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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 violence, that give God distracted prayer? while they are praying, they are thinking of their shop and trade*. How can he shoot right whose eye is quite off the mark? Ezek. 33. 31. Their heart goes after their covetousness. Many are casting up their accounts in prayer, as Hierom once complained of himself. How can God be pleased with this? ⟨p. 36⟩Will a King endure that while his subject is delivering a petition, and speaking to him, he should be playing with a feather? When we send our hearts on an •rrand to Heaven, how often do they loiter and play by the way? This is matter of blushing. That we may offer violence to our selves, and by fervency feather the wing of prayer: let these things be duly weighed.
2. How far are they from offering violence, that give God distracted prayer? while they are praying, they are thinking of their shop and trade*. How can he shoot right whose eye is quite off the mark? Ezek. 33. 31. Their heart goes after their covetuousness. Many are casting up their accounts in prayer, as Hierom once complained of himself. How can God be pleased with this? ⟨p. 36⟩Will a King endure that while his subject is delivering a petition, and speaking to him, he should be playing with a feather? When we send our hearts on an •rrand to Heaven, how often do they loiter and play by the way? This is matter of blushing. That we may offer violence to our selves, and by fervency feather the wing of prayer: let these things be duly weighed.
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