A65299:383
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.
21. What a vexation it will be at the 1last to lose the Kingdom of Glory for want of a little violence. When one shall think with himself, I did something in Religion, but I was not violent enough; I prayed, but I should have brought fire to the sacrifice. I heard the word, but I should have received the truth in love; I humbled my self with fasting, but I should with humiliation have joined reformation. I gave Christ's poor good words; I did bid them be warmed, but I should have clothed and fed them, and for want of a little more violence I have lost the Kingdom. The Prophet bade the King of Israel smite upon the ground, 2 King. 13. 18. And he smote thrice, and stai•, and the man of God was wroth, and said, thou shouldest have smitten five or six times, then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou ⟨p. 162⟩hadst consumed it. So a man doth something in Religion, he smites thrice, and then states; whereas, had he but put forth a little more violence for Heaven he had been saved. What a mischief is this but to half do ones work, and by shooting short to lose the Kingdom! O how will this cut a man to the heart when he is in Hell, to think, had I but gone a little further it had been better with me than it is now; I had not been thus tormented in the flame.
21. What a vexation it will be at the 1last to lose the Kingdom of Glory for want of a little violence. When one shall think with himself, I did something in Religion, but I was not violent enough; I prayed, but I should have brought fire to the sacrifice. I heard the word, but I should have received the truth in love; I humbled my self with fasting, but I should with humiliation have joyned reformation. I gave Christ's poor good words; I did bid them be warmed, but I should have clothed and fed them, and for want of a little more violence I have lost the Kingdom. The Prophet bade the King of Israel smite upon the ground, 2 King. 13. 18. And he smote thrice, and stai•, and the man of God was wroth, and said, thou shouldest have smiten five or six times, then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou