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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.
Use 2. Reproof. Out of this text I 1may draw forth several arrows of Reproof.
- 11. Branch.
1. It reproves slothful Christians*, who are 2settled on their l•es: they make a lazy Profession of Religion, but use no violence. They are like the the Lilies, which toil not, neither do they spin. The Snail by reason of its slow motion, was reckoned among the unclean, Levit. 11. 30. St. Austin calls idleness the burial of a man alive. There are some faint velleities; oh that I had Heaven! but a man may desire Venison, and want it, if he doth not hunt for it*, Prov. 13. 4. The soul of the sluggard wisheth and hath nothing.
1. It reproves slothfull Christians*, who are 2settled on their l•es: they make a lazy Profession of Religion, but use no violence. They are like the the Lillies, which toil not, neither do they spin. The Snail by reason of its slow motion, was reckoned among the unclean,