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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.
3. If the Word be not regarded, it will not be remembered*. Many complain they cannot remember, here is the reason, God punisheth their carelessness in hearing, with forgetfulness. He suffers Satan to take away the Word from them, Mat. 13. 4. The Fowls of the Air came and devoured ⟨p. 33⟩the seed. The Devil is no Recusant: he come• to Church, but it is not for any good intent; he gets away the Word from men. How many have been ro• ed of the Sermon and their souls both at once?
3. If the Word be not regarded, it will not be remembred*. Many complain they cannot remember, here is the reason, God punisheth their carelesness in hearing, with forgetfulness. He suffers Satan to take away the Word from them, Mat. 13. 4. The Fowls of the Air came and devoured ⟨p. 33⟩the seed. The Devil is no Recusant: he come• to Church, but it is not for any good intent; he gets away the Word from men. How many have been ro• ed of the Sermon and their souls both at once?
- *Mort•m formidate ae•ernam, si verba vi•ae, i. e. alimenta justiti•, in •moriae ar•a no• tenetis. Greg.