The travels of true godliness, from the beginning of the world to this present…

Godliness, Your real Friend True Godliness, who would fain have a Lodging with you now at last.

Old-Age, Godliness, I have heard I think, of you, but I do not know you. Besides, I am not able to rise up from my Chair to let you in, I have such a weak and crazy Carcass, and so full of pain ⟨p. 66⟩and Aches that I have enough to do to sustain my own infirmities: pray come another time, don't trouble me.

Old-Age, Godliness, I have heard I think, of you, but I do not know you. Besides, I am not able to rise up from my Chair to let you in, I have such a weak and crazy Carkass, and so full of pain ⟨p. 66⟩and Aches that I have enough to do to sustain my own infirmities: pray come another time, don't trouble me.

Godliness, Alas Father, you may not live another day, Death may seize you before to morrow ^*morning, why should you put me off, I was formerly at your door when you was young, and then you told me you could not open to me, because you had not sowed all your wild Oats, and you were too young, and I was not a fit Companion for Youth. Moreover, you then said, when you were old you would let me in; and will you put me off now too, pray rise and open to me. But all the ways and means Godliness could use, signified nothing he was ^*settled so on his Lees, and had such abundance of stubborn and rebellious Servants and Children, that they would not suffer him to show Godliness the least favour; the Names of some of them were, besides Weary-limbs, Dim-eyes and Peevish-hard-heart, Impenitency, Self-conceit, Enmity, Unbelief and Ignorance, with many more of like sort; the first I named were his own Natural-Off-spring, and somewhat younger than the rest; Hard-heart