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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.
2. The delights of the heavenly Kingdom are unmixed. The comforts here below are checkered. Honour may be stained with disgrace; joy interlarded with sorrow. Our stars are mixed with clouds; but the delicacies of Heaven are pure as well as pleasant. There i• honey that hath not one drop of gall, The Crystal spring of joy hath no settling of sorrow at bottom. The Rose in that Paradise is without prickles; the Sun in that horizon is without eclipse.
2. The delights of the heavenly Kingdom are unmixed. The comforts here below are checkered. Honour may be stained with disgrace; joy interlarded with sorrow. Our stars are mixed with clouds; but the delicacies of Heaven are pure as well as pleasant. There i• hony that hath not one drop of gall, The Crystal spring of joy hath no settling of sorrow at bottom. The Rose in that Paradise is without prickles; the Sun in that horizon is without eclipse.
3. This Kingdom above is durable,
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