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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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CHAP. I.
Showing what True Godliness is, as also his Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity.
Shewing what True Godliness is, as also his Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity.
TRUE GODLINESS being of late (as well as in former Days) become so great a Stranger to most Men, and indeed known but by a very few in the World; I shall in the first place before I treat of his Travels and of the Entertainment he meets with where he comes, give you a description of him, and the rather because many Persons I perce•ive, are subject to so great an Error, as to take ⟨p. 2⟩Morality for him; and others out of Ignorance, (to say no worse) rail, and ignominiously call and abuse him by the Names of Singularity, Stubbornness, Pride, and Rebellion, as if he were not fit to live or have a being in the World, he being rendered a make-bait, a seditious and common disturber of all Kingdoms, Cities Towns, and Villages, wheresoever he comes and is entertained: Yea, such a factious and quarrelsome companion, that he is indeed the only cause and stirrer up of all those unhappy differences, divisions, troubles, and miseries in the World. This being so, I conclude nothing is more necessary, than to take off that ugly Mass or Visor, which his implacable Enemies have put upon him, and clear him of all those foul and unjust slanders, and cursed reproaches of the Sons of Belial; that so he may appear in his original, primitive and spotless innocency, that none may be afraid of him, or be unwilling to entertain him, nor ashamed to own him, and make him their Bosom-Companion.
TRUE GODLINESS being of late (as well as in former Days) become so great a Stranger to most Men, and indeed known but by a very few in the World; I shall in the first place before I treat of his Travels and of the Entertainment he meets with where he comes, give you a description of him, and the rather because many Persons I perceive, are subject to so great an Error, as to take