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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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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.
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 ruin'd 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.
Fifthly, Worldly-Cares, I know, hinders my dear Friend Consideration as much as any Thing, he would persuade thee thou hast no Time to think on God, nor Godliness, having a Trade to follow, a Family to provide for, &c. But shall those Things hinder thee from thinking of any thing else? Is there not one Thing more needful, viz. to make much, or seriously think on me, and of the Concerns of thy Soul, when thou art at work about thy secular Affairs, when thou goest out, and when thou comest in, when thou liest down, and when tho•risest up; thy Heart may be with God, when thy Hand is otherwise employed: True, if the World is got into thy Heart, there can be but little Room for Consideration or True Godliness; a continual Hurry of Business puts out the Eye whereby it should reflect upon it self: But shall the Earth keep out Heaven, and the Prince of Darkness shut out the Prince of Light, and Briars and Thorns choke the good Seed? Shall worldly Cares and Business be thy chiefest Guests, whom thou biddest welcome, and shall Christ stand at thy Door as a neglected Stranger? Shall Thought be cherished about ⟨p. 127⟩