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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
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It will be bitterness in the end, Jer. 12. 19. Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord. Men by leaving off their violence for Heaven, get a thorn in their conscience, a blot in their name, a curse in their souls. What got Judas by his Apostasy but an halter? So that it will be bitterness in the end. The Apostate when he dies drops as a wind-fall into the Devil's mouth.
It will be bitterness in the end, Jer. 12. 19. Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord. Men by leaving off their violence for Heaven, get a thorn in their conscience, a blot in their name, a curse in their souls. What got Judas by his Apostasie but an halter? So that it will be bitterness in the end. The Apostate when he dies drops as a wind-fall into the Devil's mouth.
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5. It reproves those who put off 1this violence for the Kingdom till old age. When they are fit for no other ⟨p. 115⟩work, then they will begin this. No man saith, I will learn my trade when I am old. It is imprudence for one to begin to work for Heaven, when he is past his labour. There is a night of sickness and death coming, and our Saviour saith, The night cometh when none can work,