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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.
This day approaching, we must in the 1morning dress and fit our souls for the receiving of the Word. The people of Israel must wash their garments before the Law was delivered to them. Our hearts must be washed by prayer and repentance, the Oracles of God being to be delivered to us.
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And being met together, we must set our selves as in the presence of God with seriousness and delight to hear God's sacred Word. Take heed of distractions which fly-blow our duties.
We must labour to be bettered by 1every Sabbath: where the Lord lays out cost, he looks for fruit. Fresh anointings of God are to be thirsted after; and new cubits to be added to ⟨p. 68⟩our spiritual stature. We must not be like the Salamander, which lives in the fire, but is never the hotter. Christians should on these days aspire after communion with God, and endeavour to have the illapses of his Spirit, and clearer discoveries of his love in Christ. In short, we should do on a Sabbath as Moses; he ascended the Mount that he might have a sight of God.
We must labour to be bettered by 1every Sabbath: where the Lord laies out cost, he looks for fruit. Fresh anointings of God are to be thirsted after; and new cubits to be added to ⟨p. 68⟩