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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 will let thee see, that whatsoever vain Men may say, prate and boast of, touching Joy and Pleasures, yet there is no Delight and Felicity like that which is found in the Ways of true Virtue; that Godliness is the best Security, and that the Joy of the whole Earth is Mount Zion; that in this Garden are the sweetest Roses, the most odoriferous Flowers, the most fragrant Plants, Roses which have no Prickles underneath, (nor like carnal Delights) whose Flowers fade and wither away; nor like the frothy Mirth, which the Laughter of Fools affords.
Consideration will let thee see, that whatsoever vain Men may say, prate and boast of, touching Joy and Pleasures, yet there is no Delight and Felicity like that which is found in the Ways of true Virtue; that Godliness is the best Security, and that the Joy of the whole Earth is Mount Sion; that in this Garden are the sweetest Roses, the most oderiferous Flowers, the most fragrant Plants, Roses which have no Prickles underneath, (nor like carnal Delights) whose Flowers fade and wither away; nor like the frothy Mirth, which the Laughter of Fools affords.
Consideration would let thee see, that those serious Persons, who look dejected and melancholy to a carnal Eye, have Joy within, which no Stranger intermeddles with; and as little as they make of Cheerfulness, yet they carry in their Breast that which can make their Life a perpetual Jubilee.
Consideration would let thee see, that those serious Persons, who look dejected and melancholly to a carnal Eye, have Joy within, which no Stranger intermeddles with; and as little as they make of Chearfulness, yet they carry in their Breast that which can make their Life a perpetual Jubilee.
2. They are Fools that account the Life of a Christian Madness, and his inward Peace an airy Fction; none is such a Frantic as he who cherishes a Serpent in his Bosom, that will certainly sting him to death, who never sows, yet thinks to reap a good Crop at Harvest; that may have glorious Robes to clothe him, and yet value his own nasty Rags above them, or else chooses to go naked; who hates, and seeks to destroy his best Friends, for the sake of whom he is not destroyed; who thinks to go to Heaven, and yet walks the direct way to Hell. Can