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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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Oh let us offer violence to our selves ⟨p. 72⟩in this, in setting abroach good discourse! What should our words dilate and expatiate upon but Heaven? The world is a great Inn; we are guests in this Inn. Travellers, when they are met in their Inn, do not spend all their time in speaking about their Inn; they are to lodge there but a few hours, and they are gone; but they are speaking of their home, and the Country whither they are travelling. So when we meet together, we should not be talking only about the world; we are to leave this presently; but we should talk of our heavenly Country, He•. 11. 16.
Oh let us offer violence to our selves ⟨p. 72⟩in this, in setting abroach good discourse! What should our words dilate and expatiate upon but Heaven? The world is a great Inne; we are guests in this Inne. Travellers, when they are met in their Inne, do not spend all their time in speaking about their Inne; they are to lodge there but a few hours, and they are gone; but they are speaking of their home, and the Country whither they are travelling. So when we meet together, we should not be talking only about the world; we are to leave this presently; but we should talk of our heavenly Country, He•. 11. 16.
That we may provoke our selves to good discourse (for it will not be done without some kind of violence) let these considerations be duly weighed.
The discourse demonstrates what 1