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The travels of true godliness, from the beginning of the world to this present…
The travels of true godliness, from the beginning of the world to this present day in an apt and pleasant allegory ... / by B.K., author of War with the Devil, and Zion in distress.The travels of true godliness, from the beginning of the world to this present day in an apt and pleasant allegory ... / by B.K., author of War with the Devil, and Sion in distress.
London: printed for John Dunton, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Showing what true Godliness is, as also his Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity,
Shewing what true Godliness is, as also his Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity,
TRUE Godliness being of late, as well as in former days) become so great a stranger to most men, and indeed not known but by a very few in the World; I shall in the first place, before I Treat of his Travels and of the Entertainment he meets with where he comes, give you a description of him, and the rather because many persons I perceive are subject to so great an error as to take Mortality for him; and others out of ignorance (to say no worse) Rail, and ignominiously ⟨p. 2⟩call and abuse him, by the names of Singularity, Stubbornness, Pride and Rebellion, as if he were not fit to live or have a being in the World, he being rendered a make-bate, a seditious and common disturber of all Kingdoms, Cities, Towns, and Villages wheresoever he comes and is entertained: Yea, such a factious and quarrelsome companion, that he is indeed the only cause and stirrer up of all those unhappy differences, divisions, troubles and miseries that are this day in the world, This being so, I conclude nothing is more necessary, than to take off that ugly Mask or Visard, which his implacable enemies have put upon him, and clear him of all those soul and unjust slanders and cursed reproaches of the Sons of Belial; that so he may appear in his own original, primitive and spotless Innocency, that none may be afraid of him, or be unwilling to entertain him, nor ashamed to own him, and make him their bosom-companion.
TRUE Godliness being of late, as well as in former daies) become so great a stranger to most men, and indeed not known but by a very few in the World; I shall in the first place, before I Treat of his Travels and of the Entertainment he meets with where he comes, give you a description of him, and the rather because many persons I perceive are subject to so great an errour as to take Mortality for him; and others out of ignorance (to say no worse) Rail, and ignominiously ⟨p. 2⟩