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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. Holy meditation quickens the affections, Psal. 119. 97. O how I love thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. The reason our affections are so cold to ⟨p. 54⟩heavenly things, is, because we do not warm them at the fire of holy meditation. As the musing on amorous objects makes the fire of lust burn; the musing on injuries makes the fire of revenge burn: so meditating on the transcendent beauties of Christ, would make our love to Christ flame forth.
3. Meditation hath a transforming pow• in it. The hearing of the Word may affect us; but the meditating of it doth transform us, Meditation stamps the impression of Divine Truths upon our hearts. By meditating of God's holiness, we grow holy. As Jacob's Cattle by looking on the Rods, conceived like the Rods: so while by meditation we look upon God's purity, we are changed into his likeness, and are made partakers of his Divine Nature.
3. Meditation hath a transforming pow• in it. The hearing of the Word may affect us; but the meditating of it doth transform us, Meditation stamps the impression of Divine Truths upon our hearts. By meditating of God's holiness, we grow holy. As Jacob's Cattel by looking on the Rods, conceived like the Rods: so while by meditation we look upon God's purity, we are changed into his likeness, and are made partakers of his Divine Nature.