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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. Your remissness in Religion, though it may not damn you, it will damage you. You will lose that degree of glory, which else you might have had. Though your remissness may not lose your Crown, it will lessen it, and make it weigh lighter.
3. Your remisness in Religion, though it may not damn you, it will dammage you. You will lose that degree of glory, which else you might have had. Though your remisness may not lose your Crown, it will lessen it, and make it weigh lighter.
4. The more lazy a Christian's desires are, the more lively his corruptions. The weaker the body grows, the stronger the disease grows. Oh therefore pray for quickening grace, Psal. 143. 11. Beg fresh gales of the Spirit to blow upon you. Never leave till you have recovered that holy violence which once you had.
4. The more lazy a Christian's desires are, the more lively his corruptions. The weaker the body grows, the stronger the disease grows. Oh therefore pray for qui•kning grace, Psal. 143. 11. Beg fresh gales of the Spirit to blow upon you. Never leave till you have recovered that holy violence which once you had.
2. It reproves those who have quite 1left off all violence: they have left off reading and praying in their family. There is not so much as a face of