Heaven taken

If you would be violent for Heaven, ¹be sure you make going to Heaven your business. What a man looks on as a [Greek or Hebrew], or thing by the by, he will never be violent for; but that which he makes his business, he will be industrious about. A man looks upon his trade as the only thing to get a livelihood by, and he follows it close: So if we would but look upon Religion as the main business wherein our salvation is concerned, we should be violent in it, Luke 10. 42. But one thing is needful. This is the One Thing, to get Christ and Heaven^*. This is the end we came into the world for. If we could thus look upon the things of eternity as our business, the One Thing, how earnest should we be in the pursuit of them!

If you would be violent for Heaven, ¹be sure you make going to Heaven your business. What a man looks on as a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or thing by the by, he will never be violent for; but that which he makes his business, he will be industrious about. A man looks upon his trade as the only thing to get a livelihood by, and he follows it close: So if we would but look upon Religion as the main business wherein our salvation is concerned, we should be violent in it, Luke 10. 42. But one thing is needfull. This is the One Thing, to get Christ and Heaven^*. This is the end we came into the world for. If we could thus look upon the things of eternity as our business, the One Thing, how earnest should we be in the pursuit of them!

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2. *U•um est (si salvi esse velmus) quod omni•o nobis incumbit, cura nimirùn pictatis; huic ui immerse vacat Maria, cujus fructus in aeternum mansrus est. Caeta quae crantur, caduca sunt [Greek or Hebrew].. Grotius.