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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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First, I am charged with Heresy, an horrible Crime indeed, but 'tis no other than I was of old Times accused with. But what is the Heresy? What my Doctrine is, is showed in the first Chapter of this Book, to which I refer the Reader; but I may say with St. Paul, after that Way which they call Heresy, so I teach Men to worship the God of the Fathers, Acts 24.14. and not to believe any Thing but what is written in the old and new Testaments.
First, I am charged with Heresy, an horrible Crime indeed, but 'tis no other than I was of old Times accused with. But what is the Heresy? What my Doctrine is, is shewed in the first Chapter of this Book, to which I refer the Reader; but I may say with St. Paul, after that Way which they call Heresy, so I teach Men to worship the God of the Fathers, Acts 24.14. and not to believe any Thing but what is written in the old and new Testaments.
Secondly, I am accused to be a common Disturber, a mere Make-bait, setting one Man against another, the Father against the Son, and the Son against the Father; the Mother-in-Law against the Daughter-in-Law, and the Daughter-in-Law against the Mother-in-Law; dividing Cities, Towns and Villages, setting Neighbour against Neighbour. O, how doth this wound my Heart! Was ever any dealt with as I am? Shall such Things as these be fathered upon me? I do this Day protest and declare before God and all the World, I am abused and unjustly charged; for I am for Peace, Unity and Concord, and always do teach it; I abhor Strife and Contention, and every evil Work, and have endeavoured to bring all Men to live in Love one with another; but if it fall out at any Time where I am received, that the Father is set against the Son, and the Son against the Father, or one Neighbour against another, 'tis not I that