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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.
2. They are violent for their unclean lusts. Men are said to burn in lusts, Rom. 1. 27. The Apostle intimateth that lust is a kind of fever. Feverish heats are not more pernicious to the body, than lust is to the soul. O what folly is it, for a drop of pleasure to drink a Sea of wrath*.
2. They are violent for their unclean lusts. Men are said to burn in lusts, Rom. 1. 27. The Apostle intimateth that lust is a kind of feavour. Feavourish heats are not more pernicious to the body, than lust is to the soul. O what folly is it, for a drop of pleasure to drink a Sea of wrath*.
- *O voluptates dumb suadet is inungit is, sed postea us […] ad mortem […] pungitis. Austin.O voluptates dum suadet is inungit is, sed postea us 〈…〉 ad mortem 〈…〉 pungitis. Austin.
3. They are violent for their oppressive lusts: they wrong and defraud others, and by violence take away their right. Instead of clothing the naked, they make them who are clothed naked. These birds of prey live upon rapine. They are cruel, as if with Romulus they had been suckled with the milk of Wolves. They smile at the curses of the poor, and grow fat with ⟨p. 103⟩their tears. They have forgotten Christ's caveat,