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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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2. They are Fools that account the Life of a Christian Madness, and his inward Peace an airy F•ction; 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 ⟨p. 126⟩there be greater Madness than to prefer a Stone before Bread, or feed upon Husks with the Swine, when there is all good Things to be had, if they would but seek out for them? Can there be greater Madness than to value a base Lust above God, Christ, and eternal Glory?
2. They are Fools that account the Life of a Christian Madness, and his inward Peace an airy F•ction; none is such a Frantick 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 cloath him, and yet value his own nasty Rags above them, or else chuses 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 ⟨p. 126⟩there be greater Madness than to prefer a Stone before Bread, or feed upon Husks with the Swine, when there is all good Things to be had, if they would but seek out for them? Can there be greater Madness than to value a base Lust above God, Christ, and eternal Glory?
3. Whereas Danger tells thee (to obstruct Consideration from opening to thee) of the Evil of the Times, and that if I am let in, thou wilt be undone; know then, if I am kept out, there is no Way to escape, but ruined thou wilt be? No Danger like Soul-Danger? he can never be undone that hath God for his Portion, and Heaven for his Inheritance; lose thy Soul, and what haft thou more; and unless thou consider the sooner, and open to me, thou canst not save it, for without Holiness no Man shall see the Lord.