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way, for all his children to walk in, unto eternal life? Eph. ii. 10.

A godly life is said to be a walking with God in respect of four things that concur thereunto.

First, Whereas by sin we naturally are departed from God, Isa. liii. 6, and gone away from his ways which he has appointed for us, Rom. iii. 12, we, by the new and living way of Christ's death and resurrection, Heb. x. 20, and by the new and living work of Christ's Spirit, are brought near to God; and are set in the ways of God, by repentance from dead works, and by faith towards God in Christ Jesus; which are the first principles of true religion, Heb. vi. 1, and the first steps to this great duty of walking with God. Now, to believe and to continue in the faith, is, to walk in Christ, Col. ii. 6, 7, therefore to walk with God.

Secondly, The revealed will of God is called God's way, because in it God doth as it were display the secrets of his holy Majesty, to shew his people their way to him, and so bring them nigh unto himself; as the inspired Psalmist speaks: Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set us in the way of his steps, Psa. lxxxv. 13. Now this way of righteousness, revealed in the sacred scriptures, is the rule of a godly life: He who walketh according to God's law, is said to walk before God, (compare 1 Kings viii. 25, with 2 Chron. vi. 16.) So that he who walketh according to God's will in the various changes and conditions of life, keeping himself to this rule, walketh with God.

Thirdly, He that liveth a godly life, walketh after the Spirit, not after the flesh. He is led by the Spirit of God, Rom. viii. 1 - 14, having him for his guide; wherefore in this respect also he is said to walk with God, Gal. v. 16.

Fourthly, He that walketh with God, sees, by the eye of faith, God present with him in all his actions; seriously thinking of him upon all occasions, remembering him in his ways, Isa. lxiv. 5: setting the Lord always before him, as David did, Psa. xvi. 8; seeing him that is invisible, as Moses did, Heb. xi. 27; doing