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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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Have you not read, that the day cometh which shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble? Mal. 4.1. This haughty Villain, Pride, is one of those seven Things as Solomon shows, which God hates, Prov. 6.16. If you will not Riches, be persuaded from hence to •uin him out of your House, even take what will follow. Vain hope, I know is one that hath kept up your Spirit, and spake Peace to you all along, but he is fifty so called, for he will leave you like a deceitful, false-hearted and treacherous Friend, when you come to fall into Distress. You hope to be saved, (and so did many thousands that are now in Hell) but alas! what ground have you to build your Hope upon! The hypocrites hope shall perish, whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be as a spiders web, Job 8.13, 14. ⟨p. 34⟩Ah, Sir, what will your Hope avail you, though you have gained the world when God taketh away your soul? Job 27.8. And lastly, as touching your sweet darling Covetousness, he is made up with Idolatry, and what can be more detestable to Jehovah? so long as you entertain and love him, you adore an Idol; he is indeed the Ring-leader to almost all manner of Wickedness; nay, there is scarcely a viler and more abominable Wretch breathing on God's Earth, therefore justly called, the root of all evil, 1 Tim. 6.10. He hath taught many to play the Thief, others to commit Treason, and others to Murder Innocents for their Inheritance; he is guilty of Bribery, Usury, Extortion, and Oppression: It was he that made poor Achan lose his sweet Life, he also contrived the death of Naboth and his Sons; and more than all, he tempted Judas to sell, and basely betray my dear Lord and Master JESUS CHRIST, for thirty pieces of Silver: Do not blame me therefore, if I bear so hard against him: Moreover, I can scarcely ever get one Foot into any Rich Man's House through his Means; 'tis he and his Companions who keep me out; he hath through his hard-heartedness, almost famished to Death all the Poor, both in City and Country, and hath also of late very near betrayed my whole Interest that I have in the World, into the Enemies hands; he hath also grievously corrupted many who profess kindness to me, by encumbering their Minds so with the Affairs of this Life, that they cannot find the Way to the Church;