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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.
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, Joh. 9. 4. Sure a man can put forth but little violence for Heaven when old age, and old sins are upon him. Besides, how unworthy and dis-ingenuous is it, to give the Devil the flower of youth! and God the dregs of old age! Therefore God rejected Cain's Sacrifice, because it was stale before he brought it, Gen. 4. 2. There is little hope of their salvation, who are never violent for Heaven, till their disease grows violent.
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, Joh. 9. 4. Sure a man can put forth but little violence for Heaven when old age, and old sins are upon him. Besides, how unworthy and dis-ingenuous is it, to give the Devil the flower of youth! and God the d•egs of old age! Therefore God rejected Cain's Sacrifice, because it was stale before he brought it, Gen. 4. 2. There is little hope of their salvation, who are never violent for Heaven, till their disease grows violent.