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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.
10. Are we got above the world? though we walk on Earth, do we trade in Heaven? Can we say as David, Psal. 139. 17. I am still with thee. This requires violence; for motions upward are usually violent.
11. Do we set our selves always under God's eye? Psal. 16. 8. I have set the Lord always before me. Do we live soberly and godlily, remembering whatever we are doing, our Judge looks on?
11. Do we set our selves alwaies under God's eye? Psal. 16. 8. I have set the Lord alwaies before me. Do we live soberly and godlily, remembring whatever we are doing, our Judge looks on?
If it be thus with us, we are happy persons. This is the holy violence the text speaks of, and is the right way of taking the Kingdom of God. And surely never did Noah so willingly put forth his hand to receive the Dove into the Ark, as Jesus Christ will put forth his hand to receive us into Heaven.