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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.
1. But we have no power of our ⟨p. 122⟩1selves to save our selves? you bid us be violent, as if you should bid a man tied fast in fetter •to walk.
- 1Object. 1.
'Tis true, We cannot till grace 1come, effectually operate to our own salvation. Before conversion we are purely passive; and when •od bids us convert and turn, this is to show us what we ought to do, not what we can do. Yet let us do quoad posse, what we are able.
'Tis true, We cannot till grace 1come, effectually operate to our own salvation. Before conversion we are purely passive; and when •od bids us convert and turn, this is to shew us what we ought to do, not what we can do. Yet let us do quoad posse, what we are able.
- 1•nsw.
1. We have power to avoid those Rocks, which will certainly ruin our souls; I mean, gross sins. A man needs not to b in bad company; he needs not swear, or tell ally; nor would he do it if it were by Law death to swear an Oath.