A65299:417
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.
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 ⟨p. 189⟩fetch fire. Often be among the godly, and so you shall fetch some heat and quickening from them, Psal. 119. 63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee*. Good company quickens. The holy discourse and example of one Saint, doth whet and sharpen another. The Saints never go so fast to Heaven, as when they go in company. One Christian helps forward another. In other Races that are run, many times one hinders another; but in this Race to Heaven, one Christian helps forward another, 1 Thes. 5. 11. Edify one another, even as also ye do. O let not this Article of our Creed be forgotten, The Communion of Saints.
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 ⟨p. 189⟩fetch fire. Often be among the godly, and so you shall fetch some heat and quickning from them, Psal. 119. 63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee*. Good company quickens. The holy discourse and example of one Saint, doth whet and sharpen another. The Saints never go so fast to Heaven, as when they go in company. One Christian helps forward another. In other Races that are run, many times one hinders another; but in this Race to Heaven, one Christian helps forward another, 1 Thes. 5. 11. Edifie one another, even as also ye do. O let not this Article of our Creed be forgotten, The Communion of Saints.