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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.
3. But if I put my self upon this violent 1exercise in Religion, then I shall lose that pleasure I have in my sin, my mirth and melody, and I shall exchange delight for labour; and so I shall be no more Naomi, but Marah. Voluptuous persons speak as the Fig-tree in the Parable, Judg. 9. Shall I leave my fatness and sweetness, all my former pleasures, and now offer violence to Heaven, live a strict mortified life? This crosseth the stream of corrupt nature.
- 1Object. 3.
Leave the pleasure in sin! The Scripture ⟨p. 126⟩1doth so describe fin, that one would think there should be little pleasure in it. The Scripture calls it,
- 1Answ. 1.
1. [Greek or Hebrew], a debt. Sin is compared to a debt of ten thousand talents, Matth. 18. 24. A talent of gold among the Hebrews, was valued at almost four thousand pounds. Ten thousand talents is a figurative speech, to express how great a debt sin is; and do you call this a pleasure? is it any pleasure for a man to be in debt?