasion shall serue to vse due correction But so to regard any mans person as either not to reprooue at all or to doe it partially is flat against the word This ought Ministers especially to looke into Cry aloud and spare not Esa 58. 1. we must not feare the faces of any nor winke at sinne in any This partiall reproofe was in Eli to his sonnes honouring his sonnes more than God And thus much for the Manner of reproofe Quest But it may bee asked Is this kind of reproofe alwaies necessary Answ Except in these cases First if wee are ignorant of the fault either hauing no certaine knowledge or at least a credible information Secondly if wee see our reproofe will doe hurt or no good Thirdly if the party to bee reprooued repents Fourthly if he doth promise speedily to amend Fiftly if it may better by others be done Sixtly if another time will serue

shew to the world to blinde the eyes of men they care not what they doe nor how prophanely and lewdly they carry themselues in the sight and presence of the all-seeing God First to walke with God or to walke before God is so to carry our selues as in the sight and presence of God acknowledging his all-seeing eye discerning all our thoughts words and deedes and admitting him to be the iust iudge of them all and of the whole course of our liues or to walke before God is to lead a holy and godly life fearing to offend God in any thing being fully perswaded that wheresoeuer among whosoeuer or whatsoeuer doing that God himselfe stands by vs beholding and obseruing all our actions speeches and thoughts and will iudge them all It is as Saint Luke hath it in the song of Zacharie to serue God without seruile feare in holines righteousnesse before him all the daies of our life Luke 1. 74. 75. Thus did Enoch He walked with God Gen. 5. 24. Thus after him did Abraham The Lord before whom I walke Gen. 24. 40. So did Dauid purposing and resoluing so to doe I will walke before God in the land of the liuing Psal 116. 9. Thus did good King Hezekiah I beseech thee O Lord remember now how I haue walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and haue done that which is good in thy sight 2 King 20. 3. And so must all of vs doe that looke to liue with him in glory according to Gods commandement giuen to Abraham and so to vs all Walke before me and be vpright Gen. 17. 1. In all which examples especially that of Hezekiah wee may obserue first this dutie of walking before God secondly the manner of it which is two-fold first in truth secondly with a perfect heart that is an vpright heart thirdly his exercise 〈◊〉 this his walking first doing secondly that which was good thirdly not in the presence of men onely to be seene of them but as approuing his heart vnto God hee did all in his sight Fourthly his accustomed practise through the whole course of his life after conuersion I haue walked and I haue done speaking of the time of his former life not deferring it till death where we may see walking before God and doing of good must goe together Fiftly the clearenesse of his good conscience out of which he appeales to God for this was not any pride or presumptuous conceit that this good King had of himselfe seeking any way to iustifie himselfe before God but it was his peace of conscience which passeth all vnderstanding Hee knew well that I may vse the words of Saint Paul his example that he had liued in all good conscience before God vntill this day Acts 23. 1. and that he had exercised himselfe to haue alwaies a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men Acts 24. 16. His conscience bearing him witnesse in the holy Ghost Rom. 9. 1. Out of this good conscience I say he appealeth to God saying I beseech thee O Lord remember how I walked c. A most notable and worthy patterne of all both high and low to be followed that wee may so walke before God both in life and death This continuall walking before God to consider that wee are alwaies in Gods presence is first a speciall remedie against sinne and a motable meanes to make vs liue in the feare of God This kept Ioseph from vncleanenesse Gen. 39. 9. Iob from impatiency Iob 1. 18. The Mid-wiues from murther Exod. 1. Abraham in obedience Gen. 22. and 25. chapters Dauid in integrity Secondly this is a maine signe that we are friends with God and that he is well pleased with vs. So Enoch by walking with God is reported of to haue pleased God Heb. 11. 5. All our glorious workes without this are nothing He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee surely to doe iustly and to loue mercy and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God Micah 6. 7. 8. The Prophet Amos saith Can two walke together except they be agreed Amos 3. 3. Vnder which interrogatiue is included this negatiue two cannot walke together except they be agreed and if they doe walke together it is a signe they are agreed So those that walke with God are at agreement with him In Christ hee is well pleased with them Mat. 3. 17. and being at agreement with him shall continually haue his loue and fauour extended towards them as hee that is alwaies in the Kings presence cannot but be highly in his fauour who dare wrong him Yea what shall be done to the man whom the King will honour whom hee delighteth to honour Thus and thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour Esth 6. 6. 9. 11. If this be so among those who are in fauour with earthly Kings then what honour shall they haue that are alwaies in Gods presence and daily tread his Courts A thousand times blessed are they for God himselfe will honour those that honour him 1 Sam. 2. 30. Hee is with those that are with him 2 Chron. 15. 2. and if God be with them who can be against them Rom. 8. 31. Yea hee is with them in trouble he will deliuer them and honour them with long life hee will satisfie them and shew them his saluation Psal 14. 15. 16. Thus as they haue walked with God here in the kingdome of grace they shall for euer liue with him in glory which is meant Reuel 3. 4. They shall walke with Christ in white for they are worthy not as the Church of Rome gather for the worthinesse of their workes but of their persons accepted of God as righteous in Christ his righteousnesse being imputed to them and made theirs The second kinde of walking is towards men first Publique secondly Priuate Publique walking concernes first the members of the Church and all beleeuers secondly those which are out of the Church Towards the first we must walke in loue peace humility meekenesse c. Walke in loue as Christ hath loued vs Ephes 5. 1. Walke with all lowlinesse and meekenesse with long-suffering forbearing one another in loue endeauouring to keepe the vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4. 1. 2. 3. And this is loue that wee walke after his commandements This is the commandement that as yee haue heard from the beginning yee should walke in it Iohn 2. epist verse 6. Wee must walke and liue so giuing no iust cause of scandall offence but shewing a good example to all men in all things We are children of the light we must therefore walke as children of the light Ephes 5. 8. Letting our light of an holy example so shine before others that they may see our good workes and glorifie God Math. 5. 16. Towards the latter wee must walke wisely honestly no-offensiuely taking great heed to our waies and hauing a speciall care