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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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Suppose earthly Kingdoms to be more glorious than they are, their foundations of gold, their walls of pearl, their windows of Sapphire, yet they are corruptible, Hos. 1. 4. I will cause the Kingdom to cease. Troy and Athens now lye buried in their own ruins. But the Kingdom of Glory, as it is made without hands; so without end. It is the everlasting ⟨p. 149⟩Kingdom, 2 Pet. 1. 11. Now methinks, if ever we will use violence, it it should be for this Kingdom; this Kingdom will make amends for all our labour and pal•ns*. Caesar marching with his Army towards Rome, and hearing that all the people were fled from it, said, they that will not fight for this City, what City will they fight for! So if 2we will not put forth violence for this Kingdom of Heaven, what will we be violent *for! I s•y to all, as the children of Dan in another sense, Judge 18. 9. We have seen the Land, and behold it is very good; and are ye still? Be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the Land.
Suppose earthly Kingdoms to be more glorious than they are, their foundations of gold, their walls of pearl, their windows of Saphire, yet they are corruptible,