Chap, 34, An Expofition upan the lokf .j oa. Verf. ß, 139 ( fuch or choofeth fuch kind of company) the workerr of i- qurty ; Andwalketh with wicked men. As our holinelfe is expreti'ed by walking with God, fr, our Gn- fullneffe by walking with wicked men. To walk with God is all the commendation of Enoch, who, was fo holy on earth that God tooke him upto Heaven, ( Gen. S. a2. ) He had this tefiimory (faith the Apofile, Heb. t t. 15.) before his tranflation, that he pleafed God. To walb withGod, is to pleafe god, or togive Op our felves whollyto God..Cantwo walktogether except theybe agreed; is the Prophets dueflion, (A,nos 3. 3.) They who walke toge- ther are fuppofed to have one will, as they are fee-n tob*ve one way. What Godwilleth they will, and what God willeth not, they will not who walk with him. Towa/kwith wicked men im- wlyeth anagreement withthem, and a conformity to them, as be- ing oftheir fraternity, company and livery. They that walk with wicked men, declare their familiarity with them, or that their mind and manners are the fame. The Apofile tells the C»rinthi- ans (t Cor. 3. 2.) Whereas there is among ym envying, flrifn anddivifions, areye net carnall and walkas men , that is, as men in (heir naturall and finfull condition walke. Thoughye are fpirituall in your Rate, yet ye a& as carnali men. Now, as it is finfull for a godly than towalke ors aman, or according to man,. ( as our Mar- gin hath it, for he fhould walk as God) fo it is much more finfull to walk with wickedmen, or accordingto thewor(i ofmen. Thus the Apofile defcribes the converfatron of the Epheflans before converfion. (Eph. 22.) Andyoubathhe quickenedwho were dead infins and trerpaIles, :n whrch fonsetime ye waked accord ng to the courfe of this world. That is, according to the tide, current and fireame of the times and places wherein ye lived. Man naturally ua inn ro Both not walkwhere he ought t000e, but wherebe feeth themoflgoc. 4iu eundxte. He is led by the wort} of examples (fuch are the examples of the mofi'or of themany) ratherthenby the befi of rules. It is our dutyatnd it fhould be our delight towalk with thole who delight in the Law and in the way .of God. David faith of his deceitful) friend, but reali enemy. (Pfal. S S. 14. ) We walled unto the haufe ofGod incompany. As if hehad faid, time was when he and I were as if he hadbeenI;both of us but one, in that one thing ne- Z z z 2 ceffary
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