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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.
7. Men leave off holy violence, and degenerate into profaneness, out of a just judgement of God, leaving them to themselves; they oft resisted the Spirit, and sent it away sad from them, and now as a just judgement, God saith, My Spirit shall no longer strive; and if this wind doth not blow upon their sails, they cannot move. If this Sun withdraw from their climate, they must needs freeze in impenitency. They before sinned against clear convictions; they silenced conscience, and God hath seared it. And now if an Angel should preach to them from Heaven, it would do them no good. O how dismal is this! the thoughts of it may strike us into an holy consternation. Thus we see why men apostatize and leave off their violence for Heaven.
7. Men leave off holy violence, and degenerate into prophaneness, out of a just judgement of God, leaving them to themselves; they oft resisted the Spirit, and sent it away sad from them, and now as a just judgement, God saith, My Spirit shall no longer strive; and if this wind doth not blow upon their sails, they cannot move. If this Sun withdraw from their climate, they must needs freeze in impenitency. They before sinned against clear convictions; they silenced conscience, and God hath seared it. And now if an Angel should preach to them from Heaven, it would do them no good. O how dismal is this! the thoughts of it may strike us into an holy consternation. Thus we see why men apostatize and leave off their violence for Heaven.
Well, but what do they get by this? let us see what a purchase Apostates make.
They proclaim their folly; for all 1their former violence for Heaven is ⟨p. 114⟩