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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.
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?
3. They are transient; death feeds at the root. All worldly possessions are like a Castle of Snow in the Sun: or like a posy of flowers which withers while we are smelling to it. O what folly is it to put forth all ones violence for the world, which is but for a season, and not for Christ and grace. As if a condemned man should be earnest to get his dinner, but never mind getting his pardon.
3. They are transient; death feeds at the root. All worldly possessions are like a Castle of Snow in the Sun: or like a posie of flowers which withers while we are smelling to it. O what folly is it to put forth all ones violence for the world, which is but for a season, and not for Christ and grace. As if a condemned man should be earnest to get his dinner, but never mind getting his pardon.