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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. 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 ⟨p. 109⟩Religion to be seen, they are fallen finally*. Such were Joash, Jehu, Julian. The goodly building of their profession which others admired, now hath not one stone left upon another.
- 12. Branch. Reproof.
- *In quibus principium fervet, medium tepet, exitus alget; illos hypocritas suisse patet, q•i victoriae coronam non consequuntur. Paraeus.