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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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Thoughtful answered, he was hindered by a base Fellow that he had got in his House.
Thoughtful answered, he was hindred by a base Fellow that he had got in his House.
Upon this, Godliness and he fell into a serious Discourse again.
Godly. Who is it, Thoughtful, that obstructs my being received?
Godli. Who is it, Thoughtful, that obstructs my being receiv'd?
Thought. His name is Old-Man;
Godly. He is, indeed I know, my grand Enemy, and hath been near this six thousand Years, (for so old this Villain is;) and there is not one in all the World that has done me more wrong, to tell thee plainly, than he and his cursed Daughter, Carnal-affections.