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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 it is evident, that this is directly contrary to True Godliness, and the Rule thereof, i. e. the Word of God, ⟨p. 71⟩that says, all Men fell in the first Adam, by his Disobedience, and are all alike naturally under Sin, Death, Wrath, and the Curse of the Law, or first Covenant, Rom. 5.12. all being called Ungodly, Sinners, Enemies, Servant of Sin, dead in Sin and Trespasses, Children of Wrath, without God, Strangers from the Life of God, without Christ, under Condemnation, the Wrath of God abiding on them (and on all them) that believe not, John 3.36.
Can these Things be said of justified and pardoned Persons? And is not Christ to be offered to Sinners, to ungodly Persons, to condemned Persons, as such? Or, are justified and pardoned Men and Women without God, without Christ, condemned or ungodly, and unbelieving Persons? And because the Elect were representatively virtually justified in the actual Justification of Christ, when he was raised from the dead, were they therefore then all personally and really justified, even before they personally did exist? Such Notions as these are raised and cried up, which cast Contempt upon True Godliness.
Can these Things be said of justified and pardon'd Persons? And is not Christ to be offered to Sinners, to ungodly Persons, to condemned Persons, as such? Or, are justified and pardoned Men and Women without God, without Christ, condemn'd or ungodly, and unbelieving Persons? And because the Elect were representatively virtually justified in the actual Justification of Christ, when he was raised from the dead, were they therefore then all personally and really justified, even before they personally did exist? Such Notions as these are raised and cried up, which cast Contempt upon True Godliness.