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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.
If you would be violent, never leave 1till you have the Spirit. Desire of God to put forth the sweet violence of his Spirit; the Spouse begged a gale of the Spirit, Cant. 4. 16. Awake O Northwind, blow a South. When God's Spirit blows upon us, now we go full sail to Heaven. When the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels, then they moved, Ezek. 1. 21. The wheels of our endeavour move apace, when the Spirit of God is in these wheels. ⟨p. 190⟩Seeing there are so many violent winds of temptation blowing us backward, we had need have the violent wind of God's Spirit blowing us forward to Heaven. Let this suffice to have spoken of the means for this holy violence.
If you would be violent, never leave 1till you have the Spirit. Desire of God to put forth the sweet violence of his Spirit; the Spouse begg'd a gale of the Spirit, Cant. 4. 16. Awake O Northwind, blow a South. When God's Spirit blows upon us, now we go full sail to Heaven. When the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels, then they moved, Ezek. 1. 21. The wheels of our endeavour move apace, when the Spirit of God is in these wheels. ⟨p. 190⟩Seeing there are so many violent winds of temptation blowing us backward, we had need have the violent wind of God's Spirit blowing us forward to Heaven. Let this suffice to have spoken of the means for this holy violence.
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