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

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 ⟨p. 83⟩came to his Door, where with great earnestness he knocked, and he being within, spoke to this purpose.

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 base•y slighted and contemned by all wheresoever he came, and to Travel into some other Countrey, 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 wandred up and down the Confines of Assyria, Edwna, Spiritual Sodom and Egypt, but so it fell out, before he entred 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 ⟨p. 83⟩