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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.
Godliness, You are like, in the first place, to reap here in this World, a Crop of loathsome Diseases; for Drunkenness, Rioting, and Whoring, doth commonly produce that. Secondly, you will reap a Crop of Infamy and Reproach; for sin is the *shame of any People or particular Soul; and it will be much if you reap not a Crop of Want and Beggary too in the end. Thirdly, You will reap a Crop of horrible and unsupportable Guilt, by which means your Conscience will torment and lash you after such a sort, that you will not be able to endure it, unless you go on in these ungodly courses so long until he is feared with a hot Iron, and then you will reap a Crop of a hard, obdurate, and impenitent Heart. Fourthly, You will reap a full Crop of all manner of foul and detestable Filth and Pollution; yea, such Corruption, that will cause God to loath your Soul. Fifthly,* You will reap also a Crop of all the fearful Plagues and Curses ⟨p. 60⟩that are in the Book of God, pronounced against wicked and ungodly Sinners. Sixthly and lastly, At the great and terrible day of Judgment, you will reap a full Crop of Gods eternal Wrath and Vengeance, a Crop of brinish, though fruitless Tears, Groans, and endless Torments in Hell *fire. Now, if you like to gather in at Harvest such Crops as these, go on and sow your Wild Oats plentifully.