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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.
3. They are violent for their lusts, Tit. 3. 3. Serving divers lusts. Lust is [Greek or Hebrew], an inordinate desire or impulse, provoking the soul to the gratifying its carnal desires*. Aristotle calls them brutish lusts, because when lusts are violent, they will not let reason or conscience be heard; but a man is carried brutishly to the satisfying the flesh*.
3. They are violent for their lusts, Tit. 3. 3. Serving divers lusts. Lust is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an inordinate desire or impulse, provoking the soul to the gratifying its carnal desires*. Aristotle calls them brutish lusts, because when lusts are violent, they will not let reason or conscience be heard; but a man is carried brutishly to the satisfying the flesh*.
- *Prav• cupidit•es sunt port• Inferi, per quas ad mortem descendunt • mines. Augustin.
- *Plurimi cupidita ibus se ma•cipant; etiam in humano corpore plantae brutique vitam agunt; brutum, num usquam in plantam degenerate? & num-planta in lapidem? immò an ulla est qu•, quantum potest, non emicet extra solum, seseque in quras attollat? demque, uno excepto homine, nunquid tot• m•ndo occurat, quod gradum suum, qud dignitatem non accuratè tuc ur & retineat? Mornaeus.