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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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O love him, who would lead thee into Christ's Bosom, and cause thee to sit in heavenly Places, make thee to triumph with Seraphims, and sit down with thy glorified Redeemer upon the Throne of God for evermore. It is impossible such a Friend should fare better than my great Master, who had no Place where to lay his Head. Alas! Men deal with me and my poor Friend Consideration, as the Inhabitants of Sodom, did deal with the three heavenly Messengers that entered into Lot's House, viz. Quarrel with us, abuse us, and offer Violence to us, show their Spleen against us, who seek to preserve them from being consumed, and who, whilst we are with them, stay the Hand of Heaven from falling upon them, the Hand of the destroying Angel, that they perish not, and endeavour to make them for ever happy, possessing all true Felicity, and free them from all Misery. Does not every Man desire that which is good? Was ever any Man in love with Torment? Is it not every one's Interest to study how to prevent it? Why then sure Thoughtful, Consideration cannot but have thy Affection, unless thou dost contemn rivers of Pleasures, inconceivable ⟨p. 121⟩Glory, even the inexhaustible Riches of both Worlds, and choosest rather Anguish, Death, Hell,1 & sulphurous Smoke for thy Portion. And now to take off what Difficulty says against Consideration, he basely insinuates, that to muse and ponder upon the great Concerns of Godliness and another World, is a hard and difficult Work.
O love him, who would lead thee into Christ's Bosom, and cause thee to sit in heavenly Places, make thee to triumph with Seraphims, and sit down with thy glorified Redeemer upon the Throne of God for evermore. It is impossible such a Friend should fare better than my great Master, who had no Place where to lay his Head. Alas! Men deal with me and my poor Friend Consideration, as the Inhabitants of Sodam, did deal with the three heavenly Messengers that entered into Lot's House, viz. Quarrel with us, abuse us, and offer Violence to us, shew their Spleen against us, who seek to preserve them from being consumed, and who, whilst we are with them, stay the Hand of Heaven from falling upon them, the Hand of the destroying Angel, that they perish not, and endeavour to make them for ever happy, possessing all true Felicity, and free them from all Misery. Does not every Man desire that which is good? Was ever any Man in love with Torment? Is it not every one's Interest to study how to prevent it? Why then sure Thoughtful, Consideration cannot but have thy Affection, unless thou dost contemn rivers of Pleasures, inconceivable