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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. 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.
6. Are we lovers of God? It is not how much we do, but how much we love. Doth love command the castle of our hearts? Doth Christ's beauty and sweetness constrain us? 2 Cor. 5. 14. Do we love God more than we fear Hell?
6. Are we lovers of God? It is not how much we do, but how much we love. Doth love command the •astle of our hearts? Doth Christ's beauty and sweetness constrain us? 2 Cor. 5. 14. Do we love God more than we fear Hell?
7. Do we keep our spiritual watch? do we set spies in every place, watching our thoughts, our eyes, our tongues? When we have prayed against sin, do we watch against temptation? The Jews having sealed the stone of Christ's Sepulchre, se•t a watch, Matth. 27. 66. After we have been at the Word, or Sacrament (that sealing Ordinance) do we set a watch?