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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 makes you think that God and Jesus Christ will that way become your friends, and save your Soul when you fail, or come to die. Sir, if you give all your Goods to feed the Poor, or give all you have to them (which you are far from doing) yet you would be miserable, nothing that you can do can change your State or procure God's acceptance of your Person; no, you must obtain union with Christ, or receive me, or perish in your Sins for ever. If Money co•'d purchase Peace of Conscience, or giving Liberally to the Poor merit Heaven, what Rich Man need to fear being damned? And then also it might be very easy for a rich men to enter into the kingdom of heaven, which the Lord Christ says is not an easy thing. Sir, while the World is in your Heart, in your Love and Affection, the love of the father is not in you, tho' ye give much to the Poor. As the young Man, who was very Rich, wanted one Thing, so do you, that is, true Faith, and an Interest in Christ: You must be born again, or you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; and that you can never be, until you receive the holy Spirit, and let in True Godliness: Whosoever receives me, receives the Spirit, and true and right Principles; such as these, that all your own righteousness is as filthy rags; and that all Works before Grace are dead Works, and profit Men nothing. ⟨p. 33⟩Moreover, That Christ's Righteousness, exclusive of all inherent Righteousness, alone justifies a believing Sinner, &c. As concerning Pride, whom you entertain and hug in your Bosom as a sweet and beloved Friend, he hath been the ruin of many Souls likewise; nay, and not only Men, but Angels also, for 'tis thought he was the principal one who wrought their eternal Destruction, and from Heaven cast them down to Hell, and of Angels of light made them Devils. But, Sir, pray remember that Word, Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. What became of the great King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, for entertaining this Fellow? Was it not Pride that brought him down with a Vengeance, and turned him a Grazing, to eat Straw like Oxen? Dan. 3.4. Moreover, what became of Herod the great, who was so fond of this Companion? Did he not bring God's heavy Wrath upon him in such a dreadful Manner, that a blessed Angel was sent to smite him with Death immediately, and he was eaten of Worms? Acts 12.23