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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.
The fourth Duty wherein we must 1offer violence to our selves, is Meditation; a duty wherein the very heart and life-blood of Religion lies. St. Bernard calls Meditation animae viaticum, a bait by the way*. And another saith, [Greek or Hebrew]*. Meditation may be thus described; It is an holy exercise of the mind, whereby we bring the truths of God to remembrance, and do seriously ponder upon them, and apply them to our selves. In meditation there are two things.
The fourth Duty wherein we must 1offer violence to our selves, is Meditation; a duty wherein the very heart and life-blood of Religion lies. St. Bernard calls Meditation animae viaticum, a bait by the way*. And another saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉*. Meditation may be thus described; It is an holy excercise of the mind, whereby we bring the truths of God to remembrance, and do seriously ponder upon them, and apply them to our selves. In meditation there are two things.
- 14. Duty.
- *Bern in Cant.
- *Periand.
1. A Christians retiring of himself, a locking himself up from the world. Meditation is a work which cannot be done in a crowd.