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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. You certainly are a Person very corrupt in your Judgment, whose Doctrine Jesus Christ loathes; besides you talk as if you understand not common Sense; can any be actually and personally justified before they actually and personally be or do exist? I grant, Friend, that all God's Elect decreetively were justified from everlasting, that is, God did decree to declare and pronounce all his Elect, when they came into the World, and were united to Christ, ⟨p. 88⟩just or justified Persons, acquitted, free, and ever discharged from Sin and Condemnation. 2. Also they were all representatively justified, as considered in Christ from Eternity, by him, who calls Things that are not, as if they were, but actually and personally they could not be: Nay, Friend, Did not all the Elect fall under Condemnation, and the Wrath of God, and Curse of the Law, in the first Adam, and also personally and actually when they personally did exist.
Godli. You certainly are a Person very corrupt in your Judgment, whose Doctrine Jesus Christ loaths; besides you talk as if you understand not common Sense; can any be actually and personally justified before they actually and personally be or do exist? I grant, Friend, that all God's Elect decreetively were justified from everlasting, that is, God did decree to declare and pronounce all his Elect, when they came into the World, and were united to Christ, ⟨p. 88⟩just or justified Persons, acquitted, free, and ever discharged from Sin and Condemnation. 2. Also they were all representatively justified, as considered in Christ from Eternity, by him, who calls Things that are not, as if they were, but actually and personally they could not be: Nay, Friend, Did not all the Elect fall under Condemnation, and the Wrath of God, and Curse of the Law, in the first Adam, and also personally and actually when they personally did exist.
Antino. Yes, I cannot deny that, yet the Elect were actually justified from Eternity.