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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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He that made them will not save them; and he that formed them, will show them no favour, Isa. 27.11. As touching what Self-love saith, it is abominable; do you not find the Lord Jesus saying, that unless a man deny himself he cannot be my disciple, Mat. 16.22. Now this Fellow is one of the rest there meant, even Self-love and Self-righteousness, as well as Sinful-self and Natural self. Sir, you must get rid of them all, or perish for ever. Will you love your self more than Christ? Self-love must die, he is a Traitor to the Lord of Life and Glory; ⟨p. 30⟩and an utter Enemy to your own Soul; if you make him your Counsellor, you are an undone Man. And then as to Worldly Wisdom, he is the Devil's Attorney-General, that ever gives Counsel to all that hearken to him against God and Christ, and all revealed Religion; this is he that Satan hath stirred up (since Liberty of Conscience hath been established, and Popery hath been vanquished) to deceive and ruin the Souls of Men; 'tis he that ridicules all supernatural discoveries of God, or revealed Religion, and would indeed rob the whole Kingdom of the Gospel of Christ, and so Paganize this Isle again. Doth not Paul say, the world by wisdom knew not God? He would have you believe nothing to be a Truth or Principle of Religion that lies above your own humane Reason; and therefore he says there is nothing mysterious in Christianity; by which he gives the Scripture the Lie, that says without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness, 1 Tim. 3.16. He will not suffer such that hearken to him, to believe the Trinity of Persons in the sacred Godhead, nor that Christ is the most high God, and yet very Man in one Person, because it lies above Man's Wisdom, or human Understanding to comprehend it; nor that sinners can be justified by an imputed Righteousness, or by the active and passive obedience of Christ, tho' 'tis positively asserted to be thus, by the Spirit of God in the Word. This Worldly Wisdom and Sir Humane Reason taught the Greeks (in the Apostles time) to contemn the preaching of Christ crucified, and Salvation by him, as a foolish Notion, or idle Dream; and so they strive to persuade People to think now, and so to trample the chief Principles of the Christian Faith under their Feet. Alas! 'tis evident, that there are many earthly Things, or Things in Nature, which no Man can comprehend nor