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else, and to secure to us a happiness for our immortal souls. See Ps 16:5, 6, 73:25.
2. What God requires that we should be to him. The covenant is mutual: Walk before me, and be thou perfect, that is, upright and sincere; for herein the covenant of grace is well-ordered that sincerity is our gospel perfection. Observe,
(1.) That to be religious is to walk before God in our integrity; it is to set God always before us, and to think, and speak, and act, in everything, as those that are always under his eye. It is to have a constant regard to his word as our rule and to his glory as our end in all our actions, and to be continually in his fear. It is to be inward with him, in all the duties of religious worship, for in them particularly we walk before God (1Sa 2:30), and to be entire for him, in all holy conversation. I know no religion but sincerity.
(2.) That upright walking with God is the condition of our interest in his all-sufficiency. If we neglect him, or dissemble with him, we forfeit the benefit and comfort of our relation to him.
(3.) A continual regard to God's all-sufficiency will have a great influence upon our upright walking with him.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
The posture Abram put himself into upon this occasion: He fell on his face while God talked with him, Ge 17:3.
1. As one overcome by the brightness of the divine glory, and unable to bear the sight of it, though he had seen it several times before. Daniel and John did likewise, though they were also acquainted with the visions of the Almighty, Da 8:17, 10:9, 15, Re 1:17. Or,
2. As one ashamed of himself, and blushing to think of the honours done to one so unworthy. He looks upon himself with humility, and upon God with reverence, and, in token of both,