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

CHAP. VIII.

Showing how True Godliness, after this Travelled towards the City Jerusalem, near to which was a small Village, called Religion, in which dwelt one Mr. Legalist, at whose Door he knocked; showing the Cause also why he did not entertain him.

Shewing how True Godliness, after this Travelled towards the City Jerusalem, near to which was a small Village, called Religion, in which dwelt one Mr. Legalist, at whose Door he knocked; shewing the Cause also why he did not entertain him.

Godliness having hitherto happily escaped with his Life, thought it now full time to leave those Parts where he had Travelled up and down a great while, and suffered many hardships, being generally basely slighted and contemned by all wheresoever he came, and to Travel into some other Country, amongst People (if he could find such) who were not so abominably wicked, however, not such visible and open Enemies, to him as others were: And he thought within himself, it might be his best way to bend his Course towards Jerusalem, for hitherto he hath wandered up and down the Confines of Assyria, Edwna, Spiritual Sodom and Egypt, but so it fell out, before he entered into the Salem, he perceived a Village lying near the City, and the Name of that Town he understood was Religion, a place much frequented by all true Sioners (for so the Inhabitants of the City Jerusalem are called▪) Now, he presently made up thither, and being informed that one Mr. Legalist lived at the Towns end, near Mount Sinai, he resolved to give him a Visit, and immediately