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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.
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?
1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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?
2. The Scripture calls sin a disease, Isa. 1. 5. The whole head is sick. Is it any pleasure to be sick? Though all do not feel this sickness, yet the less the distemper is felt, the moremorta.