CHAPTER I. OF WALKING WITH GOD IN GENERAL.

THE INTRODUCTION.

Beloved friend, observing your forwardness and zeal in seeking to know how you might please God, and save your soul; I thought it would be acceptable and profitable to you, if I should, by the infallible rule of God's word, direct you how, with most certainty, speed, and ease, you might attain to this your holy aim. Wherefore, considering that most of God's children make their lives unprofitable and uncomfortable, by troubling themselves about many things, Luke x. 40, 41; and that too much in things less needful, by caring and fearing what shall befall them and theirs hereafter, with respect unto this present life; that you may obtain that one thing needful, Luke x. 42, and contain yourself within your own line and calling, I exhort you heedfully to apply yourself to do each present day's work with Christian cheerfulness, and to bear each present day's evil with Christian patience.

SECT. 1. WALKING WITH GOD DESCRIBED.

The best and surest way to please God, and gain a cheerful quiet heart in the way to heaven is, to walk with God in uprightness, (through faith in Jesus