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A87420	Enochs walk and change opened in a sermon at Lawrence-Jury in London, Febr. 7th, 1655, at the funeral of the Reverend Mr. Richard Vines, minister of the Gospel there : with a short account of his life and death, with some elegies &c. on his death / by Tho. Jacombe ...	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1656 (1656)	Wing J115A; ESTC R202651	55,010	68

like the sons of Anak in faith and holinesse Thirdly Walk and be orderly Christians keep to the rule in every thing be not Antinomians in practice Our doctrinal Antinomians are not many our practical Antinomians are very many they dispute and we practice our heads oppose our lives embrace their dangerous opinion Psal 50. ult Oh let your conversation be an ordered conversation An ordered Covenant calls for an ordered conversation our Grace in duty must answer to Gods grace in mercy Your Covenant is ordered in all things 2 Sam. 23.5 Let your carriage answer to this Covenant Doe nothing but be able to say Here 's my rule for what I doe Fourthly Walk act from a free spirit Psalm 51.12 Let your obedience be nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a labour of love Heb. 6.10 act not as slaves but as sonnes not to shun the rod but to please the Father Though Heaven and Hell should be burnt up as that famous Martyr said that there should be no punishment to affright you no reward to allure you yet from an inward principle of love to the wayes of God walk in them look upon it as your meat and drink John 4.34 to be doing the Will of your heavenly Father Say Lord obedience is enough a sufficient reward to it self This spiritual ingenuity will be your crown and glory Nothing commends an action saith Lactantius so much as this 'T is the will that is mensura actionum saith Aquinas let a man do that which is never so good if he doth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 5.2 Aug. Confess l. 1. c. 12. that spoils the action for Nemo invitus bene facit etiamsi bonum est quod facit saith Augustine Fifthly Walk hold on with an even pace in the good wayes of God The even Christian is the excellent Christian when the pulse beats evenly all is well To be sometimes up and somes times down sometimes hot sometimes cold this argues a distempered heart many are like your Jades either they will gallop or stand still either they will be very good or nothing at all Oh that we could get a fixed heart Psal 57.7 to be constant and uniform in the whole tenor of our life Thus I would have you walk but farther walk with God that 's the second thing And here First Walks alwayes as in the Presence of God believe this as a truth where-ever you are God is with you Sin may hinder you from his gracious presence but no place can secure you from his observing presence Psal 139.7 8 9 10 11 12 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit or Whither shall I fly from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven c. 'T is with God as 't is with a Picture if it be well drawn where-ever you are in the room its eye is upon you Thus 't is with the All-seeing eye of God 't is upon us where-ever we are 2 Kings 5.26 Went not mine heart with thee when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee saith Elisha to Gehazi We think to carry things closely but we are foolish God is privy to our very thoughts to our greatest secrets and retirements This a child of God knows and he would not have it otherwise Velleius Paterculus tells us a story of one Livius Drusus There comes an Artist to him and tells him if he pleased he would so contrive his house that do what he would none should see him Vt libera à conspectu immunis ab omnibus arbitriis esset No saith Drusus but rather shew your Art make my house so that all may see me for I am not ashamed to be seen Tu verò siquid in te artis est ita compone domum meam ut ab omnibus conspici possit I apply it to a child of God The Hypocrites torment is Gods Omnisciency and Omnipresency he would fain not be seen by God and men but the upright man he knows God sees him and he rejoyces at it Well you believe this live in the practical consideration of it what a world of sin would this prevent if men did but alwayes set God before them When Latimer heard the pen behind the curtain he answered very warily The Romanes when they would not do an undecent act they would fancy a Cato c. a Fabius in the room The Maid would not gratifie the lust of her unchaste suitor till he could find a room where God might not see them and so she escaped his wicked solicitations Atheisme is at the bottom of every sin and this is one great piece of it we think God doth not see us And therefore work this home upon your spirits and whenever a temptation comes crush it with this How shall I do this under the eye of God Psal 16.8 The eye of man would keep off much sin in the world and shall not the eye of God much more Walk thus and you shall not be greatly moved Secondly walk with God let your converse be with him Let others please themselves in their friends in their creature-enjoyments in their carnal converses do you delight your selves in God Assuesce cum eo Pagnin Let your fellowship be above Acquaint thy self with God and be at yeace Job 22.21 A man may as really by prayer and meditation and the Promises converse with God as one man converses with another in a civil way Why are you so much strangers to it Why so little with God doth not he usually give out that which fills the soul with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 Psal 63.3 Are not his visits better then life Is not the heart ravished under the tastes of his love Is not the enjoyment of him infinitely above all comforts here Is he not willing to come to you and to give out of his Loves Why do you not walk with him why do you not converse with him here with whom it shall be your glory to converse hereafter Cry out Whom have I in heaeven but thee Psal 73.26 Psal 63.1 Psal 4.6 My soul thirsteth for thee Many say Who wil shew us any good Lord lift ' thou up the light of thy countenance upon me Thirdly Walk with God and live above this world This is a hard duty especially to you here in this City who have so much of the world but let me prevail with you to put it into practice Psal 17.14 Jer. 17.13 Luke 16.25 Phil. 3.19 Heb. 3.1 Tit. 2.13 1 Cor. 3.22 Mat. 6.20 2 Pet. 1.4 Gen. 17.1 7 Let those who have their portien here whose names are written in the earth who have all their good things here let them mind earthly things and take their fill of these dreggs But you the people of God who have the heavenly calling great and glorious hopes interest in Christ treasures in heaven precious promises an All sufficient God for your God

life He doth not only lay up the Word of life in hearing but he doth hold forth the Word of life in squaring all his actions to it Fourthly A Christians life is a walking His obedience is free and ingenuous Walking 't is mot us spontaneus voluntarius The truly regenerate Christian whatever he doth in the service of God he doth it freely not by force and compulsion or a base mercenary spirit but from an inward principle of life and love 2 Cor. 5.14 The love of God constraineth us Oh blessed constraint sweet is the violence of love Amor meus pondus meum eo feror quocunque feror August Love is the golden weight that hangs upon the gracious soul and this makes every wheel in it to move Psal 110.3 Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power in the Hebrew 'tis in the Abstract willingnesses Christs people are very willing in their whole compliance with the will of God Xenocrates being asked What he could do more for his Scholars then others did for theirs made this answer This I can do saith he Vt id voluntate faciant Serv in Virg. Aeneid 7. quod alii jure coguntur My Scholars shall do that willingly which others shall do only by compulsion This is truly applicable to Christ he makes his people a willing people● they are all Voluntiers in his service 't is not because they ca●●ot help it no 't is their choice their delight Psal 40.8 't is not their necessity but their option Psal 119.30 I have chosen the way of Truth Fifthly A Christians life is a walking his obedience is even and uniform Walking 't is motus aequabilis 't is not a motion by girds and starts but an equal uniforme motion Thus the child of God may be said to walk hee is one that holds on with an even foot with an equall and constant pace in the way of holinesse Psalm 119.112 I have enclined my heart to perform thy statutes alway even unto the end Mark these two expressions alway and even unto the end The hypocrite runs fast at first but 't is too swift to hold long and therefore he gives out in a little time Job 27.10 His Religion is soon out of breath Will he alwayes call upon God The young man makes much haste to Christ but it lasts not He runs away as fast from him as ever he runned to him Hos 6.4 Some mens goodnesse is but as the morning cloud and as the early dew which is soon gone away Here lies the excellency of the upright Christian he is one that holds out he perseveres with an even tread till he come to glory where you had him some years ago there you have him still alwayes pressing after perfection but never changing so as to leave the good ways of God 'T is Cajetans observation here upon Enoch 't is twice said of him Bis de Enoch dicitur ambulavit cum Deo ad explicandum quod ab ineunte aetate profecit in viâ Dei perseveravit proficiendo in eâdem semper Cajet He walked with God ver 22. and ver 24. To hold forth this saith he He began at first so to walk with God and he continued to the end in that walking with God I have shewn you in what respects a Christians life may be said to be a Walk I now come to shew you in what respects it may be said to be a Walk with God And that I shall also do in five things First A Christian Life is a Walk with God because he alwayes walks as in the presence of God To walk with God is as much as to walk before God This was Gods charge to Abraham Gen. 17.1 I am God All-sufficient walk before me and be thou perfect This was Abrahams practice The Lord before whom 〈◊〉 walk Gen. 24.40 will send his Angels with thee c. This was Davids 〈◊〉 solution Psal 116.9 I will walk before the Lord in the 〈◊〉 of the living in the Hebrew 'tis before the face of the Lord. The real Saint lives as in the sight of God doth all as in the sight of God thinks as in the sight of God trades as in the sight of God prayes as in the sight of God walks when he is most private as in the sight of God As the Apostles in the execution of their ministerial Function they did all as in the sight of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 2.17 He hopes to see God hereafter he knowes God sees him here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intimè patientia Vid. Metaph. Explicatam in Beza in loc and he doth all as knowing there is an All-seeing eye over him that is a God to observe him who is totus oculus as the Father calls him in whose sight every creature is manifest all things being naked and opened unto him Hebrewes 4.13 Secondly A Christians life is a walking with God in respect of that fellowship and converse that he hath with God Walking is a posture of converse When two walk together there is a familiar intercourse a mutual breathing out of love betwixt them Psal 55.14 We took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God in company Thus 't is with God and the believing soul there is not a bare reconciliation betwixt them though that there must be too for Can two walk together unlesse they be agreed Amos 3.3 but a friendly familiar reciprocal converse God converses with the believers He spake to Moses as a man speaks to his friend Exodus 33.11 Abraham was the friend of God Isai 41.8 Jam. 2.23 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him Psal 25.14 Prov. 3.33 what converse more intimate and carries more of friendship then the imparting of secrets John 15.15 Christ promises to come to such and to sup with them Rev. 3.21 John lay in his bosome 'T is a gracious Promise that John 14.23 My Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him Abode for what surely for soul-ravishing communion On the other side Believers converse with God Truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son 1 John 1.3 This is better felt then exprest To the people of God holy Ordinances are as so many Fields and Galleries wherein they walk with God How do they in prayer unbosome themselves to God! Here are secret sins wilt thou not subdue them here are secret doubts wilt thou not resolve them here are secret wants wilt thou not supply them when they cannot go to a friend on earth they can go to God their friend in Heaven and tell him their concernments where 't is well where 't is ill what pleases what pinches and the Lord makes real returnes of love and mercy to them they are least alone when they are most alone they aw the presence of God and they enjoy the presence of God And this is as the