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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.
CHAP. XIII.
Showing how Thoughtful meeting with his dear Friend Contentment, finding now nothing wanting in order to the making his Life sweet and comfortable here, and eternally happy hereafter, fell a singing Allelujahs, Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving to God and the Lamb.
Shewing how Thoughtful meeting with his dear Friend Contentment, finding now nothing wanting in order to the making his Life sweet and comfortable here, and eternally happy hereafter, fell a singing Allelujahs, Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving to God and the Lamb.
Thoughtful Christian, for so now we must call him, notwithstanding all the high and unutterable Blessings, Riches and Honour he had arrived at by his late embracing True Godliness, remained very sad and melancholy, being attended with many desponding Cogitations, by perceiving not only the great Distresses and Troubles which his Wife and Children were like to meet with in this world, but also what sad, unsettled and unhappy days he was fallen into, and of the abounding Evils and horrible Blasphemies which stared him in the face wherever he came; together with the low and deplorable condition the Church of Christ and True Religion was in, in this dismal hour, which Godliness perceiving, told him of one Contentment, whom he saw he had not yet found; and that if he could but obtain that favour to persuade him to dwell with him, his mind would remain sweetly settled and composed, and that he would enjoy all calmness and serenity of Soul imaginable, being delivered from all Anxious Thoughts about all present and future Events of things, and undergo all Crosses and