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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.
11. The folly of such as are violent 1for the world, but not for the Kingdom above. Alas, how insipid are all these things that we lay out our sweat and violence upon, they will not make us happy. King Solomon did as it were put all the creatures into a limbeck, and still out the quintessence of them, and behold all was vanity, Eccles. 2. 8.
- 111. Motive.
1. These earthly things that we so toil for, are uncertain, 1 Tim. 6. 17. 'Tis uncertain whether we shall get them. All that are Suitors to a Virgin do not speed. All that come to a Lottery have not a prize.
2. They are unsatisfactory. Could men heap up Silver as dust; had they as much as the Devil promised Christ, All the Kingdoms of the world, and the ⟨p. 144⟩glory of them; yet they can no more fill the heart, than a drop of water can fill the cistern, Eccles. 5. 16. What profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?