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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. Do we use violence in prayer? Is there fire in our Sacrifice? Doth the wind of the Spirit filling our sails, cause groans unutterable? Rom. 8. 26. Do we pray in the morning as if we were to die at night?
4. Do we thirst for the living God? Are our souls big with holy desires, Psal. 73. 25. There is none upon earth my soul desires besides thee. Do we desire holiness as well as Heaven? Do we desire as much to look like Christ, as to live with Christ? Is our desire constant? Is this spiritual pulse ever beating?
5. Are we skilled in self denial? Can we deny our ease, our aims, our interest? Can we cross our own will to fulfil God's? Can we behead our beloved sin? To pluck out the right eye requires violence.
5. Are we skilled in self denial? Can we deny our ease, our aimes, our interest? Can we cross our own will to fulfill God's? Can we behead our beloved sin? To pluck out the right eye requires violence.