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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.
3 This reproves those that instead of an holy violence, are guilty of oppressing violence, which is the sin chiefly of rich men Mic. 6. 12. For the rich men thereof are full violence. 1It is they that grind the faces of the poor. Mic. 2. 2. They covet fields, and take them by violence, 2& houses, & take them away, and so they oppress a man and his house. Amos 3. 10. They 3know not to do right, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Prov. 4. 17. They eat the 4bread of wickedness, & drink the wine of violence.
3 This reproves those that instead of an holy violence, are guilty of oppressing violence, which is the sin chiefly of rich men Mic. 6. 12. For the rich men thereof are full violence. 1It is they that grinde the faces of the poor. Mic. 2. 2. They covet fields, and take them by violence, 2& houses, & take them away, and so they oppresse a man and his house. Amos 3. 10. They 3know not to do right, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.