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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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Showing how Godliness in his Travels came to a poor Cottage, where dwelt one called Poverty, with whom he earnestly desired to make his Abode, and how he was shamefully denied Entertainment there also.
Shewing how Godliness in his Travels came to a poor Cottage, where dwelt one called Poverty, with whom he earnestly desired to make his Abode, and how he was shamefully deny'd Entertainment there also.
Godliness finding how basely he had been served by Riches, and that he could not with all the strongest Arguments and Motives imaginable get any entertainment with him, travelled farther; and as he wandered up and down in the Wilderness of this World, at last he chanced to come to a small Village, at the farthermost End of which (upon the Common) he espied a little Cottage, a poor old ruinous Thing it was, the Windows being all broke, only they had crammed into the Holes some old Rags, to keep out the Cold, and by the propping of it up, it seemed as if it was ready to fall; but however, he remembering what his blessed Lord and Master said, The Poor receive the Gospel; resolved to go thither, and see whether he might not meet with Entertainment there; (for he is no Respectre of Persons, he is as willing to be Guest to the Poor as to the Rich, and to dwell with the Peasant as with the Prince; or to make his abode in a Cottage as in a Palace:) And being come up to the Door, he understood the poor Man's Name who dwelt there, was Poverty: Now Godliness knocked five or six Times before he could have any Manner ⟨p. 41⟩of Answer, for it seems he was asleep in Bed with his Wife; but at last, being between sleeping and waking, he asked (tho' very faintly) Who's there? Who's at the Door?
GOdliness finding how basely he had been served by Riches, and that he could not with all the strongest Arguments and Motives imaginable get any entertainment with him, travelled farther; and as he wandred up and down in the Wilderness of this World, at last he chanc'd to come to a small Village, at the farthermost End of which (upon the Common) he espied a little Cottage, a poor old ruinous Thing it was, the Windows being all broke, only they had cram'd into the Holes some old Rags, to keep out the Cold, and by the propping of it up, it seem'd as if it was ready to fall; but however, he remembring what his blessed Lord and Master said, The Poor receive the Gospel; resolved to go thither, and see whether he might not meet with Entertainment there; (for he is no Respecter of Persons, he is as willing to be Guest to the Poor as to the Rich, and to dwell with the Peasant as with the Prince; or to make his abode in a Cottage as in a Palace:) And being come up to the Door, he understood the poor Man's Name who dwelt there, was Poverty: Now Godliness knock'd five or six Times before he could have any Manner