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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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Come Thoughtful, Consideration, if thou adhere to him, will help thee to learn to know God and thy self, and to find out the miserable Condition thou and all Men are in by Nature: He is the Key that opens the Door for me to enter the innermost Room of thy Heart; though it is true he cannot open it without Help: Nay, farthermore, he is a Looking-Glass, or rather the very Eye of thy Soul, whereby thou mayest view thy self, and see what a Condition thy Soul is in; hereby thou mayest espy thy Debts, thy Danger, thy Duties, thy Defects, thy Safety, the Course thou dost follow, the Company thou dost keep; finally, the Place and End whereunto thou drawest; nay, he will give thee a View of all God's Proceedings, and Dealings with Men, ever since the Creation of the World, the Reason why God sent his Son, his Gospel, his Spirit, his Servants, and takes so much Pains to bring Men to Salvation. Nay, and thou also, by his Help, mayest find that all the Means God uses to bring thee to a true Sight and Sense of Sin and Wrath, and to recover thee out of thy fallen Estate, will prove vain and ineffectual to thee; let therefore the Consideration of the Danger thou mayest escape through' hearkening to him, on the one Hand, and the great Advantage thou mayest receive on the other, together with the absolute Necessity of nourishing and cherishing of him, and standing up for him, if thou wouldest be happy, engage thee not to be discouraged to incline to him, nor regard what any speak against him, for he will cause thee to hear glad Tidings; nay, and be in Part an Instrument ⟨p. 120⟩to let me in; which if thou doest, I will bring thee acquainted with God and Jesus Christ; nay, help thee to a Room in his Heart, and lead thee into Union and Communion with him, and give thee much glorious Light, yea, and help thee to Pardon of Sin, Peace of Conscience, and Joy in the Holy Ghost, and make thee a Son of God, give thee a Place in the heavenly Family, feed thee with the Bread of Life, clothe thee with glorious Robes, which sparkle like Diamonds, yea, make thee rich in Faith, in Knowledge, in Experience, truly rich, always rich, eternally rich; yea, and set a Crown of Glory upon thy Head, make thee an Heir of Heaven and Earth; thy Renown also hereby will be great, thou shalt have Angels to guard thee, Christ to serve thee, God to honour thee.
Come Thoughtful, Consideration, if thou adhere to him, will help thee to learn to know God and thy self, and to find out the miserable Condition thou and all Men are in by Nature: He is the Key that opens the Door for me to enter the innermost Room of thy Heart; though it is true he cannot open it without Help: Nay, farthermore, he is a Looking-Glass, or rather the very Eye of thy Soul, whereby thou mayest view thy self, and see what a Condition thy Soul is in; hereby thou mayest espy thy Debts, thy Danger, thy Duties, thy Defects, thy Safety, the Course thou dost follow, the Company thou dost keep; finally, the Place and End whereunto thou drawest; nay, he will give thee a View of all God's Proceedings, and Dealings with Men, ever since the Creation of the World, the Reason why God sent his Son, his Gospel, his Spirit, his Servants, and takes so much Pains to bring Men to Salvation. Nay, and thou also, by his Help, may'st find that all the Means God uses to bring thee to a true Sight and Sense of Sin and Wrath, and to recover thee out of thy fallen Estate, will prove vain and ineffectual to thee; let therefore the Consideration of the Danger thou mayest escape thro' hearkening to him, on the one Hand, and the great Advantage thou mayest receive on the other, together with the absolute Necessity of nourishing and cherishing of him, and standing up for him, if thou wouldest be happy, engage thee not to be discouraged to encline to him, nor regard what any speak against him, for he will cause thee to hear glad Tidings; nay, and be in Part an Instrument