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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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CHAP. VIII.
Showing how True Godliness after this, travelled towards the City of Jerusalem, near to which was a small Village called Religion, in which dwelt one Mr. Legalist, at whose Door he knocked; showing the cause also why he did not entertain him.
Shewing how True Godliness after this, travelled towards the City of Jerusalem, near to which was a small Village called Religion, in which dwelt one Mr. Legalist, at whose Door he knocked; shewing the cause also why he did not entertain him.
Godliness having hitherto happily escaped with his Life, thought it now full time to leave those Parts, where he had travelled up and down a great while, and suffered many hardships, (being generally basely slighted and contemned by all wheresoever he came) and to travel into some other Country, amongst People, (if he could find such) who were not so abominably Wicked; however, not such visible and open Enemies to him, as others were: And he thought within himself, it might be his best way to bend his course towards Jerusalem, for hitherto he had wandered up and down in the confines of Assyria, Edwna, spiritual Sodom and Egypt, but so it sell out, before he entered into Salem he perceived a Village lying near the City, and the Name of that Town he understood was Religion, a place much frequented by all true Sioners (for so the Inhabitants of the City of Jerusalem are called.) Now ⟨p. 79⟩he presently made up thither, and being informed, that one Mr. Legalist lived at the Town's End, near Mount Sinai, he resolved to give him a Visit, and immediately came to his Door, where with great earnestness he knocked, and he being within, spoke to this purpose.