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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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yet for the Information of my thinking Reader, I shall show thee a Way how Consideration, by the Assistance of Faith, met with him, and brought him home to his dear Master Thoughtful Christian, and made him his sixth Companion.
yet for the Information of my thinking Reader, I shall shew thee a Way how Consideration, by the Assistance of Faith, met with him, and brought him home to his dear Master Thoughtful Christian, and made him his fixt Companion.
First, Consideration led him forth to ponder upon the divine Attributes, Providences, and Promises of God; he caused him to consult infinite Power, Wisdom, Omniscience, Holiness, Mercy, Goodness, Truth, and Faithfulness, &c. Secondly, He also stirred him up to seek for Contentment, by pondering upon his present State and Condition. What (saith he) hath God done for thee? Thou wast in the Gall of Bitterness, and Bond of Iniquity, and God hath brought thee out, and yet not content! Thou wast a Child of Wrath, and now art a Child of God, yet not content! Hast thou God for thy God, Christ for thy Saviour, the Holy Spirit for thy Comforter, and yet not content! Nay, Doth God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit dwell with thee, and yet not content! Hast thou received True Godliness's glorious Retinue into thy House, to abide with thee, to enrich thee, to strengthen thee, to comfort thee, and make thy Life sweet to thee, and yet not content! Are thy Sins pardoned, thy Soul justified, hast thou Union and Communion with the Father and Son, and yet not content! Is thy Name writ in the Book of Life? Shalt thou dwell with God and Christ for ever? Is Heaven thy Inheritance? Art thou an Heir of the Crown and Kingdom that fadeth not away, and yet not ⟨p. 147⟩content? Nay, let me tell thee, all these Things, and many more are absolutely thine with contentment. Come art thou willing to possess them, to make them thine own, and enjoy them for ever, yea or no? If thou wouldest be sure of them, then get contentment to dwell with thee? For Godliness with contentment is great gain, 1 Tim. 6.6