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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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Godly. Your Gospel is none of the Gospel of Christ, nor can you be justified by such a Righteousness; for if your Righteousness be mixed with the Righteousness of Christ, it renders the very Righteousness of Christ imperfect, and full of spots, as an old piece of Cloth put to a new glorious Garment mars all its Beauty. Sir, doth not filth cleave to your best Duties of Obedience? Besides, Works and Grace cannot mix together, Rom. 11.6. It must be wholly of Grace, or else wholly of Works. Moreover, the Law of perfect Obedience, resulted from God's pure Nature, and not only from his sovereign Will and Pleasure, and remains also the same for ever; Christ has not removed it, tho' he has removed it as a Covenant of Works, yet not as a Rule of Obedience. Friend, this Doctrine of yours is against my very Being, and it has almost ruined me, putting me to shame and contempt: And, Sir, know, if God's holy Nature is such, that he could accept of imperfect Obedience, sincerely performed, why did he not give such a Law at first? and so have saved the Life of his own Son whom he sent to satisfy for Man's Disobedience to his holy Law, to show his Nature, i. e. that he is Just as well as Gracious. Sinners are justified without Works done by them, or Righteousness wrought in them.
Godli. Your Gospel is none of the Gospel of Christ, nor can you be justified by such a Righteousness; for if your Righteousness be mix'd with the Righteousness of Christ, it renders the very Righteousness of Christ imperfect, and full of spots, as an old piece of Cloth put to a new glorious Garment marrs all its Beauty. Sir, doth not filth cleave to your best Duties of Obedience? Besides, Works and Grace cannot mix together, Rom. 11.6. It must be wholly of Grace, or else wholly of Works. Moreover, the Law of perfect Obedience, resulted from God's pure Nature, and not only from his sovereign Will and Pleasure, and remains also the same for ever; Christ has not removed it, tho' he has removed it as a Covenant of Works, yet not as a Rule of Obedience. Friend, this Doctrine of yours is against my very Being, and it has almost ruined me, putting me to shame and contempt: And, Sir, know, if God's holy Nature is such, that he could accept of imperfect Obedience, sincerely performed, why did he not give such a Law at first? and so have saved the Life of his own Son whom he sent to satisfy for Man's Disobedience to his holy Law, to shew his Nature, i. e. that he is Just as well as Gracious. Sinners are justified without Works done by them, or Righteousness wrought in them.