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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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CHAP. II.
Showing who the chief Enemies of Godliness are.
Shewing who the chief Enèmies of Godliness are.
Having given you a brief Account of the Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity of True Godliness, wherein occasionally hath been hinted some of those great Abuses he met withal in ancient Times; I judge it may not be amiss (before I come to treat of his Travels and Entertainments in these latter Days, and how it fares with him in this present Juncture) to give a Description of some of his chiefest Adversaries, to the End the true lovers of Godliness may be aware of them, and those who have a Mind to be acquainted with him, and are hindered from receiving him into their Houses, (i.e. their Hearts) may know the Cause and Reason of it. Now,
HAving given you a brief Account of the Pedigree, Original, and Antiquity of True Godliness, wherein occasionally hath been hinted some of those great Abuses he met withal in ancient Times; I judge it may not be amiss (before I come to treat of his Travels and Entertainments in these latter Days, and how it fares with him in this present Juncture) to give a Description of some of his chiefest Adversaries, to the End the true lovers of Godliness may be aware of them, and those who have a Mind to be acquainted with him, and are hindred from receiving him into their Houses, (i.e. their Hearts) may know the Cause and Reason of it. Now,