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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.
Youth. Sir, you will spoil all my pleasure and sensual delights if I entertain you; I know your Manners well enough. You will cause me also to turn out of my House my familiar Friends and Consorts, that rejoice my heart in these youthful days of mine. Now those he called his Friends were these following,1 Pride, Wanton, Vain-glory, Love-lust, Ambition, Gay-clothes, Toss-pot, Gamester Please-friend, Time-server, Scornful, Hate-good and Scoffer.
Yo•th. Sir, you will spoil all my pleasure and sensual delights if I entertain you; I know your Manners well enough. You will cause me also to turn out of my House my familiar Friends and Consorts, that rejoyce my heart in these youthful daies of mine. Now those he called his Friends were these following,1 Pride, Wanton, Vain-glory, Love-lust, Ambition, Gay-clothes, Toss-pot, Gamester Please-friend, Time-server, Scornful, Hate-good and Scoffer.
- 1The chief Vices that attend Youth.
Godliness, Young man, believe me, those pleasures and delights which your heart is so much set upon, are brutish and very hateful to God, and do also debase your noble Soul, which is of a sublime Extraction. Nay, furthermore hear what wise Solomon saith, *Rejoice, O Young-man, in the days of thy Youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. May be you will say, O this is brave. I, but after the flash of Lightning, comes a clap of Thunder, enough to make you quake: But know, that for all these things, God will bring thee to Judgment. Your sweet Meat, young man, is like to have sour Sauce; you will pay dear at last for all your sensual pleasures and vanities.