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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Godly. Friend, don't take God's Name in vain, I cannot bear it: But to answer your Question, the Man is called Legalist.
Godli. Friend, don't take God's Name in vain, I cannot bear it: But to answer your Question, the Man is called Legalist.
Formal. O Sir, there is not a Man in all this Town more haughty, proud and conceited than he; he concludes, I warrant you, that he hath Godliness enough already; he makes, in Truth, the whole of Religion to consist in Principles of Morality: I have heard him say, that if a Man do lead or square his Life but as near as he can, according unto the Law of the Ten Commandments, not being guilty of gross Sins, nor wilfully breaks any Precept of the two Tables, he shall be saved. Now he never considers all the while the Necessity of Faith and Regeneration; and although' he trusted thus to his own Righteousness, yet I could pick many Holes in his Coat; for he is a very worldly, proud and passionate Person; nay, & he himself confesseth he is a Sinner, and yet would be justified by the Law; whereas you know the least Sin, Lusts of the Heart, and evil Thoughts, are a Breach of it, & the smallest Breach is Death & eternal Wrath, without a Compensation made to offended Justice; and none was able to do this but Jesus Christ, and none have the Blessing of his Undertaking, but such only who do believe.
Formal. O Sir, there is not a Man in all this Town more haughty, proud and conceited than he; he concludes, I warrant you, that he hath Godliness enough already; he makes, in Truth, the whole of Religion to consist in Principles of Morality: I have heard him say, that if a Man do lead or square his Life but as near as he can, according unto the Law of the Ten Commandments, not being guilty of gross Sins, nor willfully breaks any Precept of the two Tables, he shall be saved. Now he never considers all the while the Necessity of Faith and Regeneration; and altho' he trusted thus to his own Righteousness, yet I could pick many Holes in his Coat; for he is a very worldly, proud and passionate Person; nay, & he himself confesseth he is a Sinner, and yet would be justified by the Law; whereas you know the least Sin, Lusts of the Heart, and evil Thoughts, are a Breach of it, & the smallest Breach is Death & eternal Wrath, without a Compensation made to offended Justice; and none was able to do this but Jesus Christ, and none have the Blessing of his Undertaking, but such only who do believe.