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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

not being like to find Entertainment any where since Riches and Poverty both had refused to receive him yet he was resolved to pursue his Journey not being without hopes of finding his dear Friend at last called Consideration whom he sought for and coming into a famous City where one Youth dwelt could not tell but he might meet with him at his House calling to mind what kindness Young Joseph Moses Samuel David Obadiah Josias John and Timothy of Old and many others had shewed him and therefore came boldly to his Door and desired Entertainment Now it appears this Youngster was a great Gallant but though he had been brought up to Learning and lived in a place where the Gospel was powerfully preached yet was very ignorant as touching the best things though very complisant And after Godliness had in a grave and sober manner desired a Lodging with him he asked him what he was as also his Name Godli Sir I am a Person of Noble Descent being nearly All●ed to a great and mighty Prince and my Name is True Godliness being by him sent to Travel hither to commend his Soveraign Grace and Clemency unto the Inhabitants of th● City and I have also brought along with me as Tokens of his Eternal Favour and good Will to such who will receive me very rich Presents and I shall bestow them on you if you will be pleased to Entertain me Youth Your most Humble Servant I must confess I have read and heard much of you but why do you choose to take up your lodging in my House there being many Grave and Ancient Gentlemen near I know not but you seem to be one whose Company would better suit Men of Riper Years Godli Sir my Master gave me orders to commend his Princely Grace and Favour unto you if your Name is Youth besides he hath chosen your House for my Lodging above others nay and he hath made more Blessed Promises upon your kind and loving Reception of me than he hath to any besides in the World Have you not read that Word I love them that love me and they that seek me early shall find me And that Word Seek first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you Matth. 6. 33. Youth As for those other things I need them not I have enough of the World Godli Aye Sir but you want my Masters Righteousness and also a part in his Kingdom and those are some of those Glorious Commodities I have to bestow upon you if you will Entertain me Youth Aye there it is I perceive I must Entertain you if I would have them but I tell you plainly your Company does not suit with my Age why should you force your self upon me Godliness Why would you have a part in the Righteousness of Christ and in his Kingdom and not receive True Godliness No Sir that will never be you must believe in him and lead a Godly Life or you will have no Lot nor Part in this Matter He that believeth not shall be Damned Mark 16.16 Youth Pray Sir do not trouble me you are going to preach Godliness 'T is sad you should think I trouble you because I desire you to let me have a Lodging with you Yo●th Sir you will spoil all my pleasure and sensual delights if I entertain you I know your Manners well enough You will cause me also to turn out of my House my familiar Friends and Consorts that rejoyce my heart in these youthful daies of mine Now those he called his Friends were these following Pride Wanton Vain-glory Love-lust Ambition Gay-clothes Toss-pot Gamester Please-friend Time-server Scornful Hate-good and Scoffer Godliness Young man believe me those pleasures and delights which your heart is so much set upon are bruitish and very hateful to God and do also debase your noble Soul which is of a sublime Extraction Nay furthermore hear what wise Solomon saith Rejoice O Young-man in the daies of thy Youth and walk in the waies of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes May be you will say O this is brave I but after the flash of Lightning comes a clap of Thunder enough to make you quake But know that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment Your sweet Meat young man is like to have sowr Sauce you will pay dear at last for all your sensual pleasures and vanities Youth But for all your haste wise Solomon made trial of all the delights of the Children of men before he condemned them and so will I too as far as I can Godliness 'T is true Solomon did so and doth he not by the sad experience he had of them tell you all was vanity and vexation of Spirit Come Sir you had better believe the Poyson in the Cup is deadly than to taste of it Youth Sir pray speak no more I have not sowed all my Wild Oats yet let me alone Godliness Wild Oats indeed Come let me perswade you to sow no more of them for 't is but sowing to the Flesh and he that soweth to the Flesh shall of the Flesh reap Corruption You had better far to sow to the Spirit And now I will tell you what a kind of Crop you will have at Harvest by sowing that cursed Seed which you call Wild Oats unless by Repentance you pluck them all up again Youth Why Sir what a Crop shall I reap Godliness You are like in the first place to reap here in this World a Crop of loathsome Diseases for Drunkenness Rioting and Whoring doth commonly produce that Secondly you will reap a Crop of Infamy and Reproach for sin is the shame of any People or particular Soul and it will be much if you reap not a Crop of Want and Beggary too in the end Thirdly You will reap a Crop of horrible and unsupportable Guilt by which means your Conscience will torment and lash you after such a sort that you will not be able to endure it unless you go on in these ungodly courses so long until he is feared with a hot Iron and then you will reap a Crop of a hard obdurate and impenitent Heart Fourthly You will reap a full Crop of all manner of foul and detestable Filth and Pollution yea such Corruption that will cause God to loath your Soul Fifthly You will reap also a Crop of all the fearful Plagues and Curses that are in the Book of God pronounced against wicked and ungodly Sinners Sixthly and lastly At the great and terrible day of Judgment you will reap a full Crop of Gods eternal Wrath and Vengeance a Crop of brinish though fruitless Tears Groans and endless Torments in Hell fire Now if you like to gather in at Harvest such Crops as these go on and sow your Wild Oats plentifully Youth Sir I intend to sow other Seed hereafter I desire only liberty for the Flesh in these my Youthful daies If

is he not a Wretch that shall call into question the Care and Faithfulness of God whose Promises are to Feed and Cloath thee and to supply all thy necessities in the way of thy Duty so that thou shalt want no good thing as I said before though thou possibly mayst think that good for thee which God knows is not And now in the last place let me speak a few words to those cowardly fellows Faint-heart and Fear-man these are they that would have you fear man more than God and yet I am ready to believe some of their words take much place upon your heart as any thing you heard from the other But what reason there was or is for it we will come now to consider First they say I am grown here of late very contemptible and am of very little esteem or credit * amongst any sort or degrees of men and that I shall ere long be forced to flye into a corner to hide my self c To this I answer first I never had much esteem amongst great men nay in every Age of the World very few gave credit to me and now being come almost to the end of my Travels into the last and worst Age I could expect no other usage than what I meet withal How should I have many to admire and fall in love with me when the Text positively saies All the World Wonders after the Beast That is they are in love with and admire counterfeit Godliness and the truth is I marvel not at it because all along the false Prophets were more readily embraced than the true and their words generally believed If another comes in his own name said Jesus Christ him you will receive the reason is easily discerned because they smooth the People up in their sins Alas don't you see how counterfeit Godliness gives liberty to men to please their sensual and Bruitish Lusts teaching an easier way to Heaven than ever I did or can for I alwaies taught as at this day the Doctrine of Self-denial the necessity of Faith in Christ Regeneration and Mortification of Sin c. Secondly whereas they say I shall ere long be forc'd to flye into some corner that is I know the fear of these paltry Fellows but if it should chance so to come to pass woe be to you and all the World besides if True Godliness once finds no place nor countenance in any Nation of the Earth and indeed you had the more need with all speed receive me into your House least hereafter you find me not and so perish in your Sins John 8.22 Thirdly What though Riches hath rejected me he never had much kindness for me but was generally alwaies my enemy and whereas they say he will be displeased with you and warn you out of your House if you entertain me What then Christ will receive you into his House and you were better have him to be your Friend than any Potentate of the Earth When my Father and Mother saith David forsakes me the Lord will take me up Have you not read of that poor man which the Pharisees Excommunicated for cleaving to me and how the Lord Jesus graciously received him Come Poverty don't fear the worst that men can do God will help you and he is above them all and it will be but a little while before that word shall be made good Your Brethren that hated you and cast you out for my Names sake saying Let the Lord be glorified but he will appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed And what though some great Potentates of Rome combine together to tread me under their feet and set up Idolatry Popery and Superstition should this deter you from receiving me Alas man the time is at hand when all will be undone and be forc'd to cry out Woe woe woe that ever they were born but those only who have made me the Joy and Delight of their Hearts say to the Righteous it shall go well with him Woe to the wicked it shall go ill with him 'T is said indeed to see any leave me in my Adversity but they were false Friends and let them go they never loved me in truth but do thou but kindly embrace me and I will keep thee from falling nay thou shalt find me a sure refuge and defence to thee in the day of distress yea and I will store thee with all good things which the rich have not I am resolved to feast thy soul continually and never leave thee unto thy dying day Come thee and I shall live splendidly together notwithstanding thou art poor if we can but get my dear friend Content to dwell with us What dost thou say Poverty shall I come in but notwithstanding all that Godliness could say Poverty would not give way to him but began to give him reviling words saying He was born a Gentleman tho' he was fallen to Decay and that he would not suffer such Tumults at his Door for it seems while Godliness was praying and pressing for entertainment one Persecution the Off-spring of Adam's eldest son Cain had raised abundance of lewd Fellows together to drive Godliness away from Poverty 's Door so that by the opposition within Doors and without Godliness found no lodging there neither yea and escaped not without many bitter threatnings Execrations and Blasphemous words Now one Reason why Riches and Poverty did not receive True Godliness was because Consideration dwelt with neither of them who being a grave Counsellor might possibly have given them better advice than to deny entertainment to so sweet a Friend Godliness after this began to be at a stand which way to Travel next but hearing of one Youth who lived not far off he resolved to see whether he might not get a dwelling with him because he was one that his Commission particularly directed him to visit Sad is the state of Woeful Man I see Riches slights Christ and so does Poverty The Snares are great which doth Riches attend And Poverty to Virtue proves no Friend But this poor Wretch I pity most for why He has no Portion here yet does deny To Entertain True Godliness that so He might have Heaven above though none below But by curst Foes he is so perplex'd that he Cann't find the way to true Felicity Not many Rich nor many very Poor Vnto True Godliness do ope their Door But rather such who in a medium be Betwixt great Riches and low Poverty This state with Agur Lord I beg of thee CHAP. V. Shewing how True Godliness finding Riches and Poverty had rejected him in his Travels came to a great City where dwelt a brave Young Gallant with whom he had a mind to be Acquainted and to take up his Lodging shewing also how basely he was dealt withal by him ONE might think by this time 't was in vain for True Godliness to Travel any further