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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.
See the folly of of this objection: What 1is the main business of life, but looking after the soul? and for men to say they are so immersed in the world, that they cannot mind their souls, is most absurd and irrational. This is to make the greater give way to the less. As if an Husbandman should say, he is so busy in angling, or looking after his Bees, that he hath no time to plough or sow. What is his occupation but ploughing? Such a madness is it to hear men say, they are so taken up about the world, that they have no time for their souls.
See the folly of of this objection: What 1is the main business of life, but looking after the soul? and for men to say they are so immersed in the world, that they cannot mind their souls, is most absurd and irrational. This is to make the greater give way to the lesse. As if an Husbandman should say, he is so busie in angling, or looking after his Bees, that he hath no time to plow or sow. What is his occupation but plowing? Such a madness is it to hear men say, they are so taken up about the world, that they have no time for their souls.
- 1Resp. 1.
Could God find time to think of thy 1salvation? could Jesus Christ find time to come into the world, and be here above thirty years in carrying on this great design of thy Redemption, and canst thou find no time to look after it? Is the getting a little money that which obstructs this violence for Heaven? Thy money perish with thee.
Could God find time to think of thy 1salvation? could Jesus Christ find time to come into the world, and be here above thirty years in carrying on this great design of thy Redemption, and canst thou find no time to look after it? Is the getting a little mony that which obstructs this violence for Heaven? Thy mony perish with thee.