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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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If you would be violent for Heaven, 1take heed of this opinion, That it is not so hard to get the Kingdom; less violence will serve turn. He that thinks he need not run a Race so fast, will be apt to slack his pace. This hath undone many. Who will take pains for Heaven, that thinks it may he had at a cheaper rate? But if it ⟨p. 183⟩be so easy, what needs Christ say, Strive as in an Agony. What needed Paul beat down his body? Why doth the Text speak of taking the Kingdom by force? Is not conversion called a new birth? Joh. 3. 7. a Creation, Psal. 51. 10. and is that facile? O take heed of fancying that work easy which is both above nature, and against it. 'Tis as great a wonder for a soul to be saved, as to see a mill stone to be lift up into the middle Region.
If you would be violent for Heaven, 1take heed of this opinion, That it is not so hard to get the Kingdom; less violence will serve turn. He that thinks he need not run a Race so fast, will be apt to slack his pace. This hath undone many. Who will take pains for Heaven, that thinks it may he had at a cheaper rate? But if it ⟨p. 183⟩be so easie, what needs Christ say, Strive as in an Agony. What needed Paul beat down his body? Why doth the Text speak of taking the Kingdom by force? Is not conversion called a new birth? Joh. 3. 7. a Creation, Psal. 51. 10. and is that facil? O take heed of phancying that work easie which is both above nature, and against it. 'Tis as great a wonder for a soul to be saved, as to see a mill stone to be lift up into the middle Region.
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