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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.
Admit it be hard, yet it is a duty, and 1there is no disputing duty. God hath made the way to Heaven hard.
- 1Resp. 1.
To try our Obedience. A child obeys 1his Father, though he command him hard things. Peter's obedience and love was tried when Christ bade him come to him upon the water.
To try our Obedience. A child obeys 1his Father, though he command him hard things. Peter's obedience and love was tryed when Christ bade him come to him upon the water.
- 11.
God doth it that he may raise the 1price of heavenly things. Were the Kingdom of glory easily obtained, we ⟨p. 124⟩should not have valued it to its worth. Such is our nature, that we slight things which are easily come by. If Pearls were common, they would soon fall in their price. If Christ and Heaven might be had without violence, these blessings of the first magnitude would not have been had in such high veneration.