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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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now, if you entertain him, he will soon hear of it, and so will become your deadly Enemy, and pull down your Cottage, or warn you out, or be sure not to let you have a Farthing of the Poor's Money, nor never set you to Work any more; and what will become then of thy poor Wife and Children? Nay, said they, we will tell you more; do you not hear what cruel Edict the Prince of the ancient Gauls Country hath made against True Godliness?1 And how many of the Protestant Churches he hath pulled down, and utterly demolished? And now he is persecuted almost every where: come say they, 'tis that pleasant and lovely form of Counterfeit Godliness, that will in a little Time be generally embraced and those who entertain True Godliness,2 must expect to be reproached and reviled, nay murdered. Besides, do you not hear how many thousands in France, and in other places, who have for a long Time entertained him, have turned him out of Doors? They are weary of him, or afraid to own him: And is this a time for you to think of embracing him? Poverty! (said they) pity your self, and have more Wit, you are poor enough already, and this is the way to make you more miserable: If Riches will not entertain him, who hath many Advantages to help himself in distressed Times, over what Poverty hath, or can promise himself, there is no ground of encouragement for you to open to him. Upon this poor Poverty resolved not to let True Godliness have a Lodging in his House, but rather, instead thereof, to put stronger Bolts and Bars on his Doors. ⟨p. 48⟩Godliness having waited all this while to hear what these cursed Enemies of his would say, and perceiving they had now done, he broke Silence, and began to speak after this Manner.
now, if you entertain him, he will soon hear of it, and so will become your deadly Enemy, and pull down your Cottage, or warn you out, or be sure not to let you have a Farthing of the Poors Money, nor never set you to Work any more; and what will become then of thy poor Wife and Children? Nay, said they, we will tell you more; do you not hear what cruel Edict the Prince of the ancient Gauls Country hath made against True Godliness?1