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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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Now the two first glorious Companies, who attend true Godliness here, these entered in with him immediately; ⟨p. 141⟩and the other Glories Thoughtful was sure of possessing after a few Days; so that he was wonderfully fortified against all domestic Commotions, or foreign approaching Dangers whatsoever; for he could not but expect new Troubles would be raised against him, both from within and without: And so indeed it suddenly came to pass; for Apollyon, the cursed Prince of Darkness, first raised up all his scattered Forces, which still remained within, who lurked in Holes and secure Corners of his House; for particularly Old-man, tho' he was dangerously wounded, his Head broke, and he laid bleeding, yet it appears he was not quite dead, yet was committed close Prisoner, under the Charge of one of Godliness's Servants, called Holy Revenge; and tho' he had a strict Command to kill him, yet he saw he could not presently do it; by which Means it fell out, that in a little Time he seemed to revive again; and poor Thoughtful thereby was continually plagued with indwelling Sin to his dying Day, which was a great Grief to him, and a Hindrance also to True Godliness at all Times; and the worst of all was, that Inward Corruption, alias Old Man, alias Body of Sin, getting too great Power by the Treachery of Mrs. Heart, and Apollyon the Prince of Darkness; they laying before him the manifold Evils and Remissness in holy Duties, persuaded him, that he harboured in his House an Enemy to True Godliness, called Hypocrisy, and that he was like, upon that Account, to lose all his Hopes here, and that Happiness which Godliness assured him of hereafter; and had not Sincerity came in with Godliness, he had been utterly undone; but, as God would have it, Self-clearing, by the Help of poor Conscience, made it appear to him, that Hypocrisy was not hid in his House, nor in the least countenanced by him; for,⟨p. 142⟩ First, They made it out he had a general Hatred of all Iniquity, and did not allow of, nor connive at any Sin whatsoever, by the Aid of spiritual Indignation: And Secondly, That there was no one Duty which he was convinced of, but he readily subjected to it by the Help of New-Obedience. Thirdly, That he was mighty careful of, and had always (by the Help of christian Watch-well) kept a strict Eye over Mrs. Heart, whom he most of all mistrusted, and had a great Jealousy of.