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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.
1. Lethargical, Cant. 5. 2. I sleep, but my heart wakes. Though grace was alive in her, her heart waked; yet she was in a dull drowsy-temper, I sleep. When the heart burns in sin, and cools in duty, it is a sure sign of growing to a stupid lethargy.
1. Lethargical, Cant. 5. 2. I sleep, but my heart wakes. Though grace was alive in her, her heart waked; yet she was in a dull drowsie-temper, I sleep. When the heart burns in sin, and cools in duty, it is a sure sign of growing to a stupid lethargy.
2. Consumptive. There are two signs of persons in a spiritual consumption.
2. Consunptive. There are two signs of persons in a spiritual consumption.
1. When their desire after Christ and Heaven is not so strong as it was. A consumptive man's stomach decays. Christians have not such violent affections to heavenly things; they can desire Corn and Wine, and the luscious delights of the earth; but, Christ is less precious; they are not in pangs of desire after him, a sad symptom their grace is in a consumption.
1. When their desire after Christ and Heaven is not so strong as it was. A consumptive man's stomach decaies. Christians have not such violent affections to heavenly things; they can desire Corn and Wine, and the luscious delights of the earth; but, Christ is less precious; they are not in pangs of desire after him, a sad symptom their grace is in a consumption.