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

CHAP. IX.

Showing how Godliness came to one Mr. Formalist's Door, who bid him very welcome; but he suspecting his Integrity, and that he harboured divers grand Enemies of his, particularly one Hypocrisy; refused to go in: also How Hypocrisy came to be discovered; wherein you have his Character, or a clear and compendious Description of him; showing likewise, how Mr. Formalist at last refused to entertain True Godliness.

Shewing how Godliness came to one Mr. Formalist's Door, who bid him very welcome; but he suspecting his Integrity, and that he harboured divers grand Enemies of his, particularly one Hypocrisie; refused to go in: also How Hypocrisie came to be discovered; wherein you have his Character, or a clear and compendious Discription of him; shewing likewise, how Mr. Formalist at last refused to entertain True Godliness.

Godliness being (as I told you) informed that there was another great Professor living in this Village or Town, of Religion, he taught it was convenient for him to see whether he might not get a Lodging in his House, because he was a man whom all the Neighbourhood said had a great Love to True Godliness; nay, many verily thought he had for a long time taken up his Lodging with him, and wondered when they heard him ask for his House (for by that means they perceived he was a stranger to him) but it was a considerable time before he could find where he dwelt. For it appeared he was called by another Name, viz. Devotion; but at last coming by one man's door, and by another, he heard a man at Prayer, ⟨p. 90⟩and he spoke so loud, that all who walked along the Street, with much ease might hear him; he then presently concluded it was very probable he might dwell there; and to his door he came, and knocked as he used to do, and was soon heard.