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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.
2. What do they reproach thee for? 'tis for offering violence for Heaven. Is it a disgrace to be labouring for a Kingdom? Tell them thou art doing the work that God hath set thee about. Better they should reproach thee for working in the Vineyard, than God damn thee for not working.
3. Jesus Christ was reproached for thy sake, Heb. 12. 2. He endured the shame of the Cross; and wilt not thou be contented to bear reproaches for him? These are but the chips of the Cross, which are rather to be despised than laid to heart.
If I use this holy violence, and turn 1religious, then I shall lose such yearly ⟨p. 131⟩profits which my sin hath brought in. As Amaziah said, What shall I do for the hundred Talents? 2 Chron. 25. 9.
- 1Object. 5.