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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: showing, what true godliness is; also the troubles, oppositions, reproaches, and persecutions he hath met with in every age. : Together with the danger and sad declining state he is in at this present time, by errors, heresies, and ungodliness, or open profaneness. / By Benjamin Keach, author of a book called War with the devil, and Zion in distress, and The travels of ungodliness.The travels of true godliness. From the beginning of the world to this present day, in an apt and pleasant allegory: shewing, what true godliness is; also the troubles, oppositions, reproaches, and persecutions he hath met with in every age. : Together with the danger and sad declining state he is in at this present time, by errors, heresies, and ungodliness, or open prophaneness. / By Benjamin Keach, author of a book call'd War with the devil, and Sion in distress, and The travels of ungodliness.
Boston: printed by B. Green and Company for D. Gookin over against the Old South Meeting-House, 1745
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Godly. But stay, Poverty, what kind of Fellows are those you have got in your House?
Godli. But stay, Poverty, what kind of Fellows are those you have got in your House?
Pov. What is that to you? Why do you not Answer my Question?
Godly. Why then I will tell you your Duty: You must believe in Christ, and very fervently read the Holy Bible, and every Lord's Day with great reverence and seriousness hear God's blessed Word, and Pray at least twice a Day; nay, and I shall teach you to be more painful and laborious in your Trade and worldly Business: But this I know cannot be done, unless you put away that Crew of loose and naughty Fellows in your House. Now Poverty had it seems, divers base and lazy Companions, who were all grand Enemies to True Godliness; also some of them 'tis said, were his own Children, or natural Off-spring; there Names were these, (viz) Unbelief, Ignorance, Sloth alias Idleness, Wasteful, Light fingers, ⟨p. 45⟩Faint-heart, Carping cares and Fear-man, together with some others: Now when he began to open to Godliness, these hindered him. First, Sloth and Idleness would not suffer him to rise out of his Bed of Security to call upon God, nor take pains to pull up the Briars and Thorns that grew in his Heart; by which Means his Field lay barren and untilled, nothing growing therein, but what the Ground brought forth naturally: Nay these made him of such a Sluggish Temper, and such a lover of Rest, that he complained many times because he could not go without Motion: Nay, he was unwilling to be at the Trouble of Feeding himself, and therefore would wish that Men might live as Trees and Plants do: I remember a very wise Man told me, that he hides his hand in his bosom, and it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth,