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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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Consideration (saith one) that spotless Virgin, that joy of Angels, that envy of Devils, that offspring of God,1 the ladder whereby Men climb to Heaven is thought hard, though nothing be more easy, 'tis always to be had, its always in Season, always at Hand, always in Call, no Burden in a Journey, no Load in a Voyage, Men may carry it with them where ever they go, when they travel Abroad, when they stay at Home, when they sit down, when they rise up, they need not go beyond Sea to fetch it, or involve many Books, to be Masters of it, they need not Sail to the Antipodes to compass it, or dig under Ground to find it? they need not ransack the Indies to enrich themselves with it, they need not sell their Lands and Houses to purchase it, nor run the hazard of Sword and Fire to secure it; they need not clamber Mountains to possess it, nor wade through Rivers to inherit it.
Consideration (saith one) that spotless Virgin, that joy of Angels, that envy of Devils, that offspring of God,1 the ladder whereby Men climb to Heaven is tho't hard, though nothing be more easy, 'tis always to be had, its always in Season, always at Hand, always in Call, no Burden in a Journey, no Load in a Voyage, Men may carry it with them where ever they go, when they travel Abroad, when they stay at Home, when they sit down, when they rise up, they need not go beyond Sea to fetch it, or involve many Books, to be Masters of it, they need not Sail to the Antipodes to compass it, or dig under Ground to find it? they need not ransack the Indies to enrich themselves with it, they need not sell their Lands and Houses to purchase it, nor run the hazzard of Sword and Fire to secure it; they need not clamber Mountains to possess it, nor wade through Rivers to inherit it.
- 1Dr. Horneck.
Strange Stupidity! Men do not think it hard to carry Talents of Lead, or Mountains of Sin on their Backs, and yet they think Consideration difficult, who like a faithful Friend, would tell them how to be rid of that load that will (except they get Faith in Christ, or receive true Godliness into their Hearts) sink them down into the lowest Pit; they do not think it hard to dig into Hell, yet they think Consideration hard, who would teach them a Way to quench that Fire; they do not think it hard to be oppressed by a bloody Usurper, and yet they think Consideration hard, which would help them to shake him off. O Fools and slow of Heart! they that have Courage to meet an Army in the Field, and have Confidence to laugh at the glittering Spear and Shield, they that have Courage