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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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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. It is a serious thinking on God. It is not a few transient thoughts that are quickly gone, but a fixing and staying the mind upon heavenly objects: This cannot be done without exciting all the powers of our souls, and offering violence to our selves.
We are the more to provoke our selves to this duty, because
1. Meditation is so cross to flesh and blood. Naturally we shun holy meditation. To meditate on worldly secular things, if it were all day, we can do it without any diversion*: But to have our thoughts fixed on God, how hard do we find it? how do our hearts quarrel with this duty? what pleas and excuses have we to shift it off? The natural averseness from this duty shows, we are to offer violence to our selves in it.
1. Meditation is so cross to flesh and blood. Naturally we shun holy meditation. To meditate on worldly secular things, if it were all day, we can do it without any diversion*: But to have our thoughts fixed on God, how hard do we find it? how do our hearts quarrel with this duty? what pleas and excuses have we to shift it off? The natural averseness from this duty shews, we are to offer violence to our selves in it.
- *Acies mentis ad levissima quaeque retimditur & resilit. Mornaeus.