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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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Others also deny the Deity of Christ, and his Satisfaction, seeking hereby utterly to eclipse his Glory; and others deny his Humanity; some, who pretend to love True Godliness, affirm he is not God of the Essence of his Father, nor Man of the Substance of the blessed Virgin, being worse Heretics than the Arians: Others affirm, that the true Christ is nothing else but that inward Quality or Light that is in the Hearts of all Men; and these Heretics (as one that is come off from them says) have deluded an hundred thousand Souls in this Isle, who hardly hold one sound Principle of true Christianity.
Others also deny the Deity of Christ, and his Satisfaction, seeking hereby utterly to eclipse his Glory; and others deny his Humanity; some, who pretend to love True Godliness, affirm he is not God of the Essence of his Father, nor Man of the Substance of the blessed Virgin, being worse Hereticks than the Arians: Others affirm, that the true Christ is nothing else but that inward Quality or Light that is in the Hearts of all Men; and these Hereticks (as one that is come off from them says) have deluded an hundred thousand Souls in this Isle, who hardly hold one sound Principle of true Christianity.
5. Another Cause is from that great Decay of the Power of Religion, and strange Witherings, and Want of Love to one another, amongst them that pretend to be the chief Lovers of True Godliness; together with those ⟨p. 72⟩sad Contentions, Strife and Divisions that are among them; for instead of loving, they do even seem to hate and reproach one another; and because they are not all of one Judgment, in some lesser Points of Religion, they are strangely alienated from each other, in their Love and Affections.