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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.
Legal. How do you make that appear?
Godly. Do you not say you'll do what you can to keep the Law; and wherein you transgress, God will through his Mercy forgive you; now if God doth accept of your obedience in keeping the Law, and forgive all your deviations, as a simple act of his Mercy, and that hereby you are justified and accepted by him, why then did he send Jesus Christ into the World to die the cursed death of the Cross? For if by this way Righteousness and Salvation is attainable, it is evident Christ is dead in vain; for could not God have done all this if Christ had never come? Thou art a wretched creature, and therefore look to Christ, or thou art undone.
Godli. Do you not say you'll do what you can to keep the Law; and wherein you transgress, God will through his Mercy forgive you; now if God doth accept of your obedience in keeping the Law, and forgive all your deviations, as a simple act of his Mercy, and that hereby you are justified and accepted by him, why then did he send Jesus Christ into the World to die the cursed death of the Cross? For if by this way Righteousness and Salvation is attainable, it is evident Christ is dead in vain; for could not God have done all this if Christ had never come? Thou art a wretched creature, and therefore look to Christ, or thou art undone.
Legal. Why do you tell me of Christ? do you take me to be a sinner like other men? Am I as this Publican? I have all my days lived a holy and blameless life,1 and therefore shall be justified.
Legal. Why do you tell me of Christ? do you take me to be a sinner like other men? Am I as this Publican? I have all my daies lived a holy and blameless life,