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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.
Having thus briefly given you the description both of the inside,1 and outside power and form of True Godliness; We shall proceed to Treat of his Pedigree, and show you whose Off-spring he is, you by his name may easily read from whence he descends, and learn what a Noble Patronage he is of, he is indeed High-born, the great and glorious Offspring of the Lord Jehovah, the Almighty Prince of Heaven and Earth, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the universal Monarch of the World, whose Kingdom ruleth over all; and as this is his Noble Extract and renowned Descent, so likewise he is always in high esteem and favour with his glorious Prince, for there is none, no not one in Heaven or Earth that he loves and takes more delight in, than in True Godliness; nor is there any indeed more like him, or does more lively represent him in all the Earth; for he bears his express, sweet and Heavenly Image; yea, and such a venerable respect and gracious esteem hath he of him, that those who love him, he loves; those who hate him, he hates; ⟨p. 8⟩those who receive him he receives; and those who reject him he rejects; where he comes to dwell, there God, Christ and the Holy Ghost dwells.
Having thus briefly given you the description both of the inside,1 and outside power and form of True Godliness; We shall proceed to Treat of his Pedigree, and shew you whose Off-spring he is, you by his name may easily read from whence he descends, and learn what a Noble Patronage he is of, he is indeed High-born, the great and glorious Offspring of the Lord Jehovah, the Almighty Prince of Heaven and Earth, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the universal Monarch of the World, whose Kingdom ruleth over all; and as this is his Noble Extract and renowned Descent, so likewise he is alwaies in high esteem and favour with his glorious Prince, for there is none, no not one in Heaven or Earth that he loves and takes more delight in, than in True Godliness; nor is there any indeed more like him, or does more lively represent him in all the Earth; for he bears his express, sweet and Heavenly Image; yea, and such a venerable respect and gracious esteem hath he of him, that those who love him, he loves; those who hate him, he hates; ⟨p. 8⟩