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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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3. The meditation of this uncertainty would make us look after a certainty; that is, the getting of grace. This holy anointing abides, 1 John 2. 27. Grace is a flower o• Eternity,—Nonfertur•ad umbras inclyta virtus—Death doth not destroy grace, but transplant it, and make it grow in a better soil. He that hath true holiness, can ⟨p. 49⟩no more lose it, than the Angels can, which are fixed Stars in Glory.
3. The meditation of this uncertainty would make us look after a certainty; that is, the getting of grace. This holy anoi•ting abides, 1 John 2. 27. Grace is a flower o• Eternity,—Nonfertur•ad umbras inclyta virtus—Death doth not destroy grace, but transplant it, and make it grow in a better soil. He that hath true holiness, can ⟨p. 49⟩no more lose it, than the Angels can, which are fixed Stars in Glory.
5. Meditate of Gods severity against sin. Every Arrow in Gods Quiver is shot against it*. Sin burned Sodom, 1drowned the old world. Sin kindles Hell. If when a spark of God's wrath flies into a mans Conscience, it is so terrible, what is it then when God stirs up all his wrath? Psal. 78. 39. The meditation of this would fright us out of our sins. There cannot be so much sweetness in sin, as there is sting. How dreadful is God's anger!