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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 defiling, Jam. 1. 17. Pure Religion is to keep himself unspotted from the world. As if the Apostle would intimate, that the world is good for nothing but to spot: it spots first mens consciences, and then their names. It is called [Greek or Hebrew], filthy lucre, 1 Pet. 5. 7. because it makes men so filthy. They will damn themselves to get the world. Ahab would have Naboth's Vineyard, though he swum to it in blood.
2. It is defiling, Jam. 1. 17. Pure Religion is to keep himself unspotted from the world. As if the Apostle would intimate, that the world is good for nothing but to spot: it spots first mens consciences, and then their names. It is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, filthy lucre, 1 Pet. 5. 7. because it makes men so filthy. They will damn themselves to get the world. Ahab would have Naboth's Vineyard, though he swum to it in blood.
3. It is perishing, 1 Joh. 2. 17. The fashion of the world passeth away. The world is like a flower which withers while we are smelling to it.
Fourthly, We must offer violence to 1Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence. Though Heaven is given us freely, yet we must take pains for it. Canaan was given Israel freely, but they must fight with the Canaanites. It is not a lazy wish, or sleepy prayer will bring us to Heaven; we must offer violence. Therefore in Scripture our earnestness for Heaven is set out by those