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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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3 They offer violence to God's image. The Saints (who are God's lively picture) are opposed and shot at. This is a cursed violence, Gal. 4 29▪ As he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born after the Spirit; so it is now, Christ himself is stricken at through Believers. The Church hath ⟨p. 100⟩been always in the Torrid zone: The Plowers have ploughed upon her back. The earth hath been sown with the bodies of the Saints, and watered with their blood. Persecutors, I grant, are of an ancient Family. The first man that was born in the world was a Persecutor, namely Cain; and he hath had a numerous off-spring, Nero, Trajan, Domitian, Diocletian, Maximinus. Chrysostom saith, that the apples of his eyes fell out. Faelix Earl of Wartemburg being at supper at Augsburg, did take an oath, that before he died, he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but was afterwards choked in his own blood. Persecutors are the curse of the Creation; being some of those thorns and briars which the earth brings forth
3 They offer violence to God's image. The Saints (who are God's lively picture) are opposed and shot at. This is a cursed violence, Gal. 4 29▪ As he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born after the Spirit; so it is now, Christ himself is stricken at through Believers. The Church hath ⟨p. 100⟩been alwaies in the Torrid zone: The Plowers have plowed upon her back. The earth hath been sown with the bodies of the Saints, and watered with their blood. Persecutors, I grant, are of an antient Family. The first man that was born in the world was a Persecutor, namely Cain; and he hath had a numerous off-spring, Nero, Trajan, Domitian, Dioclesian, Maximinus. Chrysostom saith, that the apples of his eyes fell out. Faelix Earl of Wartemburg being at supper at Auspurg, did take an oath, that before he died, he would ride up to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans; but was afterwards choked in his own blood. Persecutors are the curse of the Creation; being some of those thorns and briars which the earh brings forth