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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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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 ⟨p. 74⟩am the Cause of it, but that cursed Enemy Pride, Unbelief and Sensuality, that is in the Hearts of the adverse Party, they having espoused the Interest of Apollyon, my grand Enemy; but can it be supposed, that Virtue should wink at, or side with filthy Vice; or True Godliness allow of and indulge Men in Ungodliness, or Truth join or close in with Error? Alas! Should I do thus, I should lose my very Being, and be no more what I am: For as 'tis impossible for Light to have Fellowship with Darkness, or Christ to have Concord with Belial, so it is for me to allow of, or bear with any of the evil Enormities of the Children of Men; therefore let all the World bear me Witness this Day, that I clear my self of those soul Crimes and Calumnies that I am charged with. And farther to vindicate my self, I call in my old Friend St. James, pray hear what he hath to say about the horrible Charge brought against me. St. James, pray speak to this great Case, from whence comes that Strife, Wars and Contention that is in the World? Am I the Cause of it?
Secondly, I am accused to be a common Disturber, a meer 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 father'd 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