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Heaven taken
Heaven taken by storm, or, The holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by R.W. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1670
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. How far are they from offering 1violence to themselves in hearing, who come to the Word in a dull, drowsy manner, as if they came to Church to take a Receipt to make them sleep. The Word is to feed; it is strange to sleep at meat. The Word judgeth men; it is strange for a prisoner to fall asleep at the Bar. To such sleepy hearers God ⟨p. 31⟩may say, Sleep on. He may suffer them to be so stupefied, that no Ordinance shall awaken them, Mat. 13. 25. While men slept, the enemy came and sowed Tares. The Devil is never asleep, but sows the tares of sin in a drowsy hearer.
2. How far are they from offering 1violence to themselves in hearing, who come to the Word in a dull, drowsie manner, as if they came to Church to take a Receipt to make them sleep. The Word is to feed; it is strange to sleep at meat. The Word judgeth men; it is strange for a prisoner to fall asleep at the Bar. To such sleepy hearers God ⟨p. 31⟩may say, Sleep on. He may suffer them to be so stupified, that no Ordinance shall awaken them, Mat. 13. 25. While men slept, the enemy came and sowed Tares. The Devil is never asleep, but sows the tares of sin in a drowsie hearer.
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That we may, when we come to the Word, offer violence to our selves, and stir up our selves to hear with devotion, consider,