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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.
But let not the difficulty be objected. What though salvation-work be hard.
1. Is it not harder to lye in Hell? Is not suffering vengeance worse than offering violence?
2. We do not argue so in other things. An estate is hard to come by, therefore we will sit still: No, difficulty doth the more whe• and sharpen our endeavour; and if we take such pains for these inferior things, how should we for that which is more noble and sublime! The profit will abundantly countervail the labour.
2. We do not argue so in other things. An estate is hard to come by, therefore we will sit still: No, difficulty doth the more whe• and sharpen our indeavour; and if we take such pains for these inf•riour things, how should we for that which is more noble and sublime! The profit will abundantly countervail the labour.
3. Though the business of Religion at first seems hard, yet when once we are entered into it, it is pleasant. When the wheels of the soul are oiled with grace, now a Christian moves in Religion with facility and delight.