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The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven
The zealous Christian taking heaven by holy violence in several sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn for John Rothwell, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MATTHEW 11. 12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
MATTHEW 11. 12. And from the dayes of John the Baptist untill now, the Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
14 AN heady violence is more eager at first then at the latter end. This difference the Philosopher puts between natural and violent motions, that natural motions are slow at the beginning, but swifter when they come nearest their journeys end; as a falling stone moves very slow when it first begins to fall, but faster when it comes nearer its centre. On the contrary, violent motions are swifter in the beginning, slower in the conclusion. As an arrow shot out ⟨p. 41⟩of a bow moves exceeding swiftly at the first, but afterwards flags and grows remiss, […] at last the motion of it cease. An heady violence is like the violent motion, swift at first, slow afterward: But contrarily an holy violence is like a natural motion, that acts with more vigour in the end then in the beginning. This was the commendation of the Church of Thyatir• That her last works were more then her first Revel. 2. 19.