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A47614	The travels of true godliness, from the beginning of the world to this present day in an apt and pleasant allegory ... / by B.K., author of War with the Devil, and Sion in distress.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing K98; ESTC R17933	96,473	173

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 Godlinesses glorious Retinue into thy house to abide with thee to enrich thee strengthen thee to comfort thee and make thy life sweet to thee and yet not Content Are thy sins pradon'd 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 a Crown and Kingdom that fadeth not away and yet not Content Nay let me tell thee all these things and many more are absolutely thine with Contentment Come are thou willing to possess them to make them thy own and to enjoy them for ever yea or no if thou wouldst be sure of them then get Contentment to dwell with thee for Godliness with Contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 It doth not say Godliness without Contentment but with Contentment 'T is this glorious Prince it appears who puts thee into the sure possession of all true happiness and yet not Content Thirdly Ponder saith Consideration upon the excellency of Contentment for a Saint never looks like himself acts like himself acts like a person of such Rank and Quality a person who hath received so many glorious and excellent Graces and Priviledges but when in all conditions he is therewith contented Fourthly Ponder saith Consideration upon the Evils of Discontent Oh what dishonour doth it bring unto God! what reproach to True Godliness and what great wrong to thy own Soul Fifthly 'T is below thy Christian Relation saith Consideration to be discontent It was the Speech of Jonadab to Amon why art thou being a King's Son lean from day to day But that was as one observes for a wicked Cause he saw his Spirit was troubled for otherwise he was fat enough 'T is below thy Relation to God who is thy Portion thy Shield thy Sanctuary thy Father David thought it no small matter to be a Son-in-Law to an Earthly King and art thou the King's Son of Heaven and Earth and yet not content 'T is be●ow thy relation to Jesus Christ What art thou the Spouse of Christ a Member of Christ the Brother and Friend of Christ an Heir with Christ and yet not content 'T is below thy relation to the holy Ghost Is he thy Comforter Guide Witness Strength and art not content 't is below thy relation to the holy Angels who are thy Guard thy Attendance thy Friends thy Watchmen Hast thou Millions of those glorious Spirits to minister to thee to fight for thee keep thee in all thy wayes and yet not content 'T is below thy relation to the Saints and heavenly family Art thou brought home then to sit down with them to partake of all the sacred priviledges of God's House with them and to have a share in all their prayers and yet not content 'T is below the high and sovereign dignity thou art raised to Art thou born from above a Prince a Favourite of Heaven an Heir of both Worlds and yet not content Sixthly 'T is below those Graces Divine helps and endowments thou hast received Art thou in the Covenant of Grace Has God tyed and bound himself by promises and holy Oath to help thee uphold thee and keep thee from falling and yet not Content Is thy Eternal Estate secur'd art thou made sure of Heaven and yet discontented Lastly Consider all thy affictions troubles and sorrows are nothing in comparison of what other Saints have met with nay to those Jesus Christ met with himself for thy sake and art not content besides are they not less than thy sins deserve and yet not content nay and all those hard things thou meetest with God will cause to work for thy good and yet not content all the bitter things thou art ever like to meet with will be in this World nothing but sweet hereafter and yet not content all thy troubles will be soon gone they are but for a moment besides they are intermixt with much sweet and yet not content nay and all thy sorrows will be turned into joy and all tears will be wip'd off from thine eyes and yet not content No sooner had Consideration laid all these things and many others of like nature before him but lo to his eternal joy Contentment came in and was immediately gloriously welcomed by Godlinesses heavenly Retinue yea it cannot be imagined what rejoycing now there was in poor Thoughtful's house it would do also ones heart good to see how the scattered powers of the enemy were forced to fly into holes Apollyon himself was fain to pull in his horn Despond was vanquished cursed Disquiet and Murmur could find no more place in his house O this to him was the day of dayes Upon this perceiving Glorious Content with Triumph was entred into his house to dwell with the rest of True Godliness's heavenly Retinue and that there was now nothing wanting to make his life life comfortable here and happy hereafter he fell a singing of sweet Hymns of Praise and Thanksgiving to God A sweet Hymn of Praise 1. True Godliness is come to me And with him also lo I see His glorious Train who will attend My precious soul unto the End No day like this hath ever bin Content with Triumphs enter'd in 2. I love thee and admire thee too What Work remains thou'lt help me do My chiefest business it is done Possess the house which thou hast won The fruits of Conquest now begin Content with Triumphs enter'd in 3. What 's this don 't boast what can it be Remains there still an enemy Have I o'er come all deadly foes And shall this Old-man me oppose The fruits of Conquest now begin Content with Triumphs enter'd in 4. I shall I 'm sure be rid of thee And then how happy shall I be When Godliness in me doth reign Alone with his most glorious Train And not a foe dares once appear O then what Triumphs shall I hear 5. Can man on Earth more happy be I Peace possess I Glory see God and Christ with me do dwell I 'm sure of Heaven sav'd from Hell The fruits of Conquest now begin Content with Triumphs enter'd in FINIS BOOKS Printed for and are to be Sold by John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey over against the Stocks-Market London Note Those Books that are mark'd with a Hand are lately Printed Folio A General Martyrology containing a Collection of all the greatest Persecutions which have befaln the Church of Christ from the Creation to our present Times wherein is given an exact Account of the Protestants Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign whereunto is added the Lives of 32 English Divines famous in their Generations for Learning and Piety and most of them

but they having an implacable hatred against him because they know he is an utter enemy to all Treasons Idolatries Superstitions Murthers Fornications Witch-crafts and all other horrible Crimes and cursed Abominations of their unchast defiled and bloody Mistress in a clandestine way endeavoured to bring True Godliness and many of his Friends and Favourites into Contempt and thereby set all the Inhabitants of the Isle against him which Designs of theirs was managed divers manner of waies and though some of their Stratagems were happily discovered yet some others of them too far prevailed amongst the generality of People who God knows Naturally are adverse to him having as you have heard grievous Enmity in their Hearts against him Now True Godliness perceiving how the Inhabitants of the said Island were Corrupted partly by these Babylonians and partly by other evil Impostors and Seducers whose Errors greatly prevailed and how generally People of all sorts were drawn away by the subtilty of Appollyon and the Pollution and Treachery of their own Hearts to all manner of Vice and Ungodliness he being by this means brought into great Contempt began to be very sad considering what a brave Isle for Grace and Holiness it had formerly been nay and that which added to his Trouble was those great Divisions and Animosities that were amongst those who Professed themselves to be his chiefest Friends together with the consideration of the great Evils and Enormities of their Lives for it was come to such a pass that it was hard to discern the Professor as they were called from the Profane Pride Covetousness want of love and zeal to him abounding wonderfully amongst the generalty of them so that he evidently saw that he was grievously slighted disowned and neglected almost by all sorts whatsoever and that the favour and countenance which most people shewed him was but from the teeth outwards and that they not heartily and cordially love and delight in him Moreover he perceived also that there was a grand Conspiracy carrying on by Apollyon and his Emissaries in many Countryes where he had been formerly countenanced and that the Babylonians were in great hopes to get counterfeit Godliness set up in his stead began to make a grievous lamentation after this manner Godliness's Lamentation HOW shall I express my grief or utter my complaint O the sorrow that seizes on my Soul I that am the noble Off-spring of the universal Monarch of the whole World the true Favourite of Heaven the true interest of all Nations Kingdoms and Common-wealths a fit companion for Princes and all the noble ones of the Earth the only benefactor of all Mortals that continually seeks the good and eternal felicity of their Souls who strives to deliver them from Wrath and Judgment and to stop the destroying Angel from executing vengeance Should this day be thus slighted villified censured and stigmatized and have all manner of cursed and detestable evils and abominations laid to my charge Fo● First I am charged with Heresie an horrible crime indeed but 't is no other than I was of old times accused with But what is the Heresie What my Doctrine is is shewed in the first chapter of this Book to which I refer the reader but I may say with St. Paul After that way which they call Heresie so I teach men to worship the God of their Fathers and not to believe any thing but what is written in the Old and New Testament Counterfeit Godliness 't is true may be justly charged upon this account whose errors are capital as hath been evinced again and again by many worthy Protestants Secondly I am accused to be a common Disturber a meer Make-bate setting one man against another the Father against the Son and the Son against the Father the Mother-in-law against the Daughter-in-law and the Daughter-in-law against the Mother-in-law dividing Cities Towns and Villages setting Neighbour against Neighbour O how doth this wound my heart Was ever any dealt with as I am Shall such things as these be fathered upon me I do this day protest and declare before God and all the World I am abused and unjustly charged for I am for Peace Unity and Concord and alwayes do teach it I abhor Strife and Contention and every evil work and have endeavoured to bring all men to live in love one with another but if it fall out at any time where I am received that the Father is set against the Son and the Son against the Father or one Neighbour against another 't is not I that am the cause of it but that cursed enemy Pride Vnbelief and Sensuality that is in the hearts of the adverse party they having espoused the interest of Apollyon my grand Enemy and alas it will be so unless I could connive at or bear with those cursed evils which are in the hearts of men But can it be supposed that Virtue should wink at or side with filthy Vice or True Godliness allow of and indulge men in Ungodliness or Truth joyn or close in with Error Alas should I do this I should lose my very being and be no more what I am for as 't is impossible for Light to have fellowship with Darkness or Christ to have concord with Belial so 't is for me to allow of or bear with any of the evil enormities of the children of men should my Children do it they would at that very instant cease to be my Children therefore let all the World bear me witness this day that I clear my self of those foul crimes and calumnies that I am charged with And further to vindicate my self I call in my old friend Saint James pray hear what he hath to say about the horrible charge brought against me St. James pray speak to this great case from whence come that Strife Wars and Contention that is in the World Am I the cause of it James From whence come wars and fighting among men Come they not hence even of their lusts that war in their members Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain c. If you have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts glory not lie not against the truth mark that this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devillish O blessed St. James thou hast cleared me for I True Godliness am the Truth whosoever receives me receives the Truth the Doctrine of Truth and the Truth of Grace But pray St. James go on Where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without wrangling and without hypocrisie It is enough I alwayes teach men and women who embrace me to be holy peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of mercy to hate hypocrisie and all the deeds of the flesh Therefore take notice if any who are called by my name or profess love