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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.
4. They are violent for their covetous lusts. Covetousness is the soul's dropsy, Amos 7. 2. Who pant after the dust of the earth. They compass Sea and Land to make Money their Proselyte*. Their god is made of gold, and to it they bow down. Those who bowed down on their knees to drink of the waters, were accounted unfit Soldiers for Gideon, Judg. 7. 6. So are those unfit for Christ, that stoop immoderately to the love of earthly things. They who are violent for the world, what have they but the wind? Eccles. 5. 16. What profit hath he who hath laboured for the wind? The world cannot enrich the soul, it cannot remove pain. If pangs of conscience come, the world can no more give comfort, than a Crown of Gold can cure the head-ache.
4. They are violent for their covetous lusts. Covetousness is the soul's dropsy, Amos 7. 2. Who pant after the dust of the earth. They compass Sea and Land to make Mony their Proselyte*. Their god is made of gold, and to it they bow down. Those who bowed down on their knees to drink of the waters, were accounted unfit Souldiers for Gideon, Judg. 7. 6. So are those unfit for Christ, that stoop immoderately to the love of earthly things. They who are violent for the world, what have they but the wind? Eccles. 5. 16. What profit hath he who hath laboured for the wind? The world c•nnot enrich the soul, it cannot remove pain. If pangs of conscience come, the world can no more give comfort, than a Crown of Gold can cure the head-ach.
- *Magis aurum suspiciunt qua coelum. Minute. Oct.