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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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Whereas to undertake great and hazardous and dangerous Achievements for worldly Advantages, this is notwithstanding presently undertook; Men do not care how difficult the Work is, if it be but profitable; and shall this be a Stumbling-block in the Way? What will not a Man call difficult, if he have no Mind to it! How should some Houses be built, Bridges over great Rivers be made, Fields be sowed, and dangerous Voyages to Sea be undertaken? Shall the Carpenter say, O 'tis difficult! And the Husbandman say, O 'tis difficult! And the Mariner say, O 'tis difficult! And so lay it all aside? Nay, is it not fad, that bloody Papists, and other wicked Enemies of the Gospel, should not think any Thing too hard and difficult to undertake, to suppress and destroy Godliness, and yet many who profess a Love to me, do not care to encounter with small Difficulties about Consideration, how to entertain and embrace me, tho' it be their only Business and chief Interest in all the World.
Whereas to undertake great and hazardous and dangerous Atchievements for worldly Advantages, this is notwithstanding presently undertook; Men do not care how difficult the Work is, if it be but profitable; and shall this be a Stumbling-block in the Way? What will not a Man call difficult, if he have no Mind to it! How should some Houses be built, Bridges over great Rivers be made, Fields be sowed, and dangerous Voyages to Sea be undertaken? Shall the Carpenter say, O 'tis difficult! And the Husbandman say, O 'tis difficult! And the Mariner say, O 'tis difficult! And so lay it all aside? Nay, is it not fad, that bloody Papists, and other wicked Enemies of the Gospel, should not think any Thing too hard and difficult to undertake, to suppress and destroy Godliness, and yet many who profess a Love to me, do not care to encounter with small Difficulties about Consideration, how to entertain and embrace me, tho' it be their only Business and chief Interest in all the World.
Were a Man's House on fire over his Head, and he like to be burned, would he not think of Ways to get out because it was a difficult Work to do?
Were a Man's House on fire over his Head, and he like to be burn'd, would he not think of Ways to get out because it was a difficult Work to do?