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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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1. It arises from that gross ignorant Blindness and Superstition, that still covers great Part of the Isle. 2. By reason of the substituting holy Writ to serve a secular ⟨p. 70⟩Design. 3. From the Consideration of the Prevalency of almost all Manner of Heresies and detestable Errors. 4. Particularly by reason of that great Corruption in, and about, one main Pillar that upholds True Godliness, viz.
That of Justification, and Errors in this Sense hath crept in amongst some, who pretend great Love to him; but stay, did I call this a main Pillar of True Godliness? I must say it is an essential Part of which he doth consist; so that this one, and some other Errors, seem to strike at the very Life and Being of True Godliness; so that the free Grace of God, that first shone forth in the Beginning of the Reformation, seems to be contemned, and a sad Cloud hath spread over this Isle; and Popery creeps in under a Disguise; the internal Acts and inherent Righteousness of Man, •s joined to or mixed with the perfect Righteousness of Christ, to justify a Sinner before God; the Gospel and free Promise is turned into a mere Law, and that we are no farther justified than we are inherently sanctified. No, this is to stab True Godliness, as it were, at the very Heart, or it is to cut off a Limb of him.
That of Justification, and Errors in this Sense hath crept in amongst some, who pretend great Love to him; but stay, did I call this a main Pillar of True Godliness? I must say it is an essential Part of which he doth consist; so that this one, and some other Errors, seem to strike at the very Life and Being of True Godliness; so that the free Grace of God, that first shone forth in the Beginning of the Reformation, seems to be contemn'd, and a sad Cloud hath spread over this Isle; and Popery creeps in under a Disguise; the internal Acts and inherent Righteousness of Man, •s join'd to or mixt with the perfect Righteousness of Christ, to justify a Sinner before God; the Gospel and free Promise is turned into a meer Law, and that we are no farther justified than we are inherently sanctified. No, this is to stab True Godliness, as it were, at the very Heart, or it is to cut off a Limb of him.