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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.
—immensum gloria •alcar habet—
The Mariner hath his hand to the Stern, and his eye to the Star. While we are working, let us have an eye to that place where is Christ the bright morning star. How willingly doth a man wade through a deep water, that sees the dry Land before him, and is sure to be crowned as soon as he comes at shore? Every time you cast your eye up to Heaven, think, above that starry Heaven is the Empyrean Heaven I am striving for. Thus did Moses; the eye of his faith quickened the feet of his obedience, Heb. 11. 26. He looked to the recompense of Reward. When Christians lose their prospect of Heaven, then they begin to slacken their pace in the way thither.
The Mariner hath his hand to the Sterh, and his eye to the Star. While we are working, let us have an eye to that place where is Christ the bright morning star. How willingly doth a man wade through a deep water, that sees the dry Land before him, and is sure to be crowned as soon as he comes at shore? Every time you cast your eye up to Heaven, think, above that starry Heaven is the Empyraean Heaven I am striving for. Thus did Moses; the eye of his faith quickned the feet of his obedience, Heb. 11. 26. He looked to the recompence of Reward. When Christians lose their prospect of Heaven, then they begin to slacken their pace in the way thither.
If you would be violent for the 1Kingdom, accompany with such as are violent. When we want fire, we use to go to our neighbours hearth and