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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
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5. Let it provoke violence in prayer to consider, those things which we ask, God hath a mind to grant. If a Son ask nothing but what his Father is willing to bestow, he may be the more earnest in his suit. We go to God for pardon of sin, and no work more pleasing to him than to seal pardons. Mercy is his delight, Micah 7. 18. We pray to God for an holy heart, and this prayer is according to his will, 1 Thes. 4. 3. This is the will of God, your sanctification. We pray that God would give us an heart to love him. How pleasing must this request needs be to God! This, if any thing, may excite prayer, and carry it in a fiery Chariot up to Heaven, when we know we pray for nothing but what God is more willing to grant than we are to ask.
5. Let it provoke violence in prayer to consider, those things which weask, God hath a mind to grant. If a Son ask nothing but what his Father is willing to bestow, he may be the more earnest in his suit. We go to God for pardon of sin, and no work more pleasing to him than to seal pardons. Mercy is his delight, Micah 7. 18. We pray to God for an holy heart, and this prayer is according to his will, 1 Thes. 4. 3. This is the will of God, your sanctification. We pray that God would give us an heart to love him. How pleasing must this request needs be to God! This, if any thing, may excite prayer, and carry it in a siery Chariot up to Heaven, when we know we pray for nothing but what God is more willing to grant than we are to ask.
6. No mercy can be bestowed on us but in a way of prayer. Mercy is purchased by Christs blood, but it is conveyed by prayer. All the promises are ⟨p. 39⟩