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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. Your real Friend, True Godliness, who would fain have a lodging with you now at last.
Godli. Your real Friend, True Godliness, who would fain have a lodging with you now at last.
Old Age. Godliness, I have heard, I think, of you, but I do not know you. Besides, I am not able to rise up from my Chair, to let you in, I have such a weak and crazy Carcass, and so full of Pain and Aches, that I have enough to do to sustain my own Infirmities: Pray come another time, don't trouble me.
Old Age. Godliness, I have heard, I think, of you, but I do not know you. Besides, I am not able to rise up from my Chair, to let you in, I have such a weak and crazy Carcase, and so full of Pain and Aches, that I have enough to do to sustain my own Infirmities: Pray come another time, don't trouble me.
Godly. Alas, Father, you may not live another Day, Death may seize you before to-Morrow Morning, Prov. 27.1. Why should you put me off? I was formerly at your Door, when you was young, and then you told me you could not open to me, because you had not sowed ⟨p. 64⟩all your wild Oats, and you were too young, and I was not a fit Companion for Youth. Moreover, you then said, when you were old you would let me in; and will you put me off now too? pray rise and open to me. But all the Ways and Means Godliness could use, signified nothing, he was settled on his Lees, and had such abundance of Stubborn and Rebellious Servants and Children, that they would not suffer him to show Godliness the least Favour,