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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.
12. The next motive is in the text; 1this violence is for a Kingdom*. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence. And what will we be violent for, if not for a Kingdom; Men will wade to a Kingdom through blood: This is a Kingdom worth striving for. Cyprus is an Island so exceeding fertile and pleasant, that it was anciently called Macaria, which signifies Blessed. This title of Blessed may more fitly be given to the heavenly Kingdom. If the Mountains were Gold; if every Sand of the Sea were a Diamond; if the whole ⟨p. 145⟩Globe were a shining Chrysolite, it were infinitely beneath the glory of this Kingdom.
12. The next motive is in the text; 1this violence is for a Kingdom*. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence. And what will we be violent for, if not for a Kingdom; Men will wade to a Kingdom through blood: This is a Kingdom worth striving for. Cyprus is an Island so exceeding fertile and pleasant, that it was antiently called Macaria, which signifies Blessed. This title of Blessed may more fitly be given to the heavenly Kingdom. If the Mountains were Gold; if every Sand of the Sea were a Diamond; if the whole ⟨p. 145⟩Globe were a shining Chrysolite, it were infinitely beneath the glory of this Kingdom.
- 1•2. Motive.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] Chrysost.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Chrysost.