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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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1. They are violent in their Opinions, 2 Pet. 2. 1. Privily they shall bring in damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them. Arrius was such an one, and afterwards his bowels gushed out. And truly the spirit of Arrius is yet alive at this day, while men dare deny the Deity of the blessed Son of God. Many of the Heretics of old were so violent, ⟨p. 101⟩that their Opinion was to them a Bible, and some of them died in maintaining their heresies. These were the Devil's Martyrs.
1. They are violent in their Opinions, 2 Pet. 2. 1. Privily they shall bring in damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them. Arrius was such an one, and afterwards his bowels gushed out. And truly the spirit of Arrius is yet alive at this day, while men dare deny the Deity of the blessed Son of God. Many of the Hereticks of old were so violent, ⟨p. 101⟩that their Opinion was to them a Bible, and some of them died in maintaining their heresies. These were the Devil's Martyrs.
2. They are violent in their Passions*. Anger is a short frenzy*, Jam. 3. 9. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. In this little member there is a great world, viz. a world of sin: such as would be counted sober, yet are drunk with passion. Their prayers are cold, but their anger hot. They spit fire as the Serpent doth poison. Fiery passions without Repentance, bring men to the fiery furnace.