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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
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8. This holy violence brings Rest*; 2motion tends to rest, Heb. 4. 9. There remaineth a rest for the people of God. Indeed, there is a motion which doth not tend to rest: they who are violent in a way of sin, shall never have rest, Revel. 4. 8. They rest not day and night. Such as are graceless, shall be restless. But the violence a Christian takes, leads to rest. As the weary Traveller sits down at night and rests him, Psal. 116. 7. Return to thy rest, O my soul. Holy violence is like the flying of Noah's Dove to the Ark, where it found rest.
- *Omuis Motus te• dit ad qui• tem.
- 28. Motive.
9. If we use what violence we are 1able, God will help us, Phil 2. 12.. It is God who worketh in you both to will and to do. The Spirit helps us in prayer, and so proportionably in all other duties of Religion, Rom. 8. 26. The Promise encourageth, and the Spirit enableth. In all earthly Races a •an runs in his own strength; but in the Race to Heaven ⟨p. 142⟩